Monthly Archives: July 2011

Gardening for Good

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With Grow Bags, you can put a garden almost anywhere: on a deck, balcony, porch or parking lot. A group of young people from Minnesota has started a program that shows urban residents how it's done. Here's their story: The Gardening for Good team with a set of Grow Bags at Urban Baby, a north Minneapolis nonprofit that runs workshops and provides educational material to mothers and families about growing and processing healthy baby food. Grow Bags at the University of Minnesota Research Read more [...]

Pretty Poison

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A walk through a lovely meadow can quickly turn painful if you unwittingly brush against certain plants. Many of us learned to recognize poison ivy and poison oak by the admonition, "Leaves of three, leave it be." But wild parsnip is another one to watch out for. A few years ago I was growing flowers for a friend's wedding and, scanning the roadsides for wildflowers to round out my bouquets, came across a Queen Anne's lace lookalike with chartreuse yellow flowers. Perfect, I thought, making Read more [...]

Our Products, Your Ideas

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We love to hear and see how you use our products. You tell us when you call, you send e-mail, letters and pictures. We see your photos on our wall on Facebook. Check out some of the shots we've received in the last few months: We love to hear and see how you use our products. You tell us, you send e-mail, letters and pictures. More and more, we see your postings on Facebook. Check out some of the shots we've received in the last few months. "I have 22 Grow Beds of various sizes, mostly Read more [...]

My Pesto Addiction

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I had homemade pesto for dinner last night. And the night before, and last weekend, too. Now that this year's crop of basil is up and growing strong, I don't mind using up the rest of last year's batch of pesto, which I froze in Pesto Cubes. A pesto seedling thrives in the warm summer weather. I had homemade pesto for dinner last night. And the night before, and last weekend, too. Now that this year's crop of basil is up and growing strong, I don't mind using up the rest of Read more [...]

Pole Bean Garden Art

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Because we are an employee-owned company, people who work here take the time to get to know the products. And sometimes we come up with a new way to use one of our "old reliables." A few years ago, I used the Bean Towers to create an archway at the entrance to my vegetable garden. Because we are an employee-owned company, people who work here take the time to get to know the products. And sometimes we come up with a new way to use one of our "old reliables." A few years ago, I used Read more [...]

Gardening for Empowerment

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We're especially proud to be working with the Green Education Foundation, a group that aims to get kids interested in gardening. Passionate about preserving the world’s natural resources, Victoria Waters founded the Green Education Foundation (GEF) in April 2008 with the mission of providing free sustainability education resources to schools worldwide. What better way to connect kids to sustainability and the environment than a garden? Closer to Earth gardeners at an urban garden site. Read more [...]