Re: Miller in April

When I lived in Midland (before the oil boom went bust) I was driving down
the Loop one day and looked in my rear view mirror and a gigantic tumbleweed
was chasing my car!   And the sucker was gaining on me for a while.  It
finally blew off the road but that thing had to be at least 4 feet in
diameter.  Enormous.

On 3/27/09, Jesse Bell <justjess01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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