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Gardening and health and good karma 2008-07-16 06:11:55 My mother tells me that I've been planting seeds since I was 7 yearsold - I asked her - if I plant this pumpkin seed - will it grow somepumpkins? - She replied - only if I really cared for it...There has never been a year without a garden. I grew up beingindoctrinated in the J. I. Rodale's Organic Gardening school of totaldisdain for that evil factory fertilizer.The gardens have always produced so Read more:karma
New to the mittleider method whats the fertilier all about 2008-07-15 20:01:28 I, also, have just found out about this method
. I got the book andread faithfully after I had put in most of the garden. I haveplanted 13 tomato plants in a row about 25 feet long. Finally tyingthem up was educational. I did it this morning. I have pipe aboveabout 6 foot and used clothes line to tie them up. Cutting off thestrong shoots hurt me and probably put the plants into shock. I didkeep the
What is the Mittleider Method? 2008-08-12 06:18:38 The Mittleider Method combines the best features of soil-based gardening and hydroponic gardening, but without hydroponic expense! It's a complete, easy-to-follow plan that eliminates guesswork and ensures success anywhere: an apartment patio, a city yard, a country lot, or a farm.The method is based on maximum utilization of space, time, and resources. Crops are large because plants are close tog
Extending Your Growing Season - Both Spring & Fall 2008-08-11 17:52:37 Author: Jim KennardToday I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as in high elevations like Randolph, Utah, where it was below freezing more than one night in August, but most of the lower elevations in Utah and around the country are still frost-free as I’m writing this article.How can you deal with the Read more:Growing
, Season
, Spring
Cost of automated watering system 2008-08-08 06:10:58 Q. I'm planning to install the automated watering system for my 18 raised Grow-Boxes. I thought it was supposed to be inexpensive, but I'm nearing $300 for the PVC and fittings so far. Maybe I'm buying the wrong things. Can you give me the detailed list of what I need, and an estimate of what my 18 bed watering system should cost?A. In Salt Lake City, Utah I would pay approximately the follo
Have you ever considered growing your own food? 2008-08-06 06:09:35 ”Are you kidding?? Why would I even think about growing a garden? I’m much too busy earning a living!” Let me give you a few reasons you SHOULD consider starting a garden: • Diesel costs $4 per gallon – Delivering your food is now twice as expensive. • Wheat costs $26/bushel ($3 in 2002) – and supplies are the lowest in 60 years. • Some fertilizers cost 6 times more than they did o
Companion planting yes or no? 2008-08-03 14:56:45 This is actually a never ending debate among the scientificcommunity and the biodynamic gardening community. The biodynamicgardening is based on some "bad science" especially with the"sensitive crystallization method".However, there is a type of "companion planting
" done on large farms called no-till farming. This technique has become popular in recent years and is being used around here for the s Read more:Companion
Soil amendments Needed Yes or NO? 2008-08-02 10:23:20 Hi everyone, My name is Tom and I live in central California in thefoothills ..I have been trying to grow a garden for several years onlyto end up with nothing for my effort. I have decomposed granite forsoil and it will not grow anything except weeds. I can't even get fruittrees to grow. I need some help, Please. The area where I want thegarden is in full sun all day, its 20 x 40 ft. All I have b
Want a Better Garden Next Year? Plant In The Fall! 2008-08-28 06:18:04 Have you been disappointed with your garden this year? Or perhaps it was great and you can't wait to do it again. Whichever scenario fits your garden, you may be thinking of how next year’s garden is going to be SO MUCH BETTER! One way to help improve next year’s garden is to plant some of it this fall. Such crops as asparagus, garlic, leaks, onions, and strawberries are naturals for fall p Read more:Garden
, Plant
No title 2008-08-27 06:18:39 Books Now on CD & by Digital Download!Author: Jim KennardWe are SO excited to announce the availability of 5 of the very important Mittleider gardening books, as well as his 9 Manuals, for digital down-load - right here on the FFEF website!You can now have instant access to The Mittleider Gardening Course, Grow-Bed Gardening, Let's Grow Tomatoes, Gardening by the Foot, and 6 Steps to Successful Ga
