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Gardens for wildlife
Here in Britain the gardening season looks good so far. Here’s an article about gardening for bees and other wildlife. Untidy gardeners like me are good gardeners for wildlife. It’s now a year since hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) bred in my … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, breeding, bumblebee, clover, conservation, ecosystem, Europe, flower, foraging, fruit, garden, gardener, green manure, hedgehog, herb, hibernation, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, leaf, mammal, nest, plant_dicot, rat, salad, vegetable, vertebrate, weed, wild bee, wild food, wild pollinator, wildlife
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Breast milk, indigenous food: A mother’s recipe for healthy children
Here’s Velvet Escario Roxas, a Filipino mother, telling us that children in the Philippines need breast milk and indigenous foods, not Golden Rice. Mrs Roxas says that Filipino women should breastfeed as she did. After weaning, she says these women … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged Asia, biotechnology, child, crop diversity, food availability, food sovereignty, fruit, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, leaf, local variety, mango, milk, moringa, nutrition, papaya, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, rice, sweet potato, tradition, vegetable, Vitamin A, woman
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Dandelions control and allelopathy
Originally posted on changinglifestyleblog:
Although where ever possible I am not a user of herbicides, dandelions could be considered an exception. Even the smallest fragment of root will regenerate and with the production of hundreds of seeds from each plant the…
Posted in horticulture
Tagged allelopathy, allotment, dandelion, flower, foraging, garden, glyphosate, herbicide, landscape, leaf, Monsanto, perennial, pesticide, plant_dicot, root, Roundup, seed, seed dispersal, taproot, weed, wild food
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I’m a plant. I was green but now I’m changing colour
Most of the plants we’re familiar with are green. It’s because they contain chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a pigment that lets the plant make itself from air, water and sunlight, plus small amounts of minerals. Making yourself from sunlight is called … Continue reading
Camellias in pots
The genus Camellia contains thousands of delights including many plants of horticultural beauty. Those of us who garden on acidic soil know that camellias grow well for us. There’s a fine collection at Wisley but on soils with higher pH, … Continue reading
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