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- Where do you live and garden?
- England
- How long have you been growing food?
- 1-3 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- The world is a garden! I want to make it pretty :)
- Favorite foods:
- Chinese food, pasta dishes, a good home made stew... And tea!
This man is a legend - musical vegetables!
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I am more involved with this style of gardening at the moment, as I don't have a large back garden. My daffodils are growing nicely though, and my onions have sprouted *smiles* I just need to find a way to attatch their protective covering to the tubs... They keep blowing away. I need… Continue
Posted on March 11, 2009 at 4:06pm — 3 Comments
Veggies
I spent the morning with Craig, we planted some onions and tomatoes into some seed trays. I hope they survive out in the chill of the back garden...
I'm going to apply for an alotment as a birthday present for the Craig person ^^ yay for veggies!
Posted on January 26, 2009 at 4:17pm —
Books
I love books. Has anyone ever read 'Living the Good Life - changing the world from your own backyard'? Tis by Linda Cockburn, an Australian woman. She and her family aimed to try and live as sustainably as they could for six months. They kept a goat and chickens and grew their own food. It is a really good book, informative, inspiring and often very funny.
Oh, and then there's 'Allotted Time' - although i have forgotten the author... Also a fabby book.
Right, speaking of boo
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- At 7:58am on May 31, 2009,
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- At 7:32pm on April 8, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said… - Hi. I'm catching up, reading all the messages in the chicken group. I saw you were asking for websites and books. Do try www.backyardchickens.com - its a great site. Try finding some books in the library first, to save money. Good luck.
I see above that you love books, and mention "Living the Good Life". I've never read the one by Linda Cockburn, but I know a book called "Living the Good Life" by Scott and Helen Nearing, Americans who led the back to the earth movement in the 50s. They built their own house by hand, lived without electricity or modern amenities, grew what they ate, and were vegetarians. He lived to be 100. She lived to be 90 (but died in a car accident). I started reading their work more than 20 years ago, and their lifestyle has been a strong influence on my own ever since.
Absolutely love the broccoli flute video!!!
- At 7:02pm on January 27, 2009,
Joy Williams said…
- HI Chibi,
Yes, we (my husband and I) have 13 alpacas. They are sweet critters, you can see some of the babies on my page.
Good that they are in trays, that way you can bring them inside and nurture them if it gets too cold. One thing I'm gonna have to tomorrow is clean up my green house so we can start little plants soon. I'll be buying some heirloom varieties soon, from a local source who has a wonderful selection of tomatoes, so this year I'm not starting from seed. I'm doing a bio-intensive method, so I'm only planning on 8 plants. Hopefully they won't get eaten by anything!
Mooli sound like fun. I just planted some radishes, and I just looked up mooli on images.google.com, so they are daikon radishes? That's what they look like to me, at least.
- At 6:36pm on January 27, 2009,
Ann G. said… - Greetings Chibi!
I grew up in the UK...Wales. I saw that your fave class was an environmental science class. I teach biology, ecology, and a class called AP Environmental Science. I love it! I am also very interested in how food production interacts with environmental concerns.
Have you read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle?" It is one of my very fave books. Barbara Kingsolver. It is about her family taking a year to eat strictly in season and only locally. She is an amazing writer. Her daughter (university student) co-wrote it with her, as did her husband (university professor)
Very nice to see you here.
Ann
- At 6:08pm on January 27, 2009,
Beva said… - Hey thanks... I like a book that makes me chuckle!!!
- At 6:03pm on January 27, 2009,
- Wow, it's warm enough for Tomatoes there? go figure. I can't plant mine until after the last frost and that's 3/15. or are you starting them inside? If your tomatoes went rotten on the vine it might be end blossom rot which is a calcium deficiency. That can be fixed by adding egg shells into the hole before you plant them, or spraying the leaves with a calcium foliant spray after they've already been planted.
what are mooli?
I grow tomatoes, snow peas, lettuces, corn, cabbages, peppers, various herbs, hops, onions, spinach, pretty much anything. Flowers too, I especially like nasturtiums cuz they are pretty AND you can eat them :). I raise chickens and alpacas, so have a good source for manure too. :)
- At 5:57am on January 27, 2009,
- oh, what do you grow?
- At 5:56am on January 27, 2009,
- Welcome to our little corner of the universe, chibi! What a talented vegetable flautist you've found. It's nice to have another environmentalist here, I used to work for the Environmental Defense Fund.
Hope to see more of your postings!
- At 5:28am on January 27, 2009,
Beva said…
- Hi! And welcome!
You may want to look for Sarina, she is in the UK also, and she would be happy to chat with you about gardening.
I started a blog asking for people to give recommendations on their favorite books, and from that has sprung a whole new listing by Katherine Turcotte... so suggestions for books are many as you read through this site!
Happy gardening!
Beva
- At 6:27pm on January 26, 2009,
Stuart Millar said… - You're probably too young to know about it but "living the good life" reminds me of 'The Good Life' and old BBC sitcom about Tom and Barbara (Richard Briers, Felicity Kendall etc.) who went self sufficient in their 'semi'. My sister gave me a couple of years back, i think she saw a 'Tom' in me. It was a great series then, but probably aged a bit now.
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