How difficult is it to grow your own salad?

What I know about gardening could be written several times on a postage stamp, but as I buy a LOT of salad and have just got access to a greenhouse I was wondering how difficult it would be to grow my own, my plan is to grow:
Tomatoes (standard + sweet plum),
Spinach,
Rocket,
Lettuce(Iceberg & cos),
Watercress,
Radish,
Potatoes,
Onion(standard & spring).
The greenhouse is a fair size can be heated, any advice would be welcomed.

What did I do to my seedlings?

Husband and I started a bunch of seedlings. This is our first foray into gardening that does not consist of buying a shrub, digging a hole, and inserting shrub. We don't know what we're doing. We've been bringing them all out for sun every morning and bringing them in at night. Mine are in one of those plastic mini-greenhouse things. I had a bunch of alyssum growing. They looked really good this morning and how they're all shrively and wrinkled. What did I do?

Have you seen the Obama energy plan? What are your thoughts?

The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:

Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_environment/

How much will this cost?

What do you make of the broad support for cap and trade in a recent Zogby poll?

Respondents were read the following statement regarding the American Clean Energy and Security Act:

"The House of Representatives recently passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would require electric power companies to generate 20 percent of their power from clean, renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, by the year 2020. Also included is a global warming plan which would reduce greenhouse gases from sources like power plants and factories by 17 percent, and an energy efficiency plan which includes new appliance standards and building codes to conserve energy."

Zogby found that 89% of Democrats, 73% of Independents, and 45% of Republicans support this bill. 68% of likely voters believe the bill will not result in job losses, with 51% believing it will lead to new job creation.

When presented with arguments for and against the American Clean Energy and Security Act, including concerns about the impact of the legislation on energy prices, 54% believe the Senate should now take action, 41% preferring that the Senate wait.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1730

What do you make of the broad support for the cap and trade bill?
Is it a coincidence that the same deniers who make false, unsubstantiated claims about AGW make false, unsubstantiated claims about cap and trade?

Just once I'd like to see a denier provide a shred of evidence that the bill will be expensive and/or will cause jobs to decrease. And "Rush Limbaugh and/or Glenn Beck and/or Sean Hannity told me so" doesn't count.
eric, the bill requires an 83% in US GHG reductions by 2050, which is precisely what I've said is necessary (actually 3% more, if you want to be picky).
andy I gave you the exact question that was asked! Geez man open your eyes.

I was wondering what is the height of spinach sprouts?

Anyone who gardens or has knowledge in the field of spinach growing would be able to answer this really quickly.
I'm doing a project on which type of fertilizer works better for the INITIAL growth of spinach and I was wondering if you could link me to some average spinach heights (only for the sprouts), or if you know about how high your spinach was when you began to grow it. This will be conducted at a university indoor greenhouse so temperature (yes I know it's winter) will not be an issue. It's urgent for my experimental design to know the avg height of spinach sprouts thanks.

And by sprouts I mean...the green stuff that appears within the first two weeks...not the full blown spinach plant.

i could really use some help with biology?????/?

last assignment of the year

1: What does hoeing the garden (or running a cultivator on a farm) do besides tearing out the weeds?
Kills the roots of plants
Aerates the soil and loosens it
Allows young plants more room to grow

2: In the spring of the year maple trees are tapped for sap to make sugar. True/False and why?
True, maple trees are tapped in the spring because the sap begins to flow and the starch that was stored in the roots all winter changes back into sugar
False, maple trees are not tapped in the spring because after the winter there is not enough sap to bother extracting. It must build up through the spring and summer.
False, maple trees are tapped in the fall to ensure that the tree has enough energy stored to make it through the winter.

3: When you tap maple trees, you should you cut through the bark and into the wood. True/false and why?
False, if you tap into the wood you risk killing the tree
True, you must tap into the wood because you must reach the layer where the sap is being transported
True, you must tap into the tree because the sap on the bark is too dirty to use

4: When you transplant flowers in the garden, you should take the roots up with a ball of earth about them-rather than loosen the soil and pull the roots out. True/false and why?
True, because if you disturb the soil around the roots, you may damage the fragile root hairs and impair the plant�s ability to absorb enough water
True, because the soil around the roots already contains the nutrients the plant needs
False, because the plant has already used up the nutrients in the soil around it. The old soil should be shaken off so the plant can find the fresh soil more easily.

5: It is a bad idea for you to wash the leaves of your house plants. True/false and why?
True, soap can enter the plant through its leaves and kill it.
False, washing the leaves allows the plant to absorb water through its leaves as well as through its roots and helps the plant absorb carbon dioxide faster
False, washing helps remove dust from leaves and allows the plant to absorb and release carbon dioxide and oxygen more easily.

