Wrap Banana Trees Well to Produce Fruit
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By Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 3--Q:My bananas are brown. Do I prune them? When will they fruit again?   S.F., Houston   A: High winds, rain and a bit of ice have reduced the banana's leafy, tropical presence to tattered ruins.
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Scientists have long known how to turn trees into ethanol, but doing it profitably is another matter. So a wave of public and private funding is pouring into research labs, and venture capitalists have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in cellulosic-technology startups.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Dec. 16--Citrus trees are popular backyard plants in and near Stanislaus County, despite their tiny role in the region's commercial agriculture.
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By TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer  Visitors to Mackworth Island in Falmouth often admire the orange- red berries of the bittersweet plant, and sometimes take them home to use in Christmas wreaths.  But what many don't know is that those berries are the fruit of a killer vine.
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Blog: Why not make plastic forks from sugar cane
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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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But to Christmas tree farmers like the owners of Butler Tree Farm in Dowagiac and Pinecrest Farms in Galien, it&#39;s much, much more.
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A rumour spread by text message tells Chinese consumers that bananas can spread a deadly virus.
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By ROBERT TRAWICK  Proper watering can mean the difference between life and death to newly planted lawns, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, vegetable transplants and ground covers during the summer.
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An apple a day may keep colon cancer away through a plant chemical that reduces precancerous lesions. Researchers from the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) have
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Christmas tree growers are hoping you&#39;ll pine for a &quot;real&quot; tree this year, and they&#39;re spending plenty of green to promote cut trees over artificial ones.
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Media & professional: Â· Shortage of labour threatens crisis for farmsÂ· Squeeze may put more imported fruit on shelves
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MADISON, Wis. - &#39;Tis the season to buy real trees to decorate the home and Wisconsin Christmas tree farmers hope they can repeat last year&#39;s success.
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TV chefs are inspiring the nation to use plant pots, allotments and even window sills to provide fresh and exotic vegetables for our plates.
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-- a popular choice for Christmas trees -- may prove effective in fighting arthritis and pain, confirms The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man has done the impossible in any other Alaska summer: growing a record-breaking cantaloupe, a fruit that craves heat and founders in rain. In a season marked by hotter and dryer weather than usual, Scott Robb has produced a 64.8-pound muskmelon - an unofficial world record...
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.