Guest guest Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 I'm not an expert Gardener The only tools I use be a stick & spade but I would break your ground right now as spring is almost here. Give your soil some leaves or lawn clipings by digging a trench with a shovel. Fill the trench with leaves, wet 'em down and cover with dirt. This will make little mounds that you can plant with seedlings or sow with a stick. I like to put a cross piece on my planting stick and adjust it for desired depth. Gardening is as easy as plating a seed in the right place at the right time of year, giving them some organic matter and water. Some old timers around here just plant with a stick and let mother nature do the rest. Pretty high tech. It works so give it a try. ~B On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 18:58 -0500, dppromo wrote: Thank you for writing this! I was actually going to write about getting tips on starting a garden. I have the back section of my yard I want to turn into a veggie garden. When should I break ground and what are the best on line resources on how to do this? I currently have a shed in the area I want to use so after I move it I need to know how to break ground? Janet Smith <owlstar9181 herbal remedies Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56 am {Herbal Remedies} GMO food and your alternatives Bryan's right. GMO foods and commercial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides used to intensify production, are threats to our health, and threats to wildlife and the health of earth's skin, the soil. I don't want to get too political here, but it is also a threat to our freedom. When the corporations have tweaked our food sources so that they are our only source of food - they can control us all by simply withholding access to food or even the means to feed ourselves. You CAN help deter this process and maintain the healt h of your family and your little patch of the earth in a simple way. Planting a kitchen garden is a little work, but it is healthy and joyful work. You don't need acres of land (unless you do plan to find non- GMO heirloom corn or sugar cane to grow). A family of four can be fed in a 20' x 20' space using raised bed (or French Garden) techniques. If rows are covered with low tunnels with plants deeply mulched, many foods can be grown year round in more temperate zones. What you must NOT do is run down to a big box home and garden store and buy up their seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and a big jug of RoundUp to clear your garden space of weeds. Their seeds are usually GMO products from Monsanto or one of their subsidiaries, and they are hybrids, which traps you into purchasing new seeds every year. The other products are exactly the same poisons the corporate farms use. You'd just be perpetuating the very problems corporate farms are creating. You can ask for advice from your county farm extension agent - but CAUTION: many of these will encourage corporate farm techniques. Instead do some research. There are many organic gardening resources and forums online to help you get started and to help advise you when you run into problems (and you will). Subscribe to a few and read. Search on terms like " vertical gardening " , " raised bed g arden " or " french garden. " Then get started. If you would like to add organic fish (tilapia or catfish are commonly used) to your diet, research a technique called aquaponics that involves setting up a small pond partnered with a gravel bed for plant growing and water filtration. You'll be amazed how small a system provides a lot of food--this can even be done on a 10 x 10 patio). There are lots of resources online, including videos on YouTube describing how to set up a system - I set up a 150 gallon system that takes up about a quarter of my 15 x 15 sun room and required very modest expense and no particular expertise beyond online advice to set up, and it works and looks great. Avoid hybrid seeds. There are many heirloom seed savers (start with SeedSavers Exchange) who will be happy to provide you with old heirloom varieties of vegetables and herbs at no greater, and sometimes less cost than commercial seeds, and that taste better and often grow better than the hybrids. You can find them by searching on " seedsavers " or " heirloom seeds " on your online search engine like Google or . If you're not sure you can plant from seeds, you can grow heirlooms by purchasing seedling plants from growers at local farmers markets or online (by the way, TheLovelyJanet is such a source for bedding plants like heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and herbs (and a f ew plants that just smell nice) and yes, it's my business. By purchasing seed or seedlings from " mom and pop " heirloom growers, and finding natural fertilizers and pest repellants, you are supporting small family businesses, a very good thing in this economy. You're supporting an economy and community of equals, rather than dependency on giant, wealthy, bureaucratic corporations. And you're extending your family's healthy and productive life. Janet Smith janet (AT) thelovelyjanet (DOT) com herbal remedies , Bryan Shillington <bryanshillington wrote: > > Dear Marcy, > > Welcome to our group!!!! > > My advice would be to not touch Genetically Modified foods as these > franken foods were made by man and not God. > More than 90% of the Corn, Soy & Wheat in wealthy countries today is > GMO. Getting Corn and Soy out of your diet is the first step to changing > your eating habits for the better. > GMO is horrible for the body and the growing process for GMO foods is > destroying our planet. Sugar is now