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Comment by fkem on February 10, 2013 at 23:30

Some great posts from gael.bage

http://occupii.org/profiles/blogs/in-the-garden-coping-with-both-de...

http://occupii.org/profiles/blogs/save-money-re-cycling-in-the-gard...

Comment by fkem on January 27, 2013 at 23:14

Garden Planting Charts

http://pinterest.com/evelynvincent/garden-planting-charts/

Comment by fkem on January 27, 2013 at 23:12

Description

An easy to use application to design your kitchen garden. Helps you place your plants ( vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, flowers ) so that it respects the rules of crop rotation and companion planting. Based on square foot gardening.

Open Source :-)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kitchengarden/

Comment by fkem on January 27, 2013 at 23:05

Companion Planting.

Its getting close to the growing season again, and even though my first attempts at container gardening failed miserably,  the enthusiasm of the mumble meetings (Wednesdays at 8pm, shown live on http://www.livestream.com/occupylsx), and this group planted the seed of possibilities in my psyche and am planning this years campaign. Part of this years campaign is to deal with caterpillars, slugs and too much water, adequate drainage will cure the water problem, and im researching watering ideas, but thats not what this post is about. Its the other things that eat my efforts, which hopefully can be put off doing so. by companion planting, and in the process give more flavour, and abundant crops in less space, while at the same time benefiting friendlier creatures. So Ive been trawling the webz again, and got some links to share, in the hope you find them .

If anyone has any practical experience of companion planting , myself, and Im sure others too, would be very very grateful for you sharing with us.

Companion planting guides:-

Huge list of companion plants
http://www.wisdom-earth.com/Default.aspx?id=companion_planting

Open Source project, The Atriplex Project: A Permaculture Database for the Front Range
http://wildgreenyonder.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/atriplex/

Companion Planting Guide (with a chart to download)
http://permaculturenews.org/2010/07/30/companion-planting-guide/

Herb Companion Plants To Help Your Herb Garden Grow Pest Free
http://www.herbfest.net/growing-herbs/gardening-with-herbs/272-comp...

Companion Planting
http://www.edibleyardworks.com/how-to-make-your-edible-garden/compa...

Companion planting guidem followed by table, link
http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Companion_Planting/
http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Companion_Planting/companio...

Another companion planting chart
http://myfolia.com/groups/47-companion-planting/topics/4862-another...

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants

Related articles and stuff:-

Companion planting guide
http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/guides/story.asp?nid=2146

Gardening Ideas: Companion Planting: A reliable option or nonsense?
http://allthingsplants.com/ideas/view/wildflowers/46/Companion-Plan...

How Biodiversity Keeps Earth Alive
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-biodiversity-k...

     
Science behind companion planting (blog)
http://www.permies.com/t/14934/organic/Science-companion-planting

Companion plants

by Professor Stuart B. Hill Department of Entomology Macdonald College
http://eap.mcgill.ca/publications/EAP55.htm

Companion Planting in Your Herb Garden
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/hgen/companion-plantin...

Round Valley Sustainability Guild
http://rvsg.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/companion-planting-w-veggies-f...

Comment by gael.bage on September 27, 2012 at 13:15

grow your own clothes - compost the worn out ones !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18301669

Comment by gael.bage on September 1, 2012 at 20:02

Fungi mycelium, essential to a healthy ecostystem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjv8Zj1ABAc&list=UUR8Y7Ay6PJXnds...

Comment by Barb Dwyer on August 30, 2012 at 2:33

WOW Fek - excellent! ty!

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:19

Problems

http://topveg.com/category/potato/

Harvesting

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG6239.html

Storing

http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipes/storing-the-surplus-storing-pot...

http://stretcher.com/stories/10/10sep20a.cfm

Potato Clamp Storing Potatoes - Preserving

Other

ww.grain.org/article/entries/220-potato-a-fragile-gift-from-the-andes

http://www.actahort.org/books/619/

https://research.cip.cgiar.org/confluence/display/wpa/Home

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0200e/I0200E08.htm

http://cpri.ernet.in/potato4student.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08152001-024513/

http://cipotato.org/potato/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/AGRIC/NR03RE/EN/B1373_25.HTM

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:18

Breeding

http://www.growseed.org/potato-breeding.html

Indoors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9g0JXJz-JU

http://www.ehow.com/how_4719656_grow-recycled-potatoes-indoors.html

http://www.gardening-tips-idea.com/Growing-potatoes-indoor.html

http://indoor-gardener.co.uk/growing-potatoes-indoors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSC5Rt01WU

Recipies

http://www.coloradopotato.org/colorado_potato_recipes.php

Blight

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-stop-potato-blight

http://nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/blight/

http://www.extension.org/pages/18351/organic-management-of-late-bli...

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:18

Chitting

http://www.blagger.co.uk/growing-food/chitting-potatoes-at-last/

http://www.nvsuk.org.uk/growing_show_vegetables_1/chitting-sproutin...

Growing

http://tipnut.com/grow-potatoes/

http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/hot_topics/lawn_and_garden/pota...

http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/hot_topics/lawn_and_garden/pota...

