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Rescooped by Alan Yoshioka from Urban Gardening onto Vertical Farm - Food Factory |
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They save lots of money - and that's just their most obvious benefit.
"Andy Wible’s backyard in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood doesn’t look much like a sewerage drain. But his Bayberry, Bee Balm, Iris and Golden Ragwort plants get the job done – and then some. Dug 30 inches* down and filled with a mixture of sand, topsoil and compost, Wible's rain garden draws raindrops tumbling off the roof deep into the soil, purifying them and recharging the groundwater."
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IN THE winter of 2006 beekeepers in America noticed something odd—lots of their hives were dying for no obvious reason. Evidence is growing that commonly used pesticides, even when employed carefully, are bad for bees. (It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that as bees move from flower to flower they are gathering more and more of these toxic chemicals. Their little immune systems can't handle it and this weakness makes them vulnerable to all sorts of viruses and illness) Via David Rowing, pdjmoo Delete the scoop?
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