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    Everest has written 18 posts for Urban Garden Magazine

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    Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast

    By Everest ⋅ February 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

    Genetic engineering is coming to the forests. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    Three Major GMOs Approved for Food and Feed Found Unsafe

    By Everest ⋅ December 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

    In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of three major GMOs about assessing the effects on mammalian health, researchers from CRIIGEN and Universities of Caen and Rouen have highlighted a number of new sex and often dose dependent side effects linked with their consumption.

    Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

    By Everest ⋅ December 9, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

    Bayer CropScience has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination].’ It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

    Crop Killers

    By Everest ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

    The Top 10 Mistakes That Drag Your Yields Down: Everest shares some time-honored heuristics to help beginner growers increase the productivity of their indoor gardens.

    UV-C: The New Weapon Against Indoor Garden Pests

    By Everest ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

    UV-C’s germicidal properties have been known since the 1930s but it’s remained an unfamiliar technology to most indoor gardeners. Could UV-C technology be used safely within our indoor gardens?

    Yield Boosters: Side Lighting For Light Loving Plants

    By Everest ⋅ December 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

    Want to push the envelope? Bust open your boundaries? Top your personal best? Okay, so you might have nodded ‘yeah yeah’ to that string of rhetoric – but, in this section, we’re going to actually show you how to do it. First up, we’re going to take a look at “side lighting” – what it is, how to go about it, and why thinking like a Martian can be quite helpful.

    Diatomaceous Earth: Is It In Your Mix?

    By Everest ⋅ December 1, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

    Savvy gardeners who grow in soil, coco, clay pebbles, or other ‘loose’ media are experiencing far more vigorous growth by throwing some diatomaceous earth into their mix. What exactly does this mean?

    Beginner’s Corner: Keeping a Happy Mother Plant

    By Everest ⋅ October 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

    Everest takes a look at keeping a healthy mother plant and why she’s worthy of a lot more time, care and investment than many growers appear to realize.

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