a garden tour. what else? jefferson, despite his aversion, had to admit that they created the best gardens. that must have looked rather odd pair walking together through these gardens because you have thomas jefferson, all tall, thin, gangly, dressed up in a fringed silk and powdered here, towering almost 7 inches over john adams, a bit more round and stopped. but despite their differences, and there have once been compared to a candlestick and a cannon ball. but despite their differences bay both absolutely adored gardens and where both partners. it may be in a slightly different way. john adams, very much a hands-on gardner who loves getting his hands dirty. whenever he is away from his garden, which is in quincy, just south of boston, really terribly missing his farm and his garden and always, you know, dreaming himself into his orchard or into his garden. whenever he is involved in political battles he says, you know, i would rather be digging in my potato yard. he has a quite volatile temper and is worki

because japanese gardens are a huge aspect on the culture i started reading on gardens.the natural and the idea on how they use the gardens and how much it reads to them i started reading. i read a line like the silk worker line where it embraced me and i thought, that's what i would write about. you never walk from the front gate to the front door in a straight line it's always a curving path in which you discover things along the way. i said, that's it. he lands, he gets off the train and slowly he would walk down this path and discover the story of this caretaker along the way. it began to move. but, you know, when i speak of it it seems like it's simple. it was not simple. this month of thinking about things. this is times of writing things down and thinking it doesn't work. and i'm incredibly fortunate i have a writer's group i have written with and shown my work to for the last. we are trying to figure it out on the way over. i brought some of the audience with me. this is what you do when you are a writer. you never know who will come who read a book in 1985 so yo

love, samurai, garden and sushi. it was a terrible title and i didn't like it and i didn't know what to say i had never disagreed. that was the first time i disagree. i said i don't want to look at my book case and see that book and cringe in 30 years. she called me from new york and said, i don't know why we are going over the title thing let's keep it the samurai's garden. then i was saying, thank you, god and it became the samurai a garden which in the end worked when you decide hathat samurai is in your class you will see how it works. it works in many, many ways. i'm pleased it stayed the samurai's garden. not of anybody's choice but because it was the one we didn't want to fight over anymore. >> okay. >> [laughter]. >> thank you. i >> i think you wanted something else. >> well, i met the samurai and [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you, gale so much for coming. >> [applause]. thank you. [music] [applause] good afternoon, everybody. thank you for joining us today. the first thing i will ask you to do is put you

. >> urban gardeners digging up an unknown danger. the alarming discovery in the soil and potentially in the food supply. good evening, i'm ken. >> and i'm dana king. exclusive pictures of that satellite as it hurdles toward earth. >> it hasn't crashed down just yet, but it is getting close. don knapp has been talking to nasa about the space junk's projectly. >> this image is in fact the falling satellite passing over southern california. nasa tells cbs 5 the bright spot of light was above l.a. at 7:45 this evening. a dead research satellite spins helplessly as it begins a fall from orbit that will start on a fiery plunge to earth, 20 years after it was sent to space. >> the rocket science precision that put the satellite up could not accurately predict where it would come down. >> it's coming into the atmosphere and it will drop debris some place on the planet. >> most will burn up in reentry, but some 2600 pieces about 1200 pounds of debris expect to come down. >> brushed on the shoulder and that's the only one we know of that has e

think to look for. >> urban gardening.ea that is growing. >> we are sitting on a third of an acre. a typical city lot. i have 13 varieties of berry, greens, artichokes, asparagus, kale, tomatoes, peppers, zucini that was the size of my head. >> and growing fast. >> the entirety of this garden is a year and a half hold. >> more impressive. >> this is my first garden. >> his neighborhood sits on land that used to be an orchard. >> why not return it to what it was? >> six miles away in the campbell village neighborhood, he had gardening plans of her own. but they didn't sprout. >> they did a soil report. the soil report came back negative, saying there were toxic levels of lead. because of the level of contamination, it wouldn't be safe. very, very disappointing. >> life in the east bay hills doesn't just include stunning views, it also comes with some good earth. it's a different story and many of the regions older neighborhoods. >> up in the hills, we are seeing 50 parts per million. that's what is expected in the natural e

because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent samurai's garden taught me how to write. how to write in a way that i don't think i knew as well when i wrote women of the silk. it's processes like that is how i judge each book not so much is, that my best book? is that the best story? but it has to do with, what did i learn from writing that book. i have a friend who is a writer for 3 years trying to finish a novel. sent me an e mail. think when i first started writing we didn't have e mail. it's scary because you think you are getting e mail from a friend saying, i'm done and 2 days later you get another one and it says i'm trashing it. i'm thinking how can you write a book for 2 years and trash it. >> i put it in a box and stied it with a string and put it in a closet. that's the last i will see of it. i was thinking until she's gone and somebody gets it out and sells it for a million dollars. of course you are in the situation of you don't know what to say because we have all felt that way. there is a time in the writing process where you are saying, this

