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Seed bombs, weapons of "guerilla gardening"

Put some flowers in your guns! This famous slogan has inspired two designers, Tony Minh Nguyen and SnowHome, who provided valuable weapons to "guerrilla gardening" by creating clay grenades filled with seeds. After a week of their explosive rupture begins to sprout grass, buttercups and poppies later. The shells of flowers are on sale for 12 pounds in three pack (link)

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Better organize your home garden

Gardening can be a very charming work, and like other sciences, a little bit of knowledge can not hurt to start with the right foot. Wired has published an interesting article that provides some avenues of study and helps us to organize the space at our disposal 4 proposing solutions depending on the square footage available for our green corner.
The cultivation of a garden, even small and located in an urban context, must be planned carefully so as not to waste any resource and quality products to eat. It is useful to know the basis for the production of compost with the help of worms, techniques to recycle gray water, how to combat pests and how to help friends insects, primarily bees, useful for pollination.
If you are a geek and a fan of science fiction to make work more fun you can think of this as home to a terraforming.

Tags: water , vertical farming , bees , homebrewing , beer , climate , cultivation , compost , efficient , do- to read

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Building a practical vertical garden

The vertical garden offers several advantages: easy to build, maintenance of practice, protected from invasions of animals and especially feasible in strategic locations with good exposure to the sun, without having much space available. A solution of this type may be suited to an urban environment where you often only have a balcony or a little more.
In this article I show you three different types of vertical garden that could be useful for growing flowers, herbs, vegetables or anything you like, provided they are of limited size.

Tags: vertical farming , DIY , Growing , DIY , gardening , irrigation , orchard , recycling , greenhouse effect , Earth Read

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Little space? Grow plants upside down!

What to do if you do not want to give up organic farming, but little space you have available?
Simple, our plants hanging upside down upside down!

Although traditionally the plants most commonly grown "upside" are tomatoes and cucumbers, a wide assortment of plants can benefit from this technique of gardening, including peppers, strawberries, vegetables and a variety of flowers.

Tags: biology , cultivation , DIY , gardening , irrigation , vegetables , tomatoes , greenhouse , land , transplanting Read

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Become a Keeper of Seeds with Farming

Custode di Semi con Civiltà Contadina For centuries our ancestors have cultivated the fruits of the earth keeping the seeds from one season to the next harvest. Fruits, vegetables, cereals and legumes were able to interbreed and, through natural selection, modified to fit various environments. This has generated a rich variety of plants and, consequently, the food that comes with it.
Unfortunately, the rural biodiversity, heritage of the past of our Italian agricultural tradition is threatened by neglect, by poor eating habits and techniques of industrial cultivation increasingly marked by high profitability, heedless of Exploitation over the territory.

The Seed Keepers (internationally known as Seed Savers) are a group of people who have the goal of conservation and sharing of seeds of vegetables and plants otherwise doomed to extinction, so that the richness and variety of products and flavors is preserved and transmitted to future generations.