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    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 [...]

    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 ⋅ 5 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 ⋅ 8 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 [...]

    Vide-oh-no! The Most Controversial Music Videos of All Time

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

    Ever since the 1981 launch of MTV heralded the age of 24-hour music television, bands and artists have recognized what a potent marketing tool the music video is.
    With the medium firmly in the mainstream, musicians and directors use promo clips to make themselves more appealing to fans by seizing the opportunity to present themselves in [...]

    Unveiling The World’s Biggest GROW SHOW!

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ January 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

    It’s big. Really big! In fact, it’s the biggest on the planet!
    GROW 2011 in Los Angeles is the world’s largest hydroponics and indoor gardening expo. And it’s taking place on October 1st and 2nd this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
    Basically, if you’re into hydroponics or growing indoors / in a greenhouse then this [...]

    WTF is Wikileaks?

    By UGM - UK Edition ⋅ December 22, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

    “Nature knows no indecencies: man invents them.”
    ~Mark Twain
    How would you explain the Internet to people living 100 years ago? Admittedly, 100 years isn’t a very long time but it’s more than sufficient to purify our reference points. For instance, it would be meaningless to define the Internet in terms of “computers” let alone “computer networks”. [...]

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