Gardening News

The gardener within: Concept of slow gardening can grow on you (Reading Eagle)

My friend and fellow gardening author, Felder Rushing, coined a term not too long ago: "slow gardening." According to Felder, "slow gardening isn't lazy or passive - it actually involves doing more stuff, but carefully selected to be productive without senseless, repetitive chores.

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Delano Willing Workers 4-H Club helps with fall gardening project (Delano Eagle)

Delano Willing Workers 4-H Club work on the fall gardening project at the Crow River Villa Apartments on Nov. 15. Pictured in the front row (left to right) are: Lauren Degn and Annika Sorenson.

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There are no pessimists in the gardening center (Lancaster Eagle-Gazette)

SOMEWHERE in my mental makeup lurks an unsinkable - if unrealistic - optimism that seems to apply principally to gardening. This would explain our thicket of asparagus, the hopeless tangle of grapevines and of course the rhubarb, none of which have fulfilled my original lavish expectations. Optimism would certainly explain the structure of concrete blocks and water pipe I built this spring upon ...

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Yardsmart: Folk medicine a gardening tradition (Reading Eagle)

Health care is downright expensive. How many won't see a doctor because of the cost? And maybe others stay away out of fear of painful procedures and tests that don't always offer relief or a cure. Still more just don't want to reveal their embarrassing conditions.

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Jamie digs Charlize Theron (News Interactive)

GARDENING guru has returned to Sydney to talk about his regular visits to see Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Charlize Theron over the past six months.

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Decisions based on gardening successes and failures yield a good harvest (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Much of life involves making decisions. We make some good ones, take wrong turns on others and fail to act on still more. It’s better when a writer doesn’t drag himself into his columns, but, for the purpose of sharing some life lessons I’ve learned, I’ll speak in first person this time around. I learned early on that gardening, for me, was an obsession. Some people like sports, others like ...

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