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There is NO EXCUSE today for a gardener to use chemicals. Perfect Lawns? Pristine Roses? Immaculate Flowers all Summer long? If you live in the Northeast/Atlantic Coast, I'll guide you down the non-toxic road to Organica - and you will not believe how easy it can be. Yes, it can be complicated, but backing off from Ortho and Scotts is not as hard as you think. Your neighbors won't believe their eyes. I have intelligent answers on soil care, bug killing, weed control and fungus-freedom!

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I have college credits in horticulture and botany, and 30 years of gardening for personal pleasure. Plus I am a volunteer docent at the local botanical gardens. But a person's real gardening skills are learned from trial and error. I am strict about not using chemicals in the garden. Always have been. Always will be.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

THE CONSENT Late in November, on a single night Not even near to freezing, the Ginkgo trees That stand along the walk drop all their leaves In one consent, and neither to rain nor to wind But as though to time alone: the golden and green Leaves litter the lawn today, that yesterday Had spread aloft their fluttering fans of light.

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What signal from the stars? What senses took it in? What in those wooden motives so decided To strike their leaves, to down their leaves, Rebellion or surrender? And if this Can happen thus, what race shall be exempt? What use to learn the lessons taught by time, If a star at any time amy tell us: Now. --Howard Nemerov

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  • Knowledgeability 9.85
  • Clarity of Response 9.90
  • Politeness 9.97
  • Response Time(hr) 65.3
  • Response Time(hr, last 90 days) 23.9
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  • Total Questions (since joining AllExperts) 125
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Recent Answers from Long Island Gardener

2011-11-06 Beatle Question:

Just as you wouldn't take a group of people and call them all "rich", or a collection of houses and say they're all "Colonial", you can't take an entire genus of Beetles and say they're all "bad" for the

2011-10-27 Beatle Question:

Beetles are beneficial. Researchers in England investigated the activity of Ground Beetles at hundreds of farms, and published their findings this year. Apparently, the Ground Beetles genus includes a

2011-07-27 orange tree:

Orange Trees - no house is a home without at least one.  Capital idea, Min my friend.    A few things you should know:    1. Not all Orange Trees are made alike.  Your Orange Tree may be too small to flower

2011-06-05 Three questions:

Hello up there, Oh Canadian gardener.  Pleased to meet you.  Let's get down to business:    1. What you really want to know is, Can you bury your organic garbage directly into the soil without composting

2011-05-22 organic gardening; no chances of survival?:

Adry, I feel your pain.  Yes, I hear what you're saying.  Yes, yes, yes to all of the above -- it is maddenning (madening? how do you spell that?) what things go on out there when you're just trying to

 

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