Pfumvudza: Farmers optimistic
by Geraldine Katunga
George Maponga Masvingo Bureau
Farmers are optimistic of a good agricultural season buoyed by Government’s climate-proofed agricultural Presidential input scheme popularly known as Pfumvudza.
The optimism has extended to farmers in districts such as Mwenezi, Chivi and Chiredzi that have traditionally fared badly in maize production.
The advent of the climate proof Pfumvudza scheme has changed the situation, with most of the early planted maize crop in those areas in very good shape.
More than 50 percent of farmers who received inputs under Pfumvudza have already planted their crops across the province.
The majority of the crop is at germination to early vegetative stage, while the water planted crop is at the late vegetative stage.
Chiredzi district Agritex officer Mr Tongai Bodi yesterday said farmers across the district had planted after rains fell in almost all areas.
“The crop situation is very good across Chiredzi, with the majority of our farmers busy planting after rains fell in almost all areas here,” he said.
“Most of the crop is in the germination stage to early vegetative, with our farmers having planted for the past three to four weeks.
“We also have isolated farmers who benefited under Pfumvudza and prepared their plots and embarked on water planting before rains started falling, their crop is in very good condition in the late vegetative stage.”
Mr Bodi expressed confidence that most farmers who embraced Pfumvudza would do well if the country continued to receive average to above average rains.
Masvingo provincial Agritex officer Mr Aaron Muchazivepi said most of the farmers who benefited under Pfumvudza in the province were doing well.
According to Mr Muchazivepi, 50 percent of the farmers across the province had planted their plots, while planting was in progress in other areas.
He urged those who have not planted to have done so by the end of this week.
“Most planting should be done by this week as we have received effective rains in most parts of the province,” said Mr Muchazivepi.
“Those who planted with the first rains or did water planting for their Pfumvudza plots are at late vegetative stage.”
Mr Muchazivepi challenged farmers to pay particular attention to weather updates from the Meteorological Services Department and work closely with extension officers to ensure a bumper harvest.
“We are happy that almost all parts of the province have received rains now and planting is in full swing, but for those farmers who did water planting, their maize crop is in very good condition in the late vegetative stage.”
More than 200 000 households received inputs from Government under the Pfumvudza scheme in Masvingo, with a similar number of farmers undergoing training on land preparing from holing, mulching and planting.


Most new lawns and many old lawns have soils with zero nutrition. They must be well fertilized for a period of time to get lawns started and healthy.
Our soils are mainly alkaline. They do not need lime. Just the opposite– they need to be more acidic. Lime on an alkaline yard is not reversible, so do not do it. We sell a $2.98 soil test kit that will let you know for certain.
Use a fertilizer that contains Iron. We sell an Encap Iron product that works quite well for greening up a lawn with an iron deficiency.
Forty two years ago I received a 50 pound bag of grass seed with an experimental label on it. I sure wish I had saved the label because it was the only one I have ever received. The label was for Rebel Turf Fescue. We were the first Garden store to sell the grass seed in our area. The same year I went to a lawn seminar at the Scotts Company and they talked about how they were experimenting with a 90% turf Fescue and 10% Bluegrass Mix. I came home and began selling my own blend with the name Sherbondy’s Tough Stuff. As the industry added newer and better varieties we changed the mix to 3 hybrid turf-type fescues and maintained the 10% bluegrass. Most companies in our area have followed in our footsteps.
Shady lawns are a struggle. I have recommended people begin considering clover in some of those areas. It will do better in the shade and drought type conditions created under shade trees. It germinates faster than skeeters in a slough. Clover is a legume and puts nitrogen back into soils. The other good alternative is a ground cover called Yellow Archangel, or Latin style, Lamiastrum Galeobdolon. Most people can see that it is shady in a spot, but fail to realize that the big tree-dog is lapping up all the available moisture.
Weed Free Zone is a fertilome product that will control most any weed in a lawn (especially ground ivy). Use it below 80 degrees. We also sell Turflon Ester, which contains the active ingredient trichloplor. This is hot stuff so use it with caution and follow the label. It will kill about any broadleaf. For your information, trichloplor is the same active ingredient that is in most brush, tree and stump killers. So it is hot. Tree and stump killers if spilled on the ground can travel and kill trees or shrubs. Be very careful with this type of product.
Soil tests from a university or soil lab can be difficult to comprehend if you are not a seasoned agronomist or horticulture major. Call ahead if you need me to read it. It is just some simple math that a simple guy can figure.
Thin lawns that require overseeding should be aerated first, then seeded and fertilized. A lawn that has a lot of spindly grass in it is probably just starved to death. Generally you can do more for a thin lawn with fertilizer than you can with seed. It’s just like a baby–if you don’t feed it, it ain’t gonna grow.


We have been promising parents since we opened that we would have a properly fenced outside area. Ofsted said during our registration visit that we should use temporary fencing until we had an idea of what we needed and now we do! This makes our outside area safe, secure and the children have freedom to play within safe limitations!
The children have also been busy planting! We now have four strawberry plants in hanging baskets and in our first planter we have two cherry tomatoes, two beef tomatoes, one cabbage, three courgettes, three cucumber plants, and three rainbow carrots! In our second planter we have Rosemary, Mint, Thyme, Sage, Flat Parsley, Curly Parsley, Chives, Garlic and Beetroot.
The children are really enjoying watering them every day and looking forward to eating the fresh sustainable produce that they can grow with their own green fingers!


David Letterman's Top Ten Reasons to Join Our CSA
10. Your mother was right that eating veggies is good for you. Ours are high in Phosphorous, which is present in every cell of your body in the form of ATP and ADP. It gives you energy!
9. Thank you for keeping your veggie dollars local, while getting a great value for your money!
8. Decrease your carbon footprint by decreasing how far your food travels. Most of your food travels over 1500 miles before you eat it. We grow great things, so look no further!
7. Bond with the farm and the farmers. We're friendly and happy to see you!
6. Many people have gotten away from their "roots" and miss it! Indulge yourself! We do all the work for you! You will look forward to the pleasant ride here!
5. We're organic! You're not eating any bad chemicals that you cannot see!
4. The taste, flavor and appearance of our berries, veggies, herbs and flowers are great! The quality is excellent! We do not grow "holy" or "small" veggies.
3. Supporting our CSA makes you feel good! You are a steward of your environment and the local economy.
2. We grow many varieties that you have never experienced before!
1. It's fun to be a part of it! It will be like getting a Christmas present every week!


Basic Gardening Information Gets You Started
Learning basic gardening tips can help give beginners the confidence to get started growing their own food. This blog will allow you to explore different types of gardens and help you select a gardening method that suits your current circumstances without exceeding your available timeframe. You will also learn how to maintain a healthy soil moisture level and plenty of soil nutrients to encourage an abundant harvest.
Use care to keep moisture levels balanced; when soil is too dry, plants cannot grow. An excess of moisture, however, can encourage the spread of plant diseases. In addition, this blog hopes to help you apply the concepts of careful crop spacing to efficiently utilize all of your garden space while minimizing the growth of weeds. Consider shade tolerant and/or shade loving crops to plant beneath and between larger plants to produce a double harvest.
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You may place an order for this product but you will need to pick up at the Garden Center after we open in April. We do not ship this product.
Hazelnut Shells is the by product of shelling for the edible product hazelnuts.
We carry the shells in 40 lb. sacks for $24.99
Use as a mulch instead of bark. For us here on the windy prairie the shells don't blow away in the wind. They last longer than bark and make good pathway material. We have also been told they are good deterrent to slugs and cats!


