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MEMORIABLE MEMORIAL WEEKEND
had a memoriable memorial weekend
on satuday spent the day with two brothers (both ex military)
one always gives an update on a memorial day email he sends
reminding us all to remember those who made the ultimate
sacrifice for our country and to remember those relatives of
ours who made that sacrifice and to remember those who
have served or or serving in the military
he also has some dictums that he reviews and ill post them
in a later blog
the other brother needed some rainwater harvesting advice for
his home
was glad to offer my advice as long as it doesnt involved a shovel
he is attempting to harvest rainwater off his house to obtain enough
water to irrigate his reduced lawn, his other landscaping, and also
to irrigate his garden which he has landscaped into his backyard
so it is very pleasing to the eye but is quite productive
he is doing this under the confines of an hoa and its rules
he will catch water off his roof and route it to to tanks in
each corner of his yard
the tanks have to be lower than his 6 foot fence and the end
result has to be pleasing to the eye (his wifes eye)
the lines will be buried and will be 2-4 inches in diameter
he may be able to catch 2-3000 gallons in these tanks and
other small tanks he has
remember the less city water he uses the less his water bill and
sewage bill will be
i think we/he have a plan now to follow
just have to beat the hoa and his wifes eye
he also just put in a solar system that should go online today
will blog this later
we also went to a roundtable discussion of organic gardening by
some of the gods of organic gardening in texas
see below
on sunday spent the day with friends that are moving out of state
we enjoyed the visit
we also gave them a tour of our recycled house, our rainwater
system, our solar system, our chickens and their condo, our
organic garden, and our xeroscaped landscape
over the years we have given a lot of these tours and hope we have
influenced some of them to try some of these things
the friends will be missed
on monday i actually for the first day since i quit working 6
months ago did nothing outside or productive
i took a slug day
i took three naps of 1 hour, watched shows on the history channel
on the civil war and the viet nam war, watched a movie with
my wife she, read the paper and at the end of the day bbqed
hamburgers and cooked sweet potato chips for supper/dinnner
a memorable memoriable memorial weekend
ORGANIC ROUNDTABLE
my brother and i went to an organic roundtable discussion on saturday
there on the discussion panel was
malcom beck the god of organic gardening in texas,
john drumgoole the 2nd god of organic gardening in texas
the owner of my nursery the natural gardener and owner of
the lady bug organic products and host of a local austin radio show
on organic gardening
judy barrett a gardening writer-she wrote and
published the homegrown magazine that could be found at many
nurseries in this area,
bruce deuley an author and host of tv and radio shows on organic
gardening,
stuart franke the president of medina agriculture products,
noel garcia of the texas plant and soil lab and
bob webster who owns an organic nursery and hosts a local radio
show on organic gardening
boy 2 hours of discussion wasnt enough
bottom line compost is the answer to good gardening
it provides benefical bacteria and fungi, nitrogen, minerals etc
pesticides and insecticides are really bad to use in the garden
and in the yard
more and more people are becoming involved in organic
gardening every year
one panel person produced 150 lbs of organic squash on
a 15 ft row
it cost him 20 cents a lb to grow but retail organic squash is
$3-5 a lb
you do the math
great panel
BB
finally the finals
heat vs mavs
south beach bs south fork
should be a good series
wish both teams could win
the organicgreen doctor
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