6: What advantage is there in keeping water plants in a fish aquarium?
It is healthier for fish to eat water plants in addition to fish food
The plants absorb toxins in the water so the fish will not die as easily
The plants produce oxygen in the water that the fish can breathe

7: The cod and other fish caught on the Banks of Newfoundland are heavier (and the total catch is heavier) during sunny seasons than cloudy seasons. True/false and why?
False, the fish are lighter in sunny seasons because more algae grows. The algae compete with the crustaceans that are cod�s food source, and so the fish have less to eat.
True, the fish are heavier in sunny season because more algae grows. Small crustaceans feed on the algae, and the cod feed on the small crustaceans. More algae means more crustaceans, and so there is more food for the cod.
True, the fish are heavier because more birds are able to find fish in sunny weather. The more fish the birds hunt, the less competition the remaining cod face for their food and the heavier they become.

8: Potato beetles do not eat the tubers of the plant which man uses; they feed only on the leaves. Why take the trouble to poison the beetles then?
Because beetle dung causes the potatoes to have a bitter flavor
Because if the leaves are destroyed no photosynthesis takes place and the plant has no extra food to be stored as a potato
Because the beetles burrow into the potatoes to lay their eggs

9: Why does the florist sprinkle water on the walls and walks in his greenhouse as well as on the soil and growing plants?
Because this produces the best conditions for growth by keeping the leaves clean and the air moist
Because florists move plants according to the sunlight and would have to keep repositioning the sprinklers
Because some plants grow out of their pots without the florist noticing

Y is this Global Warming lawsuit necessary? Is it a sign that continuing not to take GW seriously is an error?

Alaska village sues companies for global warming

Dan Joling , Associated Press Writer
February 28, 2008

Anchorage, AK — A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community’s existence.

The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP PLC, seven other oil companies, 14 power companies and one coal company in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco.

Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo village of about 390 people about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage. It’s built on an 8-mile barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.

Sea ice traditionally protected the community, which has an economy based in part on salmon fishing and subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus and caribou.
But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal communities.

“We are seeing accelerated erosion because of the loss of sea ice,” City Administrator Janet Mitchell said in a statement. “We normally have ice starting in October, but now we have open water even into December so our island is not protected from the storms.”

Relocation costs are estimated at $400 million or more.

A spokesman for Exxon Mobil, Gantt Walton, said the company was reviewing the lawsuit and had no immediate comment on it.

Steve Rinehart, a spokesman for BP in Alaska, said he had not seen the lawsuit and had no comment.
ref:see balance of article at ---> http://www.dailyreporter.com/item.cfm?recid=20047975&snippet=f

The topic was also discussed on DemocracyNow.org.
Hey Bob see this--->“Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global Warming”–Leading Scientist John Holdren
Leading scientist John Holdren says ‘global warming’ is not the correct term to use, he prefers ‘global disruption.’ “Global warming] is misleading, it implies something that is mainly about temperature, that’s gradual, and that’s uniform across the planet,” says Holdren. “In fact, temperature is only one of the things that’s changing it’s sort of an index of the state of the climate. The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snowpack, snowmelt, flooding, droughts—temperature is just a bit of it.”

Listen to him at http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/3/global_disruption_more_accurately_describes_climate

Try and keep an open mind!
VOR, who here has insulted you that you feel turge to insult others?
Who are "they"?
I go tthe sources who are unafraid of discussing the truth.

Here's Holdren CV:
JOHN P. HOLDREN is the Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, as well as Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the immediate past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Holdren was educated at MIT and Stanford in aeronautics/astronautics (fluid dynamics) and theoretical plasma physics, receiving his PhD in 1970. After brief stints at the Livermore Lab and Caltech, he co-founded in 1973 and co-led until 1996 the campus-wide, interdisciplinary, graduate-degree program in energy and resources at UC Berkeley – the Energy and Resources Group (ERG). His work has focused on causes and consequences of global environmen
-tal change, fusion science & technology, comparative analysis of energy options, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons and materials, and the interaction of content and process in science and technology policy.
Dr. Holdren is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1993 through 2004 he served as Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences, and from 1994 to 2001 he was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Since 2002 he has been Co-Chair of the independent, bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy.
He has been the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981-86), the Volvo Environment Prize (1993), the Tyler Prize for Environment (2000), and the John Heinz Prize for Public Policy (2001), among other awards.
In 1995 he gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (which he served as Chair of the Executive Committee from 1987 to 1997).
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Hey, mikey care to tell me your sources?
"and if you continue to get your 'scientific evidence' from blatantly political sites such as 'democracynow', you should be prepared to be criticised for your choice of source..." Only the demagogues do that. I bet NPR sux too huh?
Michio Kaku, the particle physicist, does he sux too? LOL-he follows the GW debate and he admires both Hansen and Holdren.
James Hansen spoke to Congress last week and he has called for a total ban on coal power plants to avoid increasing CO2 concentrations further past the tipping point. We are at 380.6 ppms right now!
Thanks for the ref, Bob.
I mean to thank the Bob who wrote this: "Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al, 2007"
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Anyone live near Berkeley, CA?

Saturday, March 19th, 11am - noon
Science@Cal Lecture with Prof. Rich Muller "The Current Status of Climate
Change - A Non-Partisan Analysis"
UC Berkeley campus, Genetics and Plant Biology Room 100

Free admission
More details at http://scienceatcal.berkeley.edu/lectures

Note that we are back in our usual venue this month.

