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" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:14 PM" + "

" + "Severe Weather Alerts Across The Nation" + "

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" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:14 PM" + "

" + "Current Weather Conditions Across The 48 Contiguous United States" + "

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" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:14 PM" + "

" + "Video: Your 3-Day National Weather Forecast" + "

" + "Watch what the experts at The Weather Channel ® have to say about the weather trends in the United States for the next 3-days." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:14 PM" + "

" + "Airport Impact Map" + "

" + "A visual representation of possible weather-related delays at 24 major airports across the United States including Chicago\'s O\'Hare, Boston\'s Logan, Atlanta\'s Hartsfield-Jackson, Dallas/Fort Worth Int\', and Los Angeles Int\'l. For more details..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:14 PM" + "

" + "ADV: Take the Weather with You" + "

" + "The Weather Channel® understands that you need access to weather information on the go. Whether you\'re a business traveler or an avid weekend golfer, our mobile products and services will keep you prepared for anything Mother Nature has in store. For more details..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "Magnolias - Spring Flowering Charmers" + "

" + "A few weeks back, I wrote about growing fig trees in colder climates. We were talking about the extreme cautions gardeners take to protect their fig trees in winter. Kitty informed us that there are fig trees out there that have been bred to be hardy as far north as USDA Zone 5. She recommended \'Chicago Hardy\'. Magnolia trees can also be over looked by northern gardeners. Magnolias are associated with the Old South and a gentler lifestyle. Magnolias are a natural choice in the South, but there are plenty of magnolia trees for cooler climates and less hospitable locations. David Beaulieu has featured the Saucer Magnolia, Magnolia x soulangiana, with its impressive pink and white, spring blooms. Saucer magnolias grow in Zones 4 - 9, although they can lose buds to late spring frosts and winds. I\'ve used David\'s suggestion to avoid planting them where they\'d have a southern exposure, to delay blooming long enough to get past the period of frost danger, with other tender spring bloomers. P..." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 1:30 AM" + "

" + "Stop and Smell the Roses" + "

" + "A lot of roses are being ordered this week. Getting roses is a wonderful treat, especially in winter. Maybe it\'s got you thinking about ordering a few rose bushes? We all know that roses aren\'t a holiday treat for gardeners. Every garden should have at least one rose bush. And if it can be an old fashioned fragrant rose bush, all the better. Here are my Top 10 Great Roses for Fragrance, to add to your garden. Read more: Roses for Fragrance Roses for Partial Shade Best Hybrid Tea Roses 2010 All America Rose Selections Photo of \'Easy Does It\' Rose Provided by AARS Stop and Smell the Roses originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 01:30:18.Permalink | Comment | Email this" + "

" + "Sun, Feb 7 2010 - 1:06 AM" + "

" + "Companion Planting for Tomatoes" + "

" + "I\'ve always found the idea of companion planting fascinating. I wouldn\'t swear it always works, but I suspect there\'s a lot more substance to it than its detractors will admit. Gardeners have been fine tuning it for years and there\'s no substitute for experience. Today I\'m combining two of my gardening loves: growing tomatoes and companion planting. I culled through a few dozen articles and books and my own experience and pulled together my list of companion plants for tomatoes. Since you\'re going to grow some of these plants anyway, why not experiment with growing them together? There\'s still plenty of time to start some seeds. Photo: © Marie Iannotti Companion Planting for Tomatoes originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 at 01:06:34.Permalink | Comment | Email this" + "

" + "Sat, Feb 6 2010 - 1:09 AM" + "

" + "Where Do All the Aphids Come From?" + "

" + "Where on earth do all those aphids come from? Seriously, how do they find their way into our homes in the dead of winter? What were they living on until I so graciously started some seedlings? What they lack in size, they make up in numbers. Debbie Hadley, About\'s Guide to Insects, says \"...a single aphid could produce 600 billion descendants in one season.\" What chance does a gardener have against those kinds of odds? And they apparently have some type of twisted relationship with ants, who protect them in order to get their fix of honeydew. Debbie sheds some light on these little suckers of the plant world. All About Aphids Where Did All These Aphids Come From? The Odd Couple - Ants and Aphids Two Homemade Aphid Sprays Houseplant Pest Problems Photo: rgrabe / stock.xchng. Where Do All the Aphids Come From? originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 01:09:53.Permalink | Comment | Email this" + "

" + "Fri, Feb 5 2010 - 1:00 AM" + "

" + "Featured Plant: Four OClock (Mirabilis jalapa)" + "