Crop Rotation Yes or No 2008-08-26 06:19:44 Drastic Crop Rotation
- Change the Entire Location Every Year - Good Idea??Author: Jim KennardQ. My husband said you should change the location of your vegetable garden every year. Is this correct?A. This idea is impractical and unnecessary. Most family garden areas are too small to even rotate crops adequately, much less having the space to move the entire garden to a new location.If you mai
Compare Mittleider Method With Commercial Produce Growers 2008-08-25 06:09:15 Q. The commercial produce growers in my area use black plastic with drip lines. They mix fertilizer in their irrigation water and pump it to the plants. What makes the Mittleider method more productive and efficient? A. Large commercial growers of things like lettuce, cabbage, etc., who water and feed accurately, especially those who feed regularly right in the water supply, and who eliminate we Read more:Compare
, Commercial
How to build a mini greenhouse with PVC 2008-08-24 08:26:43 Building Mini-Greenhouses from PVC PipeAuthor: Jim Kennard I will give instructions for building a jig and then making PVC arches for 18"-wide boxes or beds.Materials needed:11 - 5' lengths of 1/2" Schedule 40 PVC pipe - to place arches 3' apart - for each bed or box you are wanting to cover.6-mil greenhouse
plastic - 5' wide and 33' long - one for each bed or box to be covered.For Grow-Boxes onl
How To Save Crops From Freezing In Your Garden 2008-08-22 06:08:03 How To Save Crops
From Freezing
In Your Garden
Author: Jim KennardQ. I have a farm in Afghanistan, which is about 30,000 squaremetres, in which mainly grapes are grown. In the cold winter thegrape vines are buried under the ground because of the very coldweather and then in the spring the vines are exposed to air andlight, then the vines become green. Mostly this works, but in someyears, after the
New Foundation websites 2008-09-16 13:51:54 ://www.growingtomatoes.info://www.tomatogardening.info://www.tomatogardening.org://www.vegetablegardeningtips.info
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How to Properly Grow a Healthy Garden Using Compost and Manure 2008-09-15 09:17:37 Q. Even if it's a poorer source of nitrogen than oil-based products (urea, ammonium nitrate, and ammonium sulfate), won't compost (particularly composted manure) get the job done? That's a completely free and renewable resource. My garden beds this year are heavily composted with manure and the plants are all absolutely gorgeous. Next year I want to use the Mittleider Method, as it looks very Read more:Garden
, Compost
Pay It Forward" - You Can Too! 2008-09-14 08:54:54 Q. I am a Mother of 5 children. I don't have a lot of knowledge about gardening and would like to learn more. I don't have a lot of time to spend gardening and need to find the best way. A. I'm sharing my response to with you only to show how each of us can help make the world a better place by sharing - even in small ways - the good that we know. And perhaps you will come to know what motivate Read more:Forward
Fall Planting – Fall Crops & Winter Storage 2008-09-11 05:49:07 Fall Planting – Fall Crops
& Winter Storage Sadly, too many of us are tired of our gardens by fall, often because weeds have taken over, or because we planted the wrong things and we can’t even get rid of them. I suggest we take another look at it, because gardening in the fall can be very productive, and will give you fresh vegetables well into the winter, if they are grown and stored properl
Grow you garden later in the Fall 2008-09-09 06:04:44 Extending your growing seasonToday I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as in Eagle Mountain, where it was 27 degrees one night this month, but most of the lower elevations are still frost-free as I’m writing this column.How can you deal with the special challenges of living in these mountain valleys? Read more:later
Want a Better Garden Next Year? Plant In The Fall! 2008-09-02 06:07:48 Have you been disappointed with your garden this year? Or perhaps it was great and you can't wait to do it again. Whichever scenario fits your garden, you may be thinking of how next year’s garden is going to be SO MUCH BETTER! One way to help improve next year’s garden is to plant some of it this fall. Such crops as asparagus, garlic, leaks, onions, and strawberries are naturals for fall p Read more:Garden