this is garden. the gate to my mother's garden opened always trees flirt with shadows and the grass says my same. asleep in flowered boxes pay for rain. i open always the gate to my mother's garden. i will plant my sum in a clay pot an offering to jealous gods and stretch my arms like branches bearing fruft foregiveness. this was inspired by my mother who likes to sew. always had an old singer sewing machine and i bought her a new one but she never uses it. this is called cloth. her cracked lipped clenched to thread a dulling needle. the folds of my mother's dress are sewn with blody hands. tattered promises and button holes filled with bottomless dreams. her she was held up with borrowed strent. she asked, when will i have a home? one day i uttered. i will plant around my house she said. green ooh vy will grow and the cat will lay to the grass dreaming of snow. >> my mother's dress i folded in the suitcase. what slowly devour the fabric quietly releasing my mother's scent. caught in the decaying clo

he was responsible for the shakespeare garden and one-third of the japanese garden.e burst the pursuit on academics that is on his own time, elevating its own skills and of those around him by forwarding on whenever you just learned. is supervisor recently said every gardener is a painter of the landscape. some people like pellets of color. other prefer sharp lines and clutter, while more desire order and methods. his character and i were a form, patients and strategy. his personal style fight -- brought sensitivity. he made everyone want to come to work because he was never just a co-worker, but a friend as well. we all miss and love you in section 2. you should know that last month food and wine magazine, a national publication named the shakespeare garden as one of the nation's top six spots in america. an honor that is a direct result of carter's hard work and passion. we're very sad that all three of you are leaving the day-to-day rec and park family, although you never leave our hearts and minds. i have that opportunity to get to know each of you and very diffe

no garden. but the results are not always at a deal breaker.x the soil by planting things like sunflowers that will pull the lead out or -- >> this is a raised bed planter fill that up with soil and neukom post and you're good to go. >> reporter: the key, know your dirt before you get dirty. >> what we really need is education how to grow food in cities. how to garden responsibly and safely. >> reporter: do it right and the payoff is sweet. >> processing all the food here is insane. >> reporter: in oakland, elizabeth cook, cbs 5. >>> president obama comes to the bay area it talk jobs. but it's an audience member who stole the show. >> would you, please, raise my taxes? >> the story behind one google employee's unusual request. >>> a free service that's quickly disappearing from banks. three ways customers can still cash in. >>> and terrified visitors running for cover. newly released video from inside the washington monument the moment the earthquake struck. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> president obama in the middle of a whirlwind swing through the

that kind of coexistence really works well for your garden.make sure you' balanced properly and you invest in the soil, and the garden will take care of itself after that. the last thing i'd say is that don't forget to feed. vegetables and herbs prefer feeding every 4 to 6 weeks during the growing season. feed small amounts over a longer period, and you'll see the results. now it's time to reap the rewards of an edible gardening expert. nothing like some great cheese, some fresh herbs out of my garden, some crackers, and some locally produced white wine. cheers! here's to the success! let's get gardening! >> well, that is gonna do it for the show today. if you have questions about any of the stories or the recipes y've seen on the show, be sure to check out our web site at californiacountry.org, and we will see you again next week on "california country." [captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] >> and now i have the pleasure to introduce to you the may

during the war it was called the oriental garden.rmous public event when it was turned back to japanese teagarden. so jack operated the concessions in the teagarden along with his other businesses from 1959 to 1992. and over the course -- if you recalculate the dollars, according to improvements that he's put into the guarden including this $500,000 that he gave to ms. mirata, he's given almost $1 million thus far. but i think the most important thing and the reason that the san francisco foundation approached us about naming the tea house for jack was his undying effort to and his philanthropy and generosity for so many organizations in san francisco in and out of the japanese american community, to be able to honor him in this way. i had the distinct pleasure, actually, if you want to call it that, of attending jack's funeral in 2009 because even though i didn't know him really well personally i think when you go to a memorial service or a funeral for somebody, even if you know them well you walk away knowing so much more about tha

we'll go live to the rose garden once the president walks into the rose garden.n includes raising taxes on people making more than $1 million a year. a cnn poll shows nearly two-thirds of americans are okay with increasing taxes on those higher income earners. there was a big partisan divide on the topic. four out of five democrats say high income taxes should be raised. only 39% of republicans, though, agreed. republican leadership in congress obviously disagrees with that. let's bring in douglas aiken, douglas, once the director of the congressional budget office, an economist, was an economist for both of the bush white houses and the mccain presidential campaign four years ago. all right. so you know generally most of the specifics, if not all specifics, was the president has in mind. give us your immediate reaction, doug. >> i think from a purely policy perspective, this is very disappointing. the president's own commission, the bowles-simpson commission, a solution our country has largely a spending problem and proposed social security reforms and other ent

