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Post by jinju0 on Apr 22, 2008 12:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by tinkerbell on Apr 22, 2008 13:43:47 GMT -5
HAPPY EARTH DAY TO YOU TOO
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Post by Nene on Apr 22, 2008 15:09:03 GMT -5
jinju, tinkerbell & everyone HAPPY EARTH DAY
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Post by ginnycat5 on Apr 22, 2008 17:24:20 GMT -5
And to you all! I bought some magazines about gardening, and how to garden in containers. I'm going to grow some salad greens; that should have a very low carbon footprint!
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Post by chigirl68 on Apr 24, 2008 12:43:34 GMT -5
Hope everyone had a nice Earth Day and can try to make every day Earth Day. Ginycat, cool on growing your own greens. I want to order some varieties of cherry tomatoes from Burpee to garden but I am waiting for them to answer me if they are genitically modified or not. We eat lots of tomotoes!!!!
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Post by ginnycat5 on Apr 24, 2008 17:32:52 GMT -5
Hope everyone had a nice Earth Day and can try to make every day Earth Day. Ginycat, cool on growing your own greens. I want to order some varieties of cherry tomatoes from Burpee to garden but I am waiting for them to answer me if they are genitically modified or not. We eat lots of tomotoes!!!! The past 2 years I've gotten heirloom tomatoes from local nurseries. They have tags/labels that say "heirloom". I even saved seeds from a couple of them. DH wouldn't eat the Black Krim, tho, because they don't look like a tomato, he said. The top part that was kind of black wasn't as tender as the red part, but they were definitely edible. But there are plenty of others to get.
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Post by TheBo on Apr 25, 2008 10:01:00 GMT -5
Ginny, can one just plant tomato seeds from a tomato you buy? I'm not talking about those mass-produced sterile supermarket tomatoes, but say, the ones you can get from a farmer's market. If you can go to any farmer's market in the Chicago area, you should be able to find a booth from Nichols' farm (could be Nickels'). They are the BESTEST. They plant many, many heirloom tomatoes (and lots of other produce, too). If you could plant from a tomato, you might be able to take some of theirs you liked and plant from them. However, as I said, I do not know if this is actually how to get a tomato plant.
One of the things I like about Nichols' is that they label all of their produce with which type it is, not just "heirloom" so you can find out what you like. And if it's not clear, there's usually one guy there who knows which is which.
Bo
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Post by ginnycat5 on Apr 28, 2008 20:15:08 GMT -5
Oh, yes, Nicholls farm! Saving tomato seeds is a funny process. You have to let them ferment a couple of days, then rinse them off, then let them dry. I haven't tried to grow any of mine though. I just saved some. I'm going to be lazy and buy some plants later. Brrr 30 degrees tonight?! I saved some squash seeds, too. They're easy to save. My neighbor grew her squash on a net nailed to her garage wall. It kept the squash off the ground and saved space, too. I'm thinking of trying the 3 Sisters that the Native Americans used - corn, beans and pumpkins, all cooperating. I don't have any fish to put in the bottom, tho. I read that pilgrims used to use lobsters as fertilizer --they didn't eat them..
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Post by TheBo on Apr 29, 2008 13:41:22 GMT -5
So. Any fishers here to halp out our Ginnycat? IHI.
Bo
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Post by ginnycat5 on Apr 29, 2008 17:29:32 GMT -5
At the rate we have gatherings, the fishes will be well rotted by the time I see them. Or smell them!! (move that block to the nose) I really should compost.
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