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Grow your own fruit, vegetables, grain and anything else you might like to have. Organic, of course.
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Latest Activity: Jul 29, 2010
Community Supported Agriculture
Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, meats, or any sort of different farm products.
A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall. The number of CSAs in the United States was estimated at 50 in 1990, and has since grown to over 2200.
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Comment by Mark on June 4, 2009 at 3:46pm
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The San Diego area has more than 30 farmers' markets. Most would be a full day's trip to get there and back by bus, but there are about 6 within reasonable bus distance, one I try to get to almost every Sunday morning, and one I can walk to but is much smaller on Thursdays.
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Comment by Mouse on June 18, 2009 at 10:52am
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Liquid Gold the lure and logic of using urine to grow plants.
My memory nudged by a thoughtful remark of littleoldme's, I've ordered this book.
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Comment by pan on June 18, 2009 at 12:39pm
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Been using recyclable kitty litter (pine and paper) and spreading the wet litter around the plants. Of course the solid waste is disposed of separately.
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Just posted pictures of a hessian planter I made that is doing quite well beside the willow, the bean climbing up some string to join the rose in the branches.
My daughter has been giving me lettuce and spinach she's grown, her first season ever, in the sunny end of a friend's garden. Better than anything I ever managed. Except those peas last year. Mangetout, for weeks, munching quietly in the garden.
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Comment by curt on June 28, 2009 at 3:15am
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A short note on stalk beans: my plants have totally recovered from the salt attack I waged on them and the critters that were eating them. Two now have "feelers" that are avidly looking for the crawlerupper I made for them. About a foot high, I now realize it was a folly to plant them directly in the ground as beans, to sprout and weather the earwigs and slugs as younglings. Next season, I'll need to refer back to this to read that it is better to start the plants off indoors, get them to about 6 inches before moving them out to get accustomed to the wind and cooler temps before putting them in mother earth. The critters can be kept at bay, but it should be easier to allow the critters to live while keeping the younger plants in safety until they're large enough to withstand the critters munching on them.
My plants are far behind others I see in other people's gardens but I now trust they will soon catch up.
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Yup. My gardening book calls that "hardening off" when you plant things indoors and gradually accustom them to being outdoors before actually putting them in the soil.
You can also use soda bottle cloches and there's a nice article about them here.
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My seedlings have to wait for ages because of my forgetfulness amid the rapid passing of the weeks. Moved everything out ages ago. Potted some on, into bigger pots, waiting for the soil to warm up. Small ate the first peas from some that I've just put in a hessian planter. She also had a happy time pottering amongst a couple of redcurrant bushes, carefully picking the biggest ones for the two of us. Garden looking very beautiful.
Hessian paths brilliant, very easy to move while repositioning cardboard for lasagne beds.
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Comment by littleoldme on June 29, 2009 at 7:37am
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Like all good 'Merkin consumers, I bought the grandson a Toppsy Tervey, cause he decided he needed one. If it'll encourage more interest in the garden, I'll try it.
Anyway, we sent it along, with a tomato plant, home with the daughter and grandson. Amy said the whole way home she kept noticing TT's hanging everywhere with dead plants in them. To make a long story short, the tomato plant in the TT is as dead as a door nail, and the other, planted in the conventional method, is producing fruit. LOL
A rather strange gardening tip for you if ya have roses. The hubby is a mechanic. He brings me home the shavings from the wheel drums. They're iron.
Sprinkle around the base of your roses, they LOVE it.
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Wasn't able to plant into the earth until May 15, due to late frosts. Carried plants inside in the evening and back out for the day for about a month. Tomatoes have some fruit on them now - the drip irrigation system is working fantastically, though I still have to check for leaks.
We had an unusually wet and long spring. The apple and the pear are extremely pregnant with fruit - they were both severely neglected by previous owners so I will have to trim them back into proper shape over the next few years. Of the fruit bushes we put in, the currant is doing best - the goose berry looks like it isn't going to bear any fruit this year, hopefully next year it will wake up.
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Test harvested stalk cellary blossoms last week and see they have dried nicely in the open jar here on my puter desk. So Ize went out and harvested a bunch more. The seeds are super tiny. I'll harvest the blossoms as they bloom and once that's come to an end, or perhaps sooner, I'll harvest the remainder of the plant, the stalk for immediate consumption, the remainder will be left to dry and then ground to a pulver for seasoning. I hope to be able to raise new plants from seed early spring 2010. This is a rare plant from seeds my partner brought back from the Tuscany in Italy a few years ago.
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