a beautiful botanical garden. and i'm off to meet an old friend of his. sun has been a professor at the local university for more than forty years and has literally see in the gardens grow from nothing to what they are today. it's done in a regularly audit pattern like the english style. that they're all of different high stuff as you can see and you can find every conceivable form of plant life. in fact there are more than seventy different rare breeds in the gardens and susana was happy to show me some of her favorites. can you feel it. smell it's. there around twenty full time staff here but they can always do with one hand and that meant i got to put my own tiny sapling in the ground. this this little maple tree is one of more than forty thousand trees so that by hand and hopefully in a few decades to come it will still be here giving us a. president locals. unfortunately my time in the city was coming to an end but there was one group of local heroes i really wanted to meet. the people here love the river which runs right through president but it can

what a difference it's made, having those bond funds because when you look around, you see school gardens, you see ramps that make schools more accessible. you see freshly painted classrooms that are nice colors, you know, that they're bright. the hallways look welcoming. and the floors, you could almost eat off those floors. they're so shiny and it's great to see those in our schools. and really when you finally look at getting internet access and wide band in all our schools this last year, we're making huge progress. but at the same time we're doing all these great things, you know, our city has really been behind us. and just this summer to give you an idea of some of the bond projects that went on, we had $45 million worth of improvements being made at over 60 school sites including 13 green schoolyard projects. next month we've asked david golden, our chief facilities officer, to give the board an update on our facilities' improvements. you'll just be blown away by all the stuff that's been going on, especially if i'm going to ask him to show what it used to look like and what it lo

clean it with a garden hose. spray it down very well, because, believe it or not, particularly if you have a mulching blade like this, having the underside of that deck filthy can use up to 20% more fuel. and with today's gasoline prices, every penny counts. >> now, one subject we get a lot of questions on, both on our website and on our radio show, homefront, is all about fertilizers. so, julie, take us through a little fertilizer clinic here. first of all, when is the best time to fertilize your lawn? >> most people like to fertilize in the spring. right when things start growing, everything turns green, it's a good time to feed most lawns and most garden plants. >> okay, and how do you know which one to use? >> there are three numbers on the front of the bag. the first number represents nitrogen. that's the nutrient that makes things green. it makes the grass blades come up thick and strong. that's typically the one that's gonna be higher in the spring. >> i see. >> phosphorus is the middle number. that genera

who showed him our garden was but a jail? humbaba was great and scary, but not so very strong, though no one could ever conquer him as no one would ever try. time and again, when things grew old, humbaba alone believed himself eternal and young, still powerful, able to defeat all. humbaba didn't want to know one fact: that accumulation will lead to eruptive change. but, sadly, when suddenly he realized it after all, he chose to check its power on all, the tall. he crushed all the shrubs and plants leaving them creeping and broken all over. he damaged the flowers and colors, the flowers withered, their leaves all burned and soon they were throwing their seeds every which way and when the whole orchard changed into a dry, gray waste, humbaba, his mind like stone, shouted his horrible cry of fire and burned all that gray and yellow, birds of all kinds were flying away with ashes in their beaks which humbaba couldn't oversee any more or ever set on fire. then, grandfather ended his day and continued closing his big thick yellow b

because this is a garden to bring in people who normally don't go to gardens. million behind this message. an investment for what organizers say will be a blueprint for green spaces in the future. cnn, singapore. >> if your choice didn't win or just want to check out the runners-up, i'll have lynx on my facebook page. >>> grand, yes. bargain, no. at least not yet. while a bipartisan congressional super committee tries to find $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, president obama today unveiled a $3 trillion plan. it is a combination of spending cuts and tax reforms on the scale of the

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rose garden address, new tv ads and a bill that officially heads to congress. we'll tell you why he's calling it an insurance policy against a double-dip recession. >>> plus another republican debate tonight and another bout between governors perry and romney. perry still leads the latest polls but he'll have to defend his stance on social security, something he gets started on this morning. meanwhile, tim pawlenty throws his support behind romney. >>> and how bad are things for democrats? they're having a hard time defending a special election house seat in queens. it's monday, september 12th, 2011. this is "the daily rundown," i'm chuck todd. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. first, reports an explosion killed one person at a nuclear site in southern france. according to their nuclear agency, there's been no leak of radioactivity. the blast happened near a furnace and does not include any reactors. we'll bring you more as this story develops. >>> all right. now, to the domestic news of the day. consider today the first day of the rest of the f

and from these conversations, the students decided they really need to have a garden at juvenile hall. and so constance and i said ok, we'll try. it's very hard to get things done up there. and in the meanwhile, the students each planted seedlings they cared for in our classrooms and they wrote poetry to their seedlings as they watched them, you know, grow. and then the students decided they wanted to start advocating through writing letters for grants to get this garden going and they did that and we've actually been very successful in raising money. and the next couple weeks, the raised beds for the garden are going to be starting to be built so the students are elated. and i just thought i'd close by reading one of the poems one of my students wrote as she planted her son zia's seedling. dear sunzia, hear me out. i speak with love so my intentions please do not doubt. my hope is for you to grow tall, healthy, long and strong. therefore, i give the advice and wisdom by song. look to your mother for guidance and support. stay clean from weeds, thorns, pests and things of the sort. fo