Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / May 2008

OK....I assumed you know what you are about, but just wanted to be
sure.

Well now, get that stuff in the ground.  It gets down to business
quickly and produces abundantly.  It is great fresh and and sauteed.

I've been watching it closely and I am beginning to see some vibrant
color and growth.  Wishful thinking perhaps?  You have your brewer up
and running?

I've a batch ready to go and I'll start another immediately. I've
started adding 2 TBSP magnesium sulfate to each batch, along with a
blender full of pureed dandelion and shepherds purse or whatever good
stuff is growing, and rainwater.  Added 1 cup of alfalfa meal and/or
pellets to the brew bucket.

I finally made it to the feed store and got fifty lbs. of dried
molasses.  Ten bucks, much cheaper than using store bought blackstrap.

Alfalfa meal and alafalfa pellets......ten bucks per fifty lb bag.  

I've several cans of mackeral waiting in the wings....this one should
be fun.

I made a big mistake yesterday.  I dosed the lettuce patch with tea and
fish sauce.  Later in the day, I was wandering the garden and nibbling
stuff.  Wasn't thinking about what I had supplemented and had to do
some serious spitting when I ate some lettuce.  Fish juice tastes like
about like you would expect.

Heh heh.....of course.  

Ain't she wonderful?  Sigh.....off to Borders.....again.  Thanks......I
guess.

Dammit Billy......'tweenst Left Coast Bill and Right Coast Bill, I am
gonna go broke buyin' books.  This education stuff is expensive! ;-)

Charlie, who greatly values the following passage, but often falls way
short of the ideal.

"Well, it's always a mystery, because you don't know why you get
depleted or recharged. But, this much I know. I do not allow myself to
be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I
believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the
bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of
your own capacities, just that in itself creates new potential."

"And I've learned from the Bhagavad Gita and other teachings of our
culture to detach myself from the results of what I do, because those
are not in my hands. The context is not in your control, but your
commitment is yours to make, and you can make the deepest commitment
with a total detachment about where it will take you. You want it to
lead to a better world, and you shape your actions and take full
responsibility for them, but then you have detachment. And that
combination of deep passion and deep detachment allows me always to
take on the next challenge because I don't cripple myself, I don't tie
myself in knots. I function like a free being. I think getting that
freedom is a social duty because I think we owe it to each other not to
burden each other with prescription and demands. I think what we owe
each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and
hopelessness with fearlessness and joy."

                           ~~Vandana Shiva

sometime in the recent past George Shirley posted this:

Although my grandfather always seemed to have chard in his garden, we never
ate the leaves - always just boiled the stalks and had them with a white
sauce with butter. Thanks