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Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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Homemade Liquid Flavored Coffee Creamer Recipes
Posted by: “Kathy”
French Vanilla Coffee Creamer
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Almond Orange Cappuccino
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
1 tsp almond extract and 1/2 tsp orange extract for cappuccino.
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Amaretto
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
Add 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp almond extract
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Almond Cappuccino
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
1 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp orange extract
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Chocolate Almond
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
1 to 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp almond extract
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Chocolate Truffle Mint
1 can sweetened condensed milk (also available in low fat)
1 1/2 cups nonfat milk
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon peppermint extract.
Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass
mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk
will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the
refrigerator.
Liquid coffee creamer base can also be made by mixing 1 cup of dry
coffee creamer with 1 cup of hot water. Mix until dissolved. Add 1
cup of cold water. Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator.
Try creating a powder from your favorite candy. Candy canes now come
in many flavors. By adding bits of candy to your food processor and
processing until the candy bits are a powder, you can add new flavors
to your coffee creamer with a fraction of the cost of commercial
flavored creamers. Simply add the powdered candy bits to your liquid
coffee creamer and shake well to dissolve.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SimplfyMeWithTipsAndHints/
Beautiful!!!!!
Even I can see the seedlings.
Yes to horse manure, and all the others.
Your garden looks good and is growing, good for you.
I am glad you posted the photo, we need to see Mother Nature at work....with your help of course.
Shame you are not closer, I would volunteer to help you eat the produce.
I think we always have a lot to learn.
I grew up in hard times, then found out how little that I really knew about so many things and still have more to learn.
Before 9-11, I was a member of a group, called “Once a month cooking”, it was a freezer group and had so much information in it.
They made a hobby of good food in the freezer and some of their tricks were amazing and useful.
I haven’t been posting on freezing, even tho I have had a link for a week or more open to check out.
Do share what you learn about freezing, about all that has been said and I agree as I have the book, one called “Stocking up”,
it covers all types of preparing food for storage and is excellent.
Do keep in mind, that the first thing that will be useless in a disaster is the freezer.
Electric can be lost, from something that happened many miles away.
The terrorists can now hack into the computers and shut down whole plants, they have already proved that they can do it.
Remember about 4 years ago, when New York was without electric for a week and all the apartment dwellers were sleeping on the streets?
The final investigation called it “a computer glitch”, in Ohio.
Even if the people had climbed 25 or 30 floors to get into the apartments, they could not get in, as the doors use the new electronic keys and there was no electric.
I had good luck with the food dehydrator from Walmart, using the Stocking up book to guide me, did greens of several types and lots of squash, then kept them in the freezer, as I am only one and had a large supply.
In the earlier parts of this thread, there are links and searches for Solar dryers and homemade dryers.
Please share with us what you learn, as I am so out of practice and out of date, that I would need to start all over again.
Watch for the link to TLCsoaps.com, I think, and join that group, they are a fine bunch of people and will help you learn, there will be the “someday I will” and people making their living selling soaps they have made on it and all willing to share what they know.
When I first went on the internet and discover Yahoo Groups, I joined a slew of soap and candle groups, but none were of the quality that TLC is.
On the candles, when I got into them and learned that I could do the same thing with a pot of oil and a wick, and put the same ingredients in the air, I lost interest........the wax you buy is petroleum based, unless you buy beeswax or soy wax and I am not a soy fan.
Now I couldn’t have them burning anyway, with the oxygen machine going 24 hours a day, so maybe it is as well that i left them alone.........
But you must also try paper making and papermache, now that is fun and don’t forget doll making.
Do it all, don’t pass up anything.......or..........choose one thing and become an expert at it.........I am a do it all person and will never be an expert at anything.
Smile and have fun, make this your day to get excited and see something new.
No. She takes, Propranolol, daily. It has helped her tremendously. This is her first migraine this month. For her, sixteen days without one is a blessing.
Lavender Essential Oil
I'm going to get some of that and store it, just encase. lol
Between homeschooling, the garden, my regular house cleaning and two pups I can't find enough hours in the day.
Since she's in bed for the day, I'm recovering 8 dining room chairs.
My mother loved the yellow squash, creamed with cheese.
