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Will Your Garden Be on Your Thanksgiving Table

post from About.com Gardening on 21 November 2009 08:01:28 PM. © About.com Gardening

I asked this question a couple of years ago and most people who responded said yes. This year a lot of novice gardeners tried their hand at vegetable gardening for the first time. I do hope it was a great success and you've become a gardener for life. And I'm hoping you saved some vegetables to enjoy at Thanksgiving, the harvest festival.

Living in Zone 6, my garden is pretty much cleared out for the season, but I've managed to stash away some potatoes, squash and a freezer full of green things. The only thing I'll be picking fresh for Thanksgiving will be herbs, but it's still a treat. The only thing better than eating food you've grown yourself is watching other people enjoy it. So I'm curious, will any of your harvest be part of your Thanksgiving feast?

Photo: © Marie Iannotti

Will Your Garden Be on Your Thanksgiving Table? originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 01:01:28.

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New Non-Technology Idea for Saving the Planet

post from All the Dirt on Gardening on 21 November 2009 05:26:00 PM. © All the Dirt on Gardening

The Dirt is an online publication of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The ideas in the blog entry below are not without controvery, but they are different from most. You can click on the link above to read the entire column. Here are some excerpts -

New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests
11/20/2009 by asladirt

"Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Aleinov and David Rind, two climate modellers at NASA, argue that foresting the Australian outback and Saharan Desert would solve climate change.

While numerous geoengineering schemes have been proposed to mitigate the adverse effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) build-up, many of the more ambitious ideas, including ocean-based aerosol sprayers, space mirrors, C02 air scrubbers, or artificial C02-capturing trees, have been examined and labeled cost-prohibitive or dangerous (see earlier post).

Others ideas will work, are much cheaper on a small-scale, but require significant investment and regulatory changes to scale up worldwide (see Steven Chu?s call for reflective cool roofs, and more on the idea of creating reflective crops). These researchers, however, argue that massive forestation in equatorial deserts provides the best, near-term route to complete control of greenhouse gas induced global warming, and would be cost-effective in comparison with carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans now receiving massive investment (see earlier post).

The scientists outlined their plan in a recent article in the Journal of Climatic Change. According to The Guardian (UK), the plan would involve planting fields of fast growing trees such as eucalyptus would cover the deserts of the Sahara and Australian outback, watered by seawater treated by a string of coastal desalination plants and channelled through a vast irrigation network. The new blanket of tree cover would bring its own weather system and rainfall, while soaking up carbon dioxide from the world?s atmosphere. The team's calculations suggest the forested deserts could draw down around 8bn tonnes of carbon a year, about the same as emitted from fossil fuels and deforestation today."

What do you think of this idea? Does it make sense to you? Would you support tax dollars being spent on such a hugs reforestation project?

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Knitting Needles

post from Cactus Blog on 21 November 2009 05:00:00 PM. © Cactus Blog

The latest news from the Green Valley News and Sun is all about cactus.

(K)nitting artist Irene York,… (u)sing traditional knitting needles and stitches plus a variety of colorful and textured yarns,… knits cactus.
Her colorful home in Quail Creek is filled with a variety of live cactus outside and hand-knit cactus all abloom with vibrant flowers inside.

Yay!

I wonder where the Green Valley Sun is? The paper claims to be in the Tucson area. Good to know.

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A Gardeners Heart

post from Snappy's Gardens Blog on 21 November 2009 02:53:00 PM. © Snappy's Gardens Blog

The weather in November has been a mixture of strong winds and rain. Its still raining outside, which is good for ducks and the mushrooms, but not for gardeners.
The leaves of the trees and shrubs are slowly being stripped away, revealing colours of the bark hidden away.
The grasses are fluttering away in the wind, and catch the raindrops. I do like the jewel like shape of these fallen raindrops.
I will try to take some photos tomorrow of our Autumnal garden. Of rain drops, tree barks, and pretty russet leaves..
Its Xmas in about five weeks. What gardening presents will I get? I have had a few emails from gardening company's, and a few comments about my posts and the blog in general.
I'm a sucker for books and seeds, the way to a gardeners heart is through free packets of seeds!
I hope you all have a good weekend.

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Impatiens

post from Projo Garden Blog on 21 November 2009 12:33:00 PM. © Projo Garden Blog

Impatiens are the most popular bedding plant in the world. I grew impatiens every year in the late 80's and all through the 90's. The usual impatiens (I. wallerina) have flat flowers with large petals and tiny spurs. They come...

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A Pointed Position

post from Cactus Blog on 21 November 2009 12:20:00 PM. © Cactus Blog

The Christian Science Monitor has an article about wintering your succulents. Here’s a pretty photo and caption that went with the article.

Succulents ? with their wide range of colors and textures ? are perfect in containers. (Photo courtesy of Betty Earl.)

True enough, but what does that have to do with overwintering the plants?

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NatGeo

From the current issue of National Geographic,

A city of limestone towers rises in western Madagascar…. Unexplored passages shelter some of the island’s?and the world’s?strangest species, from the ghostly Decken’s sifaka, a lemur, to a host of reptiles, insects, and plants….
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez
Spiny, drought-tolerant Pachypodium plants… thrive in… Tsingy de Bemaraha national park and reserve in western Madagascar.