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Hugelkultur Can Create Irrigation-Free Garden Beds [Weekend Project]

# weekendproject If your yard is big enough that you might have a felled tree from time to time due to lightning or winter storms, you may wonder how you can put the wood to good use. Most people who don't regularly heat with wood just post an ad on Craigslist for free wood if someone picks it up. Instead consider using the wood to form the backbone of a type of gardening bed known as ...

Hugelkultur Can Create Irrigation-Free Garden Beds

Fallen trees aren’t just useful for furniture and firewood. You can use the wood to form the backbone of a type of gardening known as Hugelkultur, which involves burying wood in your garden bed. Permaculture site Rich Soil promotes the many benefits of Hugelkultur: Hugelkultur is nothing more than making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood. This makes for raised garden beds loaded wi ...

Home and Garden Digest, Feb. 4, 2012: UCSC farm will ease blueberry worries

Farm will ease blueberry worries The UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden is introducing a class on blueberries 10 a.

From Rooftop To Fork: Downtown L.A. Club Grows Its Own Greens

              Farmscape , California's largest urban farming operation, recently wrapped a first-of-its-kind project in Downtown Los Angeles, one that (literally) takes urban agriculture to new heights. Atop The Jonathan Club now sits a large rooftop garden installation designed to grow fresh, organic greens. [ more › ]

Master Gardener: How to start a vegetable garden

There has been an increasing interest in growing food in recent years as incomes shrink, food prices rise and concerns grow over healthy eating.

Kale becomes a bright spot in winter gardens

Any time one can walk out to the garden in the middle of January here in New England and harvest vegetables, it's a pretty neat thing.