Category: Information
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Herbicides and Insecticides: What, When, Why, and the Alternatives
Herbicides and Insecticides: What, When, Why, and the Alternatives by Carrie Stark When you spend hours on your hands and knees toiling in the dirt to produce crop, you don’t want the aggravation of watching your plants wilt away or be eaten by other creatures. There are various methods to deal with both problems. The…
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Grasshoppers Stress Level Affects Soil Biology
This article was mentioned in Howard Garrett’s recent newsletter. “Fear factor seems relevant in decomposing bug’s effect on soil” It explains how the conditions a grasshopper dies under affect how beneficial the grasshoppers’s corpse is to the soil. The grasshopper eats differently and processes its food differently if it is living under fear of death,…
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Back to Eden Film
A student in the Citizen Gardener class this weekend turned me on to this video that was released last summer. It is a documentary about gardening with nature (instead of against nature). You can watch it all online, free of charge, or order the DVD for $15. After years of back-breaking toil in ground ravaged…
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Most of North Texas Now in Zone 8A
The USDA recently released an updated version of their ‘plant hardiness zone map‘ (or the PHZM if you like using government acronyms). The new map is based on more recent data that spanned a longer time period. In general, most areas moved up 1/2 of a zone, and almost all of the north Texas is…