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Post by coppice on Mar 25, 2011 17:02:53 GMT -5
My probably unethical next suggestion is, when ever there isn't a way to buy some fruit, is to simply eat some. Cheek the stones and get to work at gardening after...
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Post by coppice on Mar 23, 2011 15:45:09 GMT -5
Bertie, When using Asiminia triloba, I keep ending up at European Minor Fruit Tree Species Database. Now, I don't read write or speak Italian, Spanish, or French. Perhaps you know someone who does who can pick through this collection of databases.
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Post by coppice on Mar 23, 2011 8:33:23 GMT -5
Anyone know where I might find fruit or seed in the EU? I couldn't find any on a quick search with Google.fr and I've never seen the fruit for sale anywhere. A quick Google search notes that Ghana exports paw paw to EU. Maybe try a phone call to the Ghanian embasy? Or try (which I did not) some variation of key words on google, like "sources for Ghanian paw paw" ? Paw paw IS a very seasonal item here, so it'll be midsummer before your more local crop comes near to ripe.
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Post by coppice on Mar 20, 2011 11:28:50 GMT -5
I have some pawpaw seeds starting to germinate but here's the thing, they would be super borderline here for ripening and possibly for cold as well. Anyone want to give me advice/good wishes? Thankfully seeds are cheap. Select a large south facing masonry building as a heat sink plant near to it?
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Post by coppice on Mar 18, 2011 17:35:04 GMT -5
---><8snip8><--- I dug it up and planted it here in France where the summers are much warmer but the winters a bit colder. My Asimina/paw paw curled up its toes and died two years after being replanted. It kept dying back and then never regrew very far. Over pay for some whole fruit (late in August-early October) spit out the stones into a pot of very fast draining soil. Seed needs to sit outside with a plank over the pot, or in cold frame to cold stratify. It will germinate in the spring. Seedlings can be gently teased apart if your potting soil was mostly sand. Re-pot into 4 (or bigger) liter pots. Plant out in pairs to feild in partial shade year two or three. I've not seen paw paw grow in standing water. Ohio clay is not a barrier. Paw paw planted to feild will not tolerate transplanting. So find your spot to plant first. If you move, start over.
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Post by coppice on Feb 20, 2011 19:59:20 GMT -5
I did wintersow early. I expect seed to slumber till about the right time to pop.
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Post by coppice on Feb 14, 2011 6:10:56 GMT -5
We have alkaline soil here and I expect that the wood would help balance that (someone correct me if I am wrong). Yes brush does break down over time and when it should come time to dismantle beds the remains become, well simply dirt. I expect that brush and leaf mulch will not much change your soil PH. If you really need to change PH your going to end up with additional sulphur (acid) or Lime (alkaline)
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Post by coppice on Feb 13, 2011 16:34:45 GMT -5
Bev, while I have been only breifly gardening, oh like the past fourty years. Based on my direct experience using a light blocking layer does effectively kill grass and hay feild if applied to sod first and is a few inches bigger than the applied bottomless box, with NO GAPS.
I do use mobility aides to get around these days and find a raised bed much taller than twelve inches tall both exponentially more expencive because two-by lumber is inadaquate to the volume of soil being contained. And a taller bed doesn't do for me what wider aisle space permitting a roller or walker into the garden does. Your beds should be no wider than four feet and should be aproachable from both sides. Six feet of end space between ends of beds is another minumum.
I've cut down hoes/rakes to adjust to my changed reach in beds. Cut your to suit you as you try them.
You can fill bottom of beds with brush or any other unpainted or untreated jumber. It will rot away into a big sponge; see Hugelkulture.
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Post by coppice on Jan 25, 2011 7:49:16 GMT -5
When I've had a very sandy soil this works to preserve moisture once woody parts have rotted some. Some claims of holding an entire summers worth of drouth are exagerated.
It helps, it aint a cure-all.
You will end up with very obvious raised beds that will impead mechanical harvest.
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Post by coppice on Jan 19, 2011 14:39:17 GMT -5
No matter if it goes into the chicken before chicken poo goes into the compost. It all ends up in the right place, your garden.
I had'ta re-read the Humanure Handbook a couple days ago. Worth firing up a google search for. I haven't read it inna while...
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Post by coppice on Jan 13, 2011 11:53:24 GMT -5
I want to raise even higher. I would like to raise them all to about three feet high in the long run. Speaking as a person who uses a mobility aide to get around, I have to ask "why". Why that hight?
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Post by coppice on Jan 5, 2011 17:55:53 GMT -5
Speaking only as a parent, and with no other intelectual claim. Based on what I've seen other parents trials have been Elton John is too darned old to be breaking into the parent business.
Again based only on observation heterosexuality is no patent on good parenting. I'd think it a bad plan even if he had three wives.
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Post by coppice on Dec 30, 2010 14:05:28 GMT -5
The deal all lawyers will offer is the same percentage. Take it you've been horsed around long enough.
Its the only way (hiring a lawyer) that your gonna get this done. been there, done that.
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Post by coppice on Dec 29, 2010 22:49:09 GMT -5
I composted meats, fats, animal by products (of butchering). When done in moderation they all broke down fine in a suburban compost bin. I think if I had commercial friers I would solicit their collection on craigs list or free cycle for somebody who made biodesel.
I've composted the product of beauty salons in bales of human hair, it was objectionable.
I've composted rurally and had visiting bear.
In 40 years of composting visitation of *dreaded* (others emphasis) rats, I got one visiting released lab rat. s/he got trapped and drowned. Of all the 'visitors' neighbor dogs were the most argumentative, and troublesome. I have called animal control. Skunks, raccoon, possum (and for that matter) bear all were reasonably discrete and would snack after my deposit. No wild animal was destructive of my bins.
Much of the bug-aboo and flack I've gotten was on gardenig forums around composting were from what I will call 'organic pharasee's. You'll live longer if you ignore them.
Long ago before gardenweb became a wasteland proffesor Dirt composted several tons of shucked oysters. IMO a little common sence and an ability to mix high nitrogen and high carbon composts together can be done to your advantage.
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Post by coppice on Dec 29, 2010 12:29:09 GMT -5
Oh I suppose as an adjunct to 911, for emergency responders, and law enforsement a site like spokeo could be justified. For darned near everyone else in the known mega universe spokeo is a licsence to mayhem. www.spokeo.com/Opt out if you have the ability to do so.
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