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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 9, 2015 15:39:12 GMT -5
Ah the feral years. You haven't changed a bit. Same beard, same blue eyes...only what goes between the slices have changed. Mrs. T is a lucky woman.
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Post by flowerweaver on Mar 10, 2015 10:14:02 GMT -5
Received my copy of the book yesterday. I'm a slow reader, so my review will be later. 12540dumont I don't eat wheat/barley/rye either, but it doesn't stop me from making pasta, pizza, cake, pie, cookies, and bread at my house. It's just a matter of using alternative flour blends. For me, it was a choice between dibilitating joint swelling & pain and eating gluten. Wheat lost. Great pic, T. I used to rock-climb back then, too. I still wear flowers in my hair Holly. Taken at a folk festival we played a couple years back.  |
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Post by bunkie on Mar 11, 2015 15:22:48 GMT -5
Great 'flowers-in-the-hair' pics all! Were you goin' to San Fransisco?! I still have them in my hair from them thar days!
Just got the book for my b-day! Great review Templeton!
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Post by jondear on Mar 12, 2015 10:14:06 GMT -5
Our local library had a program where everybody got a free book. I ordered Carol's book. Not sure how long before I'll receive it, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by flowerweaver on Mar 13, 2015 11:35:39 GMT -5
bunkie no, but I'm originally from San Francisco. Kind of dating myself, I was there for the Summer of Love and even attended the Haight-Ashbury riots as a kid!
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Post by templeton on Mar 13, 2015 21:43:50 GMT -5
bunkie no, but I'm originally from San Francisco. Kind of dating myself, I was there for the Summer of Love and even attended the Haight-Ashbury riots as a kid! Is "attended" the correct verb to go with "riot"?  T |
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Post by nicollas on Mar 17, 2015 3:33:43 GMT -5
Ok so i've read it; I enjoyed it less than her two previous books, but those books are at the top of the list, sharing the podium with The Permaculture Designer  So it is a very good nevertheless. I found it less empowering but i prefer to be empowered on breeding and staples than tomatoes and peas. It feeled to me like it was a sequel of The Resilient Gardener, that another book was needed to put all that didnt fit in the RG. And i'm glad she's written another book on her gardening practices because its pure knowledge, genius and adventure. I especially enjoyed that the book was less variety centered, and that landraces and how to maintain a good outcrosser variety/population was discussed (for example by doing breeding sister lines). I also enjoyed a lot the Eat-all-green tehnique, i'll give it a try, especially with mustard. So i've reorganized my neurones to screen for potential species/varieties to try (I've sent you a message about Fast Plant www.fastplants.org/ but dont know if you received it, Carol Deppe) What stroked me is the absence of Tom Wagner in the content of the book. Maybe this variety was not available at the time, but it seems Tom is providing OP varieties with homozygous ph2 and ph3 (at least skykomish is) that could replace Iron Lady for late blight resistance breeding work. And more important, i feel that potato true seeds (TPS) could be a so powerful weapon in your hands, on the resilience, late-blight resistance and breeding potential sides, that the humanity could benefit hugely if your interest go into that too (if i remember correctly on the subject you said that you just have freezed TPS in case of but no work on growing or breeding it). But i guess your days have the same number of hours that ours. To summarize a very good book |
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Post by reed on Mar 17, 2015 6:16:57 GMT -5
I'm still digesting her other books, for the second time. Whizzed through them too fast the first time. I'll pick this one up later as I'v spent all my money on seeds. I'm not particularly focused on tomatoes or peas either but I find the philosophy and technique more inspiring than the detail. I couldn't care less about growing peas in Oregon but I bet when I read it I'll get a better understanding of growing melons in Indiana.
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Post by templeton on Mar 17, 2015 17:42:34 GMT -5
nicollas,
fair point - it does feel a bit like volume 2 of the Resilient Gardener, but to me felt a bit more relaxed in style.
T
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Post by steev on Mar 17, 2015 22:05:30 GMT -5
T: Eww! Lizard breath!
Nice turquoise, though; all I've got is carbon; cubic-structure, I think; so common, virtually industrial, like apple juice.
flower: I don't recall seeing you in SF, but my vision tended to be a tad unfocussed. If you went to the Ken Kesey Koolade Acid Test Trips Festival at the Longshoreman's Hall (I'm sure you were too young), I was the guy in the iced-tea-spoon glasses and my Cal sweetheart was the Chinese go-go dancer. Had I known then that I'd get so old, I'd have partied harder. Acid reflux? That'll blow your mind!
Re: "attended riots": that is a very accurate way to describe some behavior. I was never inclined to group activity, but I attended many such, feeling a need to witness and distrusting corporate media's version of what had happened ( I recall instances of the Oakland Tribune {then owned by William Knowland, very conservative} air-brushing details they didn't like out of AP wire-photos). Digressing, as I do so often, one of his grand-daughters became a near neighbor of mine in the eighties and loaned the rototiller he'd gifted her, so I could do a couple jobs, for which my tiller was too large. It's a small and Byzantinely connected world, and it's not getting larger, just more Byzantine.
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Post by flowerweaver on Mar 18, 2015 12:27:55 GMT -5
I was young enough to be stuffed into a shop front alcove while my uncle participated, so yes more of an observer status, although not entirely shut out from the party. I'm sure if my mother, working at the time, had ever known I had hitched along with my 'babysitter' she would have been upset.
Back to the Tao of Vegetables, I enjoyed reading Carol's essay 'Do Carrots Really Love Tomatoes?' as I agree that many of the touted companion plant pairs don't seem to work at all together--at least in my environment--or perhaps even in theory. Maybe they do elsewhere, but I was glad to see a respected author question it in print with solid examples.
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Post by steev on Mar 18, 2015 14:01:06 GMT -5
I have often thought the companion plant thing had more to do with cultural/culinary pairings than botanical affinity.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 18, 2015 21:38:20 GMT -5
Just don't going planting beans and onions. They hate each other and you'll get a poor crop of both.
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Post by nicollas on Mar 31, 2015 3:10:06 GMT -5
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