This episode explores how colonial history has affected what we plant and who gets to garden. We also discuss practical gardening tips with an eye to Indigenous knowledge.
You can help wildlife in your garden thrive if you just stop doing several simple things.
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Different grasses respond to and cope with winter in different ways.
The practice of gardening is deeply tied to colonialism. Here a woman pushes a cart of flowers at her garden centre in Toronto, May 4, 2020.
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Before you reach for the weed killer, spare a thought for struggling pollinators.
Americans – especially those living in areas affected by drought – are turning to paint to give their grass that perfect green sheen.
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Timothy Welch, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
New Zealand’s urban green space has dwindled over the past six decades. The Commissioner for the Environment has issued a warning and a challenge – get greener before climate change gets meaner.
The internet has become a new player in plant care advice.
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Weeds are serious problems on sports fields, parks and other sites covered with turfgrass. A new strategy uses mechanical force to kill them instead of chemical herbicides.
Soccer player on artificial turf.
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Artificial turf has become popular for kids’ sports as well as for professional players. The little black crumbs that help support the blades of fake grass may not be so harmless.
To lawn or not to lawn, that is the question.
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Americans love their lawns but are lawns good for America, particularly in drought-stricken areas? A look at our grassy love affair and what might be better alternatives.