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Where do your seeds come from?
Replied Nov. 16, 2008
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- At 7:58am on May 31, 2009,
Anh Collins said…
- Wanna chat with me on cam?, come see me here You'll enjoy it. I promise!!!! realamateurwebcams.info
- At 3:02pm on April 27, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said…
- Hi Eric, I was just looking through some of the forum discussions on KGI, and this time I decided to start from the back of the list since I never seem to get all the way through from the front. I found your post, "Innovative Recycling in the Garden", and I'm sorry I never saw it sooner. I didn't join KGI until October last year, and then I faded out for the winter because there wasn't much going on that interested me.
I've become a nearly obsessive recycler. And I've started paying more attention to reducing and reusing. I put a lot of things to work in the garden, and I'm always looking for new ideas.
Well, a few weeks ago I started a new KGI group called The Recycle Bin. I really hope you'll join and share as much as you can. I've got one "discussion" in the group set up for posting pics, and I know we'd all love to see what you can do. We've got several members already. Like me, they care about the environment and want to see how creative they can get in their gardens.
I hope you'll join! Best gardening wishes! mwf Delete Comment
- At 8:01pm on December 14, 2008,
Tamra said… - I have both kinds, but like this one best, and yes to does disconnect so the lid can be completely open. I got it here
http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/index.cfm?page=_productdetails&productid=3515&cid1=842&cid2=200&cid3=-99
- At 10:08am on November 16, 2008,
Michelle W. Flannery said…
- I just spent some time looking through your photos. You are definitely a front yard gardener! It must have taken so much time to plan it all out as you have and pull it together. It's really wonderful! And I particularly like how you made it what I would call "work and play." Work = veggies. Play = flowers. And planning for those quiet secret rooms was very imaginative. All very nice. How enjoyable it must be to watch your garden grow.
- At 11:53pm on November 15, 2008,
Irene said…
- Hi, Eric --
Thanks for starting the thread aboout seeds from Seminis/Monsanto. IMHO it's THE big issue for home gardeners, whether they realize it or not. The more people talk about it the greater awareness of the problem there will be.
~ irene in the foothills of Mt. Rainier
- At 12:19am on May 13, 2008,
Eric M said…
- Chicken manure is still big up here, but steer manure is much cheaper now - I only use it as an ingredient in my compost. It's got a lot of sawdust, which locks up the carbon and doesn't decompose very well.
Tomatoes - I had great success with my three tomato plants last year, such that this year I'm putting out 15 plants. I used red plastic mulch, which reflects a certain wavelength of light that encourages growth and blossom set. This year I'm trying out Tomato Automators, basically a red tray with open ended spikes that you fill with slow release fertilizer.
- At 10:24pm on May 12, 2008,
Penelope said… - Love your garden photos. I grew up north of Seattle, Lake Stevens. My parents and my aunts and uncles always had big gardens. I think chicken manure was the major fertilizer in common use. How do tomatoes do in your garden? My mother and aunts shied away from growing them claiming there weren't enough sunny days to ripen. But we had cucumbers galore.
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Puget Basin area - Seattle
- How long have you been growing food?
- 1-3 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Kitchen gardens of the chateaus of the Loire River Valley, France
- Favorite foods:
- Anything fresh out of the ground.
Here's week two of my front yard garden, April 2007
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