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    Blueprint Breakdown: The Almost-Sealed Room

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 9, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

    Everest casts his critical eye over blueprints of real indoor gardens and examines pros and cons with their designers. Under the spotlight this time is Claude. He’s built what he calls an “almost sealed” room to produce heirloom tomatoes all year round. Will his set-up produce juicy fruits of joy or paltry piles of passatta?

    The Superbug: Made in North America

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

    Pests in your indoor garden are bad enough – but what if you discovered that your prized vegetables, flowers and herbs were infested with pesticide-resistant “superbugs”? This sphincter-loosening prospect is an increasing possibility as a direct result of unscrupulous indoor gardeners using certain, controlled pesticides incorrectly and breeding “The Superbug.”

    Let’s Get Breeding, Baby!

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ One comment

    Can you imagine taking one of the world’s hottest peppers, the Naga Morich, and crossing it with a huge, sweet bell pepper?  The offspring could be a super hot bell pepper, or a mild, thick-fleshed Naga, or anything in between …
    Welcome to the world of crossing and breeding your favorite plants!
    Our Scandinavian scholar of the [...]

    My Quest for “Bioponics”

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

    It’s not every day that we here at Urban Garden HQ come across somebody who has discovered a completely new way of growing plants. However, that’s exactly what William Texier from GHE has achieved! It’s called “bioponics” – a marriage of hydroponics and organics. We asked William to share his personal story with us. Here’s what he had to say.

    Grow Your Own Culantro

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

    Culantro is indigenous to continental tropical America and the West Indies. Although commonly used in dishes throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Far East, culantro is relatively unknown in the United States and Canada and is often mistaken and misnamed for its close relative cilantro or coriander. Culantro also has medicinal value as a treatment tea for flu, diabetes, constipation, and fevers. One of its most popular uses is in chutneys as an appetite stimulant. Eliab Lozada explains his special connection with this little understood herb and how he grows his own all year round in his indoor garden.

    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?

    How to Beat Powdery Mildew

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

    If there’s one grower’s gripe we hear lots about at Urban Garden HQ it’s Powdery Mildew. So we asked our heavyweight in the pest control department, Zorro Torro, to lend some expert advice on what this nasty stuff is, what damage it causes your plants, and, most importantly, how to beat the crap out of it!

    Maximizing the Nutrient Environment – Part 3

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

    In the third and final installment of this series, Lawrence Brooke, founder of General Hydroponics, looks at how to introduce beneficial biologicals into a hydroponic growing system.

    Alien vs. Predator

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

    We all know the old adage, “Your enemy’s enemy is your friend.” Well, it’s true in the indoor garden too. Are you going to let alien invaders wreak havoc in your indoor garden without putting up a fight?  No sir.  But before you reach for the pesticides, check out this amazing array of natural predators! [...]

    Spider Mites Suck!

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

    Raul del Cerro at Technogarden Inc. shares his tried and tested tips for tackling one of the most feared and loathed enemies of all indoor gardeners – the spider mite. We learn what they are, what they do to your plants, and how to make them die! DIE! DIE! DIE!!!

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