Gardening BETA!

Gardeners love to talk about their gardens, and the conversation inevitably turns to the season – the one just past, the one to come: it certainly was an unusually cool summer, a wet spring, hard to believe it’s already Fall, did this plant bloom early or late, was the apple crop abundant or poor.Fall begins with the Autumnal Equinox, and for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the significance is profound: a certain unmistakable fragrance in the air, a soft...

As part of Weather Underground's ever-growing garden section, we plan on handing out a new weather station and starter garden kit to a deserving K-12 school once per month.Here is how it will work:1) If a student, educator, or administrator feels their school is deserving of a new weather station, capable of uploading weather information to our vast Personal Weather Station network, along with a gardening starter kit, then all they have to do is send an email to gar...

Did you know that many cities throughout the Bay Area have a robust composting program where residents put items able to be composted into a separate bin alongside their recyclables and regular garbage? Perhaps if you live in the Bay Area, this will not surprise you. But, in many parts of the country there is no such program. Heck, in some cities do not have any recycle program for residents to recycle easy things such as aluminum cans, gas bottles, and plastic c...