, Plant
Extend Growing Season 6 weeks both Spring and Fall 2008-09-01 09:07:12 Extend GrowingSeason
6 weeks both Spring
and FallAuthor: Jim KennardAll who are interested in extending your growing season - particularly with vertical plants - may want to save the following description of covered T-Frames. You can plant 4-6 weeks earlier in the Spring, and harvest 4-6 weeks later in the fall if you do it properly. In a garden with 18" X 30' beds and 3 1/2' aisles, place 8 T Read more:Extend
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Heat Source(s) for Mini-Greenhouses 2008-08-30 11:03:28 Q. In your answer on 'extending your growing season' you mention using a small heat source for the 'mini greenhouses'. What heat source would you recommand and how is the best way to use it?A. Depending on the size of your Mini-Greenhouse and the severity of your frosts, you may be able to keep your plants from freezing by the use of a couple of lightbulbs placeda little distance from the ends. Read more:Source
Are you involved with an organization, village, church, school who wants to grow fresh organic produce and vegetables?? 2008-10-05 16:16:22 I have contacted you before about a farm in Vietnam to provide foodand some income for a small hamlet in coastal Vietnam.I feel the mittleider method will far outproduce
other methods. Andseems to be by far the most feasible,There is a certain stubbornness involved with gardening throughout theworld and it is no better and maybe worse in agricultural dependentsocieties.After asking about thoroughl Read more:wants
, fresh
Compare Mittleider Method With Commercial Produce Growers 2008-09-30 05:58:02 Q. The commercial produce growers in my area use black plastic with drip lines. They mix fertilizer in their irrigation water and pump it to the plants. What makes the Mittleider method more productive and efficient? A. Large commercial growers of things like lettuce, cabbage, etc., who water and feed accurately, especially those who feed regularly right in the water supply, and who eliminate we Read more:Compare
, Commercial
Storing water for the garden and future use 2008-09-29 13:17:04 With the economic situation I think we should all stockup on everythingWe have a number of 55 gallon barrels with water
, but I feelless than totally secure drinking out of them, and using chemicals, etc. totreat it is almost worse. If we were without gas and power, boiling couldbe a problem, although I have a solar oven that can not only be used to cook(I have made meals and baked bread in it.), b
The history of the Food for Everyone Foundation 2008-09-27 16:35:15 For the past 40 years and continuing into the foreseeable future, many thousands of hours of research, clinical and field experimentation have been conducted in 75 research, teaching, and demonstration projects in more than 20 countries throughout the world - including conditions from sea level to 7,300' elevation, the equator to 54 degrees North latitude and 25 degrees South latitude. Soil types Read more:Foundation
Help whats wrong with my sustainable mittledier garden? 2008-09-23 18:48:13 Jim, It took me awhile to check this and get back...on the www.growfood.com website it does recommend the 50 percent blowsand to 50 percent peat moss as an option for custom-made soil, so if that is incorrect, it should be changed. I bought the pipes already drilled, so I am not sure what size the holes are. I am trying the suggestion that I place landscape cloth under the pipes. It seems to
Extending Your Growing Season - Both Spring & Fall 2008-10-28 09:29:17 Today I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as in high elevations like Randolph, Utah, where it was below freezing more than one night in August, but most of the lower elevations in Utah and around the country are still frost-free as I’m writing this article.How can you deal with the special challenges Read more:Growing
, Season
, Spring
Simple and Inexpensive Mini-Greenhouses for Containers and Soil-Beds 2008-10-27 15:48:01 It’s not too early to begin preparing for early spring planting! By covering your containers, which we call Grow-Boxes, or Soil-Beds with “Mini-Greenhouses” using PVC arches and greenhouse plastic, you can be in the garden with cool-weather plants by the end of February or the first of March. They will warm the soil and protect your plants from light frosts. This is often enough to extend Read more:Simple
, Containers
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