Posted by <balvenieman on March 5, 2010, 6:13 pm
>> Intervention only hastens the inevitable desertification but sometimes
>> seems necessary.
>What's happening there?
Nothing beyond the normal pattern of deforestation and eventual
paving.
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b
Posted by FarmI on March 5, 2010, 12:12 am
> I use a thrift-store blade type coffee grinder to reduce alfalfa
> pellets to meal. When I find one comparably priced, I'll probably adopt
> a human-powered coffee or grain mill for the task.
> In the garden today, while cutting up "greens" trimmings with a
> pocket knife, it occurred to me that a thrift-store food processor might
> serve to more quickly homogenize tender garden trimmings. It's an idea
> on which I intend to follow up, unless someone here has had a negative
> experience doing so. If I were to buy a major (to me) power gardening
> tool, it would be one of those debris shredder jobbies but that's 'way
> overkill for most of my composting needs.
> Does anyone have reliable gardening applications for other types of
> household appliances not meant for the garden?
Yeah, a toilet brush is something I find very useful in the garden. The
size of the head and the angle of the head means it gets used for all sorts
of thinks.
Posted by Pat Kiewicz on March 5, 2010, 6:30 am
balvenieman@invalid.net said:
> Does anyone have reliable gardening applications for other types of
>household appliances not meant for the garden?
People have been known to use a vacuum cleaner to suck up whiteflies,
leafhoppers and such in the garden.
I think there have been attempts to marker commercial 'bug vacs' for
field use in organic farming.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI
"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..." -- Largo Potter, Valkyria Chronicles
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>> seems necessary.
>What's happening there?