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Everett McDonald
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  • Duncan, SC
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Everett I think of my Dad each and every time I set foot in my own garden and treasure all the memories of the hours spent literaly walking in his foot steps and he tilled the soil. Picking up worms as we'd go to use for fishing later in the day a...
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Hello Sumitra, Thankyou for sharing your pictures. Your students are beautiful. I thought of you the other day as I watched a documentary about Nepal on the television.
November 24
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My father-in-law Fred Pond died ten years ago. He loved his garden and I still miss him a lot especially at this time of year when the seed catalogues start arriving. The Pond family lived on a seven acre homestead of sorts in Westford Massachuset...
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November 13
Two years ago in October I took a trip to Cape Bretton Island in Canada. At the Louisbourg Fortress (now a living museum) I found a kitchen garden. In the garden were beets with the deepest burgundy leaves. The variety is Bulls Blood and the seed ...
November 13

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Where do you live and garden?
Duncan, SC
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Favorite foods:
Vegetables of all kinds

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Everett McDonald

My father-in-Laws Garden

My father-in-law Fred Pond died ten years ago. He loved his garden and I still miss him a lot
especially at this time of year when the seed catalogues start arriving. The Pond family lived
on a seven acre homestead of sorts in Westford Massachusetts. They raised a few pigs for
meat. Had a few chickens and muscovie ducks. There were also the apple and pear trees.
But my father-in-laws pride and joy was his vegetable garden. There were actually two of them.
One on each side of the driveway which w… Continue

Posted on November 23, 2009 at 8:05pm — 3 Comments

Everett McDonald

It's Garlic Planting Time In the South

Actually I don't personally know anyone here who grows garlic other than my friend Chuck
who planted it for the first time this year, but I'm sure some people do. I planted mine this
week, October 20th. I have planted it as late as thanksgiving, (end of November) and it did okay.
Garlic is one of my favorite things to grow. It's quite easy and nothing seems to bother it.
I usually plant about 120 cloves eight inches apart in three rows. Each clove pushed into
the prepared ground just deep enough… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:44pm — 2 Comments

Everett McDonald

Vegetable Gardeners....

We don't mow the lawn, we harvest the grass.

Posted on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm — 1 Comment

Everett McDonald

Cowpeas, Field Peas, Southern Peas.....

I call them crowders. They originally come from West Africa, and they
have been cultivated by the Egyptians since about 2500 BC.
They came to the United States with the slave trade and before the
Civil War were grown mostly by slaves and poor white people.
After the war they became more popular and are now considered by
many as a traditional southern food. Some of the old timers I've talked
to remember growing them on the farm, eating them fresh in summer,
then pulling the plants, hanging them i… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 8:20pm — 10 Comments

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Beautiful and creative Gillian. I really like this idea, and the product of this idea!
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Michelle W. Flannery Our pantry provided a Thanksgiving feast for family and friends. And the garden is still giving up tomatoes and peppers by the baskets-full!
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I loved Jamie Oliver's show too. I wish there was a show with his gardener!!! In fact I wrote HGTV (owned by the same people as food network) and told them so. Would like to have the outdoor oven.
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I've found the same happening in my mind too. Always looking at the place veggies or fruit is from in the grocery store, and if it's stuff that can be grown local but is out of season I generally avoid it, or if it's in season I'll get it from the...
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My son always have these kinds of encounters with nature.He takes the caterpillars from the plants where they are exposed to birds and keep them in small boxes,feeds them with leaves,and when they become butterflies frees them in the garden.
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Close encounter with nature !
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Fungicide more precisely.
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YOU ARE RIGHT .
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Yes! of course you can use it.
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PESTICIDES???
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But there are other organic ways to kill the sucking pests... This is KILLING... NOT ONLY friendly bugs but doing slow poisoning to humans too..
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Penelope After War, Finding Peace and Calm in a Garden --NY Times Article Today, Nov. 30, 2009
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BRILLIANT..... JUST BRILLIANT.....GREAT SHOT... I wanted to use this in my coming campaign on Revival of eco-system... with your permission.
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@Gillian!thanx,he is my son in picture.He is very fond of insects and reptiles,they even some times perch on his hand with out stinging him.@Maggie, thanx ,for your wishes.
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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.

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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..

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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.

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Welcome to Notes.

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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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