Nutritional Value of Debranned Wheat
A nutritional value should be higher in dehulled or debranned cereal grains as removal of the fibrous hull reduces the fibre content. The nutritional value has not previously been explored. Debranned wheat had a higher DE content than the parent wheat but lower than oat groat which is known for its high energy density and palatability. No adverse affects were noted for debranned wheat on voluntary feed intake. For a least-cost diet formation debranned wheat should be considered.
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The colossus which will arise from a merger between pharmaceutical giant Bayer and agrochemical and seeds giant Monsanto must not divert attention from the true nature of Monsanto’s food crimes.
Monsanto as a corporation has deservedly gained huge public contempt over the past few decades. The model of industrial agriculture and food production it promotes – through its seeds and agrochemical business – leads to poverty and injustice worldwide.
Mergers aside, Monsanto will face tough legal scrutiny in an international civil society Monsanto Tribunal in October. Restrictions on use of one of its core products – glyphosate (Roundup) – are also growing globally. And lastly, the trade deals – including TTIP and CETA – it is desperate to see completed so it can sell its products with no restrictions, are foundering.
The upcoming Monsanto Tribunal is a unique initiative which War on Want supports. Through the use of established legal processes, it aims to hold Monsanto accountable for human rights violations, for crimes against humanity, and for ecocide. Top judges and lawyers are involved and the outcomes will include a ruling against Monsanto by a bench of real judges and a contribution to the establishment of international mechanisms to bring justice to victims of multinationals. Key issues will be how, as the world’s largest seed company and controlling more than one-quarter (27%) of the commercial seed market, Monsanto’s dominance threatens farmer livelihood and biodiversity.
Monsanto has developed some of the most toxic products used in industrial agriculture and even in our gardens. These are responsible for harm to the environment and wildlife and cause illness or death for thousands of people. Glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide in the world – is used with Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) RoundUp Ready crops (including soy, corn and rape) in large-scale monocultures to produce mostly animal feed and biofuels. As a result, herbicide use overall globally has increased by 75% in last 25 years leading to resistance problems and massive environmental harm. Glyphosate has been ‘deemed ‘probably carcinogenic’ in a World Health Organisation study.
The merger between Bayer – the pharmaceutical giant – and Monsanto will be bad – further concentration in corporate power is rarely a good thing – but they are already too powerful. We need to support governments, campaigners and farmers resisting the power of these agrochemical and seed giants. Governments including France, the Netherlands and very recently Italy, are introducing restrictions on the use of glyphosate.
CETA – the Canada EU trade deal (much like TTIP) presents Monsanto-Bayer with big opportunities yet this is not looking the done deal it was six months ago. A report we co-published recently highlights the huge differences in food safety rules between the EU and Canada. Big business like Monsanto wants to level standards and regulation down to the lowest common denominator. This includes on pesticides use and residues in food and use of genetic modified products (Canada has approved GM apples and Salmon). We are calling on MEPs to stop CETA now.
Does Monsanto care about these threats? Probably not. Such is its power to lobby, and its size and overconfidence as a company that it will feel invincible. It may also believe the merger with Bayer will help dilute the attention. But it is likely that the attacks will keep on growing. Taking control of the food system is what food sovereignty is all about and that means demanding strong pesticide regulation and supporting initiatives against such agrochemical and seed giants like Monsanto.
We must stop toxic deals like CETA which will give corporations greater dominance to help to ensure countries can protect their food systems to ensure food rights and rural livelihoods.
This article was originally published by War on Want here: http://www.waronwant.org/media/when-two-giants-merge-%E2%80%93-monsanto-bayer-merger-won%E2%80%99t-hide-corporate-horrors


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Queensland is known as the Sunshine State of Australia. On Tamborine Mountain you can enjoy abundant sunshine without the heat and humidity that more northerly parts of Queensland sometimes have to endure.
A few very light frosts mark the winter season. Winter days usually dawn to clear blue skies.
The first part of summer is marked by warm clear days and spectacular evening thunderstorms in traditional tropical style. Sometime after Christmas the summer rains carried in from further north by the North-West Monsoon reach down to replenish the underground water supply that provides both garden and irrigation water for most of the area. Although the humidity can be relatively high during this latter part of summer, the temperatures are quite mild and you only realize how high the humidity must be when you see the Mountain mists – rolling in like huge breakers over the eastern escarpment as the sea breeze blows across in the late afternoon.


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The Greenville Garden Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Greenville Area Community Center. Patty Rockafellow, director of the White Pine District Library in Stanton will share about the seed library, how to save and store seeds and how to start a collection. This meeting is open to the public. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. and program at 7 p.m. For more information, contact Barbie Dibble at (616) 754-3229.


Mix it with regular potting soil or top soil. Mix it about 1/4 to 3/4 regular soil and mix it really well. Make sure you put stones in the bottom of the containers.
Originally Posted by angel nee nee
they are not called seedlings when they come out from the soil? what are they called? tomaato babies? the "thingy?" I am clueless.
mine are couple weeks old too. how are yours doing?
and I have one more problem.
Lowes was having a sale on Miracr Gro garden soil for flowers and vegerable, so being an amatuor, we bought them, actually I got 10 of them while they were on sale.
Then I noticed that it said not for container plants.
I asked miracro gro why I am not suppose to use this prduct for container plants and here's their responce.
"Garden Soil for Flowers & Vegetables is not intended for use in containers. The soil may cause damage because it is too dense for most potted plants, and could suffocate their roots. Garden Soil for Flowers & Vegetables is designed as an amendment, and should be mixed thoroughly into native soil for better growing conditions.
Watch your plants carefully for signs of stress and, if needed, repot them. You may want to consider using a potting mix, such as Miracle-Gro Potting Mix or Miracle-Gro Moisture Control Potting Mix."
oh man, what am I suppose to do now?
Can I just mix the miracro gro garden soil for flowers and vegetables with the "dirt and sand" we find nearby? Would that make things better?


I sat down in a field to write.
It had been recently mowed, the bales already removed. The stubble was coarse and golden with a few seeds scattered here and there. Eventually, birds will eat them or they'll become part of the next crop.
The air was warm on my face, and I could hear crickets singing. It was bucolic and pastoral.
In the distance stood the old red barn. It used to house cows and pigs, and a store of hay for the winter. Now, a few jumbled things are left inside, and the only creatures are spiders, field mice and swallows.
A moss covered bird feeder swings in the gnarled apple tree. The small orchard is old, yet after all the years, it still yields fruit for the picking.
This place. This farm. This field holds many memories for me. My Granny's fried potatoes and squash, Papa's big old watermelons, cows gently grazing and chickens pecking around before becoming dinner.
We'd roam down the canal, picking wild blackberries and swimming down past the weir. The bottom of the canal was mud that would squeeze between our toes.
Sometimes it was a picnic spot with jelly sandwiches and kool-aid while the grown-ups tossed a line in the water hoping for some Crappie or Bluegill. And, in the hot summer sun you could hear the Killdeer and Meadowlarks and smell the pungent aroma of Tarweed.
I don't get to visit the farm as often as I'd like.
This farm. This field. This place -
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Remember that emerging economies are still building their middle classes at a brisk clip, and they're expecting to eat better than they have, notes John Persinos of Personal Finance.
Consumers in emerging markets are clamoring for the “good life” that’s on conspicuous display in developed countries, driving greater consumption of grains, meat, and processed foods. This burgeoning middle class is straining the productive capacities of farmers, who seek new methods to feed the world’s increasingly ambitious appetites.
North America and Asia-Pacific are the top two consumers of fertilizer in the world, together accounting for more than 60% of demand. The growth of fertilizer demand is especially high in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), fueled by rising incomes and per-capita meat consumption.
As the world population grows by about 75 million per year, mainly in countries such as China and India, the demand for food increases. Emerging-market populations with growing incomes are mimicking their Western counterparts by embracing a more caloric diet based on meat. Livestock consumes ten times the fertilizer used to produce its feed.
Underscoring the imperative for more grain were severe drought conditions this past summer throughout the Midwestern corn belt of the United States, most likely the result of inexorable climate change. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that US corn and soybean production this year will fall 13% and 12%, respectively.
Farmers desperately need to boost crop yields; the companies that help make this goal possible will greatly benefit. Chief among these yield-boosting products is potash, the generic name for various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium fertilizers in water-soluble form. Approximately 95% of the potash produced worldwide is used as agricultural fertilizer, with no viable substitute.
The US Department of the Interior’s 2012 Mineral Commodity Summary projects that world potash consumption will increase 4% annually during the next five years, as lifestyles improve and the global economy eventually recovers.
US farms are on track to produce considerably smaller crops this year, but the consequent surge in agricultural commodity prices will more than compensate for volume losses, keeping US farm incomes afloat. As farmers prepare for another planting season, they possess the financial wherewithal to purchase the equipment and fertilizer they need.
Betting on American Supply
According to the Fertilizer Institute, potash is produced in only 12 countries in the world. Potash deposits are particularly abundant in Canada, accounting for about 40% of the world’s entire trade in the fertilizer.
However, potash consumption is virtually universal, and farmers yearn for alternative sources of supply. That’s especially true for American farmers, who tend to manage large-scale operations that are particularly well-suited to potash application.


