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Mother Earth’s Garden

Archive for February 2007

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February 7th, 2007

Reflections on growth

As the school year gets underway again and my days at my desk are uninterrupted (except by all the salesmen trying to persuade me to change my electricity provider) I am reminded of the enduring truth of two of my favourite quotations. The first, from John Lennon (Beatle of the non-gardening variety). “Life is what […]

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February 6th, 2007

Coffee plant begins to look good

There is still a whisp of husk holding back our coffee seedling, but it is beginning, at long last, to look as though it may become a fully fledged plant. I know this is a blurry photo (never was my strength) but you can see how the shell of the coffee bean is still there, […]

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February 5th, 2007

Apples in small spaces

We eat a lot of apples in our household. They are the only fruit sturdy enough to survive the rigors of the school lunch box in palatable condition. We cut them up to eat with yoghurt in the morning, and they are cut up again to go with cheese and crackers for an after school […]

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February 5th, 2007

The BBC’s Gardening site - what a knockout

I was having an idle surf on the weekend and discovered this wonderful site from the BBC. I can’t believe how much information there is here. An index of plants, hints on almost everything…God bless the British taxpayer, say I!
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February 2nd, 2007

Organic gardening and global warming

After my post the other day about greenhouse gases and Voltaire, a friend alerted me to this site, which is all about the positive contribution organic gardens make to the problem.
“When David and his wife Judy started gardening about 10 years ago, their soil tested just one percent organic matter. Now it tests 7.7 percent […]

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February 1st, 2007

Shredding paper for compost

Everyone who has a backyard compost bin knows the problem: too many wet sloppy kitchen scraps makes for a methane-emitting, sludgy mess. Since methane is one of the worst of greenhouse gasses it can really take the edge of our self righteousness as composters. But where is the average inner suburban dweller to get the […]

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