Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Paul Zindel wrote the play, Paul Newman directed the movie and it looks like the European Space Agency is now going to show us how to grow marigolds on the moon.

The BBC reports:

A team led by Natasha Kozyrovska and Iryna Zaetz from the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev planted marigolds in crushed anorthosite, a type of rock found on Earth which is very similar to much of the lunar surface.

Wouldn't have spied this if not for our own Greg, who turned me on to http://pruned.blogspot.com/ which mixes plants with science, landscape architecture, environmental issues, all the juicy and provocative stuff. Check it out!

11:35 AM ET | 04-30-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

Wanna Garden Online?

I've lost about 20 minutes trying to figure out why I'd want to do this and how to describe what it is to you and am bleary eyed from the effort. From what I can gather, it's a site where you can enter data about everything you're growing, track it, share it, picture it...all the kinds of things I don't like to do. But you might, so check out myfolia and let us know if it's useful to you.

By the way, I read about it at GardenPunks, a site I stopped by because -- being well past my own punk years -- I wanted to see what a 21st century punk was.

Answer: EcoPunk.

2:35 AM ET | 12-19-2007 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post