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On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:24:17 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , Charlie wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:33:19 -0700, Billy wrote: Increase the fertility of your garden for FREE. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organ...-To-Improve-Yo ur- Soil.aspx Ahem, OldeAlzheimers ! I posted this Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:43:03 -0600 Msg id Namenda and Aricept is a good combination. Also read Bill's article on rhubarb. Not meaning to start a rhubarb here, or nothing...... Charlie Never can tell when a newbi will stop by and say,"That's just the question I've always wanted to ask, and there it is, right in front of me. Glory be. " I'm thinkin' we oten use it for wallpaper. Maybe put in a couple of tasteful corner ads, and make the group some money. Aye...well now, put that way, you are correct! Pardon me smart mouff. Seems as if some folks needs lots o' repeating (self-included, where's the rhubarb)... BTW.....the effing weather here sucks.....not conducive to gardening *at all*. Other than the garlic, nothing is up, or planted, except-------- the heirloom greens bed that I planted this afternoon. It's 4 x 10. I mix all the lettuces and stuff together with some damp sand and broadcast it and then rake it in. Toss in radishes also, they are good to create some space when harvested. Rain anticipated five of the next seven days. I'm going out later and cover a couple of the beds with plastic to keep the rain off and warm them. Found a good large metal trashcan with lid and am going to start making batches of biochar out of the weeds, grass, sticks etc. that always accumulate. Charlie Sorry to hear about the weather. Four years ago (I think) we had rain until May. It was June before I could get the garden planted. Talk about "sucked", it "Hoovered". Here, north of San Francisco, we just had a week of overcast and rain (not enough to make any change in expected water rationing but all donations are gratefully accepted). Lookin' in to my little box of seeds, I found a number of partial packets of salad and beets. There was already a thin layer of mulch in the salad patch as well as in the old salad garden which is now mostly beets, onions, garlic, chard. I took my hand full of lettuce seeds and cast them into the salad patch did likewise with the beet seeds into the other patch and now both are showing a number of sprouts. The salad garden actually looks like a green carpet. Thank god for iron phosphate or I wouldn't have any seedlings at all. Finally got my carrots and parsnips bed seeded (mostly: ran out of seeds) yesterday. I put up a barrier to keep the "Hounds from Hell" out of it. When I finished, I found that they had strolled off, out of the yard, and I spent the next hour finding them. They can enjoy the life of being chained up for awhile. Usually, they don't run off, if I'm outside with them. I bought some starter plants of Brandywine, Striped German, and a couple of bell peppers. They take so long to develop, I just wanted to have back up to my germinated plants which aren't doing much right now, outside in the cold. Hopefully, I'll get another germination tray started tomorrow with my bitter melons and zuchetta included. I wanted to thank you for the hanging petunias idea. They didn't do anything last years but they over wintered and 2 out of 5 are blooming already. I'm impressed. The geraniums blackened to the roots but most are showing signs of life. The garbage can sounds like a good idea, if you already have an old, used-up one. Even when the bottom rots out, you still got the lid to stop the fire. Funny how things work out. Rome fell in the 4th century AD. Books were used for toilet paper and fires. Knowledge was preserved by arabs and re-discovered by Europeans on the Iberian peninsula in the 14th century. A millennium of western intellectual development lost. Now, from the Amazon, 600 years later, the gift of soil. I wonder, how much more will humanity learn, what it used to know? Gotta change the fishs water. Bye -- - Billy "For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html |
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