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- At 3:32am on October 28, 2009,
Sumitra Pande said…
- Thanks Irene,
I am a school principal and also and co-editor of an agricultural newspaper " Krishi Patrika", besides I am also involved in various social/community work. It is not the matter of leasure aaaand/or busy hours, but the problem is internet services, which is bit difficult here in Nepal, my home. Please keen in touch, I thing we can contribute a lot in the field of kitchen gardening.
- At 8:29am on May 13, 2009,
TAR HEEL said…
- Irene, I like your ''crooked'' bird-house.Perfection is so boring and abnormal. good-luck.
- At 9:51pm on April 8, 2009,
sandra anderson said… - Hi Irene!
Thanks for the reply!
I didn't get the whole veggie garden planted, but I did top dress the rhubarb and the raspberries. My son got his garden planted (kholrabi, carrots, lettuce and flowers. I went out to plant, but got scared...I think if I plant it's going to snow again!!
But the lady at the nursery told me to not be afraid and to get all the cold weather stuff in. So....I'll do it!
I enjoyed your photos, I've always wanted a green house!
- At 12:48am on October 6, 2008,
Pluma Beyer said… - Thank you, Irene, and Ian.
The average last frost here is supposed to be May 15 and the average first frost Oct. 15, but variation is considerable. The tension is all in the spring, for the sake of fruit blossoms. The altitude is 2550 to 2650 (surrounding peaks higher of course). Precipitation was said to be 55-65 inches a year, before global warming was heard of, and hasn’t been openly revised. Creeks going dry that never did would seem to have something to do with unadmitted human influences quite aside from drought.
I have made sourdough bread but not very well. My two problems are (1) reluctance to use a whole electric oven for one loaf of bread, so that I try other ways and get terribly uneven baking; and (2) need a cold-hardy starter (like the ‘49er camps had?) due to night-time temperature dip (wood-stove, small).
About seed-saving, I notice SSE doesn't have that many varieties of cabbage, prob. because it takes a second season to save it. But it is an important vegetable (easy keeper, vitamin C, almost self-pickling), so needs its share of seed diversity.
-- Pluma
- At 9:47am on October 3, 2008,
Pluma Beyer said…
- Irene,
Once again, an email in my box says you've left a comment, but when I click on the link, I see this page (http://my.kitchengardeners.org/profile/IreneBensinger) and it only has the first comment on it. I'm going to copy this to paste now into an email if I get an email screen by clicking on your name. If necessary we can figure this out by direct emails.. Maybe my high-contrast screen colors are hiding something, but I have to go somewhere soon all day. Will try changing colors if necessary tonight.
Tthanks for your patience.
-- Pluma
- At 11:23pm on October 2, 2008,
Pluma Beyer said…
- Irene,
I don't find your last comment on the 'wall'. I'll just try to reconstruct my original response, but it might not sound as fresh! I'm in the northeast corner of Tennessee, near both Virginia and North Carolina, in those mountains.(perhaps not higher than your foothills, since western mountains are taller!)
You must be in a first rate community to have so much cooperative seed-saving activity by agreement among yourselves, instead of as part of an already existing organization.
(I see our Favorite Foods are similar--sourdough is the ultimate bread, really)..
- At 1:09pm on October 2, 2008,
Pluma Beyer said…
- Irene, did you already get an answer from me? It disappeared when I came back from looking at the rest of your page, and I didn't think I'd sent it. Will check again tonight.
-- Pluma
- At 1:15pm on January 16, 2008,
Cooking Up A Story said…
- Hi Irene:
My winter garden isn't quite as hearty as yours! But I'm improving each year. Right now I'm harvesting celery.
Looks like I'm just down the road from you, in Portland!
Rebecca
Profile Information
- Where do you live and garden?
- Foothills of Mount Rainier WA
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- I'm happy in my very own garden. But I wouldn't say no to seeing cottage gardens in England!
- Favorite foods:
- Beans, broccoli, homemade whole grain sourdough bread
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.
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