Mmmmmmm, delicious.
Update To The Natural Flea & Tick Recipe
Posted by: “tammyco5
Someone just sent me this one. I would also try and get the freshest
lemons
and rosemary you can get. A Farmer’s Market or natural food store
would be a
good place to purchase them.
Tammy
Here is another version for this recipe also~
Take a BIG fat lemon (the more rind the better) and slice it paper
thin.
· Put in a bowl with a tablespoon of crushed rosemary leaves (or a 6
inch
sprig of fresh).
· Pour a quart of hot, near boiling water over the
Lemon/rosemary mixture.
· Let steep overnight.
· Strain and put into a large spray bottle.
· Keep in fridge.
· Shake well before applying. The lemon in this spray
along with the rosemary oil will give your dog a beautiful shiny coat
and
keep fleas and other bugs away (including mosquitoes, so you get extra
heartworm protection).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Frugal-Folks-Life/
Honey Spice Blueberry Pancakes
1 cup flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg — fresh grated
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup butter — melted
2 tablespoons honey
1 egg — slightly beaten
2 cups lowfat buttermilk
1 cup blueberries
Sift the dry ingredients together. Mix the melted butter, honey, egg
and
buttermilk together. Hand blend the wet ingredients into the dry. Fold
in the
blueberries. Preheat the griddle, then cook the pancakes, using 1/2
cup of
batter for each pancake.
Serve on warm plates with honey butter. Serves 4.
Yes on getting the Lavender, once you do, you will be using it for so many things, it is an amazing gift from God.
And NO, I do not think it will cure cancer, but when I can’t breath even with the oxygen machine going, I use the lavender or spearmint and have managed to come out of it so far.
Try using a drop of it on the collar of her nighty at night or on the pillow, she will rest better for it, I use it as is on my skin, but if you do it daily, it will raise a blister, or it can be diluted with any vegetable oil in the kitchen that is natural and used, for a massage or chest rub, 3 or 4 drops in a tablespoon of oil.
You work too hard, take time for yourself too.......some add 3 or 4 drops in their bath, but I love a common peppermint tea in my bath, after a hard days work.
The Lavender oil that was given to me, came from the health food store, and is I understand a lower middle class product it has the brand name of NOW, and has suited my needs.
Grow some lavender plants and use the flowers in your linens and dresser drawers or even open in a bowl.
It is one of the old remedies that we tossed out for the new.
When I was growing up, I thought that was what old ladies were meant to smell like.
Little did I know that it was a natural tranquilizer.
Another use it has that works, is when a baby is having a bout of croup or crying all night ‘for no reason’, mom is to rub a couple drops on her bare shoulder, rebutton the blouse and then rest the baby against the shoulder.
I had read that hint, when a friend called and said she had a problem with a new grandchild, it would not quit crying, I suggested the lavender, which I knew she had and she tried it, was amazed when the baby went right to sleep.
I would not put it on the baby.
LOL, my doctor thinks “Health Food Store” is a curse word, and I look him in the eye when I tell him what i use the EO’s for, all he knows is “take an antibiotic”........I hate medicine.
Recovering chairs is work.
Thank you for the tip and the warning.
Grow some lavender plants and use the flowers in your linens and dresser drawers or even open in a bowl.
Hubby goes to Lowes everyday, I'll have him ask if they have any.
Little did I know that it was a natural tranquilizer.
That's nice to know. :)
Recovering chairs is work.
I just finished the last one. They look great.
I have to get supper on the stove now. I'll try to get back later. Again thanks for the ping, keep 'em coming. lol
Posted by: “jennie
Paper Mache Paste Recipes
Paper Mache Paste 1
4 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons plain flour
¼ cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon powdered alum (in the spice section of your store)
¼ teaspoon clove oil, cinnamon oil or lemon extract
1.Mix the sugar and flour thoroughly in a saucepan, then add the cold
water slowly, stirring constantly to make a paste.
2. Keep stirring and add the boiling water. Make sure there are no
lumps and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until the paste is
translucent.
3.Remove from heat and mix in the alum and clove oil. This recipe
will keep for 1-3 months if kept in a covered container.
