Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["bruce smith" <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>]

"Gorilla gardening" recommends casting seed balls containing edibles on to vacant lots and fields and properties being neglected by the owners. Then returning and harvesting the results.. Take it one step further and plant wild fruit trees in place of weed trees that sprout up. Then you would have fruit and vegetables ,,

On Jan 19, 2008 2:57 PM, Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:

How about making seedballs?  Some people seem to create something

of a social event around the making of seedballs.  With people sitting

around and chatting while making them manually.  As a kid, I always

loved to play with mud.  But you would need a bit of land to broadcast

the seedballs.

 

Dieter 

"E. E. Mitchamore Jr" < emitch@att.net> wrote:

My wife, an Occupational Therapist, suggested herbs.  The fragrance might be appealing.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: yarrow@sfo.com

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:43 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Farming methods - no till and others

Does he like counting? Sowing seeds might be something he would especially enjoy. Placing the seeds at a specific depth and spacing is a repetitive process, then waiting a certain number of days to germination, and more days to first harvest.

What does he like to eat? That would be my first choice of what to plant.

My garden is organic no-till. I use lots of homemade compost, no fertilizer, and lots of mulch. For new seedbeds, I use row cover to keep the squirrels and birds from digging up the seeds.

At 11:48 AM -0500 1/18/08, Dave Adams wrote:

I am a new member with an autistic son who is 12.  I am exploring different vegetable farming methods to see which my son is interested in and also which methods lend themselves to his functioning level.  He loves watering things and tasks that have a definite endpoint work well for him.   I am planning several different types of gardens on small scales this year.  In addition to our tilled garden, I will add a square foot and lasagna garden.   Any advice is welcomed and I was just wondering what methods people on this list are doing and maybe some of you have compared/tried different methods and I could learn what worked for you and why.  Thanks!

 

Dave Adams

Sterling Heights, MI

 

 

---

_______________________________________________
Livingontheland mailing list
Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland

_______________________________________________
Livingontheland mailing list
Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland

---

Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

_______________________________________________
Livingontheland mailing list
Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland

-- 
Bruce Smith

@{--+----+------+------------

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.  ~Author Unknown