Image from Daily Mail

There must be something in the air, or the soil, but monster vegetables keep popping up in Great (!) Britain. First we have potatoes, the world's biggest potato to be precise.

Credit: Photos via facebook.com/meeteater.

I like "Meet Eater," at least on Facebook. Not much happened after I hit the "Like" button to express my, um, admiration. Apparently, though, every time this plant makes a friend on Facebook, an electronic system delivers water and nutrients. No friends, no love? Dead plant.

Image from my luscious backyard

Fancy exotic bouquets are losing their bloom. Flying in flowers from around the world is expensive in terms of money and the environmental impact. Some florists this summer are starting to use local flowers for their bouquets: as in picked from neighbourhood gardens.

Image from London Orchard Project

What a great name for a grant: the 2010 Timberland Earthkeepers Grant. The winners of the prize really are keepers of the environment; they include an urban orchard, a guerrilla gardening scheme, a city farm and an allotment garden.

photo: Design by Davies

More and more people are harvesting rainwater in their gardens and a new eco-inspired garden table by Simon Davies can help stylish gardeners do just that.

Images by B. Alter

This is a familiar sight at farmers markets across the land: lovingly made preserves and pickled vegetables on sale. If you are too lazy and unmotivated, like some of us, what a great opportunity to pick up the fruits of some one else's labour.

Or not... Health inspectors in Vancouver are clamping down on this kind of home-grown and homemade produce.

Image: Thilo Folkerts

With electronic reader gadgets like the Kindle changing the way we read, could good ol' fashioned books become an endangered species of sorts? Either way, there's still nothing quite like the living and tactile experience of seeing, touching and smelling the pages of real book.

Image from the Prince of Wales

Prince Charles is going on tour. Not to promote his new CD, but rather sustainable living. He will be travelling in his train, run by bio-fuels and playing at such well-known venues as a senior citizen's apartment in Nottingham and an allotment in Todmorden.

A few weeks ago Daniel Vivarellisent us a link to Global Buckets.

A few weeks ago Daniel Vivarelli sent us a link to Global Buckets.