While goats are the centerpiece of our farm, pigs play an important supportive role. Cheesemaking produces a good deal of whey as a byproduct. Pigs love whey and it provides a great source of nutrition for them. Our pork is raised on pasture and fresh whey is pumped out to them on a daily basis. We use the pigs to renovate areas of our farm for later use by the goats. The added nutrients and turnover from the pigs results in a lush and varied pasture the following year. In addition to the ample forage, whey, and sunshine our pigs are supplemented with certified organic gmo free grain.


For proper functioning and maintenance of greenhouses, certain essential greenhouse supplies and equipment are required.
The first important supply is the covering or glazing material of the greenhouse since it identifies the effectiveness and success of the greenhouse in terms of plant growing and maintenance. Glass covering provides impact on the aesthetic appearance and permanence of the greenhouse. Some of the weaknesses of glass covering include the disability of retaining heat and low insulating value. It is heavier and therefore needs stronger braces or frames. It is fragile, easy to break and doesn’t diffuse light so there’s a possibility of plant burning. It also requires contractor installation, which may affect the budget.
Plastic covering includes fiberglass, polycarbonate, acrylic sheets, and polyethylene film. Fiberglass is an alternative to glass since it is translucent enough to transmit light. You can purchase them in rolls or ridged sheets. The corrugation grids seal and overlap sides to avoid appropriate temperature inside the greenhouse from escaping.
Polycarbonate is the newest covering option, which appears to be stronger and more resistant to environmental impacts like fire. It is available in single, double and triple walled sheets. Single walled coverings are very popular in hobby gardener greenhouse. Double walled is used in sunshine easy growth and Juliana greenhouses which sustains balanced lighting. Triple wall is prevalent in cross-country greenhouses and are the most expensive.
Polyethylene film is the most popular and commonly used in the US since it is cheaper in comparison to other coverings. It is easy to maintain and can be used for 3-5 years depending on the thickness of poly and UV treatment. One of its drawbacks is it is easy to rip and tear.
The second most crucial supply is water. The following are choices on how to water the plants. First is by using a garden hose. It allows the gardener to provide one on one plant watering individually. Although with some greenhouse planters, it can be a problem when there is not much time and when one is on vacation.
The second option is thru drip irrigation system. This is very commonly in use since a tube delivers to each pot from a main water pipe and it uses a nozzle to control water dispersion. It is equipped with a timer for watering plants with less supervision. Third option is the overhead sprinkler system, which automatically waters plants faster; however, plants can be susceptible to unequal distribution of water. The fourth is the overhead misting system, which is important for humidifying the area but not as a main water source.
The third most important supply is the greenhouse thermometer, which provides information or records high and low temperatures inside the greenhouse. It serves as a reference of the wetness and dryness of the surroundings maintenance. The maximum and minimum thermometer uses a small needle to determine the temperature. Some thermometers provide the Ph, moisture content and humidity levels for proper monitoring of the plants. Market offers several types of thermometers like the indoor/outdoor thermometers with sensors, digital wall mounted, or tabletop type with humidity indicator plus soil thermometers for seedbeds and compost monitoring.
The fourth supply is the greenhouse frames. These are in use as skeletons for the greenhouse covering or glazing. The most commonly used frames include wood, aluminum, galvanized steel, and PVC. Wood is extremely popularly in sunrooms or homemade greenhouses. It provides attractive appearance and easy to design with accessories. It is heat containing and are considered to be heavier and larger, therefore allowing more shadow or shade in the greenhouse.
One weakness of wood frames is its proneness to deterioration because of damp atmosphere although there are wood frames that are element and insect resistant like the redwood and cedar. One can also use sealants to increase wood life. Aluminum is indeed the most expensive of all frame choices; however, it is rust, rot and break resistant. Galvanized steel frames are the strongest frames but it needs a heavier structure. PVC pipe frames are popular because it is cheaper, easy to install and portable.
The fifth important supply is the floor, which consists of the walkway and under bench areas. The walkway is best created when it is non-slippery, easy to clean and strong enough to resist everyday moisture and dirt. Some materials for the walkway may include stone, gravel, brick concrete, wood slits, and ground bark. The under bench areas usually use porous materials that can absorb moisture and at the same time allow easy water drainage. Some materials include gravel, sawdust, and ground bark. It also helps to use a sheet of woven weed barrier to avoid growth of weeds.
The sixth most important supply is the benches, which greenhouses use to allow gardeners enough space to work. They also function as shade to the plants. A good bench top allows water to drain and permits flow of fresh air.
The seventh supply is the lighting, which greatly affects the growth of plants. A specific greenhouse area or season creates an impact on the lighting and that’s why there is available artificial lighting for greenhouses.
The eighth supplies are the ventilation system. These include the fan shutter, exhaust fans, fan controls, roof vent openers, louver windows and circulation fans. Shutter fans permit air exhaustion and circulation. Some fan designs are corrosion resistant, quiet, easy to maintain and UV protected. Fan controls are receptacles that control the fan with installed thermostats. Automatic roof vent openers are easy to install which do not require electricity or batteries. Louver windows also help in air circulation. The ideal place for them is opposite the door. Some are adjustable and you can operate them manually or by automatic openers.
The ninth supply is the heating system. These include the electric heaters, small and large gas heaters and heat circulation fans. They function to distribute heat evenly all throughout the greenhouse. Recommended heaters must have automatic thermostats and shut off controls for safety. Gas heaters are in use particularly when electrical plugs are not available in the greenhouse. They are energy proficient and emit carbon dioxide and water.
The tenth supply is the shading system. Shade covers are popular during long hot summers to block about 20% of sun’s rays. They are particularly useful to plants, which are in need of less sunlight. Some factors that you may consider when choosing shade cover size include the greenhouse location, climate, and light requirement of the plants inside the greenhouse.
The eleventh supply is the staging equipments. A single tier with 2 feet height is an ideal set up for staging. However, for large greenhouses, it is best to use 2-3 tiers for maximum use of space. There are available small propagating frames, which are equipped with soil warming cables and air warming sides. Some come with built in thermostats.
The twelfth supply is the watering cans. Despite the availability of automatic irrigation systems, it is also essential to have watering cans. It helps in sustaining water in the greenhouse. A recommended can is a well-balanced one with long spouts to be able to refill water with ease.
The thirteenth supply is the dibbers. These are wooden hand tools handy for creating holes in the ground for plant seedlings and cuttings.
The fifteenth supply is the sieves. These help in soil sifting and compost making.
The sixteenth supply includes buckets, pots and trays, which serve as plant receptacles. These are very common garden supplies.
The seventeenth supply is the measuring jugs and sprayers. These help with pesticide maintenance.
The eighteenth supply is the protective netting. These help to trap insects and bugs, which can be detrimental to the growth of plants. One good example of netting is the plastic netting, which is very economical.
The nineteenth supply is the composting system. Composting system consist of recycling your waste products and using your compost bins and wire containers. These are popularly called commercial composters to make composting easy and manageable. They are easy to rotate and are secure from bugs and pests.
The twentieth supply is the fertilizer. Ideally, plants need to be fertilized once a month to provide the proper nutrients needed by the former.
The twenty-first supply is the hand tools. One must be sure that there are available plant scissors, cultivators, trovels, and weeders in the greenhouse.
The twenty-second need is the tie down kits. This tool will prevent the greenhouse from being blown off by the wind.
The twenty-third supply is the seed heat mats. This is primarily used to germinate seeds faster. Some mats are enclosed with lighting and watering instructions.
The twenty-fourth supply is the plant labels. These are used as aids in plant monitoring. It helps to save time when plants are labeled.
The last supply is the garden apparel used by the gardener. The market offers wide range of choices particularly with the shoes and hand gloves to be used inside the greenhouse. Gloves come with easy grip features while shoes are non-slippery in design and comfortable to use.
Greenhouse plastic is mainly responsible for maintaining a hothouse effect within a greenhouse. Greenhouse plastic creates a warm and suitable growing environment that allows various types of plants to cultivate beautifully. It creates an enclosure that protects plants from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun while taking advantage of its natural warmth and light. The filtered environment produced by greenhouse plastic makes it possible for garden enthusiasts to grow luscious plants like vegetables and flowers in the cold dead of winter.
Greenhouse plastic is explicitly designed to resist wear and tear unlike conventional construction plastic that cannot filter ultraviolet rays from the sun. Greenhouse plastic is durable due to its knitted design that allows it to be cut and sized to meet the required length for a structure without fraying, ripping or tearing. The material can easily be framed around any greenhouse opening like a vent, door or windows.
Greenhouse plastic is the preferred covering of most garden enthusiasts compared to other types of greenhouse covering. At the same time costs are greatly reduced when greenhouse plastic is used since it lightweight and does not require heavy-duty structural framing. The diffusion of light into a structure constructed of greenhouse plastic is as good as that of a glass greenhouse.
Types of Greenhouse Plastic
Greenhouse plastic films are generally made of three types of plastics namely, PVC or polyvinyl chloride, PE or polyethylene and copolymers. Although, there are other types of plastic used these three are most widely used among all.
Polyethylene greenhouse plastic is available in two types, the utility grade and the commercial grade greenhouse plastic. Utility grade polyethylene greenhouse plastic is sold at local hardware stores and generally stays in good condition for practically a year. Commercial grade polyethylene greenhouse plastic last longer that utility grade PE up to eighteen months and is treated with ultraviolet inhibitors that filter out ultraviolet rays.
Copolymers are more durable and last up to three years. Innovative additives introduced into greenhouse plastic enable it to mimic the same effects of a glass greenhouse at considerably reduced costs. Polyvinyl chloride is more expensive compared to polyethylene however this type of greenhouse plastic can last up to five years. However PVC greenhouse plastic requires regular washing to prevent dust buildup from the air. It is also sold in smaller sheets of four feet by six feet wide.
How to Attach Greenhouse Plastic to Frame
Once the frame has been built it is time to put on the greenhouse plastic film to enclose the entire structure. The plastic film can either be made of polyethylene, copolymers or polyvinyl chloride depending the preference of the owner. But as much as possible choose a greenhouse plastic that is resistant to ultraviolet rays in order to make the most of the structure. Before laying the greenhouse plastic covering on the frame it is important to mask the joints of the frames with several rounds of tape or a rubber material to prevent it from puncturing the covering.
The greenhouse plastic film can be secured in place using a staple gun. A more rigid construction using 1″ by 2″ wood strips and wood screws can also be used to secure the greenhouse plastic film in place. The wood strips are attached to the frame so that the greenhouse plastic film does not come in direct contact with the frame.
A popular technique used by nurseries is a double-walled construction for better insulation within the structure that adds up to considerable energy savings. Two sheets of plastic are layered and framed leaving a small amount of space in between about five to eight inches wide. Air is introduced into the framed plastics that produce a dead air zone, which can efficiently insulate the entire greenhouse. Various tapes like poly patching tape and batten tape can be used to secure greenhouse plastic into place.
Poly patching tape is constructed from UV protected acrylic along with the adhesive to protect the greenhouse plastic from weakening on contact with it. This type of tape can be used to patch holes and rips that may happen to the plastic film. Its excellent holding strength and wide tape make an ideal for securing the plastic film to the frame of the greenhouse. On the other hand batten tape can be fastened the plastic film using staples or tacks to the greenhouse structure. It is also made of heavy gauge vinyl that is also UV protected.
So, you’ve decided to take on the task of building your own greenhouse huh?…You’re probably so excited to get started growing your favorite plants, fruits, and veggies, you can hardly contain yourself, right? Heck, I’ll bet you even have the site picked out in your backyard too. And if you already have some kind of budget in mind…well, you pretty much have all the basics covered. So now what do ya do? Easy…the next step is to decide what type of greenhouse plans, are ideal for your needs.
Now, before you jump the gun and spring for the first set of greenhouse blueprints you find on the internet, you need to realize that not all plans are created equally. Everything gets back to the focus of your greenhouse endeavours. Namely, what kind of plants you want to grow. Keep in mind that depending on your climate, location, and the kind of stuff you want to grow, your greenhouse building plans are going to differ from someone else’s. For instance, if you’re looking for something in which to germinate your seedlings, you’ll want to seek out plans that are specifically designed for cool climate plants. These plans are going to be substantially different from those that are designed for cacti, which thrive in warmer climates.
If you’re in the market for more of a hobby house, you might want to seek out some wooden greenhouse plans. Hobby houses are just what they sound like –greenhouses for the casual gardener. If that describes you to a T, then your best bet is to go with a house that requires an inexpensive wood (cedar or birch) and an inexpensive cover (polyethylene fits just fine, but plexiglass is ideal). These houses are not for someone who has or even wants a serious lifetime investment in the gardening industry. Don’t let your ambition get bigger than your ability. If you’re looking for something to do casually on the week-ends, this kind of greenhouse is perfect for you.
Not sure you want to build your greenhouse all on your own? That’s perfectly fine. Where there are greenhouses and materials there are greenhouse kits. A quick search on the internet will unearth –no pun intended– some classic, beautiful, and highly functional greenhouses for your ecological needs. But also be wary of which kind of kit you purchase. Not only are these more expensive, they’re highly specialized and will not allow for any mistakes. Be aware of what you’re purchasing at all times. Personally though, if you have a weekend to spare, I always recommend building your own greenhouse. With a clear set of plans they’re very easy to make (essentially just the cost of materials), and that adds up to being a fraction of the cost of a kit or prefabricated greenhouse any day.
If you have the cash to purchase your own fully-fledged greenhouse, then you’re in great luck. Though as with kits and self-construction these houses vary, if you’re having someone transport the house to your backyard, you can just as easily find someone to point you in the right direction of the greenhouse that’s perfect for your plants.
A word for the wise: ask loads of questions. If you find yourself in a quagmire over what kind of greenhouse is going to allow your plants to thrive, search the internet or, better yet, head over to your local hardware store. Those who specialize in gardening will know exactly what it is you need to make your dreams of gardening grandeur come to fruition.


