Gardening

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Did You Know? WHSV-TV3 is bringing you the latest in gardening with a weekly Your Green Thumb segment on the News At Noon. Check back here for new tips and ideas, along with exclusive interviews!   Give a Garden In Your Community: Organize or take part in a town beautification day. America in Bloom is a national greening organization that can help you get started. Click here to learn more. Visit your local farmers' market. Compliment a neighbor on his or her garden. Get together with neighbors to purchase compost and mulch in bulk quantities. To calculate how much you need, click here. Submit a gardening article or essay to your local paper. Green up your street or a local park by picking up trash. Share a cutting of one of your favorite landscape or houseplants with a neighbor. Inventory your gardening gear (e.g., pots, seeds, stakes) and donate the excess to a community gardening program or school garden. Plant a Row for the Hungry and donate the food to your food shelf or other hunger relief agency. To learn about Plant a Row, click here. Start a neighborhood garden club. Share your garden's bounty with a neighbor. Have fun doing a gardening project with a child. Click here for some ideas. Deliver houseplants or flowers to a nursing home or children's hospital. Here are some environmentally sound landscaping techniques: Water your lawn and gardens only when they need it. Read and follow the label carefully when using pesticides and fertilizers. Leave grass clippings in place on your lawn. Keep fertilizer, pesticides, and yard and pet waste out of water sources and off pavement. For more tips, click here. Ideas from National Gardening Association, www.garden.org

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