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[Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>]

Hello, all!
 
I haven't properly introduced myself since joining the list some months back, 
but here I am!  I'm Rebecca, our family of four lives in western Washington 
state about an hour north of Seattle (not quite empty nesters but it's 
getting close).  We've been sort of urban homesteading for the last two 
decades, but it fell by the wayside a few years ago due to various 
infirmities that needed fixing.  I don't always have time to go over the 
posts in this list, but I do try to scan for helpful bits that will allow me 
to garden again (anyone got a favorite site for info on building an 
"accesible" garden?  Thanks to modern medicine I can walk now.  I just can't 
bend over much, or lift much without putting myself out of commission).
 
Loved the ideas presented regarding the Tomato Ring!  Do you yacon growers 
think a person could plant a yacon in the middle of the tomato ring and not 
have the tomatoes and yacon take a dislike to each other?  I was going to do 
a compost/straw cage to grow yacon in this year, as I thought it would make 
the tubers really easy to harvest (never tried yacon before, got three starts 
in the mail this week).  Perhaps someone can recommend something other than 
tomatoes to train up over my yacon cages, or perhaps a different mix of 
growing medium in the cage?
 
gotta go pester Spouse to get the chicken wire down out of the shed so I can 
get my cages wired up and ready.
 
good to be here, I think I recognize some entities here from another list I 
used to be on... and.... back to lurking.
 
Rebecca in western Washington state
 
 
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