[Community_garden] ACGA database

While we're on the topic of entering our data there... I was contacted just today by a young med student in our town that found the info about our garden there, and never knew it existed before! So, entering your garden's info there can be a great way to advertise it. Her call wasn't the first I

Re: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

Hi Chris,  For the last several years I made half hearted attempts to plant cover crops in the fall, after all the summer things were harvested. Problem was, by sowing that late in the summer and fall, sometimes the cover crop didn't have time to grow and spread before cold weather. So last year

[Community_garden] Green roof

Just for pure fun, look at this picture of the new museum in SF's Golden Gate Park... http://www.calacademy.org/?gclid=CLzCjP7MrpcCFQJvswodoUzyjw A garden, where one may enter in and forget the whole world, cannot be made in a week, nor a month, nor a year; it must be planned for, waited for a

Re: [Community_garden] community garden budget and how to respond

ope this helps Don. I can't imagine even if we had had to pay for water tap fees and tilling and labor for installing the fence, that we would've spent anywhere near $10K on this garden. But I'd sure like to try. haha Sam Jones A garden, where one may enter in and forget the whole

[Community_garden] oops forgot the recipe for preservative!

Wood Preservative    Recommended by USDA Forest Product Lab Slowly melt 1 ounce of paraffin wax over low heat in a double boiler (do not heat over a direct flame). Outdoors, carefully pour just under a gallon of solvent (mineral spirits, paint thinner, or turpentine, at room

[Community_garden] Rot resistant recipe

My hubby and I use the following recipe to 'treat' wood (plain pine usually) for our raised beds. We got the recipe from an old issue of Organic Gardening magazine, and at year six, it's holding up beautifully! We just mix the ingredients together, and paint it on w/old brushes. Do all sides, s

[Community_garden] Bermuda grass solution...

David, To answer your question about the use of weed flamers on the grass... I've not used it on bermuda, but it doesn't work well on the grass edges of my own garden, so I'm sure it wouldn't work well on bermuda either. Hope this helps, Sam There is no 'away'... as in, "throw it AWAY"