In Lanzarote, Spain there is a unique cultural landscape called “La Geria”. The La Geria covers around 5,250 hectares, of which almost 3,000 acres are cultivated. The vineyards of Lanzarote are spectacular and fascinating. Semi-Circular stonewalls protect verdant vines from the persistent blowing trade winds. In the first look, you can’t even help. The cultivation of grapes in Lanzarote is unique to this part of the world. But to be impressed by endless land that’s covered black ash and volcanoes. Most of the island has treeless, moonlike landscapes with different colored soils, craters, strange rock formations, and gently sloping mountains.
These vines spot actually created more than 250 years ago with human hands. Each vine yields produced approximately 25KG of grapes a year. However, rains make the place seem like a miracle. The greenery you might expect to find at this tropical latitude is almost completely absent from most of Lanzarote. The young vine is placed into this human-made depression. Then, larger volcanic stones are balanced around the wind-facing edge of the hole, creating a low, semicircular barrier.
The ‘Paisaje Protegido’ – cultural protected landscape has an interesting history. In the 18th century, Lanzarote was a lush island with a thriving agriculture industry. But massive volcanic eruptions took place in the 1730s when the entire region was covered in Lave ash. A series of violent eruptions left thick layers of ash and volcanic pebbles on the ground. That is also called lapilli, Rofe or picón. Therefore, thousands of hectares of fertile farmland were lost under up to three meters thick layers of ash. After the volcanoes had ceased to rumble, the Islanders starts to dig holes until they came upon fertile soil in areas where the lapilli was thin.
Then they began to plant vines and other fruit trees. After they quickly realized that the ash was a blessing in disguise. The lapilli is porous and has hygroscopic (water-attracting) properties. Some wineries still follow the traditional practice of using camels to haul newly harvested grapes from the vineyard to the processing areas, which are lower on the hillside.
The cool breezes from the Atlantic and the warm temperatures from the African mainland give the vineyards the kind of warm-to-cool variation that grapes need. Also, the days are warm and almost always sunny; nights are very cool. Though annual rains fall is very low in Lanzarote. But early morning hours are very humid and allow ash to store the morning dew. The difference in temperature, known in the viticulture world as the diurnal temperature variation, is important for grapes to develop both the right amount of acidity and sweetness.
The pits were the vines are dug have to be 5 meters in diameter and 2-3 meters deep and also need a lot of space. The roots spread out in a wide circle near the surface to be able to absorb as much water as possible. The range of wines from La Geria includes the traditional Lanzarote wines Malvasia, Listán Negra, Moscatel, and Manto. To add to the mystic, tourists often arrive at the wineries' bodegas on the backs of camels. Imported from the Sahara long ago, these beasts are able to easily negotiate the soft, sandy soil and go where vehicles cannot. Lanzarote landscapes are unforgettable and you must visit once in a lifetime.


