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Editors Welcome – Issue 12

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

GROWER DAY
Two years ago I was nervous and excited. We’d just sent the first palettes of Urban Garden Magazine to grow stores around North America. How were they going to go down with retailers and growers? Would they love it, hate it, treasure it, or trash it? Not only had we put everything on the [...]

Freedom Grows in Your Urban Garden

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

As Monsanto has moved forward with its master plan to replace nature, they have led the charge in buying up seed businesses and are now the world’s largest. At least 200 independent seed companies have disappeared over 13 years, non-GMO seed availability is dwindling, and Monsanto is jacking up their seed prices dramatically. Corn is [...]

Can I grow in here? Electrical Safety Part 1

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

What’s an indoor grower’s worst nightmare? pH problems? Don’t think so. Clogged drippers? No, think again. Spider mites? You’re not even close! Okay, you’re probably way ahead of me by now. Every grower’s worst nightmare has to be … an electrical fire! Often these fires are caused by faulty electrics and/or overloaded sockets. Novice growers are constantly putting themselves and their loved ones at risk by not planning their grows right. And here at Urban Garden HQ, we want all of us to sleep tight and our plants to bloom copiously 365 days a year, year after year. Surely, that’s what we all want out of life, isn’t it?

A Video Game Gone Horribly Wrong?

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It may already be “game over” for what is possibly the most controversial video game of all time. It’s called “Depopulus” –where players assume the role of a secret planetary ruler. But while this does not at first appear to break any new ground in video gaming, there’s a big twist around the corner:
Rather than [...]

Urban Garden Aquaponics – Part 1

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Words: Sylvia Bernstein, www.theaquaponicsource.com
Ready for a revolution?
This article is the first in a two part series about aquaponics that will first describe aquaponic gardening, then focus on the practical details around the components of a thriving aquaponics system; from the fish, plants and bacteria to the grow beds, fish tanks and plumbing options. Hopefully by the [...]

Plant Stress

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Masterclass: Positive Stress , Can being “unkind” to your plants ever be a good thing?
Stop reading this. Please. Make sure you’ve completely dialed in your grow first. It’s far more important! Perfect your daytime and nighttime temps, keep a tight grip on your relative humidity, maintain optimum light levels, exact your feeding regimen, the works – [...]

Growing UP in Manhattan

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Urban Garden Magazine pays a visit to the rooftop of Bell Book and Candle – New York’s first hydroponic rooftop-to-table restaurant!
New York restaurateurs, John Mooney and Mick O’Sullivan, could easily use one of many farmers’ markets in the Manhattan area to keep their pantry stocked with fresh produce. Instead, however, the industrious pair decided to [...]

Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Norman Borlaug, widely seen as the father of the “Green Revolution,” was a true savior. Many have considered him misguided or worse, but it is hard for a compassionate person to argue with what he accomplished: saving “more human lives than any other person in history.”2 It seems to be a professional disease among saviors, [...]

Know Your Predators

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

You’ve all heard the old adage, “Your enemy’s enemy is your friend.” Well, it’s never truer than in the world of indoor gardening! Savvy growers have been using “predators” for years. A predator is just another name for a beneficial insect – an insect that feeds on the pests you hate! Usually Mother [...]

Catnip seed collecting

By Grubbycup ⋅ July 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The catnip is dry, and the seeds are ready to be collected.
If you haven’t been following along, you might want to take a look at where they started.

The flower clusters have been collected and dried. At this point it is suitable for storage, enjoyed by kitties, or in this case, seed collecting.
If you look at [...]

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