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/factsheets/gg9.php

http://oregonstate.edu/potatoes/CSS322WebNotes.html

http://www.onthegreenfarms.com/fruit-vegetable/how-to-grow-organic-...

http://kenoshapotato.com/

http://threedaughtersfarm.com/wp/?p=339

http://garden.lofthouse.com/botanical-potato-seed.phtml

http://www.nhrdf.com/htmlfiles/Potato/pot_agro.htm

http://tater-mater.blogspot.co.uk/

http://theextremegardener.com/?p=217

http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/sowing-potatoes-fro...

http://tatermater.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=...

http://blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/living/doug-oster-gar...

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Potato_seed

http://topveg.com/category/potato/page/2/

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:17

Varieties

http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/the-potato/

http://www.chadahs.org.uk/potato_list_varieties.htm

http://topveg.com/2008/01/early-potato-varieties-to-grow-in-the-veg...

http://varieties.potato.org.uk/varietyindex.php%20?page_no=1

http://www.ehow.com/info_8575533_blight-resistant-red-potato-variet...

http://www.potatoseeds.org.uk/

http://www.europotato.org/menu.php

Christmas potatoes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenprojects/3338550/Kitchen...

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:08

Seed

http://www.ehow.com/info_8662914_potato-seeds.html

http://www.ehow.com/info_8253191_differences-potato-seeds-seed-pota...

http://gardenrant.com/2012/01/an-interview-with-the-true-potato-see...

http://theextremegardener.com/

http://kbikramsingh.com/Unnakoti.htm

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Category:Tom_Wagner

http://tripura.nic.in/agr2.htm

http://tinyfarmblog.com/potato-fruit/

http://www.icarda.org/Afghanistan/NA/Full/Potato_F.htm

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/20211/cs00040.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYQ0Y8Fnjs

http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/652/1/341.html.htm

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0200e/I0200E10.htm

http://www.curzio.com/N/PotatoProject.htm

http://tatermater.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=...

http://www.curzio.com/N/TPS_Russian_Blue.htm

http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/28652

http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/?q=content/true-potato-seed-tps

http://spadework.typepad.com/spade_work/2008/09/tsp---true-seed-pot...

http://forums.seedsavers.org/showthread.php?t=3022

http://www.curzio.com/N/Potato_starting_from_seed.htm

Comment by fkem on August 30, 2012 at 0:04

Potatoes

The potato is an important food. Usually it is grown from tubers, called seed potato,which are the same potatoes which we eat, except they are usually left to sprout, or chit. They can also be grown from raw peelings if they have eyes on them, that dosent mean you have to livestream them, though you can if you want, the eye is a hard black spot on the skin. There are also seeds in the fruit produced after flowering, known as True Potato Seed. The fruit has to be processed to get at the seeds, and the seeds take longer to grow than the tubers. I was hoping to collect some true seed, to experiment with, but a huge army of slugs and snails assaulted the plants rendering them leafless, and something ate through the stems, or heavy rain broke them, causing what was left to wither and die.It seems odd when the potato plant is related to deadly nightshade, and is poisonous, suppose theres no acounting for taste.

Its an amazing plant considering it was first cultivated, so they believe, seven to ten thousand years ago in south Peru and north Bolivia. It was taken from there to Europe by the Spanish invaders later in history. It has travelled to places as cold and far north as Scotland(compared to Peru), which is where most seed potatoes in th UK come from because they can be grown there without fear of blight. From the original plant found in Peru and Bolivia there are over four thousand varieties now grown.

To grow potatoes, you can lay the tuber on the ground and cover with straw apparently, no digging needed. Usually they are grown in ridges , lots of digging required. They can be grown in containers, from buckets to barrels or specially constructed boxes, which allow harvesting the potatoesfrom the bottom up. They are also grown in tyres ,bags and cages. I grew mine in heavy duty plastic bin liners, compost bags can be used too. They, apparently, can be grown indoors . There are varieties planted in august to be ready for Christmas, these are earlier in the season potatoes, planted again. When the tubers are harvested, they lay dormant for 6 to 12 weeks, depending on the variety and storage conditions, wherupon they can be chitted again and planted, though some very late ones are planted unchitted. And yes, try planting the ones you buy to eat, or their uncooked skins, no matter what their source.

Anyway, next post will for your entertainment, education and experimentation, be some links. Hope you find them useful. Not a lot of youtube links, because I dont tend to save many of them, its worth looking though, loads of great ideas.

Comment by gael.bage on August 27, 2012 at 13:19

no dig raised beds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfxHHpDSiw&feature=related

Comment by gael.bage on August 24, 2012 at 15:54

permaculture and sustainability in brittle dry areas -

http://www.holisticdecisions.com/semillabesada.html

Comment by gael.bage on August 4, 2012 at 19:15

Community Supported Agriculture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPh1S2bN4C8

Comment by merryfourtwentyyoutube on July 29, 2012 at 8:48

http://www.backyardchickens.com/search.php?search=pallet+coop

The united nations has said that the egg is the most important food source for developed nations. So how do you make a chicken coup from pallets? 

South Americans eat guinea pigs and they are excellent dog food in my opinion and are easier to feed than any animal I have ever encountered. Guinea Pigs also a good idea. They have been recommended as a micro livestock for the African Congo. 

Comment by V on July 11, 2012 at 19:11

Seasonal Ingredient Map

An interactive map (USA) to see what's fresh in your area, plus find ingredient descriptions, shopping guides, recipes, and tips

Comment by V on July 10, 2012 at 20:37

Seasonal Reference Chart for Herbs

Comment by V on July 10, 2012 at 20:36

Seasonal Reference Chart for Vegetables

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