Global warming and your garden

[tstovall]

Aren't most of the people of this NG already contributing greatly to reduce Global Warming? We all (or at least want to) GARDEN and many of this list will apply to most of the gardeners.

1. Organic Growers aren't using (much) fertilizers, insecticides or pesticides.
2. Some Gardeners don't use any gasoline or fuels.
3. We strive to figure out ways to use water the most efficient way.
4. Any produce we grow means that it doesn't have to be transported from far away.
5. For the many that compost, we are giving the landfills less.
6. Many vegetable gardeners successive and some extend their seasons.
7. If we plant enough flowers and trees, we are trying to offset the buring of the Amazon rainforests.
8. Our efforts do not require taxpayer money and our efforts from the millions of gardeners world wide probably do more than all the government programs anyway.

Gardeners Forever! ~tom

[Billy]

It's that other way that has me nervous. Hey ya know, how it goes, you never know what you got till it's gone, you take Paradise and put up a parking lot. Cool back to square one, except this time these is already a lot of hydrolyzed amino acids floating around. That should be helpful;o))

[Billy]

Even the knuckle draggers start walking away when the provenance of President Monkey Smirk is about to be alloted.

[Billy]

Always one of my favorites. Unfortunately, I only have it on vinyl.

[Billy]

Sure to make the beers go down quicker;-(

[enigma]

Billy wrote in news: [e-mail] ct.net.au:

pretty much...

hey now! don't go dissing the lemmings! that bad rap about jumping off cliffs was entirely generated by a bored Disney camera crew doing a "documentary". they *chased* those poor leemings over the cliff to their deaths. Disney has a lot to answer for... i find it sad, but amusing that over 75% of houses i am seeing for sale have such rediculous (for the northeast anyway) features as 'cathedral ceilings'. can you say 'heat sink'? i'm looking into a modular type house to put on that abutting lot (if i buy it. the present house is beyond fixer-upper, but the heirs think they can sell it as habitable. i'm going to offer them 40k. 50k if they do the demolition. no way is that place going to get a loan as is). it's near impossible to find a less than 1000 sq.ft. 2 bedroom, one bath plan... bigger is all over, with huge amounts of wasted space.

gardening, mechanics, assorted handcraft arts (pottery, basketry, woodworking, sewing, plumbing), a solid, practical mathmatics base, critical thinking... stuff like that.

lee

[Billy]

The site shows landscaping, and I've seen auto mechanics being taught. Practical mathmatics base, critical thinking... stuff like that, would probably put you on a college track. It hasn't helped my earnings but has allowed me to step in and out of the labor market.

Your post on getting a drop spindle made me redouble my efforts and I've ordered an Ashford Student Spindle, bottom whorl model that can also be used as a top whorl, 2.8 oz., 12" shaft and 3" whorl.

I may have some questions. Could you write to me at [e-mail] so I don't need to clutter up the gardening group.

I think I mentioned that 5 tromboncinis have come up, plus 4 bitter melons. The heat is back in the 70's today and the peanuts seem stuck in getting all the way up. The year is looking good, just getting impatient with some of my tomatoes, seems like they are taking forever. The ones in the ground are growing quickly though. Everything that had a brush with the damping off seems to being having difficulties. Think I need to repot again.

[aluckyguess]

when oil is gone there will be new technologies to fix a lot of the problems. Think of all the patents the oil company's probably have locked up.

There might be some joy down the road but thats just a guess and lets hope I get lucky.

[Jangchub]

Did you see the new Dish Network commercial where the actor portrays shrub and he is showing a remote control for the dish and he says, (paraphrase) "There's this button pawzay; that's French for stop!" The button was actually pause.

I laughed out loud at that one.

My grandmother was a VP at the notorious Walker family empire. She worked on Wall Street for fourty years at G.H. Walker (no longer exists). Hey, at least she got to use the lux box at Shea Stadium!

She's long gone after 96 years of life. They still send a Christmas card.

[mleblanca]

Many kids and their parents are interested. Our Native Plant Society has a " wildflower show" every other year. We always have a native teas and edible plant display. It is always very popular and kids are fascinated with the idea. One member, a retired biology prof has Indian Useful and Edible plant walks that are very well attended by

40-50 people including kids. The problem is the teachers can't take time to teach it......they're too busy teaching and giving those mandatory tests associated with that "no child left behind" silliness. No time for the things that make kids WANT to learn. Emilie

[Jan Flora]

We're having another spring that's three weeks late, so far. We've been keeping weather records and recording migratory bird arrivals, the date the ice goes out on the lakes and creeks here, leaf-out on trees, various plant indicators and soil temps, etc. for 60 years. Last year and this year are the coldest springs since 1959 and 1964. Those were bad ones, too. The snow went off my garden beds yesterday. Normal ice out on our lake is May 15. We still have 100% ice coverage. Etc.

Jan in Alaska

[enigma]

mleblanca wrote in news: [e-mail] oups.com:

which is why my child goes to a Montessori school. i'm all for the child-led learning, advance at your own speed thing (my 7.5 year old is doing division & adding & subtracting fraction, which is 4th grade material in our local public school) lee

[Dioclese]

William Shatner pretty well summed it up on a CNN show. He said the vast majority of our problems are due to the planet's overpopulation, including global warming. He also commented on Congress demanding vehicles get 35 mpg or better by 2012. He said 55 mpg is more appropriate. I'm in agreement because economy vehicles made 20 years ago were getting around 35 mpg.

[Dioclese]

Either way, the food supply is at risk... We live in a very precarious world for climate to support plants we live on.

[Jangchub]

I don't think we should have any public schools at all. I think people who have children should be the ones who pay for school. I'm pretty sick of forking over 3,000 dollars a year to school tax so they can build a better football stadium. In Texas, highschool football is on the local news. They also teach to the test. My nieces are two of the dumbest, dullards I know.

[Dioclese]

Just don't try setting any examples by tying your horse to one of the bollards in front of the grocery store.

Ah, a world without oil. Just look around in your or almost anyone else's home, its plastic. A widely overlooked thing is the insulation on cables and wires. Another overlooked example is in alot of cases, the feedwater outside of the home and all wastewater pipe is plastic. Yes, there's other substitutes requiring other natural resources. But, not enough to suit the numbers required today, let alone tomorrow.

[jellybean stonerfish]

Yeah, only the rich should get an edjumacation. Then all us poor folk can mow your lawns.

[enigma]

Jangchub wrote in news: [e-mail]:

i agree that *far* too much is wasted on sports like football & baseball that only benefits a few students (school spirit my ass). if parents want their kid in sports, they should be the ones that pay. the taxes should only go for academics & arts. i pay for my son's education, but i also pay school taxes for those who can't afford private school. i just resent paying for stupid things like football uniforms (especially when the girl's teams have to hold fundraisers to get their equipment!). lee

[enigma]

jellybean stonerfish wrote in news:PiAYj.9253$ [e-mail]:

no, the poor folks should be getting better education, not the NCLB dumb-it-down bullcaca lee

[Billy]

Indeed. I was a poor learner until I found something I wanted to learn.