My recent bulb planting has distracted me from keeping up with the snippets of gardening news that caught my eye. Here are three items from the beginning of the month:
"Greenhouse gardening is growing at an exponential rate," says Mike Helle of Sunshine GardenHouse. He would say that the cynical might reply but apparantly although the number of gardeners who own greenhouses is still quite small, "the growth in the last few years has been in the range of 15 to 20 percent a year." In England, he says, "one of every five homes has some kind of greenhouse... . They've grown up with them, they know how to do it. That's not true here - greenhouses are not part of our gardening history. But we're getting started on a new adventure here." Read more...
On a recent unseasonably cool Sunday afternoon, the Organic Garden Club held its first ever Work Brunch at their headquarters along Spinney Rd. "The idea is simple," Charlie explained. "Healthy soils create healthy plants, healthy plants make for healthy people, and healthy people make for a healthy planet." Read more...
And finally for all those tomatillos and watermelon that you were wondering how to avoid going to waste, here are some suggestions. Read more...
BTW I have finally reached the bottom of the sack of daffodils and so hope to look forward to a colorful spring. If you haven't seen it already, there is now a page on my site all about daffodils.
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