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| melody |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 1:49:04 PM
Wouldn't that be a great book?
Re-invent a Victory garden!! Chock full of garden designs, heirloom seeds, composting, harvesting and some down home Victory Garden recipes!!
Melody
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 09 2009 : 12:10:19 PM
I am not sure if Montana has had as much rain, but I know my husband has been watering- but not weeding! If he weeded my garden I would be completely flabergasted!
Alee
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| Rosemary |
Posted - Jun 09 2009 : 11:20:03 AM
How has the weather been treating all you girls? We had more rain in May than I can ever remember -- kind of set me back a bit in getting things into the ground, (hand, of course)-tilling, weeding and whatnot. We seem to be off and running now, though! |
| Merry |
Posted - Jun 07 2009 : 11:46:28 PM
Ewww Alee, with all this rain we are having? You are gonna be busy!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 07 2009 : 8:42:56 PM
I shudder to think what my garden is going to look like by the time I get home!
Alee
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jun 07 2009 : 7:26:03 PM
I'm doing that same thing only with straw Jessica - it is working great. We have been inundated with weeds every year - I still have them but it is so much easier to pull them when they are not deeply rooted.
Amy Grace
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| paintnpencils |
Posted - Jun 07 2009 : 6:11:15 PM
I have a suggestion to help with the grass weeds, or any weeds. I save all my newspapers and lay them down around the plants, and heap 3-4 inches of fresh grass clippings all over the newspapers, I even do that to my walkways. It keeps the weeds down to almost none and helps the ground retain moisture! usually by fall or winter the paper has disolved or goes into the ground. I don't recomend using the slick coupon pages or advertisements because they have more ink and coatings on the paper. This was suggested to me by a an organic gardener I was taking a class with. I have not had any problems with this method. I just started laying paper and clippings around my tomatoes today!
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| Jonquil |
Posted - Apr 29 2009 : 10:35:59 AM
I love the book Square Foot Gardening. So much can by grown in just a 3 foot square box, with less water and less weeding. It can even be done indoors with most plants! Here's the link to the book by http://www.squarefootgardening.com/ by Mel Bartholomew. One thing I really like about it is if a person has mobility problems it can be altered to be taller, rest on a table, or fit an odd space. I'm hooked on it!
jonquil
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 28 2009 : 07:00:37 AM
That's a good idea Julia! I let Nora scratch and dig in the garden- just as long as she doesn't dig up my seeds! LOL
Alee
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| Julia |
Posted - Apr 27 2009 : 8:11:06 PM
I think this is a great idea. I am chomping at the bit as I can't plant anything right now with my house on the market. I am hoping it sells soon so that I can move and get a garden of some kind going this year.
Alee, I always had my 3 girls in the garden with me while they were at home. It has paid off as they have some form of a garden, even if it is in pots. I also would plant fun veggies, flashing lights swiss chard, purple carrots and such. They love the fun colors, though they didn't like eating the swiss chard.
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 27 2009 : 7:13:12 PM
That is awesome!
My garden is showing signs of grassy weeds! I need to get out there and really get it weeded and planted... I now have a trip coming up at the end of May and of course the Farm Fair in July! So I have got to get my garden really strong and set up in the next 30 days!
Alee
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Apr 27 2009 : 3:30:24 PM
Congratulations Suzie!! I hope you have a great garden
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| SuzieQ |
Posted - Apr 27 2009 : 1:15:55 PM
Okay girls, I got my plot saturday and cleaned two of the four sections. Boy, I am out of shape. The exercise felt so good. I am hoping to get pictures started, but a rainstorm hit so I am at home knitting a prayer shaw. I am so excited about having my own plot in an orginal victory garden that was started in the 40's. I am a very beginner gardner and I did get the Victory Garden book and YES it is wonderful. So this city girl is a farmer now. |
| miraclewelsh |
Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 8:46:47 PM
There's a really nice article on Victory Gardens in the May/June 2009 issue of Hobby Farm Home magazine. Check out the article online at this link: http://www.hobbyfarms.com/crops-and-gardening/victory-gardens.aspx
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Apr 20 2009 : 11:05:15 AM
Kristine - I just e-mailed you - thank you so much for offering to share with the farmgirls!!
