Recent Posts Tagged With 'garden'

• Soil amendments Needed Yes or NO?

  Posted on Saturday August 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 in garden, gardening, mittleider, jim kennard

  Hi everyone, My name is Tom and I live in central California in thefoothills ..I have been trying to grow a garden for several years onlyto end up with nothing for my effort. I have decomposed granite forsoil and it will not grow anything except weed...

• Mittleider gardening classes

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 06:20 in garden, gardening, mittleider

  Hi all...me again with questions.Are there ever classes taught on this method? I'd never heard of thisuntil I read a blog belonging to another Idahoan who does itsuccessfully. I think this is a wonderful gardening method, one I amtransforming my gard...

• Pruning determinate vs indeterminate tomatoes

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 05:56 in garden, vegetables, tomatoes

  Thanks for the replies.? I think it was most clear when Jim said "just make sure you have ONE stem growing upward, and remove everything else."? I must confess that this is what I was thinking everyone meant, but couldn't imagine it was really true!?...

• The Marines and Iraqi's need your help

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 05:58 in garden, gardening, vegetables, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  Friends:We leave today for Armenia and the Republic of Georgia to work onprojects in those countries. We expect to return to the States by themiddle of June, unless something extends our work.Such as: I received a note from a father of a marine in Ir...

• Why using Poo in a garden is a bad idea

  Posted on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 05:55 in garden, gardening, vegetables

  highly recommend you consider carefully before using manure and compost in your raised-bed garden. It is believed that more than 90% of the composted materials available to the family gardener have NOT been sterilized in the composting process.To be...

• Stopping powdery mildew

  Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 05:47 in garden, gardening, vegetables, mittleider

  You can buy a gallon of skim milk(non fat) and just spray it from thebottle. No dilution necessary.Or, you can buy non fat dry milk and mix it as followsone part dry non fat milknine parts water.A good schedule is every two weeks or oftener if you se...

• Growboxes how and when

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 17:32 in garden, gardening, vegetables, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  My husband has been a member of the group for about 2 years, and Ijoined more recently. We have the Garden Master program, and books, andhave followed these quite carefully. We have 3 boxes that are 18" x 30'and 3 boxes 4' x 30'.A local company mixed...

• Correct adjustments to fertilizers other then 20-20-20

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 23:08 in garden, gardening, vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation

  Jim,I have 4 questions:1. I'm still in El Paso... I can't locate the 16-16-16, 16-8-16blend. I've only been able to find 13-13-13. I mixed the weekly feedbut I'm not sure if I need to add anything else to bring the numbers up.2. I mixed the pre-plant...

• General Mittleider gardening questions

  Posted on Thursday August 23rd, 2007 at 07:39 in garden, tomatoes, mittleider, sustainable gardening, jim kennard

  Over the past couple of weeks I have signed on to this group andobtained an enormous amount of help and information. I have alsoread one of Dr. Mittleider's early books. What I have found is thatI read something in a post or article and then forget...