Q.C. garden show seeds town pride

Q.C. garden show seeds town pride 

Queen Creek officials want residents to help beautify the town through gardening and landscaping. To encourage residents and provide the know-how, the town is hosting the annual Neighborhoods in Bloom Garden Show on Saturday.
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Troy Howard Middle School students growing healthy greens 
It's not just the students at Troy Howard Middle School (THMS) who are constantly surprised to learn new things as they explore the almost limitless possibilities offered by that school's now 6-year-old Garden Project. Both figuratively and literally, the innovative learn-by-doing educational program is now breaking new ground with what's known as its Healthy Greens Initiative.
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Celebrating Charles Darwin 
Birthday cake and hominoid fossils meant one thing to the MSU Museum: It was time to celebrate Charles Darwin's birthday.
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Bishop : Plant landscape now before weather heats up

Bishop : Plant landscape now before weather heats up 

We have a sunny, warm week ahead and everybody is eager to get outside and clean up the frost damage. Your plants probably wish you would wait another week or two, but human nature being what it is, probably half of Tucson will get out in the yard and clean up this weekend! It takes two to three weeks for new growth to occur in response to pruning, so we will all cross our fingers and hope there ...
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Garden Variety: Another indoor garden shop Are we ready for spaceflight yet? 
A couple of months ago, I wrote about Berkeley Indoor Gardens, an indoor gardening (surprise!) store down at the tidal end of University Avenue. I got to feeling bad because I hadnt written about the other indoor gardening store across the street.
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Find new seeds for spring 
I am the quintessential gatherer, and every January I spend nights and weekends with my nose in seed catalogs. This process requires a cup of tea, a highlighter pen, sticky tags and a note pad.
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the planner

the planner 

Lake Forest Park Garden Club: Meets in the Lake Forest Park shopping center, in the Lake Forest Park Commons, 17171 Bothell Way; 206-365-2043. Using pottery and bamboo in the garden : 9:30 a.m. to noon Feb. 13 with Edmond's Muse in the Garden experts Greg Sherburne and Dawn Bonner; free.
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Find new seeds for spring 
I am the quintessential gatherer, and every January I spend nights and weekends with my nose in seed catalogs. This process requires a cup of tea, a highlighter pen, sticky tags and a note pad.
Source: www.saukvalley.com

A Plan for an Urban Vegetable 
1. Locate the garden in full sun and near a source of water. It's just extra time and work to string hoses or carry buckets of water. 2. In keeping with the easy theme, use seedlings (especially tomato and peppers) from a nursery or mail order catalogue when ever possible.
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Bulldogs taking hype in stride 
The hype of a 13-game winning streak and a top-three state rating might seem like pressure to some teams. But for the 14-1 Alliance girls basketball team, which is currently rated No. 3 in this week's Omaha World-Herald Class B prep ratings, that's not the case at all.
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