Enlightened Gardens

Great Alaskan Garden Site
David Goodgame asked me to take a look at Gardening, Alaskan Style, his personal website. The first thing you see...

Modern Gardening Equipment
You keep on following the rules that in order for your plants to grow healthy, sufficient water, soil quality, and sunlight must be provided. But little do you know that the types and quality of equipment you use in taking care of your plants also have an effect on your plants’ health or good growing [...]

Healthy hands are the Gardener?s Best Tools
The importance of gardening gloves and how to choose the best ones is as important as getting your plants watered on a hot summer day. Here are the major reasons why one should consider getting a pair of trusty gardening gloves: Protection from injury It protects your hands from blisters, thorns, cuts, bruises and rough work. You don’t [...]

General Gardening Chat :: RE: Organic Gardening
Author: Eggy
Subject: Organic Garden forum
Posted: 23 Nov '05 9:42 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 6

I'll create an organic garden forum this weekend. I need an organic gardening related photo for the forum front page - If anyone has a photogenic compost heap please post a photo!
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Eggy.

Webmaster & Eldest Son
Mooseys Country Garden
http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com

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General Gardening Chat :: Garden Design
Author: Nut
Subject: Garden Design
Posted: 23 Nov '05 4:06 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 1

Hi
I would like to know your idea of design garden with shrub and tree on the flat ground what kind of the tropical plant will you use the level from the tree to shrub.
How will you design this garden


Modern Gardening Equipment
You keep on following the rules that in order for your plants to grow healthy, sufficient water, soil quality, and sunlight must be provided. But little do you know that the types and quality of equipment you use in taking care of your plants also have an effect on your ...

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Recycling

Last year, my experiments with reusing old water bottles as mini cloches and water wells did not succeed very well. The cloches filled with water (with or without caps on) drowning their charges, and the water wells spilled their resevoirs immediately, parching theirs.

Now that I have the greenhouse, the water bottles are turning into very nice cheap pots for seedlings. I drill a few holes in the bottom with the mini-rotary tool then I use a utility knife to cut off the tops. These are working quite well!

Monster

crazygramma

Your Garden & Plants :: RE: Deciduous Pittosporum. Can I take it to Portland, Oregon?
Author: moosey
Posted: 17 Nov '05 7:47 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 3

Monica, I've never met a Pittosporum which has dropped its leaves. Those that I grow are all very robustly evergreen. I haven't checked the botanical books, though!

I can't talk about hardy, but I can certainly praise Pittosporums for tolerating neglect and not much water!
cheers
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Ginger

I transplanted the ginger from the shade garden--where it had been pummeled by the gutter and trampled the neighbor--over to the icon garden last fall. It seems very happy.

What?s in Store for National Home Gardening Club Members?
You have been enjoying your home gardening achievements for a while now. A festive floral orchard, spices in a pot, and all your varieties of ornamental plants abound. With all that accomplishment, what more have you got? Bragging rights, of course! Now, how else could you share your success but through ...

Autumn Leaves

IBOY

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"Nobody Wants Fast Food for Thanksgiving!"
"Stop for a moment and think about how important real food is to our holidays and celebrations. Suppose you showed up at Grandma s house on Thanksgiving, and dinner was Big Macs, McFries, and Mcapple pies, with maybe some micro-waved convenience store bean burritos on the side. You would think that she had lost her mind!"

Meet Bob Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, writer, and ardent supporter of Oklahoma s farmers and ranchers.  Bob doesn't mince words and what he has to say will make you think about your grocery shopping list...

"Nobody wants fast food on Thanksgiving. Everybody wants 'slow food' for celebrations. Turkeys stuffed with sage dressing, seasoned with herbs, carrots, onions, and celery, baked sweet potatoes, real mashed potatoes, gravy made from the broth from the turkey, and home-made pies and rolls. That is a Thanksgiving dinner. It s not cheap fast food sandwiches made with mystery meats and industrial chemicals.

"The Slow Food movement is at the vanguard of the next big thing in food. It rejects the tasteless, anonymous, homogenized, and industrialized flavors dished up by the modern agribidness system. It embraces real food meals prepared from basic ingredients that originate in local farms with stories and histories and are distributed via local 'Value Chains' where every stakeholder benefits and receives a fair price for their contribution to the final result. Read Bob's whole article...



Welcome, Mrs. Popple

Tamara

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Outdoors Report: Diggers looking for fat clams
Things are looking quite clammy on the coast this weekend, and we're not talking about the weather forecast. Razor clams open Nov. 12-14 from noon to midnight at five beaches.

To-do list

It has been quite difficult to find time to work on the things on month's to do list for the garden, made with a little help from the Organic Gardening newsletter, but I think I can check a few more things off the list in the next two weeks.

order tomato seeds
buy marigold seeds
order strawberry plants

start seeds:
onion, leek
pumpkin and cucumber
tomato, eggplant, pepper
basil and parsley
marigold, zinnia, and creeping thyme
leafy greens

direct plant seeds:
carrots
peas

Party on the Patio

Tamara

Hike Of The Week: Even late in the season, the Foss Lakes are a delicious treat
A hike on the West Fork Foss River Trail has a special reward -- it takes you to some low-elevation lakes that have a high-country feel.

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Information & Announcements :: DMOZ.ORG directory listing
Author: Eggy
Subject: DMOZ.ORG directory listing
Posted: 11 Nov '05 11:12 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 0

Thanks to the folks over at www.dmoz.org for listing the Moosey forums in the Forums and Online Communities category.
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Webmaster & Eldest Son
Mooseys Country Garden
http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com


Winter rye

Maybe I should have tilled the winter rye under when it was a little less, er, vigorous?

Back to the Land, Away from Menopauseville
In 1990, Arleigh and Heather Fair sold their family home and bought a waterfront penthouse in Vancouver, BC. For four years they walked, biked, drank lattes and thought they were in the center of the universe. It wasn t. They both had the urge to play in the dirt but neither was ready to admit it to the other. Restless, Arleigh went out and bought 80 acres of land that was logged in the 1970s Listen and be inspired by Heather's story.  Here's how: Subscribe to our podcast feed (so you can listen to the attachment below) or simply download/listen here to the mp3 file.

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Outdoors Report: Rivers provide salmon action
Salmon have moved into Western Washington rivers, with coho the prime quarry.

Amur maple.

IBOY

Butterfly garden

The Garden Keeper

Cats and Dogs in the Garden :: RE: Famous Gardening Cats
Author: Woodside
Subject: Tree climbing cats
Posted: 7 Nov '05 5:52 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 6

Just registered on this excellent site.
Here is our neighbour's cat, Antoushka, pretending to be an owl. Not sure if photo will appear though - first time user !

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End of October
Roses everywhere are starting flowering. Flowering shrubs are, too - and the Rhododendrons by the water race - outbursts of colour and foliage fill every border. The garden is positively blooming, radiant with good health!

Banksia Lutea
My Banksia Lutea rose - a yellow Banksia - started life as a small cutting. It was nipped (oops) from a bush I saw on a country garden tour.

October Week 3
An assortment of plants are suddenly in flower! Perhaps it's time to step back from the hard garden work and take time to notice and enjoy these little bursts of colour - before the big bossy roses take over.

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MVP Guest Appearances
Most Valuable Pet Contestants earn 10 bonus points every time they get a mention or a photo in another website or blog.

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October Weekend 1
Ha! The Clematis is flowering, as are the big Japanese Flowering Cherry trees in the Pond Paddock. It's time for reading and picnics underneath the blossom - never mind the garden maintenance, or the new garden needing to be dug and planted! Eek!

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