Re: [cg] Plants for community garden

2002-09-28 Thread budge
While you can grow strawberries in such a mild climate and still get fruit, I am unaware of any varieties of raspberries that can be grown, and produce fruit, without a good cold season. Raspberries are my favorite fruit and the very best ones I've ever had come from a valley in the Wasatch Mounta

Re: [cg] Plants for community garden

2002-09-28 Thread Tamsin Salehian
Comfrey, what a wonderful plant! I will be sure to try some comfrey medicine. Comfrey will be the next plant to go in I hope. We are planning to add a small article about comfrey in our next garden newsletter and that is a great tip, thanks! Do you think strawberries and rasberries would cope with

Re: [cg] Plants for community garden

2002-09-28 Thread Tamsin Salehian
Wow! The garden sounds amazing and a beautiful blend of public and 'personal' spaces. Hopefully one day I will be able to walk through it and pick some sage for pasta after a session of weeding. Thanks Tamsin __ The American Community Gardening

Re: [cg] Re: spider mites and wasps

2002-09-28 Thread Deborah Mills
A word of advice. The product Sevin is highly toxic too. If you read what you should be wearing (PPE) you might change your mind. Chemical gloves, goggles, and a OSHA respirator (since you are inside of a greenhouse) are just some of the gear you will need to wear. I know it is a tough problem

[cg] Re: spider mites and wasps

2002-09-28 Thread lisa vandyke
Hi there, For the spider mites in the greenhouse, try beneficials such as predatory mites or lady beetles. Here is a site from Florida about benes:http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_IN078 And for the wasp nest - best I can figure out is to spray the nest with either Rotenone (organic) or Sevin (not

[cg] creating new garden

2002-09-28 Thread Gazyna Manturzyk, Canada
We would like to create our own community garden in Agassiz, B.C, Canada.We have a piece of land donated to us allready and few people to support us.We just need advise on how and where to start. I study Horticultural Therapy and would like to devote part of the project to people with different