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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Year Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman - DVD Trailer
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:06:19 -0600

Isn't climate different north/south Ireland? I don't recall your location.
Do you use any row or bed cover inside your tunnel? We do the red Russian
kale and other kales but Russian onions &amp; Babington leeks are unfamiliar.
Of course some things just go by different names, certainly around this
country. I'm partial (understatement) to beet greens sauteed in little
olive oil but we don't do salads at home. On the weather front we finally
got the ground wet once last week but nothing since, and we're supposed to be
in our rainy season. They call it monsoon here in New Mexico but it's
hardly. Talked to a lady at a new country market here, said she
put in rain catchment this year but nothing to catch. ..

We need to know more about conditions &amp; coping in other countries. The
more
we learn, the more we find we don't know.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


"If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your
food comes from the grocery store then you are going to defend to the
death the system that brings those to you because your life depends on
that; if your experience is that your water comes from a river and that
your food comes from a land base then you will defend those to the death
because your life depends on them. So part of the problem is that we have
become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it
has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it and
it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it."
-- Derrick Jensen

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On 7/19/2011 at 8:53 PM John D'hondt wrote:

>Climate in Ireland is a main problem in that the only thing that is
>certain
>is uncertainty. So far this year we have not gone beyond 20C. Not that
>unusual but it slows down cucumbers and tomatoes a lot to name but two.
>Last winter we scored as low as -18C which was most unusual. Some winter
>crops took this in their stride outside especially Russian red kale and
>Russian onions, Babington leeks, turnips and black radish. In the poly
>tunnel were the more sensitive salad greens, misuna, mibuna, green in
>snow,
>February orchid, malva's and cresses. It got to -14 in there as well.
>We expect more or less the same sort of cold winter this year but then
>maybe
>not. We had years that I could potter away in the garden in T-shirt and
>short pants in January but we then got a killing frost in April.
>Something always grows.
>John
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>ear round for 25 years Paul. Of course
>>>most
>>>of these vegetables are seasonal but we have a fresh green salad every
>day
>>>of the year.
>>>john
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Year Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman - DVD Trailer
>>>> http://www.chelseagreen.com/tv/episode/3975139/
>>>>
>>>> This filmed workshop on year-round vegetable production offers farmers
>>>and
>>>> gardeners the rare chance to sit in with Eliot Coleman, one of the
>>>> pioneers of the organic farming movement and author of The New Organic
>>>> Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>>>
>>>> Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
>>>> --Henry David Thoreau
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