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Anyone growing giant pumpkins or just pumpkins?
Replied May. 11, 2009
What is your biggest mess-up in the garden so far?
Replied May. 10, 2009
Are they EDIBLE?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Martha Hill May. 10, 2009.
"Even if I knew that the world would go to pieces tomorrow I would still plant my apple tree." MLK, Jr
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Southern California
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Back to France... Potager everywhere!
- Favorite foods:
- All vegetables! Especially leafy greens.
GARDEN SONGS
http://current.com/items/76466682_the_garden_song
It's written and performed by a man in the Canary Islands.
He should join KGI. Wonder if he knows about us?
Another source of wonderful Garden Songs is the Banana Slug Band's CD, Singing in Our Garden. I use it with my garden classes.
Also, when I wanted music for a school garden slideshow, I put "garden" into the iTunes search and came up with some great ones. My favorite, and our theme song in The Global Friendship Garden, is The Garden Song by Arlo Gutherie. ENJOY!
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Chicken Fans...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/garden/07starter.html?hpw
Posted on May 9, 2009 at 11:52am —
Garden Quote
(Boy, is that the truth. But, what a wonderful place to live!)
Posted on May 9, 2009 at 11:49am —
"A lazy shade of green"
Was it an article on some emotional and controversial Environmental Hot Topic??
No. Just a rather touching personal essay about . . . Well, maybe you should read it for yourself. If interested, try Googling "A lazy shade of green" "Susan Straight." It's a little hard for me to explain what it's about.
Anyway, the piece struck a chord with me. Here's the response I wrote to the… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2008 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment
Talk About It... the Power of School Gardens
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments
Well, I Tried.
How can a "retired" person be sooo busy? Well, at least what ever it is that keeps me so busy is usually garden related. Or, traveling... and even that is usually garden related.
I have two things to say.
One: It is so (expletive delete) HOT!!! In my little "suburb" of L.A., where the ocean breezes usually keep us about 10 degrees cooler than even Long Beach (where my school garden grows)... It is SO HOT.
96 degrees in APRIL?… Continue
Posted on April 28, 2008 at 5:27pm —
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK
Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....
First type the text you want to appear.... ie IAN'S PAGE
Then go back and highlight the link text.
Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.
Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message. Allow it and go back and highlight the text again
… ContinueCreated by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun. 8, 2009.
Forum Policy
Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.
I would be happy to hear any comments you may have. This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.
I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.
Administration
You can refer any que
… ContinueCreated by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May. 25, 2009.
Climate maps
Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..
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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr. 14, 2009.
Recipes, Recipes, Recipes
Hi Everyone, I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.
If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.
They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!
BEVA'S RECIPES
… ContinueCreated by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr. 13, 2009.
US STATES ABBREVIATIONS
US STATE ABBREVIATIONS
AK - Alaska AL - Alabama AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona CA - California CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut DC - Dist of Columbia * DE - Delaware
FL - Florida GA - Georgia GU
Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan. 27, 2009.
HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST
Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.
KATE’S ADVICE
I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but
1 you have to fill it up all at once
2. it seemed mostly
… ContinueCreated by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan. 15, 2009.
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To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.
ContinueCreated by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.
A Note about Notes
I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.
If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.
Ian
ContinueCreated by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.
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Connie
I had a peek at your photos and enjoyed them very much. They depict a life of bliss [and hard work] and happiness. I really liked no 19 as it gives out wonderfull contrasts. I see that one of your hens busied herself near a mushroom sign, do you grow edible mushrooms and, if so, how does one do this?
Regards
Ron
And, I'd love to see more photos.
Also, I was so excited to hear that you have a KITCHEN. I visited the Edible Schoolyard a couple of months ago and have been visualizing that kitchen ever since. I fell in love.
We cook on a little one-burner portable thing that I bought at Smart & Final. We have one picnic table that holds ten kids. It's certainly better than nothing, but I dream of a real kitchen, maybe an out-door one, where the kids can do more of the prep and cooking, themselves.
I'll post your programs description for the school garden group. Thanks. Carola
I am also volunteering with Grant High School's GEO program where I teach propagation and nursery techniques. The students have their own product line of Salsa. My favorite is the peach. The gardens' host tours for all the neighboring elementary schools to tour the gardens. This provides a great experience for the high school students to work with the younger elementary students. This past spring we developed our on kitchen with generous support from a few foundations.
My proudest volunteer achievements however are with a supportive housing project for formerly homeless families. Serna Village located at McClellan Park, is home to over 200 fruit trees with 120 trees incorporated into the landscape and the rest are grown in containers by the families on their porches or balconies. The families have community raised bed gardens for the kids as well as the adults. The adults garden grows herbs, flowers, vegetables, berries and grapes.
The kids garden grows vegetables, chrysanthemums, a few citrus trees, and an assortment of flowering annuals they start from seed. This past year we discovered this great company called Wintersown seeds. For the cost of a couple of stamps and envelopes they send a variety of seeds to grow. What an amazing resource. The kids have grown many things we had never heard of before and have been impressed with the success of germination.
That's great news about you "almost daughter".
Here in Perigord thing are happening at a pace. I know what you mean about there simply not being enough hours in any day!
The garden is growing well but I made a lot of mistakes. The most obvious now is too little of too much. I planted a few of a variety of things and now I don't have enough of anything to do much with.
However, tomatoes are looking good with the first ones turning red and lots more on the vines. I have been picking various salad leaves for ages. I pulled the first couple of garlic in the week. The onions have not done very well. Plenty of top growth but not much in the bulb. I was eating the leaves though in salad earlier, but they are a bit tough now.
I have a row of potatoes just about ready to lift
lettuce and endive seem to be doing very well.
I lost all my root crop to some over vigourous weeding help!!!
The strawberries are plodding along but they were late in so any fruit is a bonus - They'll be good for next year. Rhubarb is good and I've been cutting for a few weeks
We lost all the tree fruits except apples to late frosts.
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