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ChristySelllink today launched a new blog on Gardening. Many people enjoy gardening, inside or out. Creating a beautiful garden can be a fun and enjoyable hobby all year round. Gardening can save money and benefit a nutritious diet, by growing vegetables or even a totally organic garden, gardening can be a healthy hobby thats good for the budget. Having a successful garden requires special …
Free gardening classes will be presented at the Herb and Flower Festival, Saturday, June 28 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
For gardeners with allergies, it can be difficult to enjoy their passion for plants when they have to cope with the misery of sneezing, itchy eyes, congestion and, in some cases, an asthma attack.
If life’s other responsibilities didn’t interfere, Colleen Hodson would spend all her time gardening. As it is, she puts in up to 16 hours a week, she said. It just doesn’t look that way - at least to the eye more accustomed to manicured lawns and tightly pruned shrubs.
Abbie Turiansky will spend four hours every Saturday for the next six months digging, planting, fertilizing and watering. But she won’t be gardening in her back yard. She’ll be working at a farm in rural Maryland, in exchange for a weekly parcel of produce at no monetary cost to her.
Q:Recently my husband sprayed an insecticide on some of our young trees to control scale insects. Two days later, the leaves started turning black and brown. A week later, the leaves started falling off. It turns out he used the same sprayer that he uses to treat our lawn for weeds. He thought he rinsed out the sprayer first, but he wasn’t sure.
Garden expert Ann Lovejoy suggests taking part in Lupine Field Days next month to learn about organic farming and how it has helped save a native sweet pea and the butterflies it attracts.
Taranakis gardening public is being offered a chance to contribute to an enhancement project at one of the regions botanic treasure troves.