being massed produced from GMO Sugar > beets. > Any non- organic corn chip or slice of tofu in the USA is probably GMO > so stop eating normal or junk food and eat only God's food. > > Organic = food20without poison. > > This is how I suggest you handle your daughter's Diabetes. > Give her nothing but Organic foods and lots of fresh vegetables. > > I'm sure others on the list will have organic solutions for you on > Diabetes and you should definitely ask Doc's advice. > > Best of health > > ~Bryan > Journeyman Herbalist > Academy of Natural Healing > > > > > My name is Marcy my oldest daughter is 8 and she has Type 1 Diabetes. > A friend of mine told me about this group and said i would get good > advice from the group.We are slowly trying to change our eating habbits > and turning back to the way God made our food in the first place. > Looking foward to learning from everyone. > Thanks Marcy > > > Why are so many of us sick and plagued with disease? > > Let's say you have a beautiful plant but one day you decide to mix a > tablespoon of motor oil in with the daily dose of water. The plant still > looks great but as time goes by it starts getting some blemishes on its > bark. It still looks healthy but what you don't see is that its roots > are rotting and by the time the leaves are turning yellow it's too late. > What went wrong here? You fed the plant harmful motor oil instead of > pure water and good compost. Let's look at the teeth of a cow. A cow is > an herbivore, their teeth are not sharp like a cats but are flat for the > chewing of fresh grass. But man has taken these animals and fed them > corn ( to fatten them up ), dead grass and it is not surprising that > more than 90% of cows are diseased as this is not their proper diet. Now > man has created brutal drugs to keep most of these cows alive and they > have hormones that make the cow grow bigger and faster than it should. > These drugs and hormones ruin the animal’s Liver and since many men care > only for money, they do not care that the meat is of very poor quality > for carnivores who eat it. Now carnivores are going through puberty at > young ages and are fatter than ever. What went wrong with this one? We > turned the cow into a carbovore* , poisoned its Liver, screwed up its > hormones and did not feed him what he needs to survive. Let's look at a > cat. Cats live on meat and their teeth are meant for breaking down the > small rodents that they eat. If you feed a carnivore nothing but > vegetables and grains, the carnivore dies. I'm not telling you anything > you don't already know right? Let's look at a human’s teeth. This is > strange. It looks as though they were herbivores but developed two sharp > teeth for eating a little meat so we will call them omnivores. We were =0 A > meant to eat mostly vegetables and an occasional mouse or egg here and > there. A hundred years ago, mostly everybody had a garden but now > everybody has a grocery store. Look at it this way. The Pharmaceutical > companies and large corporations who supply the grocery store are the > cattle rancher and we are the cows. Our main survival food " Vegetables " > are full of pesticides, our meats are full of steroids, drugs and our > unsprouted grains are genetically modified by 'Monsanto.' Our milk is > dead as they pasteurize it (heat it to hundreds of degrees in > temperature or irradiate it so as to kill it completely) and homogenize > it. Wait a second..... Humans are the only species on the planet who > consume milk after being weaned from their mama. Raw milk is good for > you but it is illegal in most " " civilized " " countries. So we could point > our finger at The Man for passing laws that made raw milk and medicinal > plants illegal but we were the ones who stopped planting gardens and > contributed money to their drugs, poisons, governments and GMO food. We > are dying so young and the " ranchers " are achieving great wealth. We are > the cows that eat nothing but grain and poison. We are the rabbits that > eat meat. We get very little exercise as we watch TV so much. > > This is why so many of us are sick and plagued with disease. > > 0A > > > > > > Solution: > > We eat the way we should. > > Humans have been found to live more then a hundred and twenty when they > eat raw fruits, vegetables, sprouted grains, nuts and seeds without > pesticides. These healthy 120 year olds get lots of exercise, drink > fresh water (no fluoride) and raw goats milk and eat small amounts of > organic meat. Exercise is very important (use it or lose it). If they > didn't work 10 hours a day they would die. Your TV is in actuality > killing you so throw it out and start exercising. Eat right, get > exercise and plant a backyard garden......or else. > > > > *coined word meaning one who eats nothing but carbohydrates. > > P.S. Feel free to save this letter or resend it to whoever you think > could use the education. > Looking for work? Get job alerts, employment information, career advice and job-seeking tools at AOL Find a Job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 I think the first consideration is what do you want to grow? and then is this site going to give the necessary amount of light for what you want to grow? The point being, we can site a garden where it pleases us so to do, but the issue for the plants is are we getting enough solar energy to do well or are we straining for light?...for plants - espec veggies, light is energy...and most need as much as they can get thru the growing seson...most will absolutely thrive in full sun... Adv master gardener, d--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Bryan Shillington <bryanshillington