Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture

This article from Fine Gardening might be of interest to gardeners in your community looking to use sustainable practices:

by Janet Macunovich

To stand in a garden is to be surrounded by constantly moving water. It takes only a few minutes for a drop suspended from a soil particle underground to be drawn upward from a root tip to the farthest leaf blade and released from leaf stomata as air-cooling vapor. Listen as you stand under that maple. Is that the sigh of the wind you’re hearing or the whispery flow of gallons of water vapor being transpired?

the full article is here

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