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News Articles: Gardening

NPR producer Ana Perez's strawberry plant on a balcony on April 3.

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  • Environment

Got a dying plant? These tips could help you save it

Here's what a few plant and gardening experts say it takes to save a dying plant.

April 06, 2025
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By:
  • Ana Perez
Grace Wertanen, the "seedling intern" at Growing Hope Urban Farm in Ypsilanti, Mich. carries a tray of soil blocked plants

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  • Gardening

What's soil blocking? This seeding method helps gardeners use less plastic and peat

Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious gardeners who'd like to make their growing more sustainable.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
The fountain features a sculpture representing Flora, the goddess of flowers and flowering plants.

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  • Art & Design

‘Savannah's beauty is our duty’: New fountain honors influential gardener in Georgia's oldest city

‘The Garden Keeper’ is the Ardsley Park neighborhood's first public fountain.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne

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  • Climate

The USDA's gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what's changed in vivid detail

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Wood,
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin,
  • and 4 more
A caprese salad prepared with Norfolk's Purple Tomato. The tomato was created using genes from a snapdragon.

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  • Food

A mix-up over bioengineered tomato seeds sparked fears about spread of GMO crops

An organic seed company was distressed to learn it had marketed a GMO purple tomato by mistake. The incident raised alarm about the impact of new GMO plants.

April 28, 2024
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By:
  • Sasa Woodruff
The Purple Tomato, a genetically modified crop created by Norfolk Plant Sciences, is available to home gardeners to start from seed.

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  • Health

Gardeners can now grow a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA

The plant gets its color — and a boost in antioxidants — from genes from an edible flower. It's the first time gardeners have been able to grow a GMO crop at home.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Sasa Woodruff
The 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows shifting zones in much of Georgia. Areas in orange and brown saw a warming of their average lowest winter temperature range, compared to 2012. White denotes no change.

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  • Environment

USDA hardiness map shows Georgia's coldest temperatures are warming

The new map is the first update since 2012.

December 04, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

'It feels like I'm not crazy.' Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

November 17, 2023
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By:
  • Julia Simon

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  • Health

Growing without groaning: A brief guide to gardening when you have chronic pain

Want to plant but afraid of the 'ouch'? Here's advices from a physical therapist for how to get hands-on in the garden, even if you have back pain or other chronic aches.

June 18, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Muraskin

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  • Food

From 'Milkshake' to veggies, Kelis and Ron Finley share their farm journeys

Grammy-nominated recording artist and chef Kelis talks to urban gardener Ron Finley about growing your own food, the relationship between Black people and the land, and how to handle a mean rooster.

February 24, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Ietef "DJ Cavem Moetavation" Vita plants seeds with daughter Libya LeaDonvita in the garden at their home outside Denver. Vita is among a growing list of Black gardening enthusiasts-turned-entrepreneurs across the country who've launched seed businesses during the pandemic-inspired gardening boom.

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  • Fitness & Nutrition

Black Entrepreneurs Sow Seeds Of Healthier Eating During Pandemic Gardening Boom

Denver-based rapper DJ Cavem Moetavation started pushing beats and beets by distributing free seeds. Black-owned companies like his are trying to encourage more people of color to grow their own food.

May 19, 2021
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By:
  • Chandra Thomas Whitfield
Seed companies are seeing historic levels of demand this year from home gardeners and commercial farmers, and they're having a hard time keeping up.

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  • National

Suppliers Field Growing Demand For Seeds From Pandemic Gardeners

Many people stuck at home during the pandemic turned to gardening for the first time. The unexpected spike in demand has seed suppliers struggling to keep up.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Dana Cronin

What You Need to Know: Growing a Garden While Sheltering in Place

Georgia Public Broadcasting’s new series What You Need To Know: Coronavirus provides succinct, fact-based information to help you get through the...

May 14, 2020
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By:
  • Sean Powers

On Second Thought For Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Last week, the Coca-Cola Company unveiled an ambitious plan to recycle a bottle or can for every drink it sells. It’s the latest move by the Atlanta...

January 23, 2018
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee ,
  • Emily Cureton ,
  • and 3 more

Attack of the Killer Tomato Festival

The 8th annual Attack of the Killer Tomato Festival kicks off this Sunday night at Park Tavern in Atlanta. We speak with tomato farmer Cass Fraunfelder...

July 14, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen

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