ok, so I am not really posting today, just redirecting you
I want to make sure you have something valuable to read when I have nothing of import to contribute, so here goes: check out The Slow Cook . This guy rocks. I especially like the sidebar comment that 25% of the crap that ends up in landfills could be composted. Yowsers.
I have a big-ass-fancy-pants composter. One of those big bins that turns over at the flick of a wrist. My mission is to get that composter composting. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could make all the compost I need for my garden and not have to PAY for it? I grew up watching my grandpa John do the compost thing. Coffee grounds, egg shells, carrot peels all tossed in and turned with a pitchfork every few days.
I also have a half -baked plan to design a kick-butt gorgeous kitchen garden this year. I love my perennials too much to grow just stuff to eat. I want plants that are purdy as well: penstemons, day lilies, a few roses, ornamental grasses, rudbeckias, echinaceas, sedums. But I also have fantasies about growing my own grapes again, stuffing the grape leaves even, and so many tomatoes from my suburban yard that the neighbors run for cover when they see me coming with the give-away bounty……you get the picture.
Soooooo many ideas so little time.
Help–I can’t figure out how to download your pictures from the NWF&G show–are they in the Flicker area?–if so, how do I go about getting them?
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Giving away your fresh tomatoes just because you can’t eat them all right at the moment? Don’t waste them on unappreciative neighbors–that’s blasphemy! Why do you think food dehydrators, freezers, and canning jars were invented!
(Seriously, I ration my frozen tomato sauce/paste each year… it’s the only thing that gets me through the winters.)
Thanks for the plug. The 25 percent I mentioned refers just to the kitchen scraps sent to the landfill that could be composted. When you include other stuff such as paper products, I think the total is closer to 40 percent of everything we send to the landfill could be composted.
I am adding you to my list of favorite garden blogs. Party on!
http://www.theslowcook.com
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Hello - can you tell me how to become part of a garden co-op? I’d like to buy a share of a garden for veggies and flowers. Thanks.
What about the possibility of pulling out of Iraq, letting Iran invade and lose resources fighting their own kind,
and then come in and mop up the dregs?