Sustainable Gardening News

In the News

A ban on many lawn and garden pesticides will go into effect next spring in Ontario, Canada. The new law would prohibit 80 chemicals and 300 products that experts say pose a potential health hazard.
Even big business loves bees, especially if the business if Ben & Jerry's. Blogger Michele's family are seriously into bees. Then over on Dry Ideas learn how to build your own solitary bee house.
Thanks to Craig Cramer and Jane Berger for posting about this great hort student project.
Slate tackles the debate over fake turf.
Treehugger reports that condoms can save the rain forest. Another great reason to use 'em, I suppose.
Great report in the Washington Post about trees, global warming, and our gardens.
It had to come to this — treebhuggers battling it out in court with solar-panel-huggers.

Boy, the Germinatarix got into the thick of the lawn/anti-lawn debate when she supported SYNLawn for areas without enough rainfall for the real stuff. Commenters spoke their minds.
Andrea (at Heavy Petal) posted about amending your soil organically.
Just say no to water-saving hydrogels is Idaho Gardener's recap of a meaty discussion on the garden writers email group, and I thank Mary Ann for the great summary.
Carol reviews cultivators, so we don't have to.
Great post by Saxon Holt at Gardening Gone Wild about marketing of new plants taking a bizarre turn of late.
One blogger steps up to defend a lovely weed — violets — and finds out she's not alone in admiring them. I'm in the pro-weed camp myself.
Check out this great post about pesticides, organic and otherwise, comparing a news story with The Truth about Organic Gardening.
I report on a movie about truly sustainable agriculture in Cuba, post-peak-oil.
Read about invasive plants being removed from shelves.
I reported on how advice about dandelions is changing — but not fast enough here in D.C. where it's still "Nuke 'em!"
It's a hard life in the city for a tree. This reports on the pro-tree message, and some anti-tree pushback.
Wanna see how the more toxic elements in the petro-hort industry promote their smelly products? Every way they can think of, including lobbying the garden writers. Lots of juicy comments.
Oh, yeah, We Heart the Zero-Impact Man.

With Organic Gardening and DC's Channel 9 News both visiting this month, readers may have seen enough of my garden for a while. In case you haven't, here's a nice woodland scene.
Reports of my lawn-to-groundcover and lawn-to-veggies makeovers are coming soon.

It's peak season for gardening coaches, and I wrote about one client who received my services as an early Father's Day gift. I'm meeting some very, very cool people this way, I'll tell ya.
I finally gave my first talk to a large group, using actual photos, on the subject of Creating and Maintaining a Sustainble Gardening — what else? The crowd was not shy with their questions and a lively time was had by all. But best of all, it's over.

Keith Olberman acts crazy on "Countdown", so we don't have to.

Can you tell I love my new MP3 player and all the free podcasts available these days?