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Grow your own food! 


 Gardening Videos         Seed Catalogs & Resources

         A "must have" Reference...

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion, Revised: Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace

book  by Shane Smith - founder & director of Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Cheyenne, Wyoming

          Everything from Designing & Building, to Lighting, Plants, Soil, Pests & Diseases.

 ...very comprehensive guide...


Articles


by Pat Baumes

Introducing The EarthBox® 

EarthBox with staking system

Imagine… environmentally friendly weedless gardens grown anywhere. Even in your Solar Sunspace! This may be achieved by using the EarthBox®....
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Self-watering Container

A good place to find buckets is at a bakery in a local grocery store.  You may be able to get them for free if they are going to put them in the recycle bin. I was able to get 2 sizes, different depths, which worked out great. ....
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If you would like a larger self-watering container follow the directions for making them out of totes.

       Make Your Own Self-Watering Container out of Totes          

Self-watering Container out of Totes            peppers in self-watering container

These you can fit well into the landscape with the mature plants hiding the Tote.

Planting the Self-Watering Container


by Paul Shippee

A Frost-Free Community Solar Greenhouse  Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

 

In these days of peak oil, resource depletion and wars, and worries about the economy a community needs to learn how to grow its own food, especially in winter. The San Luis Valley is an agricultural community that exports and sells elsewhere most of the food grown here. Mosca and  Crestone and a few other areas have organic food growing .... More »

 


            Window Farming

Lack space? You may want to try making a Window Farm. Check out the Window Farms Project.


I have found great recipes for my fruits and vegetables in The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round. Reading the book makes your mouth water.


News

4/16/10 Penn State expert offers tips on growing healthy tomatoes

University Park, Pa. -- Last year an epidemic of late blight disease on tomatoes not only forced many home gardeners to throw out their plants, but also threatened the crops of thousands of growers throughout the state. Along with cool, wet weather,......The rest of the story » 

2/17/09 Industrial Nanotech Enters Greenhouse Industry with Product that Makes Greenhouses “Greener” and More Profitable

 


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