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Hello,
We had hoped to publish an issue about Budget Tips and Budget Software Reviews this week. We still haven't gotten very many budget software reviews so we are going to hold off on that issue. We encourage everyone to send in their tips on the subject and we will also try to do some of our own research into the budgetting software that is available.
Today's issue is about Organic and Eco-Friendly Gardening. We have 13 articles posted below by Ellen Brown that are full of useful information and tips. Feel free to send in your favorite organic gardening tips or pictures of your garden to either the tip or photo contest.
Next week's issue will be about cool summer recipes. If you have any cool summer recipes to share, please submit them. It should be a great issue.
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Susan
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Organic and Eco-Friendly Gardening
An Introduction to Container Gardening
If your ability to garden is limited by a lack of space, a lack of accessibility or poor quality soil, then consider container gardening. All you need is a selection of plants, a few containers, the proper growing medium, and a sunny window, balcony or porch and you're on your way to an excellent crop of vegetables or flowers.
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An Introduction to Lasagna Gardening
Lasagna gardening isn't about growing lasagna, and it isn't about growing the great vegetables and herbs found in lasagna recipes. Instead, lasagna gardening is a timesaving organic gardening method developed by gardener and writer, Patricia Lanza, which requires no digging, no tilling and no sod removal. Too good to be true? Read on.
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Vermicomposting - Indoor Worm Ranching
Vermicomposting (composting with worms) is easy, odorless, cheap, and great for the environment. It takes up little space, can be done year-round and no pets will love your garbage as unconditionally as the tiny Red Wiggler!
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Intensive Gardening Techniques - Small Spaces, Big Yields
No matter how small your garden plot is, intensive gardening will maximize the productivity of your available space. Intensive gardening does this by utilizing season-extending tools and specific planting techniques. Sometimes called "square foot" gardening, or "French intensive gardening" (the French developed it), here are some intensive gardening techniques to give you the biggest garden possible for your small space.
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Eco-Friendly Irrigation - How to Water Wisely
Few of us are aware of how much water we waste. Most of us merely turn on the sprinkler and walk away. In many places, water is not only scarce, it's expensive. How you deliver water to your lawn and garden can have a major effect on your water bill and ultimately, on the environment.
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Controlling Weeds Organically
A garden filled with weeds will yield about half as much as a weed-free garden of the same size. In fact, one of the most common causes of a failed garden is letting weeds get the jump on your plants. Organic gardening doesn't attempt to eradicate weeds, just control (manage) them. Here are some guidelines to make sure you retain the upper hand.
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Sprouting Seeds
Starting your own seedlings is an easy and economical way to get a jump on the growing season. It gives you the opportunity to experiment with hundreds of different plant varieties and gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your garden will be organic right from the very start.
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Garden Solutions from the Kitchen, Bath and Laundry
Here are examples of how a few products that nearly everyone has laying around the house can be incorporated into the garden.
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Community Gardening
For many adults and children, our shift to a more urbanized economy has resulted in a lack of access to healthy food. In areas with limited resources, this can also mean living without access to nature. Community gardens help solve these issues and provide access to so much more.
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Chemical Free Lawn Care
We spend a lot of time trying to achieve the perfect lawn. Most of our energy is directed at discouraging the plants we don't want by using weed killing herbicides and insect eradicating pesticides-chemicals that are known to be poisonous. There is a healthier and easier way based on the principle that "less is more." The key is to encourage the plants we do want by optimizing the conditions that encourage grass growth.
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Creating Raised Beds
If you're short on space or the soil in your area is riddled by sand or clay, building raised beds may be the best solution to your gardening woes. You'll trade the time, money and effort required amending poor quality soil for maximum yields in a minimum amount of space.
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Green Up Your Garden Organically
An organic garden is a garden that works in cooperation with nature. It minimizes and replenishes the resources it consumes. It's a place where every aspect of the environment; gardener, plant, animal, insect, micro-organism, weather, season, etc., assumes an important role in achieving overall balance with the surrounding ecosystem.
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Organic Pest Control
Most gardeners encounter pest problems at some point during the growing season. Organic gardeners "control" (within tolerable levels) these insect pests without the use of synthetic chemicals. Successful insect pest control, however, begins long before you spot the first leaf holes and slime trails. It starts with a good garden environment.
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