New Gardener looking for seeds
Rev. Kari_wny_zone5
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Rev. Kari_wny_zone5
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Comments (14)Ok, here's my solicited opinion, based on personal experience and gut instinct, not necessarily scientific. I don't like them for several reasons. They take a long time to fully expand, more so than just a hydropobic soil. Usually triple-watering is necessary to fully hydrate. They give people, especially those like my Mom with hit-or-miss watering practices a false sense of security. I don't think anything that expands and contracts like that is a good thing in a pot where every square inch should be devoted to something beneficial. They never go away and will eventually find their way into your yard, a landfill or municipal compost. And I just don't like anything that is not normal to the area. Maybe I'm old-fashioned or stuck in the past but I don't "do" perlite, water crystals, vermiculite, peat. There's no way something in a package could be better or even as good as what mother nature provides. (Unless, of course, it's a package of compost or mulch, stuff like that.)...See MoreWANTED: New Gardener Looking For Seeds
Comments (3)Hi there! you will love winter sowing! I have lots of seed to share if you want to send me a sasbe and 2 stamps. they will all winter sow, lots of reseeding annuals- some are not this year's crop, but I sowed them this year and they did fine- just let me know Linda...See MoreLooking for coastal garden photo for New England gardening book
Comments (1)Why don't you contact landscape architect Patrick Chasse? He is from Maine and has designed numerous beautiful gardens such as you describe--coastal, ecological etc. He's currently working at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and you could contact him there. He's a great guy and great LA....See MoreNEW: Seed To Seed Gardens 1st Annual Veggie-Swap
Comments (9)I alphabetized your tomato's list and fixed some spelling. I can do your whole list if you like but you can add in your numbers..it makes looking for and trading easier :) You have some varieties I never heard of like Apielson. I'd love to hear more on your garden and see pictures. Please read my list and hopefully we can trade. I also am starting a community garden with over 100 varieties...for starter seed I can gladly save and return at harvest....we are..... well, here's the list followed by the First Fruits blurb. Apielson Orange Aunt RubyÂs German Green Aunt RubyÂs German Grape Australian Heart Beefsteak Big Rainbow Black From Tulsa Black Pear Black Zebra Cherokee Chocolate Elberta Peach Garden Peach Golden Jubilee Green Giant Green Zebra Hazle Mae Hess Japanese Black Triffle Kellogg's Breakfast Manyel Mashinka Pink Matt's Wild Cherry Mr. Stripey Nyagous Old Ivory Egg Ox Heart Persimmon Pineapple Pink Brandywine Principe Bourghese Red Zebra Silvery Fir Tree Striped Roman Super Snow White Thai Pink Egg Tigerovy White Queen Yellow Brandywine Yellow Pear Zapotec First Fruits Harvest Garden 4644 M-33 Hwy. Onaway, MI 49765 While there are many needs in other countries and hungry everywhere, the goals of First Fruits are to: *Feed the local community with organically grown, open pollinated, local vegetables. To be distributed through the FOOD Pantry currently established on site. *Provide a place for those who wish to grow their own produce and provide seed, etc. *Open pollinated seeds will be saved and used/given away. No hybrids will be used. This establishes a fresh Seed Bank as well. Current and future goals are: raised-bed gardens, grains, water supply, storage and greenhouse. We are asking for a tax deductible donation to start "seed" money for such a project. Should such a project fail, monies would be donated to the local food pantry and people would still be fed. Projected Budget- $500 establishes the garden plot including seed. $3600 establishes a greenhouse and storage area. Overall projected budget of operation to start is $4100. After the initial investment maintenance follows and the budget reduces. Thank you for helping Project Manager, Earl Bassett...See MoreRev. Kari_wny_zone5
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