Gardening is not hard… I have organic gardened for most most of my life… and despite what others say, it is CHEAPER than buying store bought food. Also with a garden one has free food and no pesticides and free compost. With chickens or even a goat you have free eggs, meat and milk and manure…
It does not take too much time if you know how to do it correctly. I have as I said before done it most of my life and have raised just about every kind of veggie including having my own meat, eggs etc…
So have you ever considered doing this?
Even if you were not ABLE to correctly gauge your time… you still save money in that you are saving money in eating veggies that have not been contaminated by pesticides and introduced to other humans viruses and other disease…
http://www.feldoncentral.com/garden/tom_pvc/ I’m interested in making that cage. Then one this site: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1997-02-01/The-Recycled-Indestructible-Tomato-Cage.aspx on the comments people posted that PVC pipes are bad for food plants. Is this true?
For the first site can you guys give me a materials list for the pvc tubes? I know there are 4-ways, elbows, and 3-ways, but what are the straight tubes?
Thanks!
Michelle Obama
Mike Krumboltz - Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden?
The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.
Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind.
According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons. Yep, back when Bill and Hillary were living it up in the White House, their gardening team used sewage sludge for fertilizer. The fiends!
Sounds gross, but it’s actually fairly common. However, it does mean that the highly touted organic garden will never attain organic status. The certification process doesn’t allow the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute. And there’s another problem: If Malia and Sasha weren’t into eating their veggies before, it’s going to be that much harder to get ‘em to eat ‘em now.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1
I’m volunteering to assist in a local community gardening project that will introduce and teach 75 families about organic gardening and need to get some math done before we can order our topsoil for the project asap.
I need to figure out how much soil I would need if each raised bed is 3 feet wide by 12 feet long and 18 inches in height. The beds need not to be filled to the top but somewhere around 10 inches and then we need to supplement with some compost too.
How would I figure out how much topsoil it would take per raised bed and than out how soil I would need for all 45 raised beds.
Than I need to calculate what its gonna costs us for our community gardening project.
Local topsoil costs $350 per 12 cubic yards which is what comes in a dumptruck size load. How many loads would I need and what would the costs come too?
Please and thank you to anyone willing to help out here.
I live in Indiana and I have a big problem with bugs eating of my pumpkins in my garden. Does anyone know of any natural or organic pesticides to use?
we r planing to plant a hybrid pumpkin, but the Package says it will attract borer.
will the bug infestation spreed to the rest of the garden?
the package says to use pyola to fix problem, this is an organic garden and don’t want to use pesticides? what r some Other options.
I found this on a search for activities and shared interests. I was looking at cars and carparts. They posted Arts and Literature site and a gardening site. The directions seem to be open to people with knowledge on a topic. This is interesting stuff as I just sold my garage that I owned for thirty years and am digging out a section of yard to build an organic garden and build a green house.
The actual responses to topics that seem normal are instead children’s responses and language. Many of the answers are wrong and do not have a link and keep going to a book called twilight. That seems to be the new Harry Potter or Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys.
Is this a kid and teen club? If anyone knows of a more suitable board for expertise please do offer it here. I tried Google, I am just not into reading that many research papers. AOL is full of advertisers. Does Yahoo have one for people who have completed school?
Thank you for your help.
Hi Everybody
Right question time;
I am looking into immigrating to Aus via the skilled working/regional visa, I have just completed a level 3 diploma in Horticulture that entails the following areas of work:
·Basic Botany
·Plant Classification
·Soil Science
·Plant Nutrition
·Plant Pests, Diseases Problems
·Organic Gardening
·Weeds
·Basic Propagation
·Amenity Horticulture, Plant Groups and Families
·Planting and Plant Care
·Plant Notes and Indigenous Plants
·Exotic Plants
·Indoor Plants
·Lawns
As I have just finished this course I have yet to gain my 2 years of working experience required to gain the visa BUT what I was thinking is that if I went out to Aus for the 2 years working hol visa and did say harvest work fruit picking forestry and general gardening work would that count as the experience experience required to immigrate to aus as a general gardener it is on the sol list.
Any help on this topic would be very helpful in my dream to moving to Aus.
petedavo thank you so much ur tome of usefull knoledge for me thanks again mate
I don’t have the money, space, or resources to start a compost pile. I’m starting a garden this spring, and I would like to make it all natural and organic. The weather has started to get nice, and I was wondering if I could start adding food scraps to my soil now? I want to add squash scraps, strawberry tops, etc. Can I just mix them in with the soil? My hope is by the time planting-time comes around, the soil will be filled of vitamins and minerals.
So can I do it without a compost pile?
its for a forum and i cant think of anything. its a organic gardening forum