" + "I\'ve yet to plant an evening garden, probably because the bugs come out at night, but I have a list of flowers I\'d love to include in one, in the future. White flowers top the list for evening gardens. Of course there\'s moonflower, evening stock and night blooming cereus. But also near the top of the list is Mirabilis jalapa \'Alba\'. Four O\'Clocks do indeed bloom sometime around four o\'clock in the evening and they stay in bloom through the night. I\'ve read that night blooming flowers do so because they are pollinated by moths. I can\'t confirm that, so if any of you have any knowledge of this, please let us know. That bit of trivia aside, Four O\'Clocks are tender perennials, often grown as annuals, that start blooming in mid-summer and continue to bloom profusely until frost. Why wait until you create an evening garden to plant them? Put some in a pot on the patio, tuck a few in your walk way and plant some under a window, so their gentle vanilla scent can catch you off guard when a bre..." + "

" + "Wed, Feb 3 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "Gardening Question of the Week: How Much Should I Plant?" + "

" + "My well-meaning friend emailed a link to Gardener\'s Supply Kitchen Garden Planner and I can\'t stop playing with it, so I figured why no share it with all of you. You set the size of your garden and you\'ll get a square marked off in 1\' grids. There are 47 different vegetables that you drag onto the grid and it tells you how many of that vegetable to plant in 1 sq. ft. For example: 9 beets or 2 cucumbers. (Although I question that 1 sq. ft. is adequate for a pumpkin vine. You an save your map, print it, even edit the plant names so you know which are the \'Blue Lake\' beans and which are the \'Italian Bush\'. When you print it out, you get more detailed planting tips. It\'s very addictive and a nice way to see how much you can squeeze into your plot. If you\'re still wondering how much you should plant, so that your family doesn\'t mutiny when they see beans for dinner again, here are some guidelines for how much to plant in the vegetable garden, gleaned from my own experience, friends and the ..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 2 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "Raising Gardeners" + "

" + "There\'s been a huge push to gets kids involved in gardening. You\'d think they\'d be naturals: dirt, bugs, food... Actually, most kids do enjoy working in the garden. It\'s being patient while things begin to grow that they can\'t stand. This week is National Green Week and the Green Education Foundation has set a goal of getting 10,000 school gardens up and growing this year, with their Green Thumb Challenge. They provide lots of help and direction on their site, if you\'d like to help your child\'s school. The Welch\'s company is teaming up with Scholastic to award Welch\'s Harvest Grants to schools planning to start gardens. There are indoor and outdoor garden packages of tools, seeds and educational materials. Five 1st prize winners will each receive a $1,000 package. Twenty-five winners will get a $500 package and another 70 winners will receive a package worth $250. The contest ends next week, so check it out now. And Bonnie Plants has a charming program called Third Grade Cabbage Prog..." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 1 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "February in the Garden Regional Gardening Tips" + "

" + "February is the toughest month in the garden. Gardeners in warm climates don\'t know what to expect from the weather. Those in cold climates would give anything to be able to spend the day outdoors. But for them, February also means that winter is half over and subtle signs of spring are there you really look. So get out your sharpening tools or your grow lights. Look over this February in the Garden To Do List and let\'s get gardening! Photo: © Marie Iannotti (2009) licensed to About.com, Inc. February in the Garden Regional Gardening Tips originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 01:01:28.Permalink | Comment | Email this" + "

" + "Sat, Jan 30 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "What Shape is Your Tree?" + "

" + "We\'re heading into February, which is about when winter has out stayed its welcome, for me. I like a change of seasons, but with winter, a little goes a long way. While I\'m outdoors during this current cold snap, I\'ve been distracting myself from by looking at the shapes of the trees. Honestly, some of them are more interesting without leaves than with. Once everything turns green, the gnarly branches and scaffolding get lost. I don\'t think a lot of people take tree shape into consideration, when choosing trees for their landscape. We look for flowers, fruits and fall color, maybe we\'ll worry about how large the tree will get, but few of us say, \"I\'d like a nice pyramidal tree to contrast with the two ovals I have.\" Funny, because we do that all the time when choosing smaller plants for our gardens. If you\'ve never really considered the different shapes of trees, I encourage you to look at a comparison photo gallery our Tree & Shrubs Guide, Vanessa Richins, has put together. Then the n..." + "

" + "Fri, Jan 29 2010 - 1:01 AM" + "

" + "Featured Plant: Spinach" + "

" + "I am in such awe of plants that can take a chill. Any plant (or person) can stretch out in the sunshine, but it takes a hardy soul to flourish in the mercurial weather of spring. Or maybe that\'s why cool season crops mature so quickly, so that someone will pick them and bring them indoors where it\'s warm? Whatever the reason, spinach is a treat to plant in the spring garden, months before there\'s any hope for a cucumber, let alone a tomato . Spinach is at it\'s tender best when freshly picked and grows fast enough to be planted several times, to extend the harvest further. Getting spinach to grow is easy. Keeping your spinach growing takes some finesse. Try these spinach growing tips and enjoy fresh spinach well into summer. Growing Spinach 3 Warm Season Spinach Alternatives Photo: © David Paul Morris / Getty Images. Used with Permission. Featured Plant: Spinach originally appeared on About.com Gardening on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 01:01:24.Permalink | Comment | Email this" + "

