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Quotable tuesday

I have mixed feelings about gardens on the grand scale. I can’t help admiring the effort, the optimism, the investment, the skill of the pépiniériste and the end results, which are often superb. … But would I want a garden like that, with its constant need to be nourished by a mulch of 500-franc notes? [ READ MORE ]

Let fallen leaves lie

I’m happy to have my friend Carole Brown guest posting today. Thanks Carole! When you’re done reading this, you’ll want to check out her blog for more great advice like this. The streets in my neighborhood are lined with bulging paper bags. It’s an amazing phenomenon that happens this time every year, as people devote [ READ MORE ]

10 ways to be more sustainable with your vegetable garden

Yes, I know a vegetable garden in and of itself is a pretty sustainable thing. Growing your own food instead of getting it from the store (usually in some sort of plastic bag or container) is great. But what are some extra steps you can take to be even more sustainable with your garden? Here [ READ MORE ]

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses

Welcome to post 499. As I lead up to post 500 here on A Little Greener, I’m looking back at some of the posts I’ve done in the past two years. I was going to do a look back at some of the pictures I’ve taken and used on the blog, but then I remembered [ READ MORE ]

Obama’s United We Serve campaign is quite green

President Obama launched the United We Serve campaign over the weekend. The campaign urges Americans to do their part in the road to economic recovery by volunteering in areas that can help in the efforts.  In the video below, the president reminds Americans that it’s not just the governments job to fix our problems. One [ READ MORE ]

Welcome to wordless Wednesday

I’ve seen people do wordless Wednesday on other blogs – they post a picture instead of writing for the day. I take a lot of pictures. I mean a lot of pictures. So I thought I’d join the wordless Wednesday crowd. Each week I’ll post a picture of something that has to do with being [ READ MORE ]

Taking time to appreciate spring

It’s been a crazy climate changing spring with the temperature rising into the 90′s on one day then dipping into the 50′s the next and heavier than even normal spring rains for days on end messing with my garden. The peppers and eggplants pictured above are doing well because they were fairly established when I put [ READ MORE ]

I almost forgot to tell you – go buy sunflower seeds tonight!

Tomorrow, May 1 is International Sunflower Guerilla Gardening Day. I’m not making this up. In fact, I told you about it last year. Basically what you do is you go around your community planting sunflower seeds surreptitiously where some beautification is needed. Then when the sunflowers are growing, you go back to weed and water [ READ MORE ]

Getting Tax Refund Money? 10 Ways to Spend Your Green, Greenly

It’s the third Friday of the month and that means we’re privileged to have a guest post by Adam Shake of Twilight Earth. Today he’s talking about how to spend our tax refunds wisely and greenly. A common misconception amongst many people is that being green costs more money, than not. This is not true, [ READ MORE ]

Growing a container herb garden

I’m in full garden mode right now, and I’m talking a lot about it over on MNN and a little bit about it here. I think that growing something is important for several reasons, but I also know that there are many people who don’t have the time or the space to do a traditional [ READ MORE ]

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