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- Where do you live and garden?
- Oshawa
- How long have you been growing food?
- 10-20 years
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Creating a picture perfect herb garden
Every year I try to create a different theme in the garden. One year it was displaying and using pottery, another time it was using branches from our Birch trees to make a trelis, this year the theme is picture frames.
I collected old picture frames from friends and yard sales and use them as structures in the garden. A very big frame was used as a herb garden. Using skids from a construction site ( I'm big on diversion), we cut them up and created a back to have enoug… Continue
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 8:46am — 5 Comments
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- At 8:10am on June 10, 2009,
Cielce said…
- Hi Joan,
the coolness of the weather has kept me from keeping up with weeding, and my sucession planting of greens. It just doesn't seem to feel like gardening weather! *sigh* but the lawn loves it! the rain and cool weather has it growing like crazy!
I hope your plants enjoy the new warmer home!
- At 12:13pm on June 9, 2009,
Cielce said…
- Hi Joan!
I'm happy to find another Ontario gardener. How are you enjoying our mild summer so far? :)
- At 4:57pm on June 3, 2009,
Gillian said…
- Thanks Joan,
Mine just has the residual heat from the boiling water you put in at the beginning. They recomend you only leave it for 4 hours. I might try topping it up after four hours with some more hot water so that it can continue on for longer. Yours sounds like a good system keeping it at a constant temperature.
- At 7:47am on May 31, 2009,
Anh Collins said…
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- At 7:23pm on May 28, 2009,
Gillian said…
- thanks Joan, I heard that if you left it for longer than four hours you would get separation - maybe I should try it for 8 hours and see what happens. I have used milk - but always go with skim - maybe I should try it with maybe 2% and see if the consistency is better.
- At 7:38pm on May 27, 2009,
Gillian said…
- Hi Joan
I love the look of your mango drink you posted - will have to try it as soon as mangoes are in season again (another couple of months). I noticed you said you make your own yoghurt, I make mine using skim milk powder and a couple of tablespoons of good yoghurt. Then the container goes into a thermos for about 4 hours. I find though that it sometimes has quite a slimy, runny texture and separates easily - do you have any advice on how to correct that? Last time I used double the amount of milk powder and it did seem to have a thicker texture.
- At 10:29pm on May 17, 2009,
Gillian said…
- Hi Joan, Welcome to KGI - sounds as though you might be a compost expert. Maybe you will join our compost group - we are always looking for good advice (and photos).
- At 7:31pm on May 17, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said… - Hi Joan. Welcome to KGI. This is a great place for gardeners of every experience to gather. We have a number of gardeners from across Canada. I'm sure you'll love it here. Best gardening wishes! mwf
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AZ - Arizona CA - California CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut DC - Dist of Columbia * DE - Delaware
FL - Florida GA - Georgia GU
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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.
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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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