TLC Florist & Greenhouses By: Mark Hancock Watering less often, with more, adds up to greater gardening success and helps preserve plants ranging from trees and shrubs to perennial beds and succulents. “People [want] to water 10 minutes here and 10 minutes there too often, and that won’t work,” said Cindy Townsend, assistant nursery manager […]
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Sprouting up
OSU-OKC Farmers’ Market By: Sara Cowan “Now we’re gearing up for the warm season, which would be your squash, cantaloupe [and] tomatoes,” said Ray Ridlen, horticulturist from Oklahoma State University’s Oklahoma City campus. Ridlen, who offers gardening sessions several times a year, saw an abrupt uptick in efforts to establish metro-area community gardens when the […]
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’Shroom zoom
The Edmond-based company bought the equipment this past spring from OM Mushrooms of Norman, which was going out of business. Heather Popowsky, owner of Oklahoma Mushrooms, launched the business in October with the “very aggressive-growing” oyster mushrooms blooming on her land in southeast Edmond. A newly hired, full-time manager will help Popowsky grow Lion’s Mane, […]
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Constant gardener
He lost both his legs eight years ago after a jack slipped and a car fell on him. Now living at Grace Living Center on 3233 N.W. 10th, he gets around in a motorized wheelchair and has access to an outdoor garden. “It started off full of big weeds,” Hernandez said. “I cleared all of […]
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Closing time
Photo: Mark Hancock The garden center has been hit hard by two years of extreme temperatures, drought, hail and — more recently — a July 15 fire in its warehouse that claimed about 80 percent of the company’s stock, along with all of its Christmas inventory. David and Beverly Shumake, Horn Seed’s fourth-generation owners, said […]
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Off the grid
Scheduled to last an hour, the Dec. 1 event stretched close to double that, as dozens of audience members asked questions and shared ideas. “This is probably the biggest group we’ve ever talked to,” Johnson said. “I’m amazed. I’m overwhelmed.” Johnson and Hagen, married since 1987, reside on acreage northeast of Oklahoma City. They call […]
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Off the grid
Scheduled to last an hour, the Dec. 1 event stretched close to double that, as dozens of audience members asked questions and shared ideas. “This is probably the biggest group we’ve ever talked to,” Johnson said. “I’m amazed. I’m overwhelmed.” Johnson and Hagen, married since 1987, reside on acreage northeast of Oklahoma City. They call […]
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Garden variety
Through hail, wind and heat of day, area gardeners are persevering and, despite challenges from Mother Nature, flourishing, with hundreds of kinds of veggies and flowers growing in dozens of community and employee gardens around town. Close to the north entrance of Chesapeake Energy’s employee garden, one of the permanent garden plots was cleverly named […]
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Gardens to go
Containers let gardeners flex their creative muscles while providing flowers, fruits or veggies in a compact and/ or movable space. Asia Scudder of Native Landscapes said the key elements are varying texture, color and height. “Make sure they all have the same light requirements. That’s the one tricky thing,” she said. “Read the tag. They […]
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Bite size
A famous person you kind of look like: “A gal on ‘Star Trek,’ but I can’t remember her name.” Nobody really knows: “That I can speak five languages: Farsi, Spanish, Dari, English and Arabic.” Favorite cookbook? “All of my recipes come from my head, and I just play with them. I never look at a […]