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Coronavirus: Seed sales soar as more of us become budding gardeners

2020-05-08 01:25:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The lockdown has led to huge growth in the number of people buying garden seeds.

Gardeners to offer recycling of packaging foam

2016-01-02 10:19:36| Waste Management - Topix.net

Did you know, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency , that from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day, household waste increases by more than 25 percent? Added food waste, disposable tree trimmings, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons all add an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills, or 5 million extra tons by the time the holidays are over . One of those waste packaging products is "Styrofoam."

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Monsanto makes highly hybridized seeds available to home gardeners

2015-02-17 18:05:49| Chemicals - Topix.net

Monsanto's Seminis Home Garden has introduced new vegetable varieties for home growers, developed to be disease-resistant and easy to grow. This includes five varieties of peppers, all developed at Monsanto's seed campus in Woodland.

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