By Amber Veverka Spring gardening season is just weeks away and it’s time to think about boosting your soil’s fertility to get the best potatoes, pansies, snap peas and more. If you’re still tossing lettuce leaves, carrot peelings and eggshells into the garbage and hauling leaves to the curb in bags, why not turn all [...]
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Build a quick and easy compost pile
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged composting, gardening on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
New local-food website launches in Charlotte
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged farm, farmers markets, gardening, local food on August 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Charlotte-area locavores have a new online resource to help them find homegrown food – and learn a little about the farmers who produce it. A local branding firm has launched GrowCharlotte.com, a new website that ultimately will let users track locally raised fruits, vegetables and meats from their farm source to the market, store or [...]
UNC Charlotte winter garden walk and plant sale
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden, gardening, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, winter plants on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens is hosting a free winter garden walk at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. The tour will begin at the school’s greenhouse where Larry Mellichamp, gardens director, will give a short talk on winter plants. Afterward, visitors will walk through the Susie Harwood Garden with garden staff members [...]
Growing mushrooms at home in 2012
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, mushrooms on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Amber Veverka Gardening season may seem like ages away, but for one crop, winter is the ideal season to get started. This is the time to launch your own backyard mushroom garden – a project that requires little more than shade, water and time. Several easy-to-grow mushroom species need to grow on [...]
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