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| herbquilter |
Posted - Apr 20 2009 : 10:11:01 AM
We had a class, Your Victory Garden at our church in Feb. I put together a full resource packet. If you would like a copy, just email me & I'll email it as a word attachment.
Blessings,
Kristine ~ Mother of Many, MRET & Wellness Coach
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 18 2009 : 6:19:01 PM
That is great Mara! Nora has been helping me prepare and plant our garden. She "helpfully" dug up some seeds we planted yesterday and they had already split and were getting ready to send up some shoots! I am so excited!
Some green beans went in today and tomorrow should be some carrots and radishes!
Alee
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| Rosemary |
Posted - Apr 18 2009 : 6:09:14 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Alee
I am so sorry it has been hard times for you! Did your arm heal? Hope things are going better now! *hugs*
Yes, Alee, my broken right wrist did eventually heal. It took such a long time -- 8 weeks in different casts, then 12 weeks of physical therapy. My vegetable garden suffered, and so did my income -- hard to be a computer graphics person with just a left hand. Also, my truck is manual transmission and for most of the time I was incapacitated, I could only drive it by reaching across with my left hand to shift. Scary dangerous!
New wrist, new year, new Victory Garden. I finally got my sugar snaps in today and got the rest of the garden shipshape for planting. I discovered asparagus spears up and ready to be broken off for tomorrow night's supper! Only one spear per plant so far, but I only started the asparagus bed last year and I'm told it takes about three years for asparagus to really take off. Strawberry plants overwintered nicely. Maybe this year I'll actually get edible strawberries! Also, I dug up parsnips that I left in the ground to overwinter; they're supposed to like that, and are sweeter for it. We'll see tomorrow, with the asparagus :-) A whole plot of lettuce babies volunteered from last year. What an absolute miracle vegetables are!
Mara |
| Alee |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 10:35:05 AM
Yes, if nothing else, this economy is great to wake people up to how to grow a garden! I wonder how many people will be tasting a garden grown carrot or tomato for the first time this year! I hope they get hooked!
Alee
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| BeckySue |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 08:03:59 AM
Great Idea! I know peeps that are soooo not into gardening
who are now planning Victory Gardens
because of the economy.
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| BeckySue |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 08:02:17 AM
quote:
Originally posted by melody
Wouldn't that be a great book?
Re-invent a Victory garden!! Chock full of garden designs, heirloom seeds, composting, harvesting and some down home Victory Garden recipes!!
Melody
http://melodynotes-melodynotes.blogspot.com
www.bythebayhandcraftedsoap.com
www.lemonverbenasoap.etsy.com
www.andsewitgoes.etsy.com
You are
Welcome
to visit
My Serenity Garden |
| Alee |
Posted - Apr 05 2009 : 5:32:48 PM
I am so sorry it has been hard times for you! Did your arm heal? Hope things are going better now! *hugs*
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
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| Rosemary |
Posted - Apr 05 2009 : 2:59:33 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Alee
Mara!! Oh my gosh! It is so fabulous to see you on the forum again!!
Thanks! {{{HUGS}}}
It's been hard times here. Hoping for better -- for all of us.
Mara |
| Alee |
Posted - Apr 05 2009 : 11:50:39 AM
Mara!! Oh my gosh! It is so fabulous to see you on the forum again!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Rosemary |
Posted - Apr 05 2009 : 10:51:26 AM
I love the idea of Victory Gardens. Of course, those of us who are living in the country find it much easier than our city sisters to grow our own food, but back when the idea first -- ahem -- took root, many Victory Gardeners lived in little houses with little yards, or even tenements with nothing but rickety balconies to cultivate. Their challenges were great, but they met them, often with stunning success but more often just enough success to feel they'd made a little difference -- and there's nothing at all wrong with that!
That said, I'd like to see a book on Victory Gardening that takes the realities of most women's lives into account -- not everyone has the space, help, time, or physical strength to mount the kinds of projects chronicled in so many garden books. A book filled with affordable, creative ways around typical gardening challenges, and written with women of all ages in mind, would be different from all the others. It would be a hit. |
| Alee |
Posted - Apr 01 2009 : 05:49:59 AM
I think I will feel very relieved this summer watching my veggie garden grow!
Alee
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