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Re[2]: Will it work for survival?

     Hey now,

     Be nice, we all come to sqft gardening for our own reasons.  Just go
     with sensible explainations and help Bernie grow as best we can.  Who
     knows, new knowledge comes from the edges and people at the community
     garden think my little 4x4 squares are nuts.

     Past posts have said French Intensive is better suited to large scale
     growing.  Sqft gives us small scale farmers/gardeners a lot of
     convenience.  The techniques are closely related.

     Build the soil with what is available locally.  Good soil needs much
     less fertilizer/pesticide input and home grown compost can maintain
     your needed fertility.  As a gardener I enjoy eating food 'free' from
     the back yard...spending a bundle of money each year on soil
     amendments feels wrong.

     Watering for sqft gardening follows basic conservation thinking.  Here
     in California I water frugally to save water, elsewhere folks do the
     same to reduce weed growth.  In your chaos world somebody will be hand
     carrying the water and frugality will be easy to justify.

     Open pollinated works just fine.  Don't over analyse gardening.  Go
     buy the book and stop getting ALL your information from the web.

     Now get out there and get your hands dirty.  Even if the world doesn't
     crash down around us you will have a healthier life.

     Tom B


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Subject: Re: Will it work for survival?
Author:  Square Foot Gardening <SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> at internet
Date:    10/3/97 2:54 PM


What a quack.  Where's the off topic police when ya need em?  I wouldn't
trust this loose bean to program my toilet... Someone send him some
Plantain and Dandelion seeds.


On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Bernie Sayers wrote:

> Hello SQFTRs...
>
> I've been reading this list for about 4 months. I'm fascinated. Thanks!
>
> I started reading because I'm studying possible "survival" farming methods
> for feeding people in a commune-like situation. I'm a computer
consultant..........
> lean times ahead.
>
> Any comments are welcome!
>
> Thanks...
>
> Bernie Sayers///
>
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