Paper Mache Paste 2
liquid starch
water
newspaper strips
Mix equal parts of liquid starch and water. Stir until starch is
dissolved. Soak newspaper strips in liquid mixture and pat into place.
Paper Mache Paste 3
1 cup water
1/4 cup flour
5 cups lightly boiling water
Mix flour into one cup water until mixture is thin and runny, stir
into boiling water. Continue to boil and stir for 3 minutes. Cool
before using.
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3b. Re: Crafty things
Posted by: “Kim”
To use strips, just dip in glue.
For pulp, shred the paper, boil and add your choice of glue or paste.
Here is an excellent resource:
http://www.papiermache.co.uk/
I have my own pages on my experience:
http://beadyeyedbrat.com/papiermache.html
Good for you, it always feels so good to change something.
Be careful on buying lavender plants, some of them are useless for the herbal uses, they are the new hybrids, that are bred for show.
It will not grow here, so I have forgotten what I learned about the types.
Maybe Garden Girl can tell us which is the right variety for using the flowers to scent rooms and make bed pillows that go in the pillow case, etc.
**a lot of yellow squash this year***
You can freeze it quite well! Grate it—I use the food processor—and put it in ziplock bags, raw. I put 2 cups per bag, as that’s what my zucchini-turned-yellow-squash bread recipe calls for. We like the yellow much better for bread—it’s sweeter! As a bonus, the squash can be used for filler in stir fry, or you can make squash casserole. I use lots of cheese and bacon and onions, a little flour and an egg or two, some salt and pepper, top the casserole with pepperidge farms stuffing.
Sorry your baby has a migraine. When all you can hear is your own heartbeat, or the clock ticking—three rooms away—it will drive you crazy.
Lavender won’t grow here either. Too humid. It loves heat, but not humidity. You might ping Diana in Wisconsin and see if she knows. Granny is right—some of the newer hybrids are all show and no smell. I’d go with some of the older varieties, if you can find some. Some of the mints might help as well, and they will grow anywhere.
Thanks for your answer, I recall that there were types of lavender used as a herbal healer, but not the right varieties names.
Thanks for alerting us that Diana might know.
Diana, any idea’s on Lavender plant varieties for healing uses?
Posted by: “steve
Crockpot Double Squash Combo
1 1/2 pounds zucchini
1 1/2 pounds summer squash
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
Cut both kinds of squash into 1/2-inch pieces. Put in bottom of
crockpot. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and garlic salt (one can use
garlic
powder if they choose). Dot with butter; sprinkle with crumbs and
cheese. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 7 hours or until tender.
Yields 6 servings.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to
forget.
Once we become interested in the progress
of the plants in our care, their development
becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives
and we are refreshed by it. ~Thalassa Cruso
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HERBS ‘N SPICES: A SPRING MENU
Today I have a nice menu for a lovely spring dinner
featuring many fresh herbs and vegetables.
Cold Tomato Herb Soup
Ingredients:
8 cups fresh ripe tomatoes
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup herb vinegar
1 cup milk
4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
2 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
2 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
2 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
salt and pepper to taste
Place the tomatoes whole in boiling water for two minutes,
remove with tongs and cool in ice water for one minute. The
skins will slide off easily. Allow to finishing cooling. When
cool chop tomatoes and place in a glass bowl with the oil and
vinegar. Beat in milk and lemon juice. Stir in sugar, mustard
and the fresh herbs. Chill overnight. Puree in a food processor
or blender. Garnish with chopped chives before serving.
Lemon Rosemary Green Beans
Ingredients:
2 pounds green beans, snipped and cut into 1-inch pieces
3 tablespoons butter
1 tsp. grated lemon zest
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, minced or 1 tsp. dried
salt and pepper to season
Boil the beans in salted water for 5 minutes, or until just tender.
While the beans are cooking, melt the butter over low heat with
the rosemary, salt and pepper to taste . Keep this warm. When
the beans are done, drain and transfer them to a serving bowl.
Pour the butter mixture over the beans and toss. Serve warm.
Citrus Sage Chicken Breasts
Ingredients:
2 pounds boneless chicken breasts
1 can frozen lemonade(6 oz.)
