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Happy Earth Day.  quiz for you to do.  GIve it a try.

4/22/2024

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     Good morning, Earth Day it looks like.  Besides, being a spring like day  Temperature at 8:30 AM is at 47 degrees high today of 66 degrees low of 42.  Partly cloudy skies and chance of rain.  Now doesn’t that sound like spring.  Enjoy this spring weather.  Stay safe.
It took me 3 hours to water ½ of greenhouse yesterday.   BUT can I tell you the plants are growing and looking awesome.  Now I want to clean up the front of the greenhouse turning it from a growing greenhouse to a garden center for selling.  I take before and after pictures for you.  Wish me luck! As I always have this to do the final time before we are open.  Official we are open Friday April 26th.  Trees and shrubs are coming today, perennials order now waiting for Swifts to deliver for this weekend.  Opening we will be here for 78 days in a row.  As always gardening for you. 
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Earth Day quiz give it a try. 
Find the answers to these five questions at the end of the page! (Don’t peek!)
  1. How much of the plastic that we discard every day is recycled?
    2.What is one way to leave our soil and farmland in better shape than we found it?
    3.How much time in nature allows the average person to feel an improvement in physical and mental well-being?
4. What do bees collect from flowers?
5. How much edible food is wasted?

Answers to our Earth Day Quiz
 Only 9% of the plastic we discard every day is recycled. Most end up in landfills, where they may take 1,000 years to decompose and increase toxic waste in our water and soil.
Here are three ways to leave the soil as good as we found it: reduce tillage, use crop rotation practices and compost!
Only 120 minutes per week (or less than 20 minutes per day) can contribute to a measurable improvement in physical and mental well-being!
Bees collect both nectar and pollen from flowers to feed their colonies. The bees then move the pollen from plant to plant, which allows the plants to make new seeds. Neither would exist without the other.
About 25% of food is never eaten due to being less than perfect. Food waste is a massive issue as it wastes water, energy, land, labor, and financial capital. Find new ways to put food to use!
Every day is Earth Day!
Taken from https://www.almanac.com/content/earth-day-date-activities-history
Till next time this is Becky Litterer, Becky’s Greenhouse, Doughety Iowa [email protected]  641-794-3337  cell 641-903-9365
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