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	<title>Sonoma County Nurseries Resource Guide</title>
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		<title>Graywater for Gardeners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gail Fanning
The State of California adopted regulations that allow us to legally, without permits, re-use our graywater for landscape irrigation! This is a HUGE step forward in reasonable water use policy by the State, and will go a long way toward conserving our limited water resources, while maintaining fruitful and beautiful gardens.

What is graywater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=661</link>
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		<title>350 Garden Challenge Sonoma County</title>
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Imagine a garden on every block in Sonoma County! On a single ambitious weekend, May 15th and 16th, we will transform 350 Sonoma County landscapes into bountiful gardens, which save water and emissions, grow food and habitat, and promote greywater and Low Impact Development (LID). Daily Acts, GoLocal, and iGROW Sonoma, with the generous support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=653</link>
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		<title>Sudden Oak Death in Sonoma County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where is Sudden Oak Death in Sonoma County? 
A wet winter and spring is good for plants and it&#8217;s good for pathogens, too. The sudden oak death (SOD) pathogen requires water and temperatures around 70 degrees F to spread naturally. Some years are &#8220;good&#8221; for the pathogen, and some are dry and not good for the pathogen. The weekend of April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=645</link>
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		<title>Earth Day &amp; Arbor Day 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gail’s Gardens &#8211; April 2010
By Gail Fanning, Blue Hill Design
April is a special month: the first frost-free day, Earth Day, and Arbor Day.  The perfect time to start your veggies, rejuvenate your flower garden, and plant a tree!
Earth Day is special to me because it falls on my daughter’s birthday, April 22. It is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=636</link>
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		<title>The Real Value In Buying Locally Grown Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Skurtun, Healdsburg Nursery
In today’s economy it seems that every dollar becomes harder to hang on to or to spend efficiently. I find myself thinking through and weighing some of the most seemingly simple and inexpensive purchases.
What I hope to learn in the process is not to jump at price without thoroughly examining the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=555</link>
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		<title>Tree Care 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeff Rebischung, Fine Tree Care 
Fine Tree Care Guide
Download and print PDF of Guide » 
We like to have trees around us because they make life pleasant.  Trees are more than beautiful. They provide a multitude of environmental benefits and serve a variety of practical functions as well.  Most importantly I think, the quiet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Native Plants &amp; Alien Invaders along our Creeks and River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Emma Kohlsmith, Russian Riverkeeper Intern
Crouched down on our knees in the dirt on a hot summer day while digging out thorny, tenacious Himalayan blackberry, a student asked why there are so many non-native invasive plants along the Russian River? In pondering the question it seems that alien plant invaders are everywhere, yellow star thistle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=559</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Gardening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using Corn as an Example
By Robert Kourik
In a sustainable garden, the ultimate goal would be to eliminate all imported nutrients. Horse manure, cow manure, sacks of bone meal, blood meal, green sand, bat guano, phosphates, etc., all add additional fertility and qualify as “natural” or organic. However, each comes with various environmental costs attached, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=563</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Intensive Backyard Farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Becky Wells
 
A Little History 
Intensive Backyard Farming is an old and practical idea.  During WW-II, French people started growing crops in their backyards to fill in gaps when farmers were drafted.  Thus, the French re-invented backyard farming by growing much of their produce in small spaces.  Using composted manure, organic amendments, rain barrels and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=569</link>
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		<title>The History of Hydroponics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hydroponics basically means working water (&#8220;hydro&#8221; means &#8220;water&#8221; and &#8220;ponos&#8221; means &#8220;labor&#8221;). Many different civilizations have utilized hydroponic growing techniques throughout history. As noted in Hydroponic Food Production (Fifth Edition, Woodbridge Press, 1997, page 23) by Howard M. Resh: &#8220;The hanging gardens of Babylon, the floating gardens of the Aztecs of Mexico and those of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sonomacountynurseries.com/?p=574</link>
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