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Joel LeGrand
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- Columbia, SC
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Vermiculture
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Columbia, & Lugoff
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- UK Botanical Gardens/ Great European Gardens
- Favorite foods:
- Veggis and Fruits, anything home grown& Catfish
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- At 12:33am on December 18, 2009,
Angela said… - Thank you Joel!
I join because I am very interested more and more in vegetable garden lately and have been unsure some things about growing the vegetables. I have noticed that many members are in America while I am living in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I have tried some, such as tomatoes, peas and chilli and some of herbs and stopped years ago for some reasons till I bought a property a few months back. There is plenty of space for the plants so I chose the vegetables more than other plants/flowers etc as they can feed us and they are much fresher than the shops. I have planted some onions first as they grew roots from it, then I expanded to tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, chives, parsley, leeks, spring onions, celerys, green peppers, lettuces(leafy), chilli, strawberries, then finally the runner beans, baby marrows and cucumbers as well as a fig tree. There were a lemon and lime trees. Most of them are my first time. So far they are growing well.
Beekeeping...no ways as I am scared of them but I love their fresh honey. I will never will be near them. Ha Ha!
Herbs...I would like to try them again. My daughter saw a chocolate mint plant..something like that at the nursery, begging me to buy it. She would like me to try using them for drinks, sauces. I have no idea what to do.
Cheese making...we don't have animals except for a old staffie who sometimes drives me mad as she sometimes damaged my plants by digging.
Pickling...oops, I have not tried it except the pickled onions
Composting...I might try it sometime after New Year as I still must find a spot for it.
Pests and amp...I am not sure what exactly you are talking about...If spiders or insects, I run away...I don't like them except for the earthworms as they are very good for my garden.
I would like to hear the other tips and advice.
NIce to "meet" you!
Angela
- At 10:51pm on December 16, 2009,
odie_von_stauffenberg said…
- hello,
thank you very much, it'll be a big help for me. i have a question, thus sawdust does nothing on vermiculture?
i bet its a great oppportunity for me to visit there in your garden...hope i have a chance to go visit there.
- At 9:18am on December 16, 2009,
- hello,
what about the species of worm you use? is it an african night crawler?
- At 11:07am on December 14, 2009,
- hi there,
thank you for the information. it really helps me. send me more information about your gardening strategy. thank you very much.
- At 2:58am on December 13, 2009,
- "hi there joel, with regards to your question. I only have eggplant and tomatoes in my garden,but,we did grow corn that was 1 year ago. By the way i'm new here,since i'm an agriculture student currently and i wanted to get some advice or new information with you guys about gardening. Hope you could share your knowledge with me Joel.
This coming january my classmate and I are planning to establish a vermiculture to provide organic fertilizer to our crops and soon we will introduce it to our community. You have any idea about this? maybe you could help us. thank you joel.
- At 1:53am on December 8, 2009,
sally chappell said…
- Thanks Joel for the welcome and nice meet u :-)
- At 1:35am on December 8, 2009,
Noeme Judge said… - Hi there to you both, you sound like from your reply you share the same values in life as Noeme and my self , it looks like there is a big man up there looking over both our shoulders. The rain has gone a Susan our helper from Oregon is taking the opportunity to get out hand see some of this beautiful country. Noeme and I love to know more about where our correspondents live, does your county, town or hamlet have its own web site ? Please forward our web site www.portugal-north.com to some of your friends, look on the second page PHOTO OF THE DAY which is update every day with a new photo of how we live. We are very interested in the climate where you live and the kind of things you grow there
- At 10:52pm on December 7, 2009,
michael e. pugh sr. said… - thank you joel
- At 8:27pm on December 7, 2009,
Ingrid Danler said…
- Thank you! How nice for the welcome. Gardening is such a nice diversion to think about as we are expecting a foot of snow in the next 24-36 hours! We are on the Wisconsin/Illinois border, so bad weather just makes us grateful for those bountiful summer months. Look forward to hearing other stories.
- At 4:20pm on December 6, 2009,
Kerry Dawborn said…
- Thanks for making me feel welcome Joel. I look forward to making great connections through the site, which I think will be of great benefit particularly in my work through the Community Harvest Project (www.communityharvest.org.au). I invite Kitchen Gardeners to check out the site - it's still needing a lot of work but we are committed, and there is a lot the two groups have in common. Cheers!
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