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- Where do you live and garden?
- north san diego county, california
- How long have you been growing food?
- 1-3 years
- About Me:
- newlywed, on the bounce, container gardening food where i can (our apartment patio!)
i look forward to a little house and a big garden one day. and oh yeah, don't forget a cat also.
i read cookbooks for fun and i love to cook. even more so when i grew it.
- Dream garden travel destination:
- my own garden! or italy- they have a good fix on many foods i find very important.
- Favorite foods:
- broccoli, arugula, goat and sheep milk cheese, greek style yogurt, middle eastern italian mexican chinese german foods. home made and fresh out of the oven.
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tough love gardening
absent, as i've been pitterpattering about other things. got a couple of new cookbooks, including marion cunningham's version of the fannie farmer- it's just huge and got something about a little bit of everything. enormously helpful, in ways, but nothing will ever beat deborah madison's vegetarian cooking for everyone as far as sheer numbers of ways to prepare things. another thing i love about that book is that madison also takes it upon herself to educate the reader (inform, per… Continue
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 12:30pm —
more
the aphids were driving me crazy. we'll see how neem oil dilute goes, as far as i can tell it's considered an organic practice. it appears naturally derived and relatively short-lived and is water soluble. the bugs eating the little leaves of my sprouting plants are just unconscionable competition. i'm selfish but not destructive. i'd much rather have complimentary planted with marigolds, and gotten some ladybugs but that's going to need to wait for a longer term garden project. but, the season… Continue
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 at 9:05pm —
dreaming
dreaming one day of a "real" garden to call my/our own. for when i cook for us, it can't be rightly called "my" garden and i'd hope to share it with anyone who cared to come to my table. to my kitchen.
poor kicked pot, a terrible accident and seeds are disrupted. tomorrow, in the warm afternoon sunshine, i promise to replant bell pepper and garlic chives. still, the garlic chives give me trouble.
and i finished reading mfk fisher's art of eating today and there really were parts that bro… Continue
Posted on February 1st, 2008 at 12:05am —
progress
planted today:
spinach
more garlic
green onions
yellow onion
a few more arugula
and also, i roasted some pecans for bread. our bread machine (nicknamed sid, for the model letters/numbers, we refer to him as the bread-bot) produces nicely, though i've yet to discover what makes today's cottage cheese loaf different than our regular sammie loaf.
so. pecans.
they remind me of childhood and what i think is important about appreciating outside, open spaces and the… Continue
Posted on January 26th, 2008 at 4:04am —
experiments, as yet uncritical
trial and error seems to be a decent way for me to learn. also leaving myself some notes helps.
so:
today planted some bell peppers, surrounded with garlic chives; this will be my third try with the danged garlic chives...i don't even like chives that much, but i DO love garlic, and DH loves some chives. so it's a gardening compromise/experiment. round one back in texas failed, i think due to the ridiculous weather/rainstorms. have no idea why round two out here didn't do so well. i have… Continue
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 5:48pm —
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Container gardening can be a real blessing. Go to Ilex's page, she is an old hand at it and seems to have prospered very well. I have grown my own for years and must say have learnt a lot from her ideas and, more importantly, dedication to her garden - even if on a balcony of sorts.
I think you will enjoy her site!
Grow on!
P~
I too like containers, seems to help me maintain control over some pests. I don't dare plant basil in the ground, something eats it off as fast as it can grow. In my window I have basil that's got secondary leaves. Thyme and marjoram have just barely germinated. Spring is exciting.
To see a picture of the Beef roasting go to http://localfooddude.org/sitemap.aspx and scroll down.
Lot of people in Nepal especially in kathmandu grow flowers in rooftop, i am promoting to grow vegetables so as to meet the kitchen need as well beautify the home as well. certainly I ill add moree pictures. But due to load shading /power cut our electrycity/internet is not regular. So I will do it shortly
Sumitra Pande
Co-Editor, Krishi Patrika, Sumitrapande@yahoo.com; krishipatrika@gmail.com
One year I did square foot gardening exclusively! Marked the beds out, planted according to plant minimum spacing requirements. Had a good yeild but it was alot of work hand weeding and keeping things thinned out. I have found interplanting and succession planting more suitable to my needs and time retraints! I still apply much of the knowledge learned from squarefoot gardening( minimun spacing,shading,etc) when interplanting!
Good luck to ya!
Pamela