NLU - UC Davis
International Scientific Conference
Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
December 13-14, 2016
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We wish to welcome you to attend an International Scientific Conference!
The conference on "Sustainable Agriculture and Environment" will be an opportunity for an exchange of scientific knowledge, to develop business connections and to celebrate the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of partnership and cooperation between Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City (NLU), Vietnam and Davis University of California (UC Davis), USA. It is our great pleasure to invite scientists, post-docs and students, technicians, businessmen, farmers and managers from the ASEAN Community and our worldwide network to participate in making valuable connections that can impact the future of food, health and culture.
Conference date: December 13-14, 2016
Venue: Nong Lam University – Ho Chi Minh City, Linh Trung ward, Thu Duc district, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Conference language: English
Scientific sessions: (1) Social-economics in sustainable agriculture, (2) Bio-system engineering, (3) Sustainable agriculture, (4) Environmental protection and (5) Food Science & Technology.
Your abstract(s) should be submitted to organizing committee via email by August 15, 2016: email@example.com
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Nguyen Tri Quang Hung
Tel: +(84 8) 38963340 - 919177478
Fax: +84 8 38960713
We look forward to seeing you at Nong Lam University – Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.
Chair of the Conference,
President of Nong Lam University – Ho Chi Minh city
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hay
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Indulge in farm fresh produce, learn where food comes from and shake hands with the growers. Enjoy authentic interactions while discovering the region’s geographically distinctive food and drink. You don't have to go far to experience the fruits of farming! Here are our top 3 Farmer’s Markets.
What exactly is a 20-mile view? It’s a view that seems to go on forever, or as far as the eye can see. We’ve got plenty of these views at Inspiration, which is one reason we’ve named one of our major amenities the 20 Mile House.


Trees do a lot for us. The US Forest Service reports that trees have many benefits. During the summer, they can reduce air temperature and act as natural “air conditioners” by providing shade. They can absorb and block noises. They can trap dust, purifying the air. And best of all, they absorb carbon dioxide and other harmful gases, releasing oxygen for us to breath!
While trees do a lot for us, we don’t always do a lot for them. Many of us take a “set and forget” approach to tree care, neglecting these helpful plants. Whether you’re planning a landscape for your home’s yard or for a commercial property, trees are indispensable. Below are some of the most common questions I get about trees.
When is the best time to plant trees? — The best time to plant a tree (or shrub) is in the fall, though it can also be done throughout the winter and during early spring. However, fall is best because it allows the tree time to recover from transplanting and to create root systems before the more robust growth happens in the spring and summer. You can prepare the soil for planting by adding a slow-release fertilizer and compost in late summer.
How much water do trees actually need? — Generally speaking, water is always a major concern for Texans when it comes to landscaping. Yet, at the same time, water is also an important factor when it comes to tree care. Younger trees, especially ones under five years of age, need much more supplemental watering — whereas older trees may never need to be watered, unless there’s a significant drought.
I typically tell people the same thing I tell them about watering their lawns — with trees (as with lawns), it really isn’t about how much water, but how you’re watering. Instead of frequent, light, shallow watering on the top of trees and shrubs, let the water run slowly and deeply around the base of your tree. This way, the soil will retain much more moisture — and so will your tree!
How often should I water? — There are too many variables to truly say. Rather than having a hard and fast rule about watering, the best thing to do is to check the moisture level of the soil around the tree. Take a long (at least 8 inches), solid object, like a large screwdriver and try to push it downwards into the soil. If it slips right in, there’s enough moisture in the soil. If not, you should water it.
As far as technique goes, water trees well around their drip line — where the tree’s branches are the widest spread — instead of at their trunk. Tree roots often extend well beyond the tree.
What are some of the best trees for Texas? Trees such as oaks, elms, crape myrtles and mountain laurels are all great Central Texas trees that take well to fall plantings. Some of the most drought-resistant trees I like to suggest for properties include:
- Bur, red, and live oaks
- Montezuma Cypress
- Cedar and American elm
- Texas redbud
- Texas ash
- Desert willow
When is the best time to prune a tree? In the dead of winter. Trees are dormant at this time of the year. In the spring and summer, sap is flowing and you could rob the tree of essential nutrients if you prune them. Pruning in the winter allows trees to recover before the summer heat rolls in.
What should I prune? Remove any dead or damaged limbs first. This will prevent insects and disease from capitalizing on your tree. Crossed or rubbing branches should also be looked after. You can remove living branches, but always try to keep at least two-thirds of the living branches on the tree!
Remember, these are only meant to be general rules of thumb. A lot of folks — landscapers especially — will tell you that “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.” While I agree with the sentiment, I think this neglects the planning that needs to go into tree care. Certain species are meant for certain soil types, or they might need more space to truly thrive. There are a lot of variables at play when planning a landscape. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by them, reach out to us and let’s chat. We’d love to help!


SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Biocarbon Webinar: Compost for Rebuilding Soil Carbon
For nearly 30 years, the compost industry has been keeping organic waste out of landfills, which reduces the amount of methane gas emitted by landfills. Climate scientists have long recognized this as a tool to help fight climate change. But the IPCC also warns that composting done poorly can lose its climate benefit. And surprising findings from recent experiments suggest applying compost to soils actually sets off a chain reaction of carbon sequestration. The industry clearly must grow if we are to continue rebuilding soil and helping the climate.
Frank Franciosi, Director of Composting, Novozymes (and Past President of the United States Compost Council) will explain how all this composting helps the climate and the soil, give us an update on the status of the industry, and suggest where we might be heading next.


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In 1978 Alan Roland graduated from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.† He graduated top of his class with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanized Agriculture Degree.† Upon completion of college, Alan returned to the family farm in Hemingford, Nebraska.†
During the summer of 1978 he purchased his first combine (a New Holland TR '70) and harvested wheat, corn, and edible beans in the local area. In 1979 a local custom harvester, Leonard Thomas, from Alliance, Nebraska asked Alan to accompany him on harvest. Leonard had been doing custom harvesting since the 1940's and was in the process of swapping his conventional combines to the new rotary combines that came into existence.† Alan's background and familiarity with the New Holland machines allowed him to successfully assist Leonard with this change. Alan and Leonard operated a custom harvesting business together for the next two years. They traveled to southern Oklahoma to combine wheat and went as far north as Hemingford; finally, they headed to San Luis Valley in Colorado to combine malting barley for Coors.
Roland Harvesting is currently operating two CR 8090 combines and one CR 9060 - all with 36 foot draper headers. A 28 foot stripper header is also available for use. In addition, they have 3 semis and grain trailers to haul the grain.† A tractor and grain cart are also brought on the road to help with the harvest, along with a service truck that assists with maintenance of the machinery.
Roland Harvesting is proud to state they have owned and operated New Holland twin rotor combines since their introduction in 1977!
Alan and Loretta's family members frequently help out the operation by moving and operating equipment, running meals to the field, and delivering parts when needed.† Over the years, Alan and Loretta's immediate family has grown with their three children: Ashley, Megan and Brandon. They have been raised on their family farm and have been involved in the harvesting operation from birth.†For them, responsibility was learned at a young age.† They have all spent many summers on the road as part of the harvest crew.† Harvest is a very important aspect of the Roland's lives and has provided countless memories, adventures, and experiences.
Brandon has become a crucial asset to the company and often oversees the crew on his own. He is currently majoring in Agricultural Communications at the University of Wyoming and spends every summer fully engaged in the harvest operation. Brandon has a strong desire to return to Hemingford after graduation and plans to pursue a career in agriculture through Roland Harvesting.
In 1981, Alan purchased his second New Holland TR '70 combine.† Alan and his crew headed south to Vernon, Texas to continue custom harvesting work on his own.† The crew followed the wheat harvest north through Oklahoma, Kansas, and back home to Nebraska.†
In 1983, Alan was married to Loretta Fraser. Loretta then accompanied him on the road to follow the wheat harvest for many summers. At this point, after wheat harvest in Hemingford, they began to travel to Riverton, Wyoming to harvest malting barley for Coors and Anheuser Busch.
455 County Road 65
Hemingford, Nebraska 69348
Alan's Cell : (308) 760-0396
Brandon's Cell : (308) 760-9095
Home Phone : (308) 487-3545
Roland Family 2014: Brandon, Loretta, Alan, Megan, Ashley and Kurt
Every summer Roland Harvesting heads south to Texas and works their way north through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and back to Hemingford as they follow the wheat harvest. In August, they travel to North Dakota to complete the wheat run and into Wyoming to harvest malting barley.†The season is finished in late fall with corn, bean, millet, and sunflower harvest in the panhandle of Nebraska. Roland Harvesting is thankful for all their loyal customers and continues to look for new job opportunities.
Cousins, James and Brandon Roland, head back to their combines to continue harvesting.
Harvesters are some of the last inhabitants of the frontier. Following in our ancestors footsteps, we continually move with the land in an attempt to make a living. Itís amazing to think we are one of the final generations to live in this manner. Since 2011 Roland Harvesting has been helping to document and share this unique lifestyle through All Aboard Wheat Harvest (sponsored by High Plains Journal and various other agricultural companies). Megan shares the everyday life, challenges, and triumphs that Roland Harvesting experiences throughout the summer. To continue exploring Roland Harvesting visit: http://www.allaboardharvest.com/author/megan-roland/
For over 35 years Roland Harvesting has operated Twin Rotor New Holland combines and continues to updates their equipment.
Roland Harvesting - Alan & Loretta Roland || 455 County Road 65 || Hemingford, Nebraska 69348 || (308) 760-0396
Roland Harvesting Crew: Megan, Kasey, Brandon, Alan, Jose, and Eric


