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Getting into The Zone – Hardiness, Heat, Moisture, and Altitude

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:40:14 +0000

Many gardeners will come across a problem when trying to determine whether or not a plant is suitable for their region. Most plant labels consider a single variable, cold hardiness, and do not take into account other key variables such as heat or moisture. The American Horticultural Society has made a great leap by [...]

Hanging Your Shades Part 3

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:11:34 +0000

Remember that the more complex you make a design, the greater the chance of an unforeseen problem arising. Don't over-burden yourself with fancy equipment you do not need - keep your room as simple as it can be. If you can access your shades easily, use a well fastened chain system or whatever equally reliable device you prefer. Measure safety over novelty, and function over convenience, and you are well on your way to having a successful urban garden. [...]

Hanging Your Shades Part 2

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:10:58 +0000

If not already obvious, it is also not safe to hang a shade by the wire that powers the lamp. If there is any concern of hanger failure a grower should have a secondary safety chain securely mounted overhead with enough length to give the shade mobility, but without allowing it to actually crash onto the plants or floor. HID bulbs contain mercury and growers should not be exposed to vapors resulting from breakage. The last link in the hanging apparatus is fixing your hanger to your ceiling, however devised, so your shade is securely mounted to a stationary joist or frame. [...]

Review – Grubbycups Simple Hydroponics (Vol 1)

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:42:29 +0000

“Hydroponic systems can both be complicated and expensive, but they don’t have to be. They can also be simple and elegant. The central concept of hydroponics is to garden using a rooting material that is not soil.”

– Grubbycup’s Simple Hydroponics

When it comes to the spectrum of books on hydroponics, few before Grubbycup’s Simple Hydroponics: First [...]

Review – U.S. v. Yerbas

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:00:20 +0000

“Our story profiles an American lie and its death. The lie’s death needed to be fiction as her courts no longer chew on rights for they fear being overruled or political peril. So fear rules all under law. What a shame for freedom, but as many Americans know the people they fear most aren’t really real [...]

Review – Botany for Gardeners

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:12:20 +0000

“Earth has been called the Green Planet; in the vast reaches of the solar system, perhaps the universe, it is a solitary world uniquely clothed in a mantle of vegetation. And because of its plants, other forms of life are able to inhabit this place. From simple beginnings, plants evolved first among earth’s living things, thus [...]

Hanging Your Shades Part 1

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:22:14 +0000

Do your shades hang low, do they wobble to and fro? Do you hang them with a nut, do you hang them with a bolt? OK, enough foolery, let’s talk about hanging shades. Rather than describe every possible way to hang your shades I will try to illustrate some of the common methods and [...]

2011 CannaMed Fair – Vancouver BC

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:32:15 +0000

Vancouver, British Columbia, is among the mildest Canadian cities when it comes to winter, and this year was no exception. The ground was clear and the air crisp, as folks from around the continent congregated inside the warm glow of the Heritage Hall, which is itself an historic treasure for the city, [...]

Grow Store 105 – The Other Stuff, And Then Some

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:18:31 +0000

Making sense of some of the less obvious products a person can purchase at a Grow Store can be a rabbit hole of confusion. Such is the case with the product types chosen for Grow Store 105, aptly subtitled “The Other Stuff,” a term I have previously used to describe the numerous compounds contained [...]

Protected: *** Processing Odor Eliminator

admin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:19:55 +0000

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