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Mike Taylor
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  • Camarillo, CA
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Inoculant

I use it, but only for new garden areas. The old area already have been inoculated. If yours is a healthy, established garden, the micorrhizal fungii are already there...

Replied Jan 19

Seed Sources?

I like seeds of Italy as well. My southern California coastal climate suits many of their varieties well. I also get excellent results from Renee's Garden seeds. Renee's seeds are tested in a number…

Tagged: seeds

Replied Nov. 21, 2009

Help needed for e-book

Mark, I understand your questions and motives - market research. Every IMer's advice is the same - find out what people want and then give it to them. Perfectly sensible. What you, or my Gardening…

Replied Nov. 8, 2009

Compost news

What a great resource - and by the ton. I am envious! What we get free and by the truck load are tree trimmings all nicely chipped. I have made friends with a couple of school and city crews who are…

Tagged: manure, grape, compost

Replied Oct. 29, 2009

My Local Ag News

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Mike Taylor commented on LisaLu's group 'California Gardeners'
We had a great speaker deliver a talk on composting to our community garden members - she really fired up the crowd. It is very satisfying to see 40 people 'get it' suddenly. We got a HUGE delivery of Agromin's finest compost for our community gard…
on Friday
Mike Taylor commented on LisaLu's group 'California Gardeners'
I am adding new instructional articles and videos to the Camarillo Community Garden blog. I have put up the how to start seeds article, plus others on aphids and weeds with more to come. Check it out!
on Thursday
Mike Taylor added a video
February 2
Mike Taylor commented on LisaLu's group 'California Gardeners'
Sharon, I am just up the coast in Ventura County, and we have had tornadoes, lightning, and torrential downpours. I measured 7" of rain in 3 days. That is half our annual average. I went down to our new community garden today and we are surviving…
January 22
Mike Taylor commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio-2010-Final'
Thanks, Gillian. It is a lot of work to get it up and running, but every single person is enjoying themselves. It all paid off last week end when the youngest toddlers discover fresh strawberries, and a lot of other off-the-plant goodies their mom s…
January 19
Gillian commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio-2010-Final'
well done - that looks very productive and everyone looks as though they are having lots of fun.
January 19
Mike Taylor replied to Steph's discussion 'Inoculant'
I use it, but only for new garden areas. The old area already have been inoculated. If yours is a healthy, established garden, the micorrhizal fungii are already there...
January 19
Mike Taylor added a video
Antonio-2010-Final
03:45
This is an updated version of our garden's beginning - right up to our first harvest. I found out you can add video clips as well as stills...
January 19
Mike Taylor commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio Garden - The Beginning'
Glenn, With the Royals (both yours and ours) planting Victory Gardens this year, I would expect awareness to on the rise - I know it is here. Too bad about yours going downhill. A little tender care would bring the allotments and the system back in…
December 2, 2009
Glenn Fletcher commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio Garden - The Beginning'
Thanks for the reply Mike. Its always interesting to find out how others are doing things. As you may know allotments in the UK have been going for years and years, and for a lot of that time they have been in decline. Although now with rising oil a…
December 2, 2009
Mike Taylor commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio Garden - The Beginning'
Glenn, We have been required to put up fences but I hope they are unnecessary. I am really pushing to create a sense of community, and it seems to be working. One they we are planning for both gardens is a fruiting perimeter to give some produce to…
December 2, 2009
Glenn Fletcher commented on Mike Taylor's video 'Antonio Garden - The Beginning'
Hi Mike I really like the look of your community garden. Very organised and practical. I have an allotment in England which is similar to your communtiy garden. About five years ago our allotments were fenced to keep out vandals and thieves. Do you…
December 2, 2009
Mike Taylor commented on LisaLu's group 'California Gardeners'
Here is a new California Garden - The first Camarillo Community Garden. It is currently being planted and in the last stages of construction. Check out this video!
December 2, 2009
Mike Taylor added a video
Antonio Garden - The Beginning
We started with a dream, vision and a bare lot dump-site. Today, I have a community garden!
December 2, 2009
Mike Taylor updated their profile
November 30, 2009
Mike Taylor replied to LisaLu's discussion 'What's in your garden?' in the group California Gardeners
Sorry I didn't see this sooner (I thought I would get alerts). We are still picking eggplants - in fact they will feature in an appetizer for Thanksgiving...
November 24, 2009

Profile Information

Where do you live and garden?
Live in Camarillo, garden at home and run a community garden system
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Dream garden travel destination:
Babylon
Favorite foods:
Cherimoya, Guava (pineapple or lemon), berries, melons, citrus

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At 4:47am on November 9, 2009, amna mufti said…
Hello Mike!your project was awesome.Great pics.
At 5:17pm on September 25, 2009, Joel LeGrand said…
Hi Mike,
Welcome to KGI.
 
 

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Glenn Fletcher left a comment for Maggie
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Mare Cromwell replied to Katherine Turcotte's discussion 'Book Recommendation for Group' in the group Sacred Gardening
thanks, Katherine, I will try to seek it out... It would be interesting to see where their info came from... stay warm wherever you are...
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Mare Cromwell commented on Mare Cromwell's group 'Sacred Gardening'
Hmmm... we are having lots of sacred snow these days in Baltimore... can't wait for some of it to melt down... can't wait for spring to get my fingers back in the soil...
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Mary Riekert joined Gillian's group
Gemsquash
Those interested in growing gemsquash - a very typical South African vegetable that we miss!
9 hours ago
Mary Riekert commented on Mary Riekert's photo 'First tomato harvest of 2010'
Had no luck with gem squash last year - it was just too hot! So I didn't try this year. Maybe next summer.
9 hours ago
Gillian left a comment for Marian Worley
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Gillian commented on Mary Riekert's photo 'First tomato harvest of 2010'
Oh gosh, that is rare to get humidity that far south! That is where all our moisture went - we havnt had any rain for over a week :) I started that gemsquash group as I discovered a new member (Margaret Flett) who had gemsquash as her favourite vege…
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Gillian added a group
Gemsquash
Those interested in growing gemsquash - a very typical South African vegetable that we miss!
9 hours ago
Mary Riekert commented on Mary Riekert's photo 'First tomato harvest of 2010'
Yes it's hot but very humid which is unusual. We are having a spell of days in the low 30s but tropical air is being pushed south by the weather systems up north and we are getting rain and humidity. The rain we love - the humidity we are not used t…
9 hours ago
Gillian left a comment for Margaret Flett
9 hours ago
Mary Riekert commented on Gillian's blog post 'gardening year round in the tropics'
yes - the pods are quite tough. We only ate the peas inside and we always ate them green although many Indian people dry them. They are known as toovar dhal in Gujerati or tuvaram in Tamil and there are lots of recipes for them dried. Just google to…
9 hours ago
Gillian commented on Gillian's blog post 'gardening year round in the tropics'
Mary, so you always shell them? I am entirely in the dark with these, and no more flowers :(... Did you only cook the peas fresh or did you leave some to dry? I posted a photo of the HUGE luffa I found, and there are lots more making an appearance -…
9 hours ago
Gillian commented on Mary Riekert's photo 'First tomato harvest of 2010'
How lovely - I guess your weather must be good for tomato growing! Is it still so hot down there?
9 hours ago
Sandra Badboy commented on Michelle W. Flannery's group 'Native American Heritage Group'
Hi i just wanted to ask, I know it is still cold and i want to know what i can grow in the garden that would be organic and as close to the original foods? How do i find seeds for these foods? When do i start growing? Can i start seed in the house?…
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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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Created 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

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Created 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..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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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

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Created 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

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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

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Created 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.

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Created 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

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