North Carolina Cooperative Extension and many organizations and stakeholders are working with our communities to develop and expand local food systems across the state. Local Foods is a collaborative Flagship Program for the Cooperative Extension Program of NC A&T State University and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service of NC State University. A new Local Food web portal at localfood.ces.ncsu.edu provides information and links to resources from Cooperative Extension and other NC local food partners.
The Richmond County Center Local Foods contact is Paige Burns.
Diane Currier, owner of Honeygirl Meadery, shares how a visit to Alaska motivated her to start her meadery and a how her award-winning mead is made. Listen to this interview to learn more MORE »– from Extension Gardener
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Family, agriculture, community, and a passion for how they do things is what defines the farm that Jennifer and Ben Rosencrans had been dreaming of. Going back over 200 years Jennifer’s family farmed the MORE »– from NC Farm School
Vegetable Gardening, Chapter 16 of the Extension Gardener Handbook Now available for free on line Everything you need to know to grow vegetables in North Carolina. Selecting a Garden Site; Choosing a type and MORE »– from Gardening
The Extension Gardener Handbook team is pleased to announce the “Small Fruits” Chapter is up and ready for use. Congratulations and thank you to co-authors Gina Fernandez, Bill Cline and Sara Spayd and the MORE »– from Extension Gardener
An in depth look at how to effectively use cover crops in vegetable gardens, this 19 page document by Dr. Megan M. Gregory is free to download. More information on using cover crops MORE »– from Gardening
Web-based course is designed to educate growers about food safety on the farm, explain the USDA GHP/GAP audit process, and assist in the process of developing a food safety program and writing a food MORE »– from Local Food
USDA Launches First-Ever Local Foods Survey. For more information see the USDA press release here: http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2016/04_07_2016.php Producers who receive the 2015 Local Food Marketing Practices Survey from NASS are strongly encouraged to respond. MORE »– from Local Food
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Plan perennial garden with tips Jan. 21 in Gravenhurst
GRAVENHURST – Get a jump on gardening Tuesday, January 21 at the Gravenhurst Horticultural Society meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Gravenhurst Seniors building at 480 First St. N.
Christina Van Klink, of Muskoka Lakes Gardens and More, will speak on the everblooming perennial garden.
She is a graduate of Niagara Horticultural College, who has been working in the field for several years and is pleased to share her expertise.
This is a great time to plan to expand or begin your perennial garden for continuous blooming from spring to fall.
The Gravenhurst Horticulure Society wants you to put on your thinking caps.
The Flower & Vegetable Show Committee is looking for suggestions for the theme of this year’s show. (Last year was “The Wizard of Oz.”)
Put your ideas on paper and drop them in the marked box at the next meeting. Volunteers to help on this committee or with any other functions throughout the year will be welcomed.
Your suggestions for topics for speakers, the meeting format, i.e. demos or more hands-on etc., will also be welcomed.
Please give us your feed-back. We need to start booking speakers for 2015),
Membership to the society is only $10 for the year (plus a $2 for hall rental at each of the 9 meetings); or you can attend meetings as a guest for $5 each meeting.
Reminder: Annual fees are now due. $10 for the year includes 9 meetings, discounts from local nurseries, a summer barbecue, flower show and more
Come take your mind off the winter weather for one evening and dream.
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Apple picking can be enjoyed from the beginning of September through the end of November. The period when apples can be picked depends on their variety.
Freshly-picked apples are juicy and sweet, and you can savor them in their purest form.
Apple Picking Calendarcalendar
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※There are many other varieties as well.
Apple Varieties Varieties
In addition to having differing times when they can be picked, apples also greatly vary in sweetness, acidity, and nectar depending on the type. At our farm, we grow over 30 varieties of apples. We would love to tell you more about our apples which have been grown in the bounty of Gunma’s nature.
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Just over a year ago, two groups in the community came together and decided to collaborate on a community garden. People Standing Up, whose mission is to help the community and make it a better place to live, and Change on Main in Northampton joined forces to bring the idea of a community garden to life.
Change on Main is a recovery resource center helping people with addictions and is funded by the County of Northampton. Change on Main, located at 1830 Main St. Suite 3, was established in Northampton July 2018.
Change on Main director Brian Sabo said, “The garden is grant funded. We got a grant [to proceed] and the Borough of Northampton gave us the land at 1602 Canal Street and assisted with the erection of the fence [surrounding the garden].”
“We just started planting a week ago. We have tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, broccoli and beans [to name a few]. We could always use more plants, more vegetables, more seedlings. We’re also looking to put rose bushes along the fence to deter people from jumping the fence,” said Sabo.
The community-based garden will be tended by different volunteers throughout each day, and will be maintained by Change on Main and People Standing Up volunteers for years to come.
All of the proceeds from the garden will be donated to the Northampton Area Food Bank.
“We can literally just wheelbarrow the proceeds across the street [to the food bank],” said Sabo, “It’s a blessing in disguise.”
Anyone who would like more information in regards to Change on Main in Northampton may call 484-272-7873. For more information on People Standing Up, their “group” may be found on Facebook. They’re always looking for more volunteers and the best way to get involved is to reach out via Facebook.
Their goal is to make the borough of Northampton a better place to live. Sabo expressed his mission, “Part of my mission is to break the stigma of addiction, in doing that I want to give back to the community. Part of recovery is giving back. What’s better than helping the less fortunate?”


As a child, my grandfather instructed me on growing vegetables. He was a gardener, and grew both food for the table and flowers for my grandmother (the flowers were all around the small yard at their retirement home).
The vegetable gardens, actually - there were usually several – were located at other folks' yards or farms where grandfather share-cropped.
Grandfather pointed out to me the importance of good top soil, drainage, and water supplies for the serious growing of food crops. He mainly grew tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and green “bush” beans for canning or Mason-jar home preserving. Food he and grandmother would eat all winter.
He was what we call now an organic gardener. He recycled waste in a big compost area at his home yard, and he did the same near the other gardens at his neighbors.
His use and knowledge of insecticides was to find "natural" substances to run off the bugs and insects. Grandfather did a lot of hand-picking the worms and bugs from the plants. Herbicides were never used by grandfather (way too expensive).
Today, organic farming is a huge agricultural business (estimated annually at $30 billion). Organic farming is dominated by Big Agriculture, which is to say, corporate agriculture. The federal government backs this kind of big business. They also have had a large rulebook, since 2002, for the regulation of the country’s organic food industry.
Moreover, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) lists some 250 non-organic food additives that are allowed when the agricultural company grows and markets their products. All these companies indicate NOSB compliance by showing the food label on their products as “certified organic.”
According to the Boston Globe, state sponsored organic agricultural associations (mainly small business farmers) are being overlooked and that’s the real problem. The actual protection provided by the NOSB and the Congress, seems to benefit corporate agricultural the most.
Does this sound familiar? The regulators, in this case, members of the NOSB, get special treatment from the big agriculture companies. While the regulators collect information from the companies (questions and data gathering) they also get to help write the new rules. Inevitably, the big corporate types get to influence their regulators. It’s called regulatory capture (just like the big oil lobby getting big subsidies for the oil corporations!).
Something as important as organic farming should never be over-governed. Making laws to protect our food safety is a good idea; if a poison is added to our food through the process of growing it, government should find a way to stop it. Absolutely!
The problem is whatever happened to all those guys and gals using my grandfather’s methods of growing food? I wonder if he would be approved, today, by the federal regulators as an organic gardener? Certainly, he would not be subsidized or approved by the NOSB!


