Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

June 2, 2018

Weed Life #permaculture #gardening #weeds #savetheweeds #soilhealth #dandelions #weedshavefeelingstoo pic.twitter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Cl...

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Saturday Tweets: Mini Gabions and Citrus Liqueurs

Mr. Homegrown

November 29, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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How to make a mini gabion Timber Press | http://t.co/emfnLyJZJ8 #craft #gardening pic.twitter.com/ovmeYdnkc0 — Timber Press (@timberpress) November 24, 2014 The road death rate for children in the Netherlands dropped by 98% between 1972 and 2013 http://t.co/rb10Sf06KF pic.twitter.com/s6dUROJCpF — David Hembrow (@DavidHembrow) November 6, 2014 Designing California Cities for a Long-Term Drought http://t.co/WUKPGGqfqn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) No...

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Looking for Tough, Drought Tolerant Plants?

Mr. Homegrown

August 21, 2014

Garden Design, Gardening

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...ing, this summer, on lowering our garden’s water needs. How has drought (assuming that’s a problem for you) changed your gardening plans?...

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Cactus Thief Strikes Again

Mr. Homegrown

April 24, 2014

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...a friend told me, “Never drive by and look at a garden in a house you once owned.” Our gardens are impermanent. That impermanence is actually something that makes gardening interesting. My wandering cacti might even have a more sunny location in which to thrive....

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Decomposed Granite as Mulch: A very bad idea

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2014

Gardening, Native Plants

36 Comments

...ally your new plantings will cover any bare areas if you space them correctly. It looks good, and the mulch breaks down and turns into soil. You will still need to weed but that’s called gardening. Save the DG for walkways. Or use mulch on your walkways too. Mulch is free or low cost. Just ask your local arborist to drop off a load....

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