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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!
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Garden Like an Astronaut

by Domestik Goddess 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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Tiny Plants Under Glass

by Domestik Goddess on February 5, 2007

The Victorians were big on growing exotic plants indoors in little climate-controlled structures, and they designed some truly beautiful table-top hothouses for the purpose. Often a Victorian terrarium was quite elaborate, emulating the architecture of the conservatories and orangeries attached to British stately homes or part of the public gardens of the era…
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