Shamanic Soul Gardening
Shamanic Soul Gardening
3 sessions. In your Shamanic Soul Garden, your life blooms. Shamanic Soul Garden is the place for growing what you really want to accomplish in your life: aspirations, healing, personal growth. Your Ancestor Tree is rooted here, and it is the place where all your Spirit Allies come together to nurture you and your life. Consciously grow your life in parallel garden powered by your Spirit Allies, Dragons, Fairies and your dreams.
The garden is our life map where we assess our truth and grow our dreams. Gentle initiations remove the old and allow the new to grow. The beauty of Spirit will sparkle around you as the Compassionate Guides help you create the life of your dreams. Dragons energize the seeds we plant. Composted habits and energy feeds our new growth. Our teachers guide us when to plant and when to harvest, and our lives flow connected to the energy of nature. This is not our imagination. It is our integration with the life force that pulses through the world in which we live.
Consciously grow your life in parallel garden powered by your Spirit Allies, Dragons, Fairies and your dreams.
Personal growth and healing is central on the Shamanic Path. As you connect and communicate with the Compassionate Spirit world, your whole life blooms. The garden is our life map where we assess our truth and grow our dreams. Gentle initiations remove the old and allow the new to grow. The beauty of Spirit will sparkle around you as the Compassionate Guides help you create the life of your dreams. We also create parallel universe gardens for the fairies, where they guide us to support them as they help the world.
Shamanic Soul Garden is the place for growing what you really want to accomplish in your life: aspirations, healing, personal growth.
Session 1 - Our Sacred Garden Space
Finding our Garden Space. Meeting our Garden Master. Considering our core intentions. Our first order of business is to learn where our garden is, especially in relationship to our Ancestral tree. We need to meet the Spirits who will help us plan till and grow. And we need to figure out where we ourselves want to start as we use the Soul Garden to grow our lives. We find the center and we create an alter with objects that represent our deepest principles and desires. And then we explore the lay of the land, and begin to create a blue print of the different garden areas we want to cultivate and tend to in our lives.
Session 2 - Preparing the ground - clearing, tilling and composting
We build our garden one section at a time, and the first section of the garden is the area of our life that is really the most important for us everyday. We will work with spirit to create a vision for what this plot will be like, shamanically speaking, as a parallel universe to our ordinary world. We will do what needs to be done to prepare the land and to create a compost pile where we can turn all our old habits and detritus into useful energy for our new gardens growth. And we will create a mirror garden in ordinary reality with a vision board , alter or maybe even a real garden for ambitious people with land and talent.
Session 3 - Planting seeds in your dreams
Our seeds are really everything that is possible - and seeding the garden can be simple or complex. In this class we will keep it simple. The spirits can had your some seeds and you can sow them. Or perhaps the spirits will give you direction for getting the seeds, and suggest you do some work in your daily life to make that happen. Getting the seeds can also be incredibly transformative and deep. Dragons are the secret. You will see!
There are as many variations on the garden you grow as there are variations of our beautiful natural world. You may choose to plant seeds of sacred plants who offer shamanic medicine. You may choose to grow an interwoven collection of beautiful flowers, trees and vegetables. Or you might want to nourish a native ecosystem. You can have multiple areas of your garden and do all of these. You might even want to raise chickens! It’s yours to nurture and love.
Intensive Exclusive Session - Healing in the Garden
Your garden is a sacred healing space for others. The plants will heal. The ecosystem will compost their trauma. Even the weather will bring needed empowerments. I have seen profound changes in people and animals when I have brought them into a soul garden. We can do this in our garden, or we can co journey with them into their own.
This session is only available for those in the intensive program.
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Pacific
Hosted by Zoom
Phone: 1 (415) 762-9988 PIN 587-301-9045
Phone: 623-776-6922 Cell


The award, which goes to projects that make Saskatchewan a more sustainable place to live, was handed out at the 8th Annual Education for Sustainable Development Recognition Awards (new window) by Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Vaughn Solomon Schofield (new window).
Recently, the Market Garden hired eight persons with disabilities with the help of a wage subsidy from the Working Together program.
These employees are responsible for planting and seeding, harvesting, and marketing of the produce.
The Market Garden, which sells its produce, helps offset the high cost of food in Northern Saskatchewan and produces healthier food options for locals, while promoting a self-sustainable community. Cumberland House is home to roughly 2,000 Aboriginal, Cree, and Metis people.
Operated since 2012, the garden is known for its strawberry (new window) crops, and has a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, from cantaloupes (new window) to tomatoes (new window). This year, they are planning on expanding their potato (new window) harvest.
However, the Market Garden isn’t the only program assisted by the Neil Squire Society in the community located nearly 450 km north of Saskatoon (new window).
10 persons with disabilities have been hired in Cumberland House through Working Together for a new community beautification project. These employees will go around the community doing tasks including cleaning up yards, getting rid of hazardous materials, completing repairs, and painting houses for homeowners who provide paint.


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Granite Rose Estate
The Search Begins
The search to the perfect soil and climatic conditions to bring to life the mediterranean style red wines begins. Welcome Granite Rose Estate, Harcourt North on the foothills of Mt Alexander
With initial plantings of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and a small allotment of Merlot the humble beginnings of a big future had started.
With the first commercial production of wine flowing from the barrels, Granite Rose Estate had officially emerged
The traditions Continue
2016 though to the present day has seen Granite Rose take on a larger premises of 30 acres of vines in the Bendigo region. This in combination with strategic partnerships with other vignerons around Australia to bring our customers a complete and diverse selection of fine wines.


8 plagues Geraniums
Although they are really rustic and sturdy, these are not spared from attack by pests such as the African fly, mealybugs, green mosquito, nematodes, aphids, whiteflies, caterpillars and red spider.
It is one of the plagues of the Geranios most important and harmful.
If you perceive that there are holes in the stems of your copies, the leaves are wilted or no leaves with bites, these symptoms are caterpillars, which are about 2 cm long and have a greenish color.
Preventively treats the plant once a month from appearing.
However, if it is already too attacked by a butterfly geranium or African fly, you should discard it because there is no solution. If you are not attacked, remove all affected stems and apply an insecticide.
They are one of the most common insects that can exist in plants. They are similar to warts, and their color is brown. These can appear in both stems and leaves.
These warts are small capsules having eggs and hatchlings. Cochineal is small and flat, a straw-like, translucent and pale color.
When out of his shell, looking for a place to eat; each individual adheres to the stem or leaf, molasses, and suctions excreted plant juices.
Mealybugs are difficult to control because the eggs and larvae are protected by a shell. However, you can scrape off all visible insects with an object and then sprinkle with multipurpose insecticide Calypso AL.
3. Red Spider
The red spider is a difficult insect to locate and perhaps one of the most laborious to remove.
Small mites are nearly invisible to the naked eye and are usually housed in the back of the sheets, biting and breaking the tissue.
When the pest is widespread, you can identify it as a straw-colored creature.
However, this mite damage that causes them to leaves is very easy to distinguish, because it generates the loss of green pigment and makes acquiring a faded look.
There are yellow, green, pink, and black aphids.
One night may appear a lot of them with or without wings, depending on their maturity.
When aphids begin to multiply, they may damage the geranium quickly, attacking new outbreaks by sticking the thin tube into young cells and sucking the juice plant to feed themselves.
This causes the buds to bend to be damaged. They also excrete honeydew and develop a black fungus after a short period. Molasses and removes fungus with the insecticide Decis Protech.
Whitefly is easy to recognize, as it formed a cloud of insects when someone was shaking or moving.
These thrive in hot, dry places, but in winter can also build a big problem.
Deposited eggs and larvae on the back face of the sheets excreted molasses and may form a black fungus. Spray the plant with the same applied insecticide for aphids.
6. Green Mosquito
They are tiny sucking insects and spiking its beak to absorber sap leaves.
This causes similar discoloration mites as abounding. The leaves lose their green pigmentation, yellowing, or, put red and may even fall.
Fights plant with the same insecticide used for aphids and whiteflies.
There are several species of caterpillars that can reach devour geranium leaves.
Just you see them. You pick them up by hand like laying eggs that usually easily stand on the undersides of leaves during the spring.
In more serious cases, you can get rid of effectively using the same insecticide used to combat mosquitoes green, whiteflies and aphids, or, using the insecticide-miticide Natria.
Nematodes are one of the plagues of geraniums that are introduced into the roots to feed on their juices.
Not very easy to know if the planting attacked by pests such as the symptoms can be confused with excess water, lack of nutrients, and so on.
To recognize gender Meloydogine, you must remove the roots from the ground and see if some lumps in them.
The cones leaves are affected by nematodes, lose their green color, and turn yellow; subsequently, they wither. If you suspect or identify the pest, see the garden center to find out which product advise you, because in the market there are many brands and products varied.


