No, I didn't mean to say that. But your garden is your garden. Double-dig
if you like.
I'd wager that if you knew the true origins of cultivation, you'd be a bit
embarrassed that you ever subscribed to such an idea...
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Double-dug?
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 9:09 PM
Tripp Tibbetts wrote:
> Yes! Deep cultivation is a practice that is slowly being abandoned.
> Heresy in some circles, I know...
Good grief, again. Complete heresy. Tell us about deep cultivation and
why ...<fill in the blank>.
Where do you detractors get these crazy notions? GG Liddy is off the air
but I realize the dittoheads breed their lame mindset like flies
hoarding a cowpie like it was their last meal.
Seriously, didn't you mean to say that _tillage_ on agriculture fields
larger than gardens has fallen out of favor because of soil erosion
and exposing organic matter to be oxidized and lost releasing Co2 into
the atmosphere. But to disallow double dug gardening for the above
reasons is extremely short sighted and representative of poor planning,
depriving a gardener of one of the best time tested soil quality
improvement methods ever devised. Read John Jeavons and Alan Chadwick on
the subject, also Eliot Coleman and hundreds more experienced organic
gardeners who have written on the subject.
1. Leaves of borage are *cooked with* cabbage and cauliflower.
2. Chopped leaves of borage are *added to soups* after they are away from
the oven. They add a great flavor.
3. *Cake decorations* are done with candied flowers of borage by
grandmothers.
4. *Salads* and soups are garnished with young leaves and flowers of
borage. Summer cocktails and other drinks are also garnished traditionally
with leaves and flowers.
5. Flowers of borage are dried to add *color to potpourri*.
6. Boiling, frying and simmering would result in loss of borage fragrance
quickly.
7. In Germany, *sauces* prepared from herbs are very popular in summer.
And we have many such sauces that are freshly prepared in summer and most
of
them contain herbs and
vegetables<http://www.holistic-herbalist.com/borago-officinalis.html#>.
8. *Green sauce* is made in Frankfurt and its ancient formula contains
seven herbs - parsley, chervil, chives, cress, sorrel, burnet and borage.
Lemon balm is a popular extra herb.
9. Similar sauces and *pickles* are prepared in other parts of world with
Borago officinalis and other herbs.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
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flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never
ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a
certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues it
is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun." Osho
If one went to the extreme of giving the patient the full details of
mortality and morbidity related to cesarean section, most of them would get
up and go out and have their baby under a tree
-Neel, J. Medicolegal pressure, MDs lack of patience cited in cesarean
epidemic. Ob.Gyn. News Vol 22 No 10
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