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Put soil or rocks, etc to hold it down along the edge of the bed. In trhe paths. Ken
October 15
Cold season is no problem. Use hoophouses over the beds and keep gardening. Cheap using only PVC pipe and plastic. Ken
October 15
Use organic, no-till in permanent beds. Will help some as no work. Ken Hargesheimer, minifarms@gmail.com
October 14
Go to www.dirtdoctor.com for info on kelp. I suggest that you garden/farm without buying anything from anybody except seed. Use no-till in permanent beds. Never leave the soil bare and grow your own organic matter using green manure/cover crops. ...
September 6
I would use grey water and never give a second thought to it. I cannot find the info in my computer on the two new books [08 I think] but google it and they should come up.
August 24
Human and animal waste contains ecoli and to make the statement about it in the washing machine is crazy. A lot of people write articles who know nothing. The latest this week is how much bad there is on some footware. So what?
August 20
Fish can be put in the pond. Biological water treatment is a long proven methods. Cities in CA use it. It is my opinion that kitchen, laundry, bath water, other than sewer water, can be used directly in the yard without treatment. I am going to d...
August 19
ken hargesheimer and Alex Kallas are now friends
August 17

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At 8:20pm on June 17, 2009, ken hargesheimer said…
On the contrary, all others are the finest.
At 8:18pm on June 17, 2009, ken hargesheimer said…
Michelle, tell me in Spanish, I do not understand your English. I am on a number of listservs and never have seen a nastier, more hateful webmaster than you.
At 8:14pm on June 17, 2009, ken hargesheimer said…
I forgot one thing. I will send a FREE dvd on organic, no-till gardening to anyone who emails their postal address to minifarms@gmail.com. Have a nice day.
At 8:09pm on June 17, 2009, ken hargesheimer said…
I do not sell anything. I posted to help people with their gardening. Why don't you remove it and why don't you just block my address. I am out of here forever.

ken
At 8:44pm on March 24, 2009, ken hargesheimer said…
I have been on three listservs for years and receive daily postings but this one is different. I rarely recent postings and so I ignore it. I do not understand how it operates. I had a workshop in San Diego last July. I am on www.nabuur.com helping farmers change to organic, no-till in permanent beds using bucket drip irrigation. I would love to see more of the postings on this listserve.
At 7:48pm on March 24, 2009, Penelope said…
Hi. Where have you been?
At 8:05pm on April 5, 2008, Penelope said…
People have started new threads of discussion and abandoned old ones and we're only sent news of the ones we've contributed to.

How does your garden grow? I ate basil thinnings from the plants I'm starting indoors, the first taste of my gardening season.
At 3:33pm on April 5, 2008, Penelope said…
Thanks for the DVD about no till gardening. I'll curl up with it this afternoon. We haven't heard from you in a while. What's up?
At 8:34am on February 28, 2008, John Walker said…
Dear ken,
Thank you for your posts. If you feel so inclined I would love an outline to some of your workshops. My wife is education coordinator at the local arboretum and between us we have been trying to offer formal and informal kitchen garden workshops for the past 2 years. The more I think about it, the more we need to interweave philosophy into our presentations and at the same time get out of the classroom as much as we can. We are starting an edible gardening club this year and it will be interesting to see how it works.
pax
John

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Where do you live and garden?
lubbock TX
How long have you been growing food?
10-20 years
Dream garden travel destination:
anywhere in the world
Favorite foods:
corn, beef
 
 

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I would love to have an allotment, there needs to be more of them.
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great shot, yours seem to have the most on it.
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I pay £50 pounds a year approximately for my allotment. This amount has doubled in the last few years as their popularity has increased. Mine is 300 square yards, although there are smaller ones. The trend nowadays is to split them in two, so they...
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I am not in Pakistan as you know but there are very many similarities. The populace is very poor with the basic wage being given to most and usually without health insurance included, even though that is illegal here. The basic wage is not enough ...
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