Sustainable Gardening News October ‘09

Blog Version. The whole newsletter, with sidebar, is right here. 

In Your Garden Now

• Here’s What to do with your Leaves, including a plug for leafmold, and Lee Reich loves leafmold, too.
• And October really is the best time to plant trees, shrubs and (most) perennials here in Zone 7.   

 
On GardenRant

• Glyphosate is the Agent Orange of Our Times" declares a wildlife group, and the Renegade Gardener calls it scare tactics. Commenters not only agree with Don but own up to using Roundup themselves.
• New Hort Research that Gardeners can Use.
• Make Compost, not Garbage is a terrific guest rant.
• So is How the Compost Turns, or Whether it Needs to Be Turned by Frank Hyman.
• How Trees Die by Jeff Gillman gets a well-deserved endorsement.
• Another great guest post, this one about the "Evil Hornworm".
• Children’s art garden in the heart of Washington, D.C. and the young women who made it happen.
• Lawn Reform Coalition Launches, and gives away the American Meadow Garden book by John Greenlee.  
  

In My Garden

• Ew, that’s ugly!  But the chain-link fence around my front yard is GONE at last, and the English ivy hiding it, too.  Sorry I can’t show you the new fence yet, but even this is almost too much excitement for me.  Not kidding.
• In plant news, I brought back some yummy freebies from the garden writers "swagathon": ‘Blue Chip’ Buddleias, ‘Kaleidescope’ Abelias, ajugas (no label), dwarf crapemyrtles ‘Berry Dazzle’ and ‘Sweetheart Dazzle’, and some ‘Heavenly Scent’ gardenias.  Plus Cowpots and a big bottle of Liquid Fence for my new deer problem (about which I’m trying not to whine too much.)