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Sustainable Gardening Newsletter March 2009

GardenRant version.  The whole newsletter, with off-topic sidebar, is here.

In Your Garden

• What to prune now
  and how includes links to videos and more.   And here's more: Pruning Chores for
  Early March
  

• Lawn look like crap?  Now's the time to follow the simple, organic
  lawn care regimen of a blogreader.  The year-round maintenance plan of a real-life
  sustainable gardener.

• And here's the overview of what to do
  now, with the urgent title: "Do something NOW
  about your
  garden!"

    In
the News

• Exciting research from
  Rodale – how no-till
  agriculture can combat global
  warming.

• Next, what we gardeners
  know, that horticulture ALSO combats climate change, according to an article in the U.K.-based publication
  Horticulture Week. Food gardening is singled out as extra-helpful
  because it reduces consumption of meat, which is so resource-intensive to
  produce.

• What else combats climate change? According to this
  article [pdf], mycorrhizal fungi.
  With the addition of our favorite fungi, soils and perennial grasses sequester
  even more carbon.

• And plant geeks, this is for you – an evolutionary tree of plant tree.

• Fine Gardening has launched VegetableGardener.com to help us
  newbie veg-growers get up to
  speed.

• The UK has a Plan Bee (to save the bees).  Do we?
  

    On
the Sustainable Gardening Blog

• Tabard Inn's Green
  Roof: a Downtown Garden for Roses and Herbs by a guest blogger I met at Rooting DC, a very successful urban
  gardening
  forum

• The wisdom of Suzanne Wainwright-Evans
  in The Bug Lady
  Speaks

  
  

• Hollywood Juniper –
  Lovely, Sculptural Deer Food is a lament, but a reader comment (from a pro)
  might keep this thing
  alive.  

    On
Sustainable Gardening.com

• Green Dumping Must
  Stop by our newest contributor and my main gardening guru in the world, Ann
  Lovejoy.

• Ann also brings us How to Keep
  your Thirsty Lawn
  Happy.

• Knock Out
  Roses, the newest sponsor of the website, the blog and this newsletter, get
  their own page.  With full disclosure, of
  course.

Posted by Susan Harris on March 17, 2009 at 11:59 am, in the category What's Happening.