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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Dirt Du Jour: {title}</title> </head> <body link="#4fa18b" text="#495234" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0; line-height: 20px;"> <table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.dirtdujour.com/"><img src="http://www.dirtdujour.com/images/email_hdr.jpg" alt="Dirt Du Jour" width="600" height="114" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><table style="padding-bottom: 40px;" width="600" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td rowspan="4" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.dirtdujour.com/"><img src="http://www.dirtdujour.com/images/hdr_daily_dirt.jpg" alt="Daily Dirt" width="219" height="51" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-top: 3px;"> thought you might like this little ditty from Dirt du jour <img src="http://www.dirtdujour.com/images/uploads/pearlpicbiophoto.jpg" alt="Pearl Fryar, El Nino 2009, Rainwater harvesting Los Angeles, Fresh Dirt. " style="float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 15px 10px 0; border: 1px solid #99af78;" /> August 11, 2009 <a href="http://www.dirtdujour.com/item/the_great_miscellaneous_post/" style="color: #4fa18b;">The great miscellaneous post</a> Hello Dirt du jour readers! I am on the road until August 24 so no newsletter for more than a week. I did put together a super-duper post that could keep you occupied for a while if you read it really, really slowly. Until then, If you have seen the PBS documentary about <a href="http://www.fryarstopiaries.com/" title="A Man Named Pearl">A Man Named Pearl</a>, or Pearl Fryar the incredible topiary artist from South Carolina, then maybe you’d like to meet him at <a href="http://www.qbgardens.org/events/special.shtml" title="Quail Botanical Gardens">Quail Botanical Gardens</a> on August 23. Los Angeles residents can reduce their green waste and learn all about composting through the <a href="http://www.lacity.org/san/solid_resources/recycling/composting/index.htm" title="city sanitation department�s workshops">city sanitation department�s workshops</a> at Griffith Park. Plus, with valid ID, buy compost and worm bins on the super cheap. Since a big El Nino is brewing in the southern hemisphere you might get ready by looking into the free <a href="http://larainwaterharvesting.org/" title="Rainwater Harvest Program">Rainwater Harvest Program</a> if you live in the LA neighborhoods of Jefferson, Sawtelle and Mar Vista, but all Los Angeles residents are encouraged to apply. Everybody else panic. The all-organic <a href="http://www.tanakafarms.com/" title="Tanaka Farms">Tanaka Farms</a> in Irvine is hosting watermelon tours Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $13 per person includes a wagon ride around the farm, tasting of fresh-picked organic produce, plus pick your own watermelon to take home. <blockquote>Hard Truths from Jim McCausland at <a href="http://freshdirt.sunset.com/2009/08/hard-truths-about-gardening.html" title="Fresh Dirt�">Fresh Dirt�</a> Tree topping is usually evil, always expensive, rarely effective, and dependably ugly Sometimes unlimited money just allows tasteless gardeners to fully express themselves Sometimes big box stores sell great plants you really want for shockingly low prices Hard Truths from Sharon Cohoon at <a href="http://freshdirt.sunset.com/2009/08/hard-truths-part-2.html" title="Fresh Dirt�">Fresh Dirt�</a> You�ll never get to grow everything you�re curious about in one short lifetime Wild gardening ideas�like painting your block wall a dark red�usually turn out to be the best ones. But finding the courage to try them out never gets easier If you can�t kill a snail with your bare hands, you�re not a gardener Hard Truths by Steve Aitken at Fine Gardening�</a> Plants die. Sometimes it�s your fault; sometimes it isn�t �No maintenance� is just a figure of speech You should stop pruning while your tree still has a few branches Hard Truths from Cindy McNatt at Dirt du jour…<a> The more you spend on a plant the less likely it will live Zone recommendations are only for sissies Gardening is all about soil. 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