1/3 cup honey
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. crushed dried sage or 2 tsp. minced fresh
1/2 tsp. dried, crushed thyme or 1 tsp. minced fresh
1/2 tsp. dried mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rinse the chicken breasts and
pat dry. Place chicken in a shallow baking dish. Combine the
remaining ingredients. Pour 1/2 of mixture over the chicken
and bake for 20 minutes. Turn chicken and pour the remaining
sauce over top. Bake 15-20 minutes more until done. 8 servings.
Baked Apples with Fresh Mint
Ingredients:
8 apples
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp. fresh mint, minced
4 tsp. butter or margarine
Core the apples and peel off a 1 inch strip around the
core hole on the top of each apple. Place apples in a
shallow baking dish. Combine raisins, brown sugar and
mint. Fill apples-dividing the mixture. Top the filling in
each apple with 1/2 tsp. butter. Bake at 350 degrees for
about 50 minutes or until apples are tender. Makes 8
servings.
MORE RECIPES: How to use Fines herbes in your cooking:
http://www.oldfashionedliving.com/finesherbes.html
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[granny would be in debt with this catalog]
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Our Botanical Garden “Tropical Boonies” is located in Punta Gorda (near Fort Myers), SW Florida Coast - see directions to our Garden and Nursery.
This website covers two areas: tropical plants for sale and information about them. (See also Detailed Site Map)
Out of this world links:
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Exotic rare tropical fruit and edible plants
http://toptropicals.com/html/toptropicals/articles/articles.htm
Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops for the Home Landscape: Alternatives to Citrus
http://toptropicals.com/html/toptropicals/articles/cultivation/fruit_crops.htm
http://celticbuttonbox.com/GardenForNutrition/Organic_Self_Sufficiency_Crop_Rotation.html
Garden For Nutrition Index
ORGANIC SELF SUFFICIENT ORGANIC CROP ROTATION:
These rotations are not intended for commercial agriculture. Commercial agriculture demands adherance to the local environmental limitations much more strictly. Extra expense to overcome local restrictions can be justified because these crops are consumed on site with no distribution costs. The main advantages of self sufficiency are increased reliability, increased nutrition, hopefully improved health, and cash saved for other necessities. Even growing only a portion of your own dietary needs can still be beneficial in that you can be positioned to scale up very quickly if needed.
SIMPLE ROTATION RULES:
2 years between grains. Oats and sorghum are the more disease resistant of this category and can be used to bend the rules a little.
2 years between different legumes. Alfalfa is the most disease resistant of this category and can be used to bend the rules a little.
2 years between root crops.
2 years between broadleaf to control mold. Always follow this rule for dry beans, sunflower, and squash, since these are the most susceptible to fungus. For other crops, this rule is almost impossible to follow. Plant resistant varieties, use clean culture, do not plant too thick, do not overwater, never water these crops from overhead, keep squash vines off the ground, etc. Buckwheat, flax, alfalfa, roots, and okra are the most disease resistant of this category and can be used to bend the rules a little.
Because of airborn fungal disease and insect migration, rotations should occassionally skip large distances. Crops should not just move to the adjacent field or plot every year.
Rotate the timing of tilling and planting to keep from creating a pattern that will allow weeds to become established.
Remove diseased plants and diseased parts.
Practice clean culture in the field and under trees and vines. Thoroughly tilling residue into the soil and watering will speed decomposition and reduce mold.
Do not practice clean culture in beneficial perennial plant plots. Many beneficial insects pupate in the soil and they tend to do it around beneficial perennials.
In the late fall, till at night to prevent sprouting of weed seeds. Weeds are easier to control after fall tilling when the temperatures are too cool for many weeds to sprout. Potentially, plant vetch and winter rye or wheat as a cover crop if you can afford to wait until it blooms next spring before stalk chopping or mowing (zone 6+) and your next crop is not small seeded. Large seed will sprout well under allelopathic residue, but small seeds may be suppressed. Winter rye is hardy to -40 F. Vetch can survive to zone 6 and sometimes even further north with snow cover.
Planting a winter cover crop may ruin the attempt to break disease cycles. Instead, leave the current roots in the soil for protection from erosion. Tilling between the rows will help speed decomposition and control weeds. Or plant disease resistant cover varieties such as oats or sorghum.
