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    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 [...]

    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 [...]

    THE WORLD OF WORMS

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

    “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
    ~William Shakespeare.
    Let’s hear it for worms! They not only help to increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil, but they also play a key part in breaking [...]

    Trichoderma in Hydroponic Systems

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

    What is Trichoderma?

    Trichoderma is a naturally occurring genus of soil fungi which has been known to possess bio control qualities against a number of plant pathogens since the 1920s. While there are a number of plant-associated microbes, both fungi and bacteria which are strongly beneficial to plants, none has been more intensively studied than [...]

    Breeding Microbes with Compost Tea

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

    Unveiling the Microscopic Secrets of Connoisseur Organic Growers
    “We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than we do about the soil underfoot.”
    ~Leonardo da Vinci
    Commercial grape growers in Sonoma and Napa pay big bucks for beneficial biology consultants to come to their vineyards. And for good reason—the right blend of microbiology in their soils can [...]

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