A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch
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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)22 Aug 08 Video: June Taylor Jams by Ami Kealoha Wow!Take a look at this video about June Taylor Jams and see what food artisanship looks like. Amazing fruit, jams and video. I watched this as I was having lunch today and it made me hungry all over again... 19 Aug 08 Water timers -- a reply to a Real World Green Video from Eric Rochow Eric Rochow, over at Real World Green recently posted a video on using water timers for your sprinkling systems. The timer he showed in the video looked to be a volume-based time, measuring gallons instead of time... 16 Aug 08 Video: Taking out a Tree Time to remove a small pine tree that was in the wrong spot in the garden. This is a continuation of the "editing" since we bought this house 12 years ago.I had to go out and buy a bow saw to complete this job... 16 Aug 08 Elsewhere Online: Pallet Compost Bin Yet another homemade compost bin from easily obtainable materials. Yes, yes, I know, I seem obsessed with compost, but what gardener isn't these days, (SMILE)Pallet Compost Bin Going green and creating your own compost bin isn't as hard as you might think... 8 Aug 08 Links for 2008-08-08 [del.icio.us] The Objection To Being Stepped On by Robert Frost at Old Poetry ... 5 Aug 08 Snow Bowl - Flagstaff, Arizona Snow Bowl - Flagstaff, ArizonaOriginally uploaded by dewelchAnother picture=perfect scene that could be recreated in our own gardens, with enough patience. Since these were shade plants they might actualy work in my back garden... 3 Aug 08 Sometimes nature just gets it right Sedona TripOriginally uploaded by dewelchWe spent most of yesterday in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona. This scene from the creek really points out how nature just gets it right sometimes. I think I need to remember this more when working in my own garden... 26 Jul 08 Video: Rose Montage from the O'Connell's Garden We were visiting friends today -- sitting around the pool and munching on summer foods -- and their roses caught my eye. I spent a few minutes capturing the video for this montage, just wandering from bush to bush and taking it all in... 22 Jul 08 Noted: Rutabagas, Artichokes, Kiwis, Oh My! ("Noted" items are interesting posts I recently found in my RSS feeds -- Douglas)Rutabagas, Artichokes, Kiwis, Oh My!FruitAndVeggieGuru ? everything you need to know about the delicious fruits and vegetables you enjoy... 19 Jul 08 Compost, transplanting roses and seeding herbs After getting some desk work done this morning, and taking my daily walk, I came back charged up to get something done in the garden. I had gone to sleep nearly every night this week reviewing a bunch of stuff that needed to get done, but I haven't had the time, or energy frankly, to actually go and do it... 16 Jul 08 Links for 2008-07-16 [del.icio.us] Foldable Greenhouse by Daniel Schipper ... 14 Jul 08 Video: Tomato Update - July 14, 2008 iPod Ready Video ... 14 Jul 08 Tomato Update July 14, 2008 Tomato Update July 14, 2008Originally uploaded by dewelchSome of our larger Legend tomatoes are starting to ripen. I noticed that the green tomato in this picture has really taken off since I increased the water for the plants... 13 Jul 08 Featured on iTunes Store front page I happened to hit the front page of iTunes today and see that A Gardener's Notebook is featured on the front page. This is the first time for AGN, although Career Opportunities has been featured in the past... 8 Jul 08 Links for 2008-07-08 [del.icio.us] Word Clouds. Tag clouds for text, RSS, web ... 6 Jul 08 Red Pig Tools - Handmade Garden Tools Kathy Purdy over at Cold Climate Gardening added a link to Red Pig Tools to her Delicious bookmarks and I found it very interesting. Handmade garden tools in this day and age? Who would have thought. Their prices look pretty reasonable, too... 1 Jul 08 Links for 2008-07-01 [del.icio.us] Trommel+Compost+Sifter ... 1 Jul 08 Project: Trommel Compost Sifter from Instructables.com This looks like a neat device to help out with the compost sifting chores. It would certainly be an improvement over my makeshift compost sifter seen in my video, Compost is Ready!Trommel Compost Sifter This Instructable shows how to build a trommel (rotary screen) for sifting compost or shredded leaves... 30 Jun 08 Links for 2008-06-30 [del.icio.us] IT Conversations | Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators | Janis Dickinson Janis Dickinson Janis Dickinson directs the citizen science program at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators with Jon Udell she discusses the lab's various projects... 30 Jun 08 First ripe tomato First ripe tomatoOriginally uploaded by dewelchThis is the first ripe tomato off of our 3 tomato plants. It is just a single grape tomato, but another cluster is quickly growing just above this one. I have left it to my tomato loving wife to be the taste-tester... 30 Jun 08 Sunflower Explosion IMGP4377-ud.JPGOriginally uploaded by mrmoleWow! What a great pic. Wish I had sunflowers like this. I guess planting them would be a place to start. (SMILE) ... This podcast interview from IT Conversations came up in my playlist today while I was driving to a client call and I found it very interesting. I think it is an example of how community driven programs can really help the exploration of science in the coming years... 28 Jun 08 A few garden tasks Trellis 2Originally uploaded by dewelchBack on March 30, I did a video on tearing down an existing trellis which was already falling down on its own (Tearing down the trellis. In the meantime, the vines have just been hanging on to the remaing upright posts from that trellis... 22 Jun 08 Elsewhere Online: Summer reading for gardeners from Digging The high heat here in Los Angeles has been keeping me inside, just like Pam, the author of the "Digging" blog. I highly approve of her selections for garden reading and I find that I have already read many of them myself... 21 Jun 08 Tomato Update - June 21, 2008 The tomatoes are growing and fruit is setting. Here are a couple of pictures with a tape measure for scale. The Sprite has set another cluster of fruit and the Legend looks like it has some pollinated flowers, too... 15 Jun 08 Found on my daily walk today - Brugmansia and Passionflower Found these two on my walk today as I hit a different set of streets.Link: Brugmansia at Wikipedia.orgLink: Passionflower at Wikipedia.org ... 13 Jun 08 California Wildfire Information 2008 It seems the wildfire season is starting early this year here in California, so I am posting (what seems to be) my yearly posting on California Wildfire Information available via the web. These services provide detailed information including fire perimeters, weather info and more... 9 Jun 08 First Tomatoes First TomatoesOriginally uploaded by dewelchIt looks as if the bees and/or moths did their job and pollinated my Sprite tomato plant. It was the first one to flower and now I see fruit beginning to form... 30 May 08 What's that on the roof? As I sat at my computer, it sounded like a couple was dancing right over my head. I was too heavy and moving too quickly to be our usual opossums, and we have recently evicted most of the rats in the yard, so it could only be one thing... 24 May 08 Book: Compost by Ken Thompson Compost by Ken ThompsonA small, yet excellent, book on all things composting. Good information on a variety of methods and Thompson works hard to dispel various composting myths. Excellent layout and photos add to your reading enjoyment... 11 May 08 Links for 2008-05-11 [del.icio.us] Compost Tumbler - Part 3 ... 29 Mar 08 Links for 2008-03-29 [del.icio.us] GardenGirl TV ...
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