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Tag: Gardening

Weather

Cold weather will have little impact on next summer’s insects

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 2, 2018, 12:23 PM Jan 2, 2018
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During the recent cold snap, it has been somewhat comforting to believe that although we are uncomfortable, the cold weather will head off a repeat of last summer’s invasion of Japanese beetles.

Alas, it’s a lie. Read more →

Crime and Justice · This or That

Grand Forks lawyer takes stand for freedom to grow ‘weeds’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 7, 2016, 12:16 PM Jul 7, 2016
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Henry Howe, an attorney and owner of spot of land in the city’s downtown, is letting goatsbeard flowers grow because that’s what he likes.

Who’s to say he can’t? The Grand Forks Health Department, which has ordered him to mow the land. Read more →

Crime and Justice

The garden vandals

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2013, 2:23 PM Jul 20, 2013
3

The gardening season of 2013 is going to go down as the one in which people sunk to the lowest level possible. It has become common this year to take flowers, trees, and potted plants from other people who did all the work. Can chaining up flower pots and bushes be far away? The latest Read more →

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