A few weeks ago, I visited friends in Bellingham, Washington. They have a fantastic garden despite the deer that use it as their main thoroughfare (and their snacking gardens). It seems the humans and the deer have come to an agreement that the deer stay on the upper hillside and the people keep an uneaten [...]

Today I read that researchers are listening to the noises plants make to determine what kind of pollution they’re putting up with. Basically, the type of soundwave the plant puts out tells the scientists if there is a pollution issue going on and what kind of pollution is at hand.
Is this a surprise to anyone [...]

Today I read this quick snippet on career bat guano harvesters in Peru. And it got me thinking…”How sustainable is it for gardeners in the U.S. to use bat guano?”
If the guano we use in Seattle is harvested and shipped from Peru, is buying that fertilizer just as bad as buying fruits and vegetables shipped [...]

Okay, we’ve all seen the “Kill Your TV” bumperstickers, right? Well, what about shooting your lawnmower when it doesn’t start? I just read that someone did just that.
My solution? Rather than kill the mower, why not get rid of the grass instead? That would save you in “lawn rage”, effort, chemicals, water, and so much [...]

I just read that NASA has determined that the soils on mars are similar to what we have here on earth. So much so that one quote even said that you could grow aparagus on mars. Now, we know that rain, sunlight an oxygen (and a few other things) would come into play here as [...]