Month: September 2009

Organic approach–correct references

Please refer to my earlier message. The correct spelling is mycorrhizae. Mycorrhizal will also open references. VAM is an acronym for vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Don’t be offput by the language–it soon begins to make sense!

Organic approach

The NYTimes article about Harvard’s organic approach is useful, although necessarily general for newspaper purposes. I have been doing a lot of internet research over the past few years, and it seems clear that science-based knowledge about the organic aspects…

More bad weather

G’day All, My season is coming to an end. What a surprise to wake up yesterday morning to an inch of snow covering the garden.  So in one week we have experienced  a huge dust storm, torrential rain, a very…

Fw: Harvard goes organic

< ![endif]--> Thought this article might be of interest. Linda   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/garden/24garden.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all   Linda, I found this article packed with new information — especially the notion that Harvard is doing away with nitrogen fertilizers and that the organic approach makes…

Ugly, Early and Eaten

  A contrast to the beautiful flower pictures from new Zealand in recent times. This little monstrosity appeared on a 3 inch stem about a week or in a row of N. bulbocodium OP seedlings. .Pity a slug found it…