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There’s something magical about heart-shaped leaves. Whether they remind you of love, connection, or simply the beauty of nature’s design, these plants make a striking addition to any home. Check out my top five heart-shaped house plants and how to care for them. Heart-shaped House Plants Heart-shaped house plants don’t just add greenery; they bring […]
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I’m curious to know if anyone is using repurposed wine barrels for any endeavors on their property. Aging vinegar/fruit wine/cider/beer? Planters? Rain collection?
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‘It was striking that the White House memo included toilets and shower heads as a presidential priority,’ said one expert
From crusading against showers he feels don’t sufficiently wash his hair to reversing protections for a small fish he calls “worthless”, Donald Trump’s personal fixations have helped shape his first environmental priorities as US president.
While withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accords and declaring an “energy emergency” were among Trump’s most noteworthy executive orders on his first day in office, both were further down a list of priorities put out by the White House than measures to improve “consumer choice in vehicles, shower heads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers”.
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Hello all! We have a large, relatively undeveloped back yard on a hill that we are hoping to transition into a permaculture food forest slowly. Starting with what we have, we have a GIANT barrel container that we want to use to plant our first fruit tree, shrub, or vine while we continue preparing the rest of the property, it really is massive so could definitely support a dwarf tree or possibly even larger. What plant would provide the most yield for our space without yet having a second tree? I have considered a thornless blackberry or possibly a passion fruit vine. We would love apples but my understanding is our yield would be low with only one?
I am in zone 8a in US as well, so I really have access to many things!
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As the title says, in gardening, and I think particularly permaculture, there is a lot we can learn from traditional wisdom and practices. However, obviously not everything that was common practice or common knowledge 200 years ago was true. As a species, we have also learned a lot since! If you were given the chance to exchange one bit of gardening/agricultural knowledge with someone from that time, what could you teach them?
(if someone mentions something that people from that time actually DID know, please be kind in your corrections! We can all learn something!)
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Hey friends – interested to hear stories about what project has given you the best result in your backyard?
Not trying to get too caught up in the medium/average sized space, I’m in Australia and my block (including house) is about 450sqm which is a relatively typical suburban block (the internet calculated this as about 5000 square foot for my friends in the northern hemisphere).
My input, and I’m just beginning my journey, is I tore up a whole lot of disgusting concrete and spent a solid year improving the hard, compact, clay soil by aerating it and incorporating composts and gypsum to the point where I can now reliably grow tomatoes, chili, eggplant, zucchini etc.
Very basic but I’m quite proud 🙂
Keen to hear similar beginner up to advanced stories!
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Steve Reed says plans for 1km curved structure to protect bats from high-speed railway are ‘batshit crazy’
A bat shelter costing more than £100m near HS2 has been described by the environment secretary as “batshit crazy”.
HS2 Ltd is spending the sum on the protection structure in Buckinghamshire, it emerged last year. All bats are legally protected in the UK.
The curved structure, which has been described by the HS2 Ltd chair, Sir Jon Thompson, as a “shed”, will run for about 1km alongside Sheephouse Wood to create a barrier allowing the creatures to cross above the high-speed railway without being affected by passing trains.
But Steve Reed has criticised the plans and told the Fabian Society’s new year conference: “I mean, (to spend) that vast amount of money on a tunnel for bats when there were so many other public services crying out for funding – it’s batshit crazy.
“And it happened because the previous government didn’t have a grip on the public finances, didn’t have a grip on infrastructure projects, and didn’t really have a grip on what was happening to nature either.”
Asked about the potential for tension between prioritising wildlife and the environment and pushing through planning projects, as the government has promised to do to boost economic growth, Reed said both could be achieved.
“It’s not either or, it’s not growth or nature or the environment. We can do the two together,” he said.
Reed also suggested any plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport would be subject to a “proper consultation” to ensure “mitigations” were in place to make it work.
Asked about the prospect of expanding the airport, which reports suggest the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will back, the MP for Streatham and Croydon North in London said: “Of course, it’s speculation that you’re talking about … but if there were any proposal like that, then there would be a proper consultation, hopefully not lasting decades as it has done previously, because you don’t have to take that amount of time to get to good decisions.
“But it would take into account all of those factors, mitigations, what we will need to do to make sure that it could work.
“Since you mentioned my voting record on that one, I voted against expanding Heathrow last time because I was in favour of expanding Gatwick because it would provide economic growth that would benefit south London, where my constituency is. So I see the link.”
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Pumpkin plants, like all cucurbits, require pollination for fruit development. These plants produce separate male and female flowers, with the female flowers being responsible for forming the pumpkins. While bees and other pollinators naturally carry out this process, hand-pollination can be an effective technique to […]
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