the

garden

  

 

 we come from the Earth,

we return to the Earth,

and in between we garden...

 

 

november...

 

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns"

- George Elliott

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

   

 

 
 
  
 

 

 
 

 

  
 

 

     

 

 

 

 

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  westhaven woods, beyond the back fence

GARDEN RANT manifesto

We are:

Convinced that gardening MATTERS.

Bored with perfect magazine gardens.

In love with real, rambling, chaotic, dirty, bug-ridden gardens.

Suspicious of the “horticultural industry.”

Delighted by people with a passion for plants.

  

 

Appalled by chemical warfare in the garden.

Turned off by any activities that involve “landscaping” with “plant materials.”

Flabbergasted at the idea of a “no maintenance garden.”

Gardening our asses off.

Having a hell of a lot of fun.

THE POWER OF FLOWERS

 QUOTES FOR GARDENERS
  

NAKED GARDENING

 "go outside and eat"

MOSS MAKES A LUSH, NO-CARE LAWN

"...a moss lawn needs “a fraction, one percent or less” of the 10,000 gallons (beyond rainwater) that the E.P.A. estimates a suburban grass lawn drinks annually."

Source: United States EPA: Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program

THINGS YOUR LAWN NEVER WANTED YOU TO KNOW

* The EPA estimates that the total amount of residential lawn in the United States ranges around 40 million acres, making turf grass the nation's biggest irrigated crop.
* Americans pour as much as 238 gallons of water per person, per day onto lawns during the growing season.
* The U.S. lawn industry is a $70 billion annual business.
* America's 50 million or so lawnmowers burn through 800 million gallons of gas every year.

AMERICA'S CHEMICALLY DEPENDENT & TOXIC LAWNS

* 67 million pounds of pesticides are applied to roughly 30 million acres of lawns in the U.S. each year.
* The #1 most water intensive crop in the United States is lawn grass. The average lawn is doused with 10,000 gallons of water each year (in addition to rainfall).
* Synthetic fertilizers run off into streets and local waterways, choking aquatic life and polluting our water.
* The EPA estimates that a mower emits as much pollution in one hour as a car emits in driving 20 miles.
* Numerous studies have linked common household herbicides and pesticides to asthma, cancer, reduced fertility and neurological harm to fetuses, infants and children.

-- organic consumers association