Topic: Gardening
Project uses kelp, fish guts to improve Alaska's rocky soil, help far-north gardenersWhile Alaska has abundant natural resources, soil that's good for gardening isn't among them. To help residents create better dirt and grow vegetables to supplement their hunting, fishing and gathering, ...
A fungus spreading among the nation's basil crop may leave lovers of Italian and Thai food feeling a bit bland. Basil downy mildew surfaced in the U.S. around 2007, and is slowly ruining the herb for growers nationwide. Hardest hit areas are ...
Mega-pastor Rick Warren sidelined by eye injury; seeks prayers for his sightPastor Rick Warren was briefly hospitalized due to an eye-injury that he suffered while gardening at home. Warren's spokesman Larry Ross said the sap of a firestick plant got into Warren's ...
Former Hull boss Phil Brown has officially left the Championship club after a statement released by the League Managers Association confirmed both parties have agreed an "amicable departure". Brown, who led the Tigers into the Premier League for the first time in ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A display inspired by travel and sponsored by a British newspaper took the top prize for best show garden at Chelsea Flower Show on Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph garden designed by Andy Sturgeon and built by Crocus.co.uk Ltd ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Dying rainforests, the world's best known physicist, tongue twisting Latin names and the saving grace for the hard up homeless of London's east end were all themes at Britain's Chelsea Flower Show. Recession-inspired gardens were less of a ...
Plant experts recommend farmers, gardeners take steps to avoid another tomato blight outbreakAs farmers and home gardeners set out their tomatoes this spring, plant experts offered suggestions for preventing another outbreak of late blight, which destroyed millions of dollars worth of tomatoes ...
Police: NY teen on drugs and on way to court crashes into house, kills gardening homeownerA New York teenager has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter after a crash that killed a 69-year-old woman gardening in her front yard. Police say 18-year-old ...
Japan's bad boy of sumo, the recently-retired grand champion Asashoryu, has found an unlikely new passion: flowers and gardening. After an often controversial career wrestling man-mountains, the Mongolian-born fighter is shifting his attention to more delicate pursuits and is headed for Britain's ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - They defy the power of the state with raids under cover of darkness using grenades, slingshots and surreptitious sprinkling in an all out war to beautify the British capital's neglected public spaces. London's "guerrilla gardeners," armed with spades ...