Re: Miller in April

I grew up around tumbleweeds too...and if you know when to harvest
them..they are easy to mail.  You just get them right before they get
brittle and break off the stem - before they start "tumbling".  I remember
seeing so many of them stuck in my grandfather's barbed wire fence, you
couldn't see through the fence.  Just piled high.



On 3/27/09, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI <
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>
> My mind boggles. Obviously I am one of the more unimaginative people in
> this country because it wouldn't have occurred to me...not only will
> those things leave sharp stickers in you as you haul them to the burn
> pile, but they break apart very easily. I can't imagine putting one in
> the house. I will never get rich thinking like that I guess.
> So...what do I have a lot of that I don't want? Dead sycamore leaves.
> Hmmm.
>
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Richard Apking
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:41 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Miller in April
>
> How do you wrap and mail a tumbleweed.  If you use USPS, all the
> purchaser would get would be sawdust.LOL, Rich where it is sunny and
> COLD!!!
>
> Jesse Bell wrote:
> > I remember watching a video online - called "People on the Web" and it
> > has success stories around the country.  A lady in the middle of
> > Nowhereville, Kansas wanted to learn how to build her own web site and
> "sell
> > something".  She didn't really have a product, but her project for the
> class
> > was to build a website that sold something.  So, as she was gazing out
> her
> > window on a blustery fall day and saw tumbleweeds blowing around, she
> > jokingly decided to sell tumbleweeds.  Large, medium, small...plus
> shipping
> > and handling.  She is RICH now.  Hollywood buys them for movie sets,
> people
> > buy them to make craft items out of, interior designers use them for
> > southwest decorations, stores use them for props.  She said, "it was a
> JOKE,
> > but who knew?  I'm rolling in money thanks to a WEED that blows around
> in my
> > yard."
> >
> > I need to design a website that sells "poo".
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/27/09, holmesbm@usit.net <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I was thinking of all the new gardeners...many trying to grow
> >> veggies as their grand and great grands did.  I'll bet you could sell
> it,
> >> especially if you could find a way to put it into containers as many
> don't
> >> have access to trucks.  You could even specialize...horse, sheep or
> chicken
> >> and one combination...call it Gardners' Secret Stuff.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> [Original Message]
> >>> From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
> >>>
> >> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> >>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Date: 3/27/2009 1:20:04 PM
> >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Miller in April
> >>>
> >>> It wasn't so much the idea of manure tea...I expect most gardeners
> have
> >>> heard of it...it was the idea of buying poo in little tea bags for
> $10.
> >>> I think it was a cute marketing idea, taking something you've got
> way
> >>> too much of and making it into a designer commodity, and I laughed
> >>> hysterically because at my house we fill up a 1.5 yard dumpster with
> it
> >>> every week and still have it piling up in the corners. It's just
> funny.
> >>> I do forget that not everyone has access to mounds of manure. :-)
> >>> Any of you want to pay me $10 for an 8oz bag of poo, just let me
> know.
> >>> I'll even personalize the bag for you. No problem! You can have
> horse
> >>> poo, sheep poo, or chicken poo. I'll even blend it to your
> >>> specifications, but that will cost more. For an additional fee I'll
> send
> >>> you a picture of the animal that produced the poo... no wait, I
> know, we
> >>> can set up a sponsorship arrangement whereby you pay for the animals
> >>> feed during the year and I will send you ALL the poo it makes!!
> >>> ROFL.
> >>>
> >>> Cyndi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]
> On
> >>> Behalf Of holmesbm@usit.net
> >>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:33 AM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Miller in April
> >>>
> >>> Germans have used this method for years, call it "dung
> water"...makes a
> >>> big
> >>> difference...I think you might have an opportunity.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> [Original Message]
> >>>> From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
> >>>>
> >>> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> >>>
> >>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>> Date: 3/26/2009 5:35:22 PM
> >>>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Miller in April
> >>>>
> >>>> I remembered something funny, don't know if I mentioned this before
> or
> >>>> not...you all know I have that website with the gardening catalogs
> >>>> right? So a couple months or so ago I got an email from a nice
> person
> >>>> asking for her company to be listed. She sells manure...packaged in
> 8
> >>>>
> >>> oz
> >>>
> >>>> bags...to make "manure tea" with. For like $10. There's even gift
> >>>>
> >>> packs.
> >>>
> >>>> And it's from her own animals!
> >>>> I shouldn't make fun or anything because, sheesh, go for it if you
> can
> >>>> get it...but I did laugh. I'd be a millionaire if I could sell all
> the
> >>>> poop at my place.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cyndi
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]
> On
> >>>> Behalf Of Jesse Bell
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:14 PM
> >>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Miller in April
> >>>>
> >>>> Hmm.  Well...I have LOTS of the fresh dung at my place!  Take your
> >>>> pick...horse, cow, llama, chicken, goat....as soon as I can save up
> >>>>
> >>> for
> >>>
> >>>> one
> >>>> of those "speedy" composters, I'm gonna stick a sign out front that
> >>>>
> >>> says
> >>>
> >>>> "compost for sale" right next to my "Chicken Eggs/ $3.00 a dozen".
> >>>>
> >>> LOL.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 3/26/09, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Couple of interesting entries for April in Miller's 18th century
> >>>>> "Gardener's Kalendar."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Planting melons. He says to make a small mound of fresh dung [he
> >>>>>
> >>>> doesn't
> >>>>
> >>>>> say what kind but for some reason I think horse], cover the dung
> >>>>>
> >>> with
> >>>
> >>>> a foot
> >>>>
> >>>>> of loam, plant the seeds on top, and cover the planting with a
> bell
> >>>>>
> >>>> jar. The
> >>>>
> >>>>> dung, he says, will heat up the soil, which will stimulate
> >>>>>
> >>> germination
> >>>
> >>>> and
> >>>>
> >>>>> root growth; the bell jar will keep cold winds at bay. As the
> plants
> >>>>> develop, he says, add a ring of fresh dung covered by loam around
> >>>>>
> >>> the
> >>>
> >>>> hill
> >>>>
> >>>>> to encourage the roots to grow outward to support large vines.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Insects. He says if you have insects in your orchard trees wash
> them
> >>>>>
> >>>> out
> >>>>
> >>>>> with an infusion made with tobacco stalks. [Earliest pesticide
> >>>>> recommendation I know of. And they were still using nicotine in
> the
> >>>>> mid-1900s--200 years later.]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Inland Jim
> >>>>> Willamette Valley
> >>>>> 44.99 N 123.04 W
> >>>>> Elevation 148'
> >>>>> 39.9" Precipitation
> >>>>> Hardiness Zone 8/9
> >>>>> Heat Zone 5
> >>>>> Sunset Zone 6
> >>>>> Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
> >>>>> Maximum 102 F [39 C]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
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> >>>> Jesse R. Bell
> >>>>
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