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1.Nature's Garden Heirlooms: Gardeners in Winter (ngheirlooms.blogspot.com)
What do gardeners do during the winter months? Well, I'll tell you what the don't do... hibernate!
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2.A seed for a seed (www.thesudburystar.com)
Organizers of Sudbury's first seed exchange, held Sunday at Market Square, say they see the event germinating into something that brings hundreds of gardeners together each year.
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3.VERTICAL VEGETABLES: "Grow up" in a small garden and confound the cats! (www.instructables.com)
The only thing I had to hand was a hanging pocket shoe store and I decided to use it to grow my plants in.
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5.Sudbury Seed exchange helps preserve local plants (www.northernlife.ca)
organizers of Seedy Sunday will be holding an all-day event celebrating gardening in Greater Sudbury. The event is being held at Market Square, 85 Elm St., Feb. 21, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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6.Medical Herbman Café Project by EARTHSCAPE (www.dezeen.com)
Japanese landscape design studio EARTHSCAPE have created a giant travelling human-shaped herb garden.
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7.Container Gardening, Self-Watering Planters, Self-Watering Containers: Gardener's Supply (www.gardeners.com)
Growing in containers saves space, but it's also a smart alternative if you are restricted by too much shade, poor soil, too little time, limited mobility or a difficult climate
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8.Seeds of Change (www.seedsofchange.com)
# 100% certified organic seed: vegetables, flowers, and herbs
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9.You Grow Girl | Make Your Own Pop Bottle Irrigation System (www.yougrowgirl.com)
The last time I forgot to water my outdoor potted plants and discovered them completely wilted and hanging on the cusp of near death, I decided it was time to take action
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10.Beyond the Corniness of Prison Gardens (www.slowfoodusa.org)
Garden programs are sprouting up (sorry) in prisons across the country. Most notably, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections organized gardening programs in a total of 28 of its adult institution facilities this past year.
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11.Never forget to water your garden again with an automated drip system - DIY - Lifehacker (lifehacker.com)
I did some research on drip irrigation systems and was impressed to find the cost and features of this technology has really come along. You don't need to know much about hardware or plumbing, nor do you have to dig any trenches
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12.online rose delivery (www.a1roses.com)
Send Roses online,US Roses delivery from giftsflowers.America Roses - your online Roses Florist.100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Order Roses Flowers, Plants & Bouquets delivered to USA.We deliver quality Unique Roses Across USA.
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13.Losing 'Garden of the Provinces' a sad day for Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)
Kevan Moxam, manager of parks for the city, said the concrete flower boxes were cracking and they had become a safety concern.He seemed surprised anyone would be upset that the gardens had been demolished."
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14.A plant collector's paradise in Northern Ontario - Featured Gardens - Gardens - Canadian Gardening (www.canadiangardening.com)
Tucked away on a country road in Bracebridge, Ontario, is the property where Marnie pursues her plant passion. As you drive along the lane to her home, Rocksborough Flower Farm, pretty woodland fringes the lot, but it’s not until you step out of the car that you experience the full beauty of her landscape.
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15.Cultivating Canadian Gardens: The History of Gardening in Canada (epe.lac-bac.gc.ca)
Perhaps no other activity has grown so exponentially in recent decades in this country as has gardening. Classified as a leisure activity (although leisure seems hardly the right adjective!), Statistics Canada puts it at the top of the list with more than 80% of adult Canadians claiming to garden to some extent.
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16.A look at a Seattle Restaurant's Rooftop Garden (www.digginfood.com)
Colin custom-built a series of wooden raised beds fitted with pitched panels covered in shade cloth. To make harvesting easy, the panels hinge open. They are also interchangeable, so when the weather cools this fall, Colin plans on switching the shade cloth panels out with ones covered in plastic, effectively turning the beds into mini-greenhouses.
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17.home and gardens blog (www.homeandgardensblog.com)
Nicely designed blog with links to gardening stories and growing tips
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18.Longtime North Bay business Schutz Garden Gallery to close doors (www.nugget.ca)
The landmark garden centre, owned by Gerd and Rosemarie Schutz, is closing when all the stock is sold off but it isn't the end for the couple, who will continue to make a mark on the city with their landscaping business.Rosemarie said the recession was not a factor in the decision to close shop, and that the decision was made nearly two years ago to concentrate solely on the landscaping business.
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19.Cache Bay woman experimenting with exotic crops (www.nugget.ca)
Greenery from around the world is sprouting in Cache Bay.Jeanne Labonte's garden on Anderson Road features purple corn from Peru and a Russian sunflower that towers at three metres -- and it's still a baby," she says. photo by: ideanorth
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20.Gardening newbies learn tricks of the trade (www.northernlife.ca)
Volunteers with the Ste. Anne Community Garden braved drizzly weather as Lewis pointed out potential problems with their plants, and told them how they should be properly cared for.The Ste. Anne Community Garden was built in June by volunteers on land on Ste. Anne Road donated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie.
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21.Video: Gardening kaleidoscope. (www.cityfarmer.info)
Maria takes us on an “Alice Through the Looking Glass” type journey around our demonstration garden using her tiny HD digital camera and her equally tiny teleidoscope.
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22.Sudbury Kids ' love' community garden on Paris Street (www.northernlife.ca)
Tammy Jette said she and Veronica, 4, and Kiara, 6, planted corn, carrots, green onions, peas and beets in the Paris Street garden.“This is the first year I have gardened. It's fun. The kids love it,” said Jette. “Howard Thompson (the garden caretaker) helped me. Next year I can go on my own.
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23.Sudbury Downtown Community Garden Breaks Ground (www.northernlife.ca)
On June 7, more than 50 volunteers, both young and old, gathered together to build Greater Sudbury’s first ever public access community garden in the downtown core. Inspired by the Allard Street Community Garden in Sault Ste. Marie,
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24.Sudbury Horticultural Society Website (www.sudburyhorticulturalsociety.ca)
August Exhibition - “ Sudbury in Bloom” - CNIB
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25.Spanish Horticultural Society’s flower/vegetable show draws 150 (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)
Since its creation four years ago, the Spanish Horticultural Society’s annual Flower and Vegetable Show and Exhibit has blossomed into much more.