wrote: Bryan Shillington <bryanshillington{Herbal Remedies} Gardening(Spring Planting)herbal remedies Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 11:59 AM I'm not an expert Gardener The only tools I use be a stick & spade but I would break your ground right now as spring is almost here.Give your soil some leaves or lawn clipings by digging a trench with a shovel. Fill the trench with leaves, wet 'em down and cover with dirt.This will make little mounds that you can plant with seedlings or sow with a stick. I like to put a cross piece on my planting stick and adjust it for desired depth.Gardening is as easy as plating a seed in the right place at the right time of year, giving them some organic matter and water.Some old timers around here just plant with a stick and let mother nature do the rest. Pretty high tech. It works so give it a try.~BOn Wed, 2009-02-25 at 18:58 -0500, dppromo (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote: Thank you for writing this! I was actually going to write about getting tips on starting a garden. I have the back section of my yard I want to turn into a veggie garden. When should I break ground and what are the best on line resources on how to do this? I currently have a shed in the area I want to use so after I move it I need to know how to break ground? Janet Smith <owlstar9181@ >herbal remediesTue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56 am{Herbal Remedies} GMO food and your alternatives Bryan's right. GMO foods and commercial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides used to intensify production, are threats to our health, and threats to wildlife and the health of earth's skin, the soil. I don't want to get too political here, but it is also a threat to our freedom. When the corporations have tweaked our food sources so that they are our only source of food - they can control us all by simply withholding access to food or even the means to feed ourselves. You CAN help deter this process and maintain the healt h of your family and your little patch of the earth in a simple way. Planting a kitchen garden is a little work, but it is healthy and joyful work. You don't need acres of land (unless you do plan to find non-GMO heirloom corn or sugar cane to grow). A family of four can be fed in a 20' x 20' space using raised bed (or French Garden) techniques. If rows are covered with low tunnels with plants deeply mulched, many foods can be grown year round in more temperate zones. What you must NOT do is run down to a big box home and garden store and buy up their seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and a big jug of RoundUp to clear your garden space of weeds. Their seeds are usually GMO products from Monsanto or one of their subsidiaries, and they are hybrids, which traps you into purchasing new seeds every year. The other products are exactly the same poisons the corporate farms use. You'd just be perpetuating the very problems corporate farms are creating. You can ask for advice from your county farm extension agent - but CAUTION: many of these will encourage corporate farm techniques.Instead do some research. There are many organic gardening resources and forums online to help you get started and to help advise you when you run into problems (and you will). Subscribe to a few and read. Search on terms like "vertical gardening", "raised bed g arden" or "french garden." Then get started. If you would like to add organic fish (tilapia or catfish are commonly used) to your diet, research a technique called aquaponics that involves setting up a small pond partnered with a gravel bed for plant growing and water filtration. You'll be amazed how small a system provides a lot of food--this can even be done on a 10 x 10 patio). There are lots of resources online, including videos on YouTube describing how to set up a system - I set up a 150 gallon system that takes up about a quarter of my 15 x 15 sun room and required very modest expense and no particular expertise beyond online advice to set up, and it works and looks great.Avoid hybrid seeds. There are many heirloom seed savers (start with SeedSavers Exchange) who will be happy to provide you with old heirloom varieties of vegetables and herbs at no greater, and sometimes less cost than commercial seeds, and that taste better and often grow better than the hybrids. You can find them by searching on "seedsavers" or "heirloom seeds" on your online search engine like Google or . If you're not sure you can plant from seeds, you can grow heirlooms by purchasing seedling plants from growers at local farmers markets or online (by the way, TheLovelyJanet is such a source for bedding plants like heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and herbs (and a f ew plants that just smell nice) and yes, it's my business.By purchasing seed or seedlings from "mom and pop" heirloom growers, and finding natural fertilizers and pest repellants, you are supporting small family businesses, a very good thing in this economy. You're supporting an economy and community of equals, rather than dependency on giant, wealthy, bureaucratic corporations. And you're extending your family's healthy and productive life.Janet Smithjanet (AT) thelovelyjanet (DOT) comherbal remedies , Bryan Shillington <bryanshillington@ ...> wrote:>> Dear Marcy,> > Welcome to our group!!!!> > My advice would be to not touch Genetically Modified foods as these> franken foods were made by man and not God.> More than 90% of the Corn, Soy & Wheat in wealthy countries today is> GMO. Getting Corn and Soy out of your diet is the first step to changing> your eating habits for the better.