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Growing Vegetables Outdoors in Winter
If you get disappointed when winter comes and you veggie garden dies, take heed. Barbara Damrosch, market farmer with husband Eliot Coleman, tells how to grow fresh vegetables outdoors in winter without heat. It's easy. Read the story here.
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published on January 20, 2010
Why the St. Mary Healing Gardens Came To Be & What They Mean Now
Greg Wozniak, president & CEO of St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, PA, tells why he contracted for three healing gardens at the hospital complex and why they are important to the Medical Center's mission.
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published on January 15, 2009
St. Mary Healing Gardens, where the view is important medicine
Gardens soften the intricate outdoor spaces at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania and invite the visitor to explore these peaceful settings amid stress and healing. The most recent: three Healing Gardens where patients, families, friends, physicians and staff gather for some serious time out.
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published on January 15, 2009
The Saga of One Juicy Tomato
In the late 1960s and '70s, the commercial Ramapo tomato was available to home gardeners. Gardeners loved its color, taste and texture but those very attributes and their attendant yin-yang downsides helped make this Garden State goody obsolete. Rutgers University scientists tell why and how it came back and why gardeners are demanding it. Plus, where you can get it.
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published on May 19, 2008
Crossing Cranberries
Grow your own cranberries by creating your own mini bog. Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese, research associate and plant breeder at Rutgers University's Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research and Extension Center in Chatsworth, New Jersey, tells all about bogs, cranberry research, and new varieties.
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published on January 13, 2008
A Man Obsessed
Why Lee Reich, horticulurist, author, columnist, scientist, became a man obsessed.
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published on June 08, 2007
Beauty & the Feast
Take a tour of author, columnist, horticulturist, Lee Reich's edible landscape. Discover how to have the best of both worlds - a gorgeous garden and yard with ornamental plants that feed you all year long.
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published on June 08, 2007
Shawnaland
A gardener in Northwestern NJ grows a bounty of vegetables on a hillside. She gardens organically, uses goat manure and has lots of tips.
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published on July 09, 2005
Totally Enjoyable
Maggie's Garden is a New York City community garden owned by the New York Restoration Project. This green oasis in Harlem provides the neighborhood with open space, serenity and a place to sit, read and have parties..
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published on March 31, 2004
In Land We Trust
The Trust for Public Lands bought 63 community gardens in Manhattan in 1999. Classie Parker's Five Star Garden in Harlem is one of them.
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published on September 30, 2003
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