Beginning gardening with children at an early age
A 1977 Middletown Journal piece highlights ways to start kids in gardening, stressing personal plots, hands on care, and nonverbal teaching. It cites experts like Aileen Paul and Elsie Sculthorp, notes the value of sterilized soil, quick sprouting plants, and learning through trial and error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Sculthorp
Jonathan
Jon
Aileen Paul
Caulking Options and Buying Tips from Hardware Stores
Caulking compounds vary in materials such as oil based butyl vinyl acrylic latex and silicone. Read labels fully before purchase and consider durability and paint bleed. Ask dealers for guidance ensuring the product suits your needs and local stores can provide answers.
Lack of Diversity Threatens City Trees, Experts Warn
Two scientists warn that urban trees face a botanical time bomb from lack of species diversity. They cite multistory canyons, pollution, water variation and soil limits as stressors and warn a disease could wipe out maples, crab apples or sugar maples if a single species dominates city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Irwin
New York Botanical Garden
Thomas S. Elias
Associated Cary Arboretum
Scientific American
Tually
United States
Elias
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
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