Weed Cloth Fail

One of the few, in my opinion, indisputable truisms in gardening is covered this week on Emily Green’s blog Chance of Rain. Green’s warning to the novice gardener: weed cloth always fails. There’s considerable controversy about this subject but I reached the same conclusion as Green. I’m still picking bits of plastic weed cloth out of our backyard from a ill fated decomposed granite project dating from nearly fifteen years ago. It’s time to decla...

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Rucola Selvatica A Foglia D’ulivo: the arugula you’ve never heard of

If I could boil down my vegetable gardening advice to one sentence it would probably be: just grow stuff that does well and tastes good. Let some other schmuck fight aphids on those Brussels sprouts. Another bit of advice is that you can never have enough arugula. The stuff at the market is wilted, tasteless crap. Grow your own and you’ve got an incredible diversity of arugula varieties to choose from. This year I grew two varieties from Franchi,...

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Saturday Tweets: We’re Back!

...lictrum thalictroides, a garden-worthy woodland non-ephmemeral wildflower https://t.co/mUyAc4QGO6 — Flatbush Gardener (@xrisfg) April 23, 2017 From Howards End to Dante's Inferno… Top 10 books about trees https://t.co/JzuGRYuSpY pic.twitter.com/tPmU2OkPQa — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) April 20, 2017 A Japanese cosplaying cat https://t.co/HXl75sCj60 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 20, 2017 The best part of this is watching Oslo lite...

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Saturday Tweets: Screens, Model Villages and Walkable Cities

...t to @OpenSilo‘s Urban Ag Happy Hour next Tuesday, 10/30, from 6-9 to talk gardening and learn about the program! Join us at the Highland Park Brewery, 1220 North Spring Street, Chinatown. pic.twitter.com/HcFwyn8J2F — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) October 22, 2018 In the walkable city, people gather in a piazza, square, or plaza. In the automobile city, it’s called an intersection. (And nobody wants to linger in one, let alone gather…) pic.twitter.c...

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Saturday Tweets: Coffee, Bees and Bog Butter

...le) June 18, 2016 Building a #garden wash station https://t.co/7VDEZ3oIYD #gardening — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) June 18, 2016 Giant 2,000-year-old hunk of bog butter just found – and it’s still edible https://t.co/YDyjqBxyVZ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 13, 2016 Solid reclaimed Wood Chair https://t.co/5voDLBG2Sf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 13, 2016 That time a guy and his goat walked across the United States: https://t.co/orakECHv...

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