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- Where do you live and garden?
- Duncan, SC
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Trial garden at Johnnies Seed company in Maine
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- Vegetables of all kinds
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What To Do With the Woody Stuff?
and kitchen scraps. Everything either goes into the compost or straight into the garden.
However I have never bothered to recycle woody things, branches, bushes, trees except
that which was big enough for fire wood. That changes this year. I've started a
hugelkultur. A hugelkultur is a mound of branches or brush piled up, pressed down then
covered with soil or compost and planted. It is described in the book "… Continue
Posted on January 27, 2010 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments
A Calabrian Garden
If you google "Gardening Australia" and click on the link for
ABC gardening you'll come to a gardening website for Australians.
On the left side click on videos, at the bottom of the video page
the video "A Calabrian Garden" was excellent. There are
several other videos as well, I haven't had a chance yet
to watch. I stumbled on to this site while researching
permaculture and no-dig gardening.
Posted on January 22, 2010 at 12:27pm — 6 Comments
I'm Ready for the 2010 Garden
collards, beets, spinach and carrots. The carrots (Red Cored Chantenay) are 2 inches
wide and 4-6 inches long just like they're supposed to be. A big deal for me because
usually only half of what I plant grow and they're only half as big as advertised.
I've now got a dozen garden catalogues to provide me with some savage amusement
during quiet winter evenings. Last week I ordered my seeds for 2010 and… Continue
Posted on December 31, 2009 at 8:30am — 2 Comments
My father-in-Laws Garden
especially at this time of year when the seed catalogues start arriving. The Pond family lived
on a seven acre homestead of sorts in Westford Massachusetts. They raised a few pigs for
meat. Had a few chickens and muscovie ducks. There were also the apple and pear trees.
But my father-in-laws pride and joy was his vegetable garden. There were actually two of them.
One on each side of the driveway which w… Continue
Posted on November 23, 2009 at 8:05pm — 4 Comments
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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..
… Continue
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.
Notes Home
Welcome to Notes.
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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