CONTENTS
june 2009
FEATURES
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Short and Sweet: Growing Dwarf Flowers Part I
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The Digital Sun: Brighter Light for Better Results
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Subtle Energies in Grow Rooms - Playing Mother Nature
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Kindergardening
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The Nutrition of your Plants: Essential Points Part II
96
Calcium and Magnesium: Beyond the Obvious
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by Dr. Lynette Morgan
by Erik Biksa
by Evan Folds
by Lee McCall
by Luis Bartolo
by Richard Gellert
Sun and Soil: Natural Greenhouse Growing
Putting Carbon in its Place
by Roland Evans
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DEPARTMENTS
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Grow All Summer: Water-Cooling Explained
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Post-Harvest Clean Up
by Stephen Keen
by Bob Taylor
10 From the Editor
78 Green Thumb Gardening
12 Letters to the Editor
94 Tips and Tricks
14 MaximumYield.com
120 Avant-Gardening
16 Ask Erik
121 Do You Know?
20 MAX Facts
124 Max Mart
30 Product Spotlight
127 Check Your Growing IQ
52 Growing for Health
128 Distributors
66 Beginner’s Corner
138 Coming up in July
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