> GMO is horrible for the body and the growing process for GMO foods is> destroying our planet. Sugar is now being massed produced from GMO Sugar> beets.> Any non- organic corn chip or slice of tofu in the USA is probably GMO> so stop eating normal or junk food and eat only God's food. > > Organic = food20without poison.> > This is how I suggest you handle your daughter's Diabetes.> Give her nothing but Organic foods and lots of fresh vegetables.> > I'm sure others on the list will have organic solutions for you on> Diabetes and you should definitely ask Doc's advice.> > Best of health> > ~Bryan> Journeyman Herbalist> Academy of Natural Healing> > > > > My name is Marcy my oldest daughter is 8 and she has Type 1 Diabetes.> A friend of mine told me about this group and said i would get good > advice from the group.We are slowly trying to change our eating habbits > and turning back to the way God made our food in the first place.> Looking foward to learning from everyone.> Thanks Marcy> > > Why are so many of us sick and plagued with disease?> > Let's say you have a beautiful plant but one day you decide to mix a> tablespoon of motor oil in with the daily dose of water. The plant still> looks great but as time goes by it starts getting some blemishes on its> bark. It still looks healthy but what you don't see is that its roots> are rotting and by the time the leaves are turning yellow it's too late.> What went wrong here? You fed the plant harmful motor oil instead of> pure water and good compost. Let's look at the teeth of a cow. A cow is> an herbivore, their teeth are not sharp like a cats but are flat for the> chewing of fresh grass. But man has taken these animals and fed them> corn ( to fatten them up ), dead grass and it is not surprising that> more than 90% of cows are diseased as this is not their proper diet. Now> man has created brutal drugs to keep most of these cows alive and they> have hormones that make the cow grow bigger and faster than it should.> These drugs and hormones ruin the animal’s Liver and since many men care> only for money, they do not care that the meat is of very poor quality> for carnivores who eat it. Now carnivores are going through puberty at> young ages and are fatter than ever. What went wrong with this one? We> turned the cow into a carbovore* , poisoned its Liver, screwed up its> hormones and did not feed him what he needs to survive. Let's look at a> cat. Cats live on meat and their teeth are meant for breaking down the> small rodents that they eat. If you feed a carnivore nothing but> vegetables and grains, the carnivore dies. I'm not telling you anything> you don't already know right? Let's look at a human’s teeth. This is> strange. It looks as though they were herbivores but developed two sharp> teeth for eating a little meat so we will call them omnivores. We were=0 A > meant to eat mostly vegetables and an occasional mouse or egg here and> there. A hundred years ago, mostly everybody had a garden but now> everybody has a grocery store. Look at it this way. The Pharmaceutical> companies and large corporations who supply the grocery store are the> cattle rancher and we are the cows. Our main survival food "Vegetables"> are full of pesticides, our meats are full of steroids, drugs and our> unsprouted grains are genetically modified by 'Monsanto.' Our milk is> dead as they pasteurize it (heat it to hundreds of degrees in> temperature or irradiate it so as to kill it completely) and homogenize> it. Wait a second..... Humans are the only species on the planet who> consume milk after being weaned from their mama. Raw milk is good for> you but it is illegal in most ""civilized"" countries. So we could point> our finger at The Man for passing laws that made raw milk and medicinal> plants illegal but we were the ones who stopped planting gardens and> contributed money to their drugs, poisons, governments and GMO food. We> are dying so young and the "ranchers" are achieving great wealth. We are> the cows that eat nothing but grain and poison. We are the rabbits that> eat meat. We get very little exercise as we watch TV so much.> > This is why so many of us are sick and plagued with disease. > > 0A > > > > > > Solution:> > We eat the way we should. > > Humans have been found to live more then a hundred and twenty when they> eat raw fruits, vegetables, sprouted grains, nuts and seeds without> pesticides. These healthy 120 year olds get lots of exercise, drink> fresh water (no fluoride) and raw goats milk and eat small amounts of> organic meat. Exercise is very important (use it or lose it). If they> didn't work 10 hours a day they would die. Your TV is in actuality> killing you so throw it out and start exercising. Eat right, get> exercise and plant a backyard garden...... or else. > > > > *coined word meaning one who eats nothing but carbohydrates.> > P.S. Feel free to save this letter or resend it to whoever you think> could use the education.> Looking for work? 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Guest guest Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009  Bryan wrote: Gardening is as easy as plating a seed in the right place at the right time of year, giving them some organic matter and water. Dear Bryan, WHERE do you garden? In real life one may have to improve rocky soil and build fences to keep out voracious white-tailed deer. Look at the picture in this link to see how lucky you are if you can just stick a seed in the ground! Digging New ground ( a blog post) http://tinyurl.com/4236mk Ien in the Kootenayshttp://freegreenliving.com (blog) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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