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How to protect furry pets from poisonous plants
When cats aren’t busy involving themselves in your garden birdhouses, they’re adorable and worthy of our love. Those of you who don’t have a cat watching you type might even say dogs are cute and worthy of love.
Nobody wants their plants hurting their pets. The MNN link below covers some common problem plants, as well as a checklist plan that assumes a when, not a if, a pet emergency scenario. Real talk people.
Familiarize yourself with dangerous plants and keep your vet’s number handy.
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Attention gardeners. There have been reports of door-to-door salescats offering extremely attractive prices on garden birdhouses that they insist on installing themselves.
Buyer beware.
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Photosynthesis, right guys? Who’s against it? Not us. Even if you’re not into gardening, you’re probably a fan of photosynthesis. And yet… underground photosynthesis? In an old subway tunnel? It sounds gorgeous. And also… yikes. OK. It’s a little 28 Days Later.
Get off our lawn, etc.
No wait. Get back on our lawn! (And out of those subway tunnels. Let’s enjoy old school sunlight while we can, people!)
“I’m still here.” -The sun.
The Low Line: A plan for a new park banks on subterranean photosynthesis, a neat project from PopTech staffer Dan Barasch.
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Outdoor garden, indoor garden. Inside-your-furniture garden…
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On show at Designersblock during London Design Week 2011 is “Plantable,” a table which aims to reintroduce nature back into the experience of gathering, preparing, cooking and eating a meal. Designed by London-based studio Jailmake
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This is a very good question.
SproutRobot family: We know many of our users are getting an error message.
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Maybe fall won’t be so bad. Gardening will taste less burning.
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Garden strawberries in a big bucket.
Are you trying to make somebody cry?
Let’s just say one of the SproutRobots is really not happy summer is ending, and among other things has been getting lots of awesome cheap fresh berries from a nearby farm and even though it’s still 70 degrees out and technically still summer, the mere sound of yelling children in a nearby school is making her emo: It’s over, twitches. Fall is here and it’s the worst.*
*Technically nobody has any problem with Fall. Just let people get up in their feelings. It’s like a breakup. Everything reminds you of him/her because you are temporarily insane.
This too shall pass.
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As forward thinking gardeners, we know it’s not cool to covet grass. Especially such controlled grass. And yet, are we not flesh and bone? Do we not have needs? The heart wants what it wants to look at on Tumblr.
Besides, we have an arrangement with our garden. “You can look, you just can’t plant.”
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#ThingsYouSayToCaterpillarsCrawlingOnYourShoe
Tweetwhoa whoa whoa…this is not a taxi service.
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Our thoughts are with our Austin + Texas family. One of the SproRo’s is based in Austin. Keep your heads up.
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