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- From: Permacltur@aol.com
- To: london@metalab.unc.edu, permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: raised bed organic gardening
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:38:08 EDT
Larry:
Why are excessively expensive English digging tools more traditional
than a fire-hardened pointed stick or a mattock hoe? I thought permaculture
was a worldwide thing, and not simply an extension of Anglo-Saxon tradition.
:-)
I have raised beds but I never manage anything only one way. I use
a two digging implements in raised beds. I move soil with a $3 shovel from a
discount place and I loosen soil and cut small roots with a flat-blade spade
that is likely older than most people on this list and the price of which I
do not recall. It is not English. I bought it when I was 17 for my
landscape gardening business. I'm now 60. Doubtless it won't hold up as
well as an expensive, mortgage-your-house-to-buy English model, but I'll limp
along with it.
Try John Jeavons. He has perfected what you are talking about.
Dan Hemenway
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raised bed organic gardening,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/23/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- raised bed organic gardening, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/23/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Marsha Hanzi, 07/23/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Marsha Hanzi, 07/23/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Permacltur, 07/23/1999
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Re: raised bed organic gardening,
Permacltur, 07/23/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/24/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/24/1999
- RE: raised bed organic gardening, John Schinnerer, 07/26/1999
- RE: raised bed organic gardening, John Schinnerer, 07/26/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Skye, 07/30/1999
- Re: raised bed organic gardening, Skye, 07/30/1999
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