Archive for the 'Sustainable Gardening' Category

20 Mar

Michelle Obama is going to be planting a garden at the White House, and from what I hear, it is going to be a garden with vegetables, herbs, and perhaps some fruit.  The garden will be near the fountain on the south lawn, and children from a local DC school will join her to break [...]

16 Mar

Tomatoes are not hard to grow, even in difficult soil you will get something, but the richer the soil, the more plentiful the harvest. We have a relatively short growing season here, and I like quick results, so for the past few years have been growing grape or cherry tomatoes. I only plant 3-4 plants [...]

09 Jan

Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful.  There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]