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Old 21-03-2011, 06:14 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Nad R wrote:

Gunner wrote:
On Mar 19, 1:27 pm, Billy wrote:
Leaving our valiant hero, locked in mortal combat against the forces of
darkness, we return now to gardening that is now in progress



Yea, it is time for your boys to stop the Sci Fi doomsday stories and
finally get back to gardening. Your "brothers bill" posts really are
getting stupid. Perhaps something more mainstream than your usual
cut and paste moral stories fromthe ecowarrior news service?


I love science fiction, current reading "ECHO by Jack McDevitt". So far an
excellent book as the valiant hero Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase
Kolpath embarks on a voyage of great discovery and danger!

Yes! spring is coming and today I turned my compost piles for first time
since November. The ground is still soggy and cannot do much outdoors.
Indoors all I do is look at my seedlings growing under lights. I look
forward for my Cow Bessy to have her calf in May and have my first garden
fresh salad, all radiation free of course


So wat'cha growin'? Any thing different, or are you going for as much of
what you want as you can? (That's a sentence, isn't it?)

I know it's just you, but how many do you grow for?

I got onions coming up. The kale get bigger every day. The borage is up.
The potatoes are up, and pesky. I tried to rotate them, and it isn't
working out very well. They'll stay in the same bed every year now,
until I have a problem with them.

The bed I had them in is my best bed, and I presently have it seeded
with rye and buckwheat. It will be tomatoes and peppers, this year, and
next year I'll be able to do a proper rotation.


"Tickle the earth with a hoe, it will laugh a harvest." - Mary Cantell


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