Attracting Beneficial Insects – Fine Gardening Article
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To lure good bugs to your garden, first get to know the players, then give them the right habitat…
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Editorial: Keeping Accurate Records is 90% of Gardening
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When a plant seed works in your garden note it in a garden diary. Take note of the season’s weather conditions, where you planted the plant, in sun, partial sun, shade? Note the name and the scientific name as it might have more than one secular name. Companion plant and note what works and in what weather conditions, etc. I plant flowers along the edges of my garden so that regardless of which way the wind blows fragrant flowers cover the garden. Many pests are confused by the aroma of the flowers and can’t find the vegetable they’re looking to eat. I also plant flowers in the middle of the garden to make sure predatory insects that eat the insect pests are lured into the whole garden not just it’s edges. Flowers also attract pollinating bees, wasps, bubble bees, flies and other pollinating insects Everyone should have a insect books to reference so that we don’t kill the beneficial insects. Also you don’t want to kill all the insect pests as other beneficial insects, birds, lizards, frogs, etc eat these pest insects. A garden that is out of balance will attract a horde of insect pests and overwhelm the natural predators. Then you should try organic means of pesticides and herbicides. Use sparingly if you must use. Use a very light dose and see if that helps then if need be up the dosage but stay within the recommended safe range. Every year once you find what organics works you’ll suddenly find your garden almost taking care of itself. Common sense says that if you don’t get much rain use drought resistant seeds and grow drought tolerant plants. Seed packages are very good at detailing a seeds needs. Plenty of books on plants as well. Learn the scientific name to be sure the plant your reading about is the plant you’ve got in your garden 
These gloomy gray days can be brightened up with seed catalogs and plant magazines that are available through subscription as well as your local library. I subscribe to gardening catalogs around November to be sure to get them arriving during the winter months here in Zone 6, Indiana, USA. I hope your 2012 garden grows an abundance of delicious fruits, vegetables and nuts. L8R, plasmaborne4rel The above picture is of the same kind of compost tumbler we bought in September. We’ve been composting in it all winter. We should have bought two of them as they were on sale for $99. If we’d had two we could have switched composting every six weeks giving the compost time to turn into soil. Live and Learn
Companion Planting Chart – For Gardening Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, Flowers
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Organic Companion Planting Chart for Gardening: Learn which companion plants help, and which plants hurt your crop yield and health.
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Companion Planting
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It’s said that vegetables are like people, they thrive on companionship. It is believed that vegetables will yield up to twice as much when they are surrounded with companion plants. So in this article we will discuss the top 12 vegetables and their best friends. If you’re getting ready to plant your vegetable garden you may want to try placing the various vegetable crops so you can take advantage of their natural friends. If you have already planted your vegetable garden you may want to make some changes in subsequent plantings later this summer. The following are a list of the top 12 vegetables and their ideal plantingcompanions. Beans–they like celery and cucumbers but dislike onions and fennel. more at article site
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U.S. Adds 200,000 Jobs—but What Type?
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The Department of Labor released figures on Friday that indicated the jobs situation was better than expected in December, with 200,000 jobs added and the unemployment rate continuing to trend down. It’s now at 8.5%, compared to 8.7% in November. The consensus estimate was for 155,000 new jobs to be created last month. Editorial We secular antitheist agnostic atheist liberals made this very same point when GWBush was in the White House. Now GWObama is pulling the same scam as his cousin, George Walker Bush. George Walker Bush rushed to bail out Corporate buddies and GWObama followed through with addition bail outs that dwarf GWBush’s bailouts! GWObama has made it clear he’ll do as little liberal social safety net as will get him re-elected. No Single Payer Healthcare. No end to the wars. No prosecution of Wall Street Corporate criminals. Just bail outs, tax cuts and continued party like it’s 1933.
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Iomega’s US$100 iConnect Wireless Data Station
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Iomega’s new iConnect Wireless Data Station is like a Pogoplug on steroids. Just plug in up to four of your existing USB storage devices, and conn…
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Wormhole Station connects Windows to Mac to Android to iOS
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The Wormhole Station and Switch from j5create allows for easy drag-and-drop file transfers and mouse and keyboard sharing between PC, Mac, and mob…
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Wormhole Station connects Windows to Mac to Android to iOS
11 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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The Wormhole Station and Switch from j5create allows for easy drag-and-drop file transfers and mouse and keyboard sharing between PC, Mac, and mob…
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Samsung unveils 55-inch Super OLED TV to be released later this year
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Samsung has unveiled its 55-inch Super OLED TV at CES 2012, which is set to hit stores in the second half of 2012.
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Urban Dictionary
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Urban Dictionary is the dictionary you wrote. Define your world
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