October 2012 Reese Brothers began an annual Equipment Sale held before their Mule Sale which has grown into quiet an event. The equipment sale begins at 10 am with the selling of horse drawn equipment and followed by the mule sale. Equipment ranges from wagons to manure spreaders to wagon seats. This is a sale that grows yearly and has turned into the opening kickoff to the fall mule sale season.
The photos are examples of pieces of equipment that have been consigned in the past.
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When they came to dig up the sod to begin the new pool, the guys
|I could not be happier with the progress of my maters and my sweet peppers.|
|The maters and peppers from another view.
They have come a long way since 3/22/12.
|Speaking of Maters…my Cherries are coming in nicely. If you dig around in the bush, you will find about 15 of them right now.|
|It’s just my opinion, but this is one fine looking Cherry mater
plant for having been frozen twice.
|I don’t know, these green beans look like they are doing damn good.
What do you think?
|I could not be more pleased with my Cucumbers. They look wonderful. I was told I could grow them in a bucket like this, but I think they might need to be in something bigger.|
My, how healthy you’ll be! The plants look like they’re thriving, and I’m really envious of that cherry mater. Good for you!


Welcome to APBGE-2021
The Plant Tissue Culture Association (India) [PTCA (I)] is an elite body of Plant Tissue Culture Scientists, several of whom are pioneers in this field, while others have established scientific credentials. One of the goals of PTCA(I) is to provide platform for students, researchers and scientists to present their work for interaction and exchange views on the most recent developments in plant science. PTCA (I) has been providing this unique platform by facilitating annual congregation of scientists, year after year, for more than past four decades. The annual meeting of the association is combined with a three-day symposium on a theme related to advances in plant tissue culture and plant biotechnology.
During this Symposium, eminent experts from around the world from the plant biotechnology, plant tissue culture, plant genomics, and plant genetic engineering and genome editing fields will discuss the recent advances in plant biotechnology and future prospects for plant improvement. This event will provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas on the latest innovative approaches in the field of Plant biotechnology and Genome Editing in a variety of experimental plant systems ranging from agronomic, horticultural, medicinal and tree crops to model plants.
We look forward for your participation in APBGE-2021.


Yellow cherry tomato plant in a pot
The bright yellow colours Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Yellow will undoubtedly bring sunshine to your home or terrace! The Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Yellow looks very similar to Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Red and Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Orange. It is a determinate tomato plant, which means that you don’t have to remove side shoots (see FAQs). This makes it even easier to look after the plant. All you need to do is make sure the plant has enough water and wait for the trusses to ripen. You can keep the tomato plant indoors or outdoors.
Picking yellow cherry tomatoes
You will love it for the large number of delicious tomatoes that you can pick. Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Yellow is great for kids. Children will love the cheerful colours and have fun picking lots and lots of delicious tomatoes. Fun, educational, and healthy!
Recipes with yellow cherry tomatoes
The tomatoes from Pick-&-Joy® Cherry Tomato Yellow go great in a tomato and mozzarella dish; a wonderful treat for school and a great snack to go with a drink. The yellow tomatoes are perfect on their own or in oven dishes and stir-fries. Check out our recipes for inspiration!


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Come visit us instore to see our current seasonal plants and our knowledgeable team who are happy to offer gardening advice. Enjoy a coffee and treat at Kerikeri Bakehouse while you're here!


We all know about the harm that can be caused by pesticides. While being misused, pesticides can have a negative impact on the plants, animals and human health. Animals that eat the treated with pesticides plants, have a small amount of pesticides left in their organisms. Being a food to a human, such animals represent a certain risk to human health. Not only the meat can be intoxicated with pesticides but also eggs, milk and the further products of milk production.
While working with pesticides, people accumulate them in the organism, what, in turn, may lead to the chronic diseases. Human needs have increased immensely, and people nowadays can’t eliminate the use of pesticides.
Nevertheless, there are not only negative sides of pesticides; they are of a benefit to the agriculture. When used in the right time, in the right amount, pesticides protect the agricultural products from potential hazards, which may be caused by vermin. Thus, the use of pesticides rescues the economics of the country. If the country stopped using the pesticides, the export of products would not be realized because of the lack of them. The import of supply would be needed.
The use of herbicides contributes to the increase of the yields of cereals on 10-20 percent. In undeveloped countries the disuse of pesticides is not that evident, and still, such countries can supply the population with the necessary amount of goods. Meantime, in developed countries the situation is completely opposite, the use of pesticides is demanding, as being providers of products, they have to grow a certain amount of plants.
Taking into consideration the usage of pesticides not in agriculture, we must admit, that they help to prevent some diseases that are spread by the insects or ticks, such as plague, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid fever and some others. The mechanical removal of the insects is not that effective, and what’s more, they are adapted to the created adverse conditions and can reproduce in such environment. That means, the pesticides are really important in this situation. Moreover, the long-acting pesticides save millions of homes from termites.
Pesticides can help the ecosystems to restore the balance that was disturbed by the invasion of some species.
A huge benefit of pesticides is in the ravage of weeds. Just imagine how much time would be needed to remove all the weeds if not the usage of pesticides. The mechanical removal of them would cost much more.
It is actually difficult, to define the brink between the negative and positive sides of the pesticides as they are focused on pest control. Though much harm is done to the human health, first of all. Still, the human is to blame, as he himself uses the pesticides to improve the standard of living.
The fact of the negative impact of the pesticides can not be denied, though we can still see the positive quality of them. They increase the production of agricultural products, improve the quality of food, and help the people to remove the insects.
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Have you harvested a few too many cucumbers, tomatoes and zucchini, or bought
too much at the supermarket? Preserve them now and you can enjoy their sunkissed
flavour all year long. Here are a few tips for squirrelling away your summer bounty.
Freezing is an easy preservation method, ideal for berries and grapes which retain
their nutrients and flavour for up to six months. To freeze, simply wash the berries,
allow them dry, then spread them out on a parchment-lined sheet pan. Next, place
the pan in the freezer for about 30 minutes before transferring the contents to plastic
baggies. If the real estate in your freezer is at a premium you can skip the sheet pan
method, and place the fruits directly in baggies.
To make economical, and completely natural, at-home seasonings, start by cutting
garden herbs near the bottom of the long stems right before flowering. Bunch the
herbs together and tie the bottom of the stems with butcher’s twine or a small rubber
band. Hang these upside down from a small hook, screwed into the wall or ceiling,
near a window which receives lots of sunlight.
The herbs will dry out in just a few days. Remove the dry leaves by rubbing them
between your palms, then store the leaves in glass jars or in plastic baggies.
Pickling and Canning
Many preservers are big fans of canning stone fruits such as peaches, and pickling
cucumbers, courgettes and green tomatoes.
When it comes to pickling there are a variety of different methods to try, some more
time-consuming than others. “Quick Pickling” only requires placing vegetables in
brine for a few days. Don’t be shy about experimenting with different vinegars, herbs
If you want to can peaches, pears or plums, here is a simple technique which can be
done in a tall stainless steel pot with a tight-fitting lid.
Be sure to stop by the fresh produce section of Famous Foods to pick up some of the
bounties of summer produce and store for use all year.