" + "Tue, Mar 10 2009 - 5:44 PM" + "

" + "Your National Forecast Summary" + "

" + "Midwest - However, due to the intense nature of the surface low it will continue to impact the region with strong winds, ... South - A cold front will push into the region by Wednesday morning with much of the rain unlikely to push east ... Northeast - The lone exceptions will be portions of New England and Upstate New York where a wintry mix of freezing rain, ... West - The lone exception may be the Sierra Nevada where some rain or snow showers will be possible with an upper-level ... For more details..." + "

" + "Wed, Nov 5 2008 - 5:56 AM" + "

" + "Yes. We. Did." + "

" + "Thank you America and thank you Barack. Land of Hope and Dreams Grab your ticket and your suitcase Thunder’s rolling down the tracks You don’t know where you’re goin’ But you know you won’t be back Darlin’ if you’re weary Lay your head upon my chest We’ll take what we can carry And we’ll leave the rest Big wheels rolling through fields Where sunlight streams Meet me [...]" + "

" + "Thu, Sep 18 2008 - 2:47 PM" + "

" + "Signs that might be omens" + "

" + "Dark and silent late last night I think I might have heard the highway calling Geese in flight and dogs that bite Signs that might be omens say I’m going, going Gone to Carolina in my mind With a holy host of others standing ’round me Still I’m on the dark side of the moon And it seems like it goes on [...]" + "

" + "Mon, Jul 28 2008 - 3:47 PM" + "

" + "The smartest man I ever knew" + "

" + "Bye Daddy. Earl Triplett Brown Earl Triplett Brown, 81, passed away at home on July 22, 2008, following a courageous fight against a long illness. He was born April 21, 1927, in Buncombe County, the youngest son of the late David Worth Brown and Mae Triplett Brown Cole. He was also preceded in death by his older [...]" + "

" + "Thu, Jul 10 2008 - 12:52 AM" + "

" + "More scenes from the July garden" + "

" + "Poppies! The one non-food item in my garden. I absolutely love them. See the ladybug in the middle? She’s doing her bit to keep my garden free of nasty pests. And a real live honeybee. Pollinate on, little buddy. Thank you for choosing my garden. OK, notice the blossom the bee is on. What kind of blossom [...]" + "

" + "Tue, Jul 8 2008 - 1:50 AM" + "

" + "Random July garden images" + "

" + "Long time no blog…it’s summer after all. Garden updates abound. I usually hate photo-heavy posts. In fact I don’t recall making a post before with this many photos but in this case the pics are worth a whole bunch of words. First, a before/after view of my plot. Below taken June 20: And from a different [...]" + "

" + "Wed, Jun 18 2008 - 4:11 PM" + "

" + "Suck it, Whole Foods!" + "

" + "Er….the headline I really meant to write was “First Harvest.” But, sorry Whole Paycheck Foods, I will not be needing your services as much now that I am beginning to reap the bounty from my wonderful little community garden plot at Fox Point Community Garden, and now that the Downtown Providence Farmers’ Market where I [...]" + "

" + "Wed, Jun 11 2008 - 11:38 PM" + "

" + "Today’s must-read: the social life of plants" + "

" + "Did you see this article in the NYT yesterday? (Warning-registration may be required.) Canadian researchers are examining the ability of plants to distinguish members of its own species from “outsiders.” Last summer scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario published a study on the sea rocket (Cakile edentula), a native member of the mustard (Brassicacaea) [...]" + "

" + "Fri, Jun 6 2008 - 7:51 PM" + "

" + "Tree of the month: Red horse chestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)" + "

" + "I’m way overdue for a tree of the month selection! This month I picked red horse chestnut, Aseculus x carnea ‘Briotti’. I actually haven’t seen this tree in bloom before and I think it’s quite exotic looking for New England. This is probably as close as we in the Northeast will be able to get [...]" + "

" + "Mon, May 26 2008 - 2:22 PM" + "

" + "Happy Memorial Day" + "

" + "I hope everyone is enjoying nature on this beautiful three day weekend!" + "

" + "Sun, May 25 2008 - 1:15 AM" + "

" + "Fox Point Community Garden" + "

" + "Here are a few more pictures of Fox Point Community Garden. You can see it’s a pretty funky little garden. This is a picture of the “garden shed”–a misnomer that conjures up images of small wooden shacks–when this is actually a big concrete building with plenty of storage space. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so [...]" + "

" + "Weather & You: Our Photo Of The Day" + "

" + "Our silo surrounded by autumn colors. Submitted by: JoyCobb, Photo Date: 11/1/2008, Photo Location: Kingsville, OH" + "

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