Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England Dinosaur, May 8 and 9, 6 p.m., First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., Cambridge. Tickets...
...America has never been a great gardening country," says Gardening Author Derek Fell. "But now all that's changing." Declares William MacDowell, president of W. Atlee Burpee Co.: "People are getting frustrated with all the frivolities of life. They want something more basic." Observed San Diego Garden Store Owner Joan Klindt: "You can't live in concrete all your life. Every day I hear people saying things like 'Oh, I don't watch that TV program any more. I'm working out in the yard...
...greening of America takes many forms. Amid the hills surrounding San Francisco, homeowners often plant tomatoes, lettuce, celery, carrots, onions and radishes in wooden tubs on sun decks. Raspberry plants and apple trees for backyards are big sellers in Portland. During the hot summer, Miami area gardeners turn to black-eyed peas and watermelons. Dick and Hope McKim of Miami even converted their swimming pool into a garden, filling it with layers of rock and sand, then topsoil. Says Mrs. McKim: "Now instead of the pool costing us $50 a month to maintain...
Community garden projects, often subsidized with federal funds on state or city land, have more hopeful planters and renters than available plots. Low-income families are often given priority, since the savings on food bills from a 15-ft. by 25-ft. garden can reach $250 a year. Atlanta has 150 acres, divided into 20-ft. by 30-ft. plots, scattered in its metropolitan area in a program that will reach an estimated 8,000 people this year. In Louisville, one government-sponsored garden project leased 175 of its 250 plots in just two hours on opening...
...Americans are no longer enthralled by gadgets and gimmickry. More than 20,000 Rotocrop "Accelerator" compost bins were sold last year at about $40 each, and sales are expected to more than double this year. The bin is merely a 3-ft.-high plastic cylinder, specially ventilated for turning garden and kitchen wastes quickly into compost. Students at the University of Miami enjoy almost instant tomatoes hydroponically grown by pouring liquid fertilizer into baskets filled with wood shavings outside their dorm windows. "Tomato rings"-wire-mesh cages about 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. high containing beds of grass clippings...