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Farming organically and hydroponically

People in the Wiregrass region have been noticing that there is some money to be made in agriculture. Many even go against the grain by taking an all natural approach to growing.

Two methods of alternative farming are commonly used. One is organic and the other is called ‘clean growing’. Using both methods no pesticides or chemical fertilizer is used. Fertilizers and pesticides can leave residues on plants, but it isn’t a worry with methods like growing organic and hydroponics.
“It’s fresher because it’s here, it’s local, so you’re not getting all the herbicides and pesticides and that sort of thing, which strawberries are a big problem of,” explains Paula Hennig. If you notice the price is slightly higher for organically grown foods, it’s because the grower cannot grow as much, and more of the crop is destroyed by pests and disease.

If you’d like to know more about growing natural, an Organic Farming Workshop is scheduled for Tuesday July 29th at The Gathering Place in Headland. For more information, you can call the Wiregrass Resource Conservation and Development Council at 334-774-2334.

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Doris Duke’s Storied Gardens Are No More

Last week, two friends and I took a tour of the huge glass indoor gardens at Duke Farms, the 2,740-acre country estate here that was once the home of Doris Duke and is now maintained by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This magnificent glass building (actually, one long conservatory and five attached glass houses) is about 60,000 square feet (one of the largest glass houses in America and bigger even than the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid Haupt Conservatory). It was designed by Horace Trumbauer for Ms. Duke’s father, and construction was begun in 1909 and completed by 1917.

In 1958, Ms. Duke decided to transform what had previously served as a utilitarian greenhouse into a series of 11 linked garden rooms, each one emblematic of the horticultural style of a particular country. The display gardens were opened to the public in 1964. Ms. Duke, who traveled extensively, lavished an enormous amount of time, money and passion on her always original and often eccentric interpretations of English, French, Italian, Indo-Persian, Chinese and Japanese gardens.

Idiosyncratic, Yes! Dated, absolutely! Some might find the tiles and rill in the Persian garden, the curved bridge and tiny raked Japanese garden, and the positively eye-popping English herbaceous border clichéd, but my friends and I were charmed by their theatricality and found stepping back into this ’60s time warp a heady experience. Architecturally and as an authentic horticultural period piece, these glassed-in gardens are a tour de force.

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Grobal Self Watering Pots

Each Grobal comes with everything you need to get started (plant not included), including the Grobal Self-Watering Planter, Grobal Soil, 3 – Grobal Plant Food Hydropaks and complete, simple, illustrated, full-color instructions. It takes only minutes to transplant your favorite house plant, carnivorous plant, succulent or just about any other plant you like into the Grobal Self-Watering Planter. Maintenance is simple as adding water through the Nutriport into the reservoir when the water level indicator reaches the lower line and adding the contents of one Grobal Plant Food Hydropak – the Grobal does the rest.

Style and Function perfectly balanced: Grobal is plant care evolved; no green thumb necessary. With its unique self watering system and stylish design by Karim Rashid, Grobal keeps your house plants lush, green, and looking sharp. Grobal draws water and nutrients from the reservoir into the Grobal Soil in the top chamber. Just check the water level through the water level indicator and refill when needed through the Nutriport. Grobal does the work, you look good. Cultivate style.

“The Grobal originated from an ambition to create a techno-organic base for nurturing life and cultivating growth. The digital age we live in no longer accepts the semantics of ancient craft and demands multi-sensorial experiences – any object we bring in our house should be an expression of our modern being and development. The iconic egg-like object functions as the foundation for new life – it is a material visualization of digital and sensual technology and nature synthesizing.” – Karim Rashid

Here are just a few of the plants BGH has successfully transplanted into the Grobal: Carnivorous plants (including Venus Fly Traps, Pitcher Plants, Cobras and Sundews), Croton, China Doll, Kalanchoe, ZeeZee plants, Dracaena, a variety of Bulbs (including Hyacinth, Gladiolas, Tulips, Amaryllis and Narcissus [paper whites]), Mimosa (a.k.a. sensitive plant or touch-me-not), and a variety of succulents. We love planting up Grobals and watching the plants develop – we’re continually trying new and exotic varieties of plants, and so far every plant we have tried has flourished (no kidding)!

Grobals come in seven unique colors: Snow, Mint, Tangerine, Sky, Bubblegum, Concrete and Chocolate.

Check them out here: http://www.bghydro.com

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AeroGrow Secures $14.5 Million in Debt Financing to Fund Expansion

AeroGrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ: AERO) (“AeroGrow” or the “Company”), makers of the AeroGarden® line of indoor gardening products, announced that it has secured a commitment for a $14.5 million debt package consisting of a $12 million asset-based revolving line of credit from First Capital of West Palm Beach, Florida; a $1 million line of credit from First National Bank, headquartered in Colorado; and an additional $1.5 million standby commitment led by one of the Company’s Directors. All of the facilities will be available as needed to finance AeroGrow’s expanding number of retail storefronts and products launching this fall. The First Capital loan features a two-year term and an initial interest rate of prime plus 2%. These debt transactions do not include any issued or issuable equity components. Read more

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General Hydroponics Growing and Disease Prevention

By: Michael Straumietis of Advanced Nutrients

Though hydroponics has many advantages over traditional soil growing, plants grown hydroponically are still subject to the same kind of diseases of soil-based plants. One of the biggest factors that determine your success in general hydroponics growing may very well be what steps you take to make sure your plants stay uninfected. If you take the following measures, your odds of having to deal with an epidemic in your grow room will decrease dramatically. Read more

How to Build Hydroponics

How to build hydroponics gardening systems is one of those questions that boggles the mind, often leaving the person asking the question wishing he or she hadn’t even mentioned it.

You know the kind. You ask a simple question, expecting a simple answer. But, instead of getting a quick, concise, straightforward answer, you get one that seems to ramble on forever. But (there’s one now), the question of building hydroponics gardening systems is one with no easy answer. That’s because no two gardeners are alike and the garden systems they envision are not like any other, either.

How to build hydroponics gardening systems depends upon the size of the space available for the garden. Whether the system will be located indoors or out. The skill level of the gardener. The types of plants to be grown. Lots of things come into play when designing and building such a system.

Perhaps the most important consideration when pondering building hydroponics systems is to have a clear plan in mind for the end result. Don’t just throw a system together and expect to grow something. There’s more precision required.

When considering hydroponics gardening systems that produce the most satisfying results, consider the plants first. Decide what you want to plant and then learn about the native habitat of each different type of plant you want to include.

You can include as many types of plants as your interest, time, skills, and space allow but building hydroponics systems that work best requires creating an environment that closely mimics that of each plant’s native environment.

How to build hydroponics gardening systems successfully, especially when there are plants requiring different growing conditions, involves clustering similar plants together. Put those that thrive in dry, warm environments in a different area from those that require lots of water and humidity to flourish.

Perhaps the best answer to the question of building hydroponics gardening systems is to study the plants first. Rely on them to guide you to creating the very best hydroponics system possible. After all, they’re what it’s all about.

Tracy Ballisager is stay at home mum. To read more about gardening tips and idea go to http://www.gardening-tips-idea.com

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The Many Benefits of Hydroponics

Hydroponic gardening is a concept that many people do not thing about. It used to be thought of as something that the general public could not partake in. Now a days, hydroponics has gained many strides to becoming more mainstream. Read more

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