Try not to plant crops that are heavy feeders of the same soil nutrients repeatedly in the same field.
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SELF SUFFICIENT VEGETABLE GARDEN ROTATION:
It is important to have a small kitchen garden where animals are never used during the growing season and it is far from fresh animal manure. This is the garden which is safe to eat raw from. It should only be big enough to grow what you will eat yourself and therefore can be substantially manually cultivated, mulched, and harvested. To prevent disease, always use fresh material (not last years) for mulch.
1. SPRING - inoculated green beans
FALL - collards and kale with leek
2. SPRING - okra
FALL - oat cover
3. SPRING - beet, (parsnip, carrot)
WINTER - work in manure
4. SPRING - inoculated peas, lentils, and/or chickpeas
LATE SUMMER - turnip greens
LATE FALL - cover crop (rye)
5. SPRING - upland rice (or corn)
FALL - oat cover, replant biennials for seed
6. SPRING - squash, onion, allow biennials to seed, (or nightshade)
WINTER - work in manure
ADVANTAGES:
Two years between legumes.
Two years between brassica.
Two years between roots, if you grow seven top turnip instead of a root turnip.
High calcium crops are harvested in the majority of harvests from each plot.
DISADVANTAGES:
Broadleaves are over-represented here, but calcium is the primary need. Compensate with mold resistant varieties, plant peas extremely early, plant brassica only in the fall (except turnip greens), do not water from overhead, do not overwater, till residue thoroughly into the soil, keep squash vines off the ground, etc.
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SELF SUFFICIENT GRAIN and LEGUME ROTATION: Since many of these crops are for chicken feed, some for hog feed, and only a few for humans, they need to be grown with as much mechanical efficiency as possible. Some of these crops can be foraged directly by the animals.
1. SPRING - inoculated annual alfalfa
WINTER - work in manure
2. LATE SPRING - sunflower
FALL - winter wheat (or triticale), garlic cloves, biennial roots
3. SUMMER - harvest wheat, garlic, biennial seeds
LATE SUMMER - kale and collards with leek
4. EARLY SPRING - flax
SUMMER - marigold
WINTER - work in manure
5. LATE SPRING - inoculated soybeans and white beans for calcium
FALL - oats and rye for cover
6. LATE SPRING - single swath of oats, keep rye from the fall
EARLY SUMMER - harvest all but one swath of the rye grass to use as mulch
in the vegetable garden, and plant sorghum.
LATE SUMMER - harvest oats and rye, use straw as mulch in the vegetable garden,
and plant buckwheat
FALL - harvest buckwheat and sorghum, use sorghum straw as mulch in the vegetable
garden, plant oats for cover.
7. SPRING - turnip root and greens with leek, sugar beet, (or nightshade)
FALL - rape
ADVANTAGES:
Two / three years between legumes.
Two and half years between the most sensitive grains (rice, wheat).
The most vulnerable broadleafs (sunflower, soybeans) are seperated by 2 / 3 years.
Planting and harvest times are spread out.
Brassica are seperated by 2 / 3 years and the most sensitive ones grow in cold weather which reduces disease risk.
Root crops are seperated by 6 years.
The crop that is grown primarily for human consumption, sunflower, has the best position for low disease risk and high yield potential.
DISADVANTAGES:
Management is complex.
Machinery change over is frequent.
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DOMINANT NUTRIENTS USED BY PLANTS:
Legumes - potassium
Greens - use nitrogen
Okra - uses potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen
Grains - use phosphorus and potassium
Squash - uses potassium and phosphorus
Root crops - use potassium
Sunflower - uses phosphorus and potassium
Fruits - use large amounts of potassium,
critical for deep roots
Nuts and seeds - phosphorus and potassium
North Dakota State University
University of Connecticut IPM
North Dakota State University crop rotations
Texas Plant Disease Handbook
I used this catalog for years as a guide, has all kinds of info and good and rare seeds:
List of companies that carry herbs:
Richter’s Herbs
Goodwood, Ontario
Loc 1ao
Canada
http://www.richters.com
Other links that should be checked:
http://celticbuttonbox.com/GardenForNutrition/Organic_Seed_Catalogs_Books_References.html
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