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Garden Grants Pass: August 2015
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Monday, August 24, 2015. The NO MORE DRUG WAR protest returns to Grants Pass. The spirit of the Rogue River Indians haunts this valley, in their name on the Rogue River; the Rogue Valley; Valley of the Rogue State Park; and numerous business names. French-Canadian fur buyers called them “ coquins. 8221; which translates to “rogues.” They also named. La Riviere aux Coquins. Later called the Rogue River. Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541-...
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Garden Grants Pass: SB 863 (2013) is ORS 633.738
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. SB 863 (2013) is ORS 633.738. Courtesy of Paul Loney, Attorney at Law:. 633738 Prohibition of local laws to inhibit or prevent production or use. Of seeds or products of seeds. 1) As used in this section:. A) “Local government” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.116. B) “Nursery seed” means any propagant of nursery stock as defined. In ORS 571.005. Follow @AnRycke on Twitter; GP Gardener on Facebook; chec...
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Garden Grants Pass: July 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Good mulch brings good bugs. Leaves under butternut squash and tomatoes. A gentleman of my acquaintance asked me what to do about squash bugs. I said that I never really have a problem with squash bugs. Turns out that the people he is helping with their farm are using plastic mulch to control weeds and row covers to try to control insect pests. Wikipedia considers earwigs omnivorous and says that they eat insects...
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Garden Grants Pass: April 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Sunday, April 27, 2014. How to Grow Great Tomatoes, peppers, melons, corn, and other heat-loving annuals. 4" tomato planted among gabion rocks, in compost covered with pine needles. Switch back. If it is blooming, don’t buy it or plant it. Spend some time preparing the ground first. If your soil is poor and grows small weeds, cover it with about 6 inches of compost and enough pine needles or coarse bark to cover, or a foot of mixed ...
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Garden Grants Pass: December 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. Recent temperature extremes support global drying. Prints summaries of Earthweek every Friday. Last week, the headline was "Quickening Extremes:" "The number of outbreaks of extreme heat and cold around the world during the past three decades increased more rapidly than the rate of global warming, which scientists say is fueling the trend.". It has a lot more information than the. But the trend reversed in 19...
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Garden Grants Pass: May 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Monday, May 19, 2014. A Pound O Rain sprinkler in use. Some think that if they don’t water, they won’t have to mow. But weeds don’t care about watering, even thrive on dryness, and once they have taken over a lawn, one must mow more often to keep their flowers from seeding the neighborhood and making the yard uglier yet. Links to this post. Labels: Garden Building and Maintenance. Please Don’t Save Water. We didn’t have much snow ...
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Garden Grants Pass: April 2015
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Buy better tomato and pepper starts. Tomato warmed with rocks and pepper in 4 x 8 sand and rocks a week after planting, May 2014: they doubled in size quickly. It is rare to find a 6” pot of tomatoes that is not already blooming, and sometimes it’s hard to find 4” pots not blooming. This goes double for peppers; it is best to buy them in 6-paks, and look carefully for buds. Six-packs o...Links to this post.
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Garden Grants Pass: January 2015
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Bitter Cress and Groundsel are already seeding. Groundsel and bitter cress, blooming together. Young bitter cress, close up, abut 2 inches wide. Just before they bloom, the larger plants are good to eat as a hot, bitter mustard green. They are small, but softer and juicier than most mustards, good in a salad. But don’t let them seed out; they are a nuisance. Seeded bitter cress, popped out and ugly. They becom...
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Garden Grants Pass: October 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Use leaves to stop weeds. Oak leaves covered with pine needles to keep them in place. Leaves laid thick for growing vegetables. Naturally fallen Red Maple leaves stopping bitter cress and annual rye. Use leaves; don’t lose them. They can save you a lot of work. October issue, online at. GardenGrantsPass.blogspot.com, sold at the Mail Center, 305 NE 6. Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541-955-9040.
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Garden Grants Pass: August 2014
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About Garden Grants Pass. The Litter Cleaner Blog. News You Can Use. Friday, August 29, 2014. Keep food and drink cool with water. You can keep food and drinks cool on a camping trip or in an emergency without ice or a refrigerator, using the powerful cooling ability of water, which evaporates at 41 degrees, and therefore can cool stuff to 41 degrees, regardless of air temperature, as long as relative humidity is not 100%. The water cycle that makes summer thunderstorms depends on evaporation and condens...