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The First-Time Vegetable Gardener -- Some Pathways to Success By Fred Davis
Did I hear you correctly? You're just "starting out" in the rewarding (and often exhausting) hobby of gardening? Think you'd like to grow your own vegetables, instead of limiting your choices to that natural-looking, neatly-arranged assortment of mostly foreign grown produce in the supermarket? Are you concerned that, in all likelihood, most supermarket vegetable offerings may contain substances (additives, pesticides, and other chemicals used in their production) over… |
Amaryllis Amaryllis How Does Your Garden Grow? "Organically, of Course!" By Marilyn Jansen
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Her First Gardens Her imagination would take her to faraway places where ancient gardens grew, outside castles in England or country farms around the world. She had no idea, when she began, about soil and water, or how to plan. She just got out there into the garden. Her soil was sandy, it had little nutrients; but she was more concerned with the design of her rows. She made the most unusual trenches that swirled in river-like forms and she imagined this is how a garden is planted. She placed the seeds carefully, as instructed on the package, one in each finger hole, about an inch apart, with a half-inch of dirt on top. For days she misted the squiggly rows until, seven days later, amidst the bare dirt, came little leaf pairs emerging from the earth. Each morning she’d look out to see how they were doing and sure enough, they grew into tall skinny zinnias. When they finally bloomed she had to laugh because even in the unhealthy soil they still presented many shades from salmon pink to magenta, bobbing on heavy heads almost falling over. Cymbidiums
My cymbidiums, oncidiums and phaleonopsis all grow in cinder and hapu fern like the Japanese ladies do. The epiphytes with aerial roots grow so easily. They like the elevation up country I know. I learned that in a book about how certain orchids grow. But mostly I’ve learned from others and by trying everything.
I keep them evenly moist but never overwater!
My name is Marilyn Jansen.I live on the island of Maui pursuing life as a writer and budding artist.
I worked as a registered nurse for 14 years until I began to follow my
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