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City leaders hope to start community gardens on city-owned land by spring
There's an effort to use plots of vacant, city-owned land for gardens. The land, depending on size, could be used by residents or Lawrence farmers who want to grow more produce for markets.
- Garden Calendar: Treating pruning wounds
- January 8, 2012
- Sometimes doing nothing is the best course of action.
- Give home a deep clean while spending months indoors
- January 2, 2012
- According to a recent survey by the Cleaning Institute Organization, 96 percent of people think it’s important to have a clean home. But with busy schedules, we sometimes fall short.
- Garden Calendar: How will your garden grow in 2012?
- January 1, 2012
- Need New Year’s resolutions you can stick to? How about making some changes in the way you garden? Or starting gardening? The physical and mental benefits gardening provides just might help with any other resolutions you make, and better gardening practices benefit the entire community.
- Garden Calendar: Keep your forced-bloom flowers from flopping
- December 25, 2011
- If you have tried growing paperwhite narcissus flowers before and they have flopped, I have a sure-fire trick for you.
- Garden Calendar: Make windows safer for birds
- December 18, 2011
- Only you can prevent bird-on-window violence.
- Garden Calendar: Cultivating gift ideas for the gardener in your life
- December 11, 2011
- Jennifer Smith shares her gift ideas for the green thumb in your life.
- Garden Calendar: There’s more to mistletoe than kissing traditions
- December 4, 2011
- While others are content to kiss under the mistletoe during the holidays, put it under their pillow to inspire dreams of Prince Charming, or use it as an herbal remedy, I have to wonder how a poisonous parasitic plant got such a good reputation.
- To get organized, ‘think like a kindergarten teacher’
- November 28, 2011
- The burning question, one that keeps some of us awake at night, say, after a long day of chasing down a little someone’s runaway math book, searching high and low for a soccer ball, throwing up your hands at the latest missing T-shirt, is this: Is a knack for being organized something a kid is born with, or can it — please! — be learned? Prompted, perhaps, with a few choice doodads and gizmos that come with promises of forever ordering your discombobulated lives? Next question: How soon can we start?
- Garden Calendar: Identifying winter trees is tough, but possible
- November 27, 2011
- Pay attention to shape, bark and branch arrangement, if you want to identify deciduous trees that have dropped their leaves.
- Garden Calendar: Holiday cacti brighten the winter months
- November 20, 2011
- Now is a great time to add one or more of these epiphytic cacti to your collection.
- Designers suggest early prep for holiday decorating
- November 14, 2011
- We’ve arrived at the brief calm before the happy storm of holiday celebrating begins.
- Garden Calendar: Oak leaves have little effect on soil pH
- November 13, 2011
- Although oak leaves do have the potential to acidify soil, they are highly unlikely to be causing problems in your yard in northeast Kansas.
- Garden Calendar: Using layering as an alternative to grafting
- November 6, 2011
- One of the most interesting characteristics of plants, I think, is the ability to reproduce asexually. Layering is alternative method and is a good choice for propagating plants with soft, supple branches like forsythia, azalea, rhododendron, holly and magnolia.
- First Bell: Common Ground program could use public land to grow food for schools; Eudora taking Teacher of the Year nominations
- November 3, 2011
- Time for another edition of “First Bell,” a look at issues and items involving education in and around Lawrence.
- Garden Calendar: Ready your mower and other machines for a long winter
- October 30, 2011
- A little preventative maintenance can go a long way.
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