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  • Gardening General

    50 members Latest Activity: Oct 18 Just plain no matter where you live share you gardening stories, give advice, just a general site for gardeners to communicate.

  • Kitchen Gardens, Southern Style

    102 members Latest Activity: Oct 20 Discussion in this group includes what edibles perform well in our heat and humidity (and also mild winters), favorite ways to prepare a Southern dish…

  • South Florida Kitchen Gardeners

    10 members Latest Activity: Sep 8 Kitchen Gardeners who live in Florida, USA. Mostly for thought who live in Palm Beach County-south. For growers of 10a and 10b

  • Boston Area Gardeners

    7 members Latest Activity: Oct 22 For kitchen gardeners in the Boston area

  • Kitchen garden communicators group

    59 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago Do you write/blog/speak/make films or photos about food, gardening, and/or sustainable lifestyle issues? Welcome: this is your place!

  • Gardening with Children

    34 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago Ways to garden with small children, fun ways to get kids interested in gardening and how to teach them to love and care for our Earth.

  • Orchards

    45 members Latest Activity: Oct 19 For those who are growing small orchards, fruit and nut trees, and grapes. Let's discuss growing, pruning, harvesting, care and maintenance.

  • Garden Poetry

    8 members Latest Activity: Oct 21 Does the smell of compost gently simmering wax you poetic? Maybe the sight of newly sprouting seeds fills your heart with song! Share the musing, and…

  • Sacred Gardening

    36 members Latest Activity: Oct 25 For all interested in the Sacred aspects of gardening, regardless of your beliefs or religion or spirituality.. come join us to share thoughts on how…

  • Wild Edible Hunters

    32 members Latest Activity: 13 hours ago DIscussion group for people who hunt wild edibles.

  • Oxford Hills

    2 members Latest Activity: Jun 21 For gardeners in the Oxford Hills area of Western Maine

  • Krishi Patrika, Nepal

    4 members Latest Activity: Jun 7 Krishi Patrika is a fortnightly publication of agricultural news, technologies and farmers right in Nepali languages. Me (Sumitra Pande) is co-editor.…

  • Michigan gardeners

    21 members Latest Activity: Nov 2 This group is for gardeners in Michigan who can share their collective knowledge and experiences about gardening in our area.

  • Pakistan kitchen garden

    19 members Latest Activity: Nov 10 we established kitchen garden group in lahore pakistan to share information on subject

  • Backyard Kitchen Herbalists

    131 members Latest Activity: Nov 8 I would like this group to focus on kitchen herb gardens, be they culinary or medicinal. What do you grow, what do you use it for, do you make any med…

  • East Lake Washington Food Gardeners

    7 members Latest Activity: Jun 18 A place for food-producing people on the east side of Lake Washington to get together, share knowledge, help and goods

  • Gardening in Australia

    51 members Latest Activity: Nov 10 Australia's climate varies from tropical to cool mountain. This group will discuss kitchen gardening in the variety of climates and conditions found i…

  • The Farmer's Market

    26 members Latest Activity: Sep 7 Most of us shop at farmers' markets and/or sell our produce there. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about where the markets are, the best and the wors…

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Bees! How they benefit us, how to keep them, how to maintain them! Experts invited, and welcome.
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S Parker, susan rigali, Mary Riekert and 1 more joined Kitchen Gardeners
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I am so glad this film is out. Maybe it will make more people aware of the dangers of GMOs.
1 hour ago
They look wonderful!
1 hour ago
This sounds very interesting, I will have to check it out!
2 hours ago
Beautiful!
2 hours ago
Could you possibly dehydrate your pesto (just the basil, nuts, cheese, lemon juice) in an oven or food dehydrator and re-constitute it with olive oil when you're ready to use it? I checked my food dehydrator manual and didn't see a listing for pes...
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Thanks Glenn! Those little apple peelers are worth every penny! ;-)
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Adding Salt and small amount of an acid (lemon, vinegar,wine, citric acid) will improve preservation. When doing this only prepare with basil, garlic, and olive oil. Add cheese and pine nuts when ready to serve. . Another way to have year round is...
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It is very easy to control birds when you are planting on larger scale.Actually In pakistan we have several types of Bird control e.g Manual,Use of Tyre Polythene,Watchman etc We face problem sunflower is planted on acre or so all the birds specia...
5 hours ago
That is Neel Gaiey In Urdu.Its somehow bigger than a Dear
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Luben Kumar added 3 photos
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Hi Michelle I read your blog, it was great. You appear to have everything sorted. PS: I,m going on Ebay tonight to get one of those apple peeling machines. Glenn
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Yes Glenn! its since two days we are receiving plenty of sunlight like always and enjoying freshly picked radish and citrus,with a lot of roses smelling nicely around us.
10 hours ago
Hi Mike There is nothing tastier than fresh pulled carrots. Of any vegetable i think there is the biggest difference between shop bought carrots and home grown carrots.
10 hours ago
Hi Amna My garlic is now over hand high as well. I planted it a bit earlier than normal this year, but it seems to have appreciated it. I,m looking forward to some large bulbs next year. I hope your foggy weather has now cleared!
10 hours ago
DIscussion group for people who hunt wild edibles.
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PiscesGirl added a blog post
We've finally got two hens out of four laying now - one Americauna (those it's anybody's guess which one), and our one and only Silver-Laced Wyandotte. Behold our lovely eggs! - And they taste AMAZING too! :-)
13 hours ago
HI Glenn!my garlics are also sprouting and they are about a hand high.
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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.

Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message.   Allow it and go back and highlight the text again

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

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