Dave sent this from two weeks ago:
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Iowa Christmas Tree Growers Association: Find a Farm
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Iowa State Fair Floriculture Competition
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Pinus virginiana 'Wates Golden'
The Iowa Arboretum upcoming events
William Robinson, the Irish plantsman who brought the Arts & Crafts Movement to British gardening. Go native, go perennial, go in masses & drifts.
The Wild Garden, Expanded Edition, republished, with Rick Darke
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Handy Gardening Tool: reciprocating saw, aka "sawzall," lots of brands & sizes, corded and battery, fitting smaller & larger hands, with blades that help with outside tasks.
Eileen's Milwaukee M12
Another example: DeWalt
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It's not all roses out there:
2012-11-12 Organic Fertilizer Maker Gets Prison Sentence
2012-3-1 OMRI Announces Liquid Fertilizer Sentence
Organic Fertilizer Fraud Cases End With Sentences
2012-9-7 Scotts Miracle-Gro Fines
2012-9-7 US EPA Scotts Miracle-Gro Settlement
2010-12-16 Scotts Miracle-Gro herbicide resistant bentgrass escape
2011-6-16 Bentgrass Eradication Plan Unveiled, The Capital Press
2004-10-11 Biotech Companies Engineer a "Superweed"
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