If you haven't heard of Chinese lantern flower, you're not alone. Also known as Bladder, Winter, or Ground cherry, this incognito herbaceous plant's name can be confusing. But it's as lovely as it is mysterious. Its papery orange blooms look like little lanterns set against vivid … [Read more...]
Human Antibiotics Sprayed on Orange Trees for Greening Disease: What this will mean for us?
Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services wants to spray antibiotics on citrus groves to combat greening disease, and is applying for an exemption with the EPA. Similar to the fight of routine antibiotic use in animal agriculture, there's concern over human … [Read more...]
Human Antibiotics Sprayed on Orange Trees for Greening Disease: What will this mean for us?
Similar to the fight of routine antibiotic use in animal agriculture, there's concern over human antibiotics treating crop disease. Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has through the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) applied to … [Read more...]
15 Fun and Unusual Heirloom Seeds
The vegetables you’ll find on the produce shelf of your local grocery store have been selected to look uniform and to sit in trucks and on shelves for weeks without spoiling. Home gardening lets you choose varieties for other qualities like flavor, color, nutrition and ease of … [Read more...]
Branch out from Broccoli: How to Grow Broccoflower and Romanesco
Two similar vegetables are sometimes called broccoflower. One is a trade-marked hybrid between broccoli and cauliflower, richer in vitamin A than either of its parents and also well endowed with vitamin C. Its cauliflower-shaped yellow-green heads have a sweet cauliflower-like … [Read more...]
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