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- Where do you live and garden?
- In town with avery small vegie patch and a small lawn
- How long have you been growing food?
- 10-20 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Dream Garden would be a small holding near the sea.
I participated in the Food Gardens Unlimited project for a number of years but it folded as we made no progress in encouraging the poor to grow their own vegies. Well, lets say that there were a lot of interested parties untill they realised that we had no cash monies to give!
It was whilst trying to recindle this flame that I stumbled onto this website some time ago but did not join the blogs untill recently. I am pleased that I did this as I now have access to a lot of very handy info and great tips.
One of my main aims will be to seek new or exotic plant seeds from all over the world as, in this area, we are restricted to normal run-of-the-mill vegie seeds.
For example, vine-like vegies are restricted to runner bean seeds only! I would love to try somthing new as I have a 12 meter long netting wire boundary fence that could be put to good use.
I have long looked for the bush-type sweet potatoe but can only find the runner-type. My garden is to small for this and I am compelled to plant small, stand alone vegies.
In the 70's we grew an "upside down potatoe". It was a purple spud that grew on a stragly vine. I could not find one again and I have no idea of where we imported it from.
At the same time we have vegies that may interest other countries and I would be only too pleased to post them on. Most of these seeds are performance tested and even offer "drought" resistant seeds meaning that they do not need constant watering once the plant has established itself.
Interested parties may contact me at this address or by post at:
Ron West
20 Thomas Street
King Williams Town
5601
South Africa
Everyone is welcome.
Ron's Blog
Change means new ideas.
One look at Ilex's containers and I realised that I have a long way to go and that I can do a great deal more.
The manny other blogs about container and raised bed gardening finally caused me to understand that that type of gardening would yield a constant supply of much needed vegies at marginal maintenance costs. My existing patch needs watering nearly each day because of the… Continue
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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.....
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Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.
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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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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!
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I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but
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I do know one thing about worms though- they don't like extremes of temperature, hot of cold- and they don't like light. You might have better luck digging for them at night or pre-dawn since it's summer in your parts.
I grew up with lots of guinea fowls and had fun look for their nest. They make great watch dogs.
I used to make macrame pot hangers, tying knots in groups of heavy string to surround a pot. You can use any kind of plastic or ceramic pot and hang them up with the macrame hangers.
I only occasionally use hanging baskets/pots here because the summers are hot and the winds dry them out so fast; sometimes i'd have to water them twice a day and if something interrupts that routine, my plants are dead.
Working with one's hands is good for all of us whether we "need" therapy or not; it connects us with the earth from which we are bound when our minds seem to drift off into abstract lala lands. that's why I weave, spin, garden, cook and hug my kids and grandkids every chance I get.
Let me know how the baskets work out. Will you post photos?
good news about the picture upload.
Rather than chop bits of the picture away you could reduce the image file size by reducing the quality/density of the image. There are various bits of software around to do this and you may already have something on your computer which will do it for you...maybe in a DTP program if you have a bundle which came with the system...
Otherwise picasa, an image handler from Google is free and has an email image function which will reduce the file size to somethong very manageable...
I think it's at www.picasa.com.
Ian
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