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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-31, 06:51:00

The time has come! Spring is here and you need to get those seeds started! With the constant news about chemicals and bacteria in our food, especially produce, I would think most everyone wants to start their own garden this year.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-31, 06:07:39

Organic gardening is not wrong or mystical ... one can not do wrong adding large amounts of organic matter to the soil. Organic gardening began by encouraging the use of organic matter in the soil, as well as the understanding that the organic matter needs to be constantly added to as it breaks down to prevent the soil from deteriorating. Organic Gardening is often thought to be something relatively new and is often referred to when thinking of the "hippies" in the 1960's. In truth however, Organic Gardening has been around for hundreds of years. Before synthetic chemicals were "needed" to control pests, gardeners and farmers used natural methods to produce quality crops.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-31, 06:06:49

The concept of Soil fertility that Howard initiated is based on building the Organic matter in Soil with a focus on how soil life was connected to the health of crops, livestock, and humans. Howard's theory was that the best method of dealing with a pathogen was not to destroy it but to see what could be learned from it.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-31, 06:05:38

If asked to describe Permaculture as a system one would say it is a philosophy of using the land based upon the natural energy patterns and material flows from within nature. As a system It is one of the most holistic, analysis and design methodologies in our the world. Permaculture is not limited to an exact method of production, more so it is a "land use planning" philosophy of which the principles may be adapted worldwide to farms, homes, individual neighborhoods, and cities. It is site specific as such adaptable to local micro-climates, cultures, and techniques of production.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-31, 03:28:00

(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-30, 21:53:00

(Via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac))

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-30, 19:00:00

Is there an herb that goes best with anise in the garden? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-30, 15:15:44

If you haven't joined Twitter you obviously don't know what you're missing out on, apparently! According to all reports it's the next best in social media and EVERYBODY's doing it - well...that was until I realised that I wasn't part of the collective EVERYBODY.

So, yesterday afternoon I 'bit the bullet' and jumped on board. Answering the question "What are you doing?" was a harder proposition than I expected. It's like asking one of your children "What did you learn at school today?" And their response, "Nothing".

"Nothing? I pay good money for you to go to school and you learned Nothing?"

Sorry, parental rant concluded. Back to Twitter. Not only are you expected to answer this question but you only have 140 characters to do it with - including spaces. 140? Like I'm supposed to sum up my weekend as ..."Woke. Breakfast. Brushed teeth. Watched footy. Slept. Woke. Gardened. Phoned Mum. Watched Gladiators. Talked to wife. Slept. Love weekends."

It's an excruciating challenge. So, while I didn't update Twitter over weekend I thought I would make up for it with a blow-by-blow account. Get comfortable, you're in for an awesome show.

bussogardener Woke 6:00. Great sleep-in. Worked on new Blotanical feature for a little while. Answered questions. Ran out of time to post blog. about 45 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Took M. to ballet. Window's too small to stay and watch. Took rest of family shopping. Boys bought Lego. Got Saturday paper. Picked up M. about 43 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Morning tea with wife. Love coffee. Back to Blotanical. Read a few posts. Inspired. Kept working on new feature. Deb took E. to ballet. about 41 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Got off computer. Tried to source parts for Kombi. No joy. Hate Kombi. Back to computer to source parts for Kombi. Hate computer. about 39 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Took rubbish to tip. Felt like I'd achieved something. Very depressing - so much wastage. If only people composted! about 36 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Fluffed around the garden. Fixed a few broken sprinklers. Pruned some more plants. Very gratifying. about 33 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Got ready for church. We've just started Sat nite church. Great 'coz I can sleep in Sunday morning. Good service. Had to rush off to party. about 32 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Party was great. Dressed up as an Oscar Award. Theme was Academy Nite-of-Nites. Gold paint came off in my hands. Hard to greet - yucky hands. about 30 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Woke up at 9:00. Wound clock back 1 hour for end of DST. Hate DST. One more trial year then we can vote it out. Yay! about 22 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Kept working on new Blotanical feature till Deb woke up at 10. Actually 11 if I hadn't wound clock back. Made her brekky in bed with kids. about 20 hours ago from web

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bussogardener More Blotanical till lunch. Started mulching prunings. Cut sheet metal for Deb's new bookshelf. She's so clever. Made it all herself. about 18 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Deb went off to course. Played Lego with L. I made #2 fire station. He made unique masterpiece. Back to Blotanical. about 16 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Waiting for my friggin' host to update my bandwidth upgrade. Very lonely with no visitors around...very lonely... about 14 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Deb came home. I had watered gardens. We had dinner - yummy Agnolotti. I went off to my course. about 12 hours ago from web

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bussogardener Came home. Deb was already in bed. Went to sleep. Awoken by phone at 1am. Alarm hadn't been set @ school. They waited til now to ring me???? about 6 hours ago from web

Fairly exciting stuff, wouldn't you agree? I'm not sure I can keep up with the pace but will probably link to at it Blotanical.com - seeing as that was what most of it was, anyhow.

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(Via A Larrapin Garden)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-03-30, 13:37:00