Saturday Linkages: Will Your Next House Be Built With Mushrooms?

October 13, 2012

Fast Fungi Bricks via Dornob Gardening What I am reading from the Los Angeles Public Library: Organic Olives http://catalog.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/DoSearch?databaseID=965&terms=5013187&index=z … Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/12/garden-planter-turns-out-to-be.html … DIY North House Folk School http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/north-house-folk-school.html#.UHTSPhsTC2o.twitter … HOWTO make a s...

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Grow Italian!

Mr. Homegrown

September 2, 2006

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...tive American seeds By the way, for us in L.A. the back of the seed packages have no connection with our climate. You need a book like Pat Welsh’s Southern California Gardening to set you straight on what to plant and when to plant it. Now get out there and plant some seeds....

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Saturday Tweets: Crab Apples, Climate Change and a Bear Parade

Mr. Homegrown

December 9, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...Alys Fowler https://t.co/1i3EOq4lBj pic.twitter.com/3eL0688yqT — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) December 9, 2017 How to make a penny floor or tabletop: https://t.co/yMciogCa5z — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 7, 2017 Ecomodernism: the belief that all we need to solve our ecological predicament is more technology. synonym: techno-optimism. Comforting, as it implies: (1) individually, no change required; (2) collectively, we’re already h...

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Garden Update Part II: The Good the Bad and a Lot of Ugly

Mr. Homegrown

March 4, 2019

Gardening

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...f blower. There I said it, I have a leaf blower. Yes, a leaf blower is the gardening equivalent of vaping but it does make cleaning up faster. Don’t worry, I leave the leaves in place to enrich the soil. The leaf blower just helps me clear the hardscaping. There’s actually a nice brick patio under the weeds and clutter here. Ugh, more junk. Here’s the nice new patio the Haynes landscaping folks built. The adobe oven is under a blue tarp. Blue tarp...

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Saturday Tweets: OMG This is Everything

Mr. Homegrown

October 14, 2017

Saturday Linkages

...| James Wong https://t.co/2Sfd6jJJoa pic.twitter.com/7KLpuWdfVV — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) October 8, 2017 Get the details on DTLA Mini Maker Faire: https://t.co/Ru4OqcOwLZ pic.twitter.com/6AJHffDHfm — L.A. Public Library (@LAPublicLibrary) October 9, 2017 Beatrice explaining scientific theories to Dante about the moon’s appearance, from a mid-15th-century manuscript https://t.co/uvPGTk3033 pic.twitter.com/3eqzSKm1XR — Medieval Manusc...

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