Because of its huge economic and political implications, Climate Change is
rarely presented without spin. This will be an attempt to do that. I'll
discuss the physics of the greenhouse effect, and the data that indicate
global warming. Among key topics are: Copenhagen -- why did we fail to get a
major treaty? Climategate -- what really happened? IPCC standards -- and why
they are undergoing major revisions. What are the top prospects among the
many choices for alternative energy? What kind of example can the U.S. set
that could be followed by the rest of the world? I'll also report on new
results of our "Berkeley Earth" project -- a detailed re-analysis of the
evidence for global warming; see www.BerkeleyEarth.org.

Rich Muller is a Professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley, and
Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He was named a
MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellow in 1982. He also received the Alan T.
Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation "for highly original and
innovative research which has led to important discoveries and inventions in
diverse areas of physics, including astrophysics, radioisotope dating, and
optics." In 1999, he received a distinguished teaching award from UC
Berkeley. He teaches the popular "Physics for Future Presidents" series of
undergraduate lectures at Berkeley and is the author of an associated book,
among other books, essays, and articles. He's also working on a system to
view 3-D TV without glasses.

The talk will take place in the Genetics and Plant Biology Building, Room
100. Doors will open at 10:30. We would like to start the talks on time, and
avoid disruption from people entering the auditorium during the talks, so
please try to arrive at least 10 minutes before the start.

We aim to stream the talk live at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/science-cal but if you're in the area, we
encourage you to come along in person. The talk will also be videoed and
posted on our website a few days after the event.

If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation to UC Berkeley, you can do
so at http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/

Upcoming events:

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2011 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer in Astronomy Prof.
Andrea Ghez (UCLA):
Wednesday, March 30th, 5pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley Admission Free

More than a quarter century ago, it was suggested that galaxies such as our
own Milky Way may harbor massive, though possibly dormant, central black
holes.
Definitive proof,
for or against, the existence of a massive central black hole lies in the
assessment of the distribution of matter in the center of the Galaxy. The
motion of the stars in the vicinity of a black hole offers a way to
determine this distribution. Based on
15 years of high
resolution imaging, the case for a supermassive black hole at the Galactic
Center has moved from being a possibility to a certainty. Additionally,
spectroscopy has revealed that the stars orbiting in such close proximity
are apparently massive and young; the origin of these stars is difficult to
explain, given the strong tidal forces, and may provide key insight into the
growth of the central black hole.

Prof. Ghez is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2008 was
the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant".

****

Saturday, April 16th, 9am - 4pm
UC Berkeley Campus
Cal Day Open House

http://calday.berkeley.edu/

More details to come soon ...
Be sure to read Dana's answer.

Greenhouse kits, are they good buys?

I want a greenhouse and have been looking at a kit called the Home Enthusiast Greenhouse, I am looking in the $800.-$1000. range. Does anyone have any advice or feedback about this subject? This is for my gardening fun not commercial.

does the size of the stem change depending on wether or not it is planted in a greenhouse or a garden?

What would it take to build my own small greenhouse in my backyard?

How do you build a semi- inexpensive greenhouse? Please be very detailed.?

Slightly more normal poem that plays with meaning would you say?

This 8 x 6 See through Horticultural Bio-World.

Sitting inside an empty greenhouse
cold glass meets freezing floor of concrete,
as darkness decends with thermometer reading
temperatures drop into single figures.
Over Winter my plants in ancient pots of clay,
waiting a return with new flush to bloom abundance
vibrant colour will meet warm sky.
Azure to Ultramarine,
with shades of a tranquil Summer evening,
sharpened stainless secateurs
good meaning masks an evil intent,
we will cut and prun all which grows too much.
A cull in warmer climes will be underway,
yes garden management
and cold greenhouses
go hand in hand
like inseperable links for constant comtradiction..
I see your point Seaman, yes the end need working on I agree, these are only "sketch" poems though I post here and not fine-tuned ones but thanks for your constructive comment.

What can you do about climate change..?

There are many easy cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse emissions and save money as well:

• Switch over to energy-efficient light bulbs

• Use less heating in winter and simply wear a jumper

• Open windows in summer and only use less air conditioning on very hot days

• Use a clothes line for drying clothes and avoid using clothes dryers where possible

• Move to a smaller house or unit (inner city, high rise unit dwellers typically use far less energy)

• Pay bills and conduct business online as much as possible

• If your old hot water system feels warm to the touch, wrap it in a thermal blanket

• Say 'no' to plastic bags when shopping and take your own reusable ones

• Use natural composts in your garden - store-bought fertilizers release more greenhouse gases.

*Use Bicycle, not a car.

How do i build a greenhouse myself.?

The easier the better.

How can i build a roof on my greenhouse in the Sims 2?

Everytime i try it says "cannot support the weight" or else the roof does build but then its on the ground! Any idea how i fix this?

Ive made the walls and added a door then went up a floor and tried making the roof but im just stuck.

Can you grow a garden year round in a greenhouse in the mountains of NC?

what vegetables could i grow in it year round

How is artificial pollination done on garden veggies when in a greenhouse?