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Post by tomc on Dec 9, 2010 8:45:53 GMT -5
*Sigh* my old internet provider did something outside my skill set with email. I can still get there (for now) and ransack my old rolodex. S-o-o I sent of another email to Ronda Clark of CFI. I can't beleive she can't make use of another community gardening slave.
If community gardens are anything here, as they were in rustic cow-hampshire, the ones that're successful 1., have access to water. And, 2., are hidden behind something else. Making finding them through some kinda community organiser a must-do.
Untill I know how this new garden grows, bigger grow outs are going to remain on my far horizon.
Carolyn, on the off chance you might be feeling a bit house-bound on consultation with others at SCM-Froup, I was told you had already joined those forums. It might provide you yet another pulpit. I'm just sayin'.
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Post by tomc on Dec 9, 2010 8:32:27 GMT -5
Ooo Good for Dan. I hope he and she are happy for evah.
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Post by tomc on Dec 8, 2010 6:02:20 GMT -5
I supposed we were not to talk tomatoes in the outhouse, but evidently anything goes. Gunnar, this is mostly gossip about tomatoes. Wish me luck with Bruce, I've got to get him back to growing corn ina kitchen garden, and out of plantation sized crops (that he cannot manage). Wish me luck.
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Post by tomc on Dec 8, 2010 5:53:46 GMT -5
TomC, are you in New Hampshire or S.E. Ohio? pv I was in NH, oh for like 40 years, other off topic health issues made a move nearer to kinder in SE OH, um nesisary. Gettin' old aint for sissies.
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Post by tomc on Dec 7, 2010 15:39:51 GMT -5
I don't think I have ever bartered with Patrina, Craig has been nothing but good to me. I will tell Bruce he wandered across another OP Dwarf.
I'm goning to try and wedge some of Alan Bishops corn into somewhee with (I'm hoping) four kinds of tomatoes. I already have too many in my seed box that shoulda' been planted last (2010) year. I have not heard anything back from CFI, so I figure for now I'm on my own...
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Post by tomc on Dec 7, 2010 8:29:41 GMT -5
Carolyn my freind (Bruce Graham) has only the smallest of toe holds into the internet. Like he's just gotten email in the past year. He took a passing remark of mine about the dwarf project and linked a connection between what he saw, an' what I talked about. Alas he didn't collect a name.
By inference; (correct my error please) I'm hearing there are pre-existing Dwarves commercially offered? I too can live with arrival of new cultivars, when they get here.
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Post by tomc on Dec 7, 2010 2:41:39 GMT -5
Um, no. I am not of the persuasion of; "who ever has the most toys when he dies, wins". This work will or will not get here when its ready
I got asked, 'whats new' and I talked about the dwarf project to a non-geek freind, I figure I shoud get my suspicions and guess comfirmed or denied.
He saw what was obviously a dwarf ftom a retail souce so his presumption was that this had already hit the market, I wasn't sure.
When I don't know, I ask.
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Post by tomc on Dec 6, 2010 18:29:20 GMT -5
I did not have the space to do any of the grow outs of dwarf project. I'm wondering though if anyone has a feeling when some of them will show up to barter or buy.
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Post by tomc on Dec 5, 2010 22:29:37 GMT -5
Durgan, if you amend your garden with manure or compost, the bugaboo of nitrogen depletion will never happen. Oh I suppose if you added an equal amount to a depth of several feet IE one yard of garden soil, to one yard of shavings it might depleate available nitrogen. But I'm not sure even then.
That said there are crops that do not like bark or shavings around their feet, asparagus is one for me. Makes em twisted and unatractive.
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Post by tomc on Nov 24, 2010 15:25:51 GMT -5
I liked OIKOS Tree crops, and St Lawrence Nursery for product and selection back when I was IN NH. In The closing days of farmers market in Athens (OH), I'll letcha know what local nurserymen are up to in the spring. It looked pretty good autumnaly, I've gotta shop at arms length first before I go to mail order.
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Post by tomc on Nov 20, 2010 10:18:18 GMT -5
Fer my two cents, inasuch as I'm just setting back up after a move and yet another retirement. A couple years grace between trials of dwarf Project and larger grow outs be that from seed house grown seed or outta tomatoville will be welcome by me.
I've also gotta sort out what Athen (OH) CFI can actually use of my industry.
More gossip as I get some.
CFI= community food initiative
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Post by tomc on Oct 1, 2010 6:25:35 GMT -5
Sandhill certainly gives value. I got a couple not-true-to-type tomatoes from them. But as a seed saver, this is easy to do. On balance they grow (or have grown for them) a simply stagering variety of good OP seed of many vegetable and grains that I see no where else.
I alas am old enough to know and covet NH midget mellons for example.
I so wanna get set up near to my daughter and get back to growing OP corn, oh and of course 'maters.
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Post by tomc on Sept 26, 2010 6:08:19 GMT -5
Northern michigan, 35 miles south of Traverse city. The next time your in Kalamazoo go to OIKOS Tree Crops, He's the closest I know of that has paw paw. I know its not that close, but my freind who spits out her seed and mails it-them to me, has already eaten her way through her crop.
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Post by tomc on Sept 25, 2010 18:47:24 GMT -5
Darth my neck of the Tundra is NH, where's yours?
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Post by tomc on Sept 25, 2010 6:03:01 GMT -5
Darth starting woody plants should not be beyond your skill set. Keep an eye out at farmers market for paw paw (or persimmon).
Eat fruit, plant seed where you can find it following spring. Replant second spring to a permanent site for landscape plantings.
If there is a great trick to this it is to keep the space between fruit and planted seed breif, like in minutes.
"Dried has died" aught to be the memnonic for woody seeds.
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