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Stop The Rot! How To Fight Mildew & Botrytis with Natural Foliar Sprays

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

It’s enough to bring a grown man to tears. Spotting powdery mildew on your leaves during veg, or finding botrytis (flower rot) while you’re harvesting can be a real heart stopper. But once you’ve had a battle with botrytis or a mêlée with mildew (and hopefully come out on top) you invariably develop into a [...]

Clever Containers

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Plant pots. What a beautifully simple growing system. Fill a receptacle with potting soil and voila—you’re good to go. No wonder then that this technique dates back to ancient times. In fact, fragments of Egyptian horticultural pottery have been dated as far back as 10,000 years, although they are thought to be simply for the [...]

REUSING MEDIA: COCO COIR

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

Grow. Bloom. Harvest. Dump all that media. Buy a load more. And start all over again. It’s a cycle that many of us, as indoor gardeners, are all too familiar with. Whether you choose to grow in soil, coco coir, rockwool, clay balls or soilless mix, chances are, when the crop’s been chopped, invariably it’s [...]

Resistance is Fertile

By Everest ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words [...]

In Deep: Expert Q&A on Microbes, Compost and Organic Nutrients

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Dr. Carole Ann Rollins quizzes Dr. Elaine Ingham on harnessing the power of microbes, compost and organic nutrients.
If you really want to learn about organic growing, why not pick the brains of world-renowned experts—if you get the chance? Turns out, you’re in luck! Recently we were fortunate enough to be able to eavesdrop on some [...]

A Fish Called Fertilizer

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Mention the words “fish fertilizer” and all too often growers are holding their noses. Sure, some fish-based products stink, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing! An aside—some growers mistakenly believe that root feeding fish-based products to their plants results in their produce tasting fishy! WRONG! But hey, these are probably the same folks that [...]

Grow Store 105 – The Other Stuff, and Then Some

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ One comment

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 in [...]

Organic Growing Indoors Q&A

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Prior to Urban Garden’s Grow Expo, in Los Angeles last year, I was given the opportunity to talk about organics on the presenters’ stage. As an organic enthusiast I accepted the opportunity, and decided to solicit composite questions from readers about organics.
The following questions are simple, yet their answers can be complex as most relate [...]

Las Vegas’ Hangover

By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Graham Foster compares the Las Vegas from The Hangover with his first visit to Sin City.
Walking through the lobby of my central-Strip hotel, The Imperial Palace (a mock pagoda with a lazy Far-East theme), I’m surrounded by paraphernalia from the film The Hangover: t-shirts with the life-sized image of a baby in a baby-carrier (including [...]

Hydroponics and Organics – What’s The Difference?

By Everest ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Many newcomers to the world of gardening mistakenly believe that the difference between hydroponics and organics simply lies in the bottles they choose to buy. The organic grower buys the bottle with the word “organic” on it and the hydro grower buys the “hydro” stuff. It’s a tempting over-simplification but, in reality, the difference in [...]

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