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Posted by admin to Arizona, California, Grow, Native Seeds/SEARCH, New Zealand, Poolville, Robert Kourik, Scarce, Southwest (Washington, DC), Texas, Tucson, Water's, What, When, Willhite Seeds, Willits, to on 2007-10-31, 20:00:00

By East Coast standards, this year's drought is a doozy. Even if fall treats us to a few good gully-washers, it will be a while before the soil's natural cistern is full. Now's the time to take stock of the remedies open to kitchen gardeners, who struggle in dry weather.

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Posted by admin to Grow, It, It'll, Try, You, on on 2007-06-20, 20:00:00

Gardeners don't grow food to get rich, or even to save money. Ask why, and they'll tell you that fresh homegrown produce tastes better, is more nutritious and is more interesting than the bred-for-shipping kind sold in stores. Growing it is fun, absorbing, satisfying. They might mention physical fitness, or their ecological footprint. But economy seems to have little to do with it. They'll even chuckle about the "$100" tomato they just put on their plate. By the time they've paid for grading, loam, a sprinkler system, an electric fence, fertilizer, mulch, hired help, paving stones for the path and a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, they'd have done better at the supermarket, if money were the point.

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Posted by admin to 'Bumpkins', Bliss, Grow, Own., Their on 2007-03-21, 20:00:00

There's an old joke about the guy who left farming with a small fortune -- having entered it with a large one. Farming is, theoretically, a moneymaking enterprise. That is what distinguishes it from gardening. But in reality it is half business and half demonic possession.