All the Dirt on Gardening

Free and open to the public Feb 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. Steve Owens, owner Bustani Plant Farm "Plant Hunting in Kenya for Oklahoma Gardens" Garden Education Room, Honor Heights Park Sponsored by Friends of Honor Heights Park Talk followed by membership meeting Steve and Ruth Owens, owners of Bustani Plant Farm in Stillwater OK, focus on growing unique plants for gardens in Oklahoma as well as other states with similar growing conditions. Steve and Ruth travel to Africa looking for new plants. This Saturday, he will give a talk for Friends of Honor Heights Park members and guests. His topic is plant hunting in Kenya but since he is knowledgeable in all things horticultural, participants should come ready to learn a wide spectrum of details about how to succeed in their gardens. In a telephone interview, Steve said, Gardeners can get a good idea what we have from the website (www.bustaniplantfarm.com) and from the free catalog, but, there is a much greater variety available to an...

Kitchen waste takes up 30% of the landfill according to the experts. A compost pile and a worm composting bin or two would eliminate that burden on landfills. Friends of Honor Heights Park is sponsoring a worm composting workshop Saturday, October 17 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Garden Education Room at Muskogee's Honor Heights Park Learn how to improve your garden while helping the Earth. Worm composting reduces landfill and provides non-chemical fertilizer for growing flowers, vegetables and herbs. Participants should bring a plastic container 1 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet long to hold your worms, their food and shredded newspaper bedding. We will drill holes in your container and provide enough red wriggler worms to start a home system. In addition to materials on home vermicomposting , Bruce Edwards, Urban Harvest Director for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, will teach commercial worm composting. Vermicomposting helps keep kitchen waste out of the landfills. The worksho...