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Two cheap products with incredibly stupid names have just made yard work a lot easier, and I couldn’t be more delighted.

See, my garden tools are good quality — every garden guru will tell you that’s important — but they’re geting old. (Aren’t we all?) And I have to confess that I’ve never cared for [...]

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Urban Green

by domestika on August 5, 2007

Last night, watching a Law & Order re-run, I had a sudden epiphany — if Television can be believed, the flat roof of a big-city building is

an immensely unattractive place, dark, with a high probability of rain or snow
and
almost certain to hold a psychotic serial killer, wild-eyed and poised to drop an [...]

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Friends are very forgiving about small garden imperfections (that’s why they’re friends!) but this year, we’ve got A Big Wedding Anniversary coming up in the extended family and everyone’s keen on making the party an outdoor event. We’ll want the place to look its very best for the occasion — but re-designing the landscape [...]

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Here in Atlantic Canada, we’re getting whomped by the traditional St Patrick’s Day snowstorm and the landscape is still very much white and brown and grey… At least there’s one sweet thing about March in our climate — the sap is starting to run, and the maple sugar / syrup season has begun! Yummm!
So [...]

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Garden Like an Astronaut

by domestika on February 13, 2007

“Instead of giving cut-flowers with a 5-day lifespan this Valentine’s day,” says Emily (of Inhabitat, who dug up the AEROGARDEN along with a few other tabletop garden systems, “why not go the more sustainable (yet equally romantic) route and provide living, breathing plants to your loved ones instead?”

Sweet cherry tomatoes?
Aromatic herbs?
Fresh salad greens, harvested [...]

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