RE: Organic Gardening Magazine

Claire,
 I agree that many of us have outgrown OG mag and they do dwell on organic
veggies for sure.  I haven't seen the mag in years, but was a faithful
subscriber for several years as a novice gardener.
I would guess that many of us begin our garden careers by trying to grow
tomatoes.  It's a great place to start.  I started here with a pile of hard
packed clay and river rock, but wanted to grow some organic veggies and felt
quite virtuous about it.  My son & I took shovels in hand and went out to
dig some dirt so we could pop in a few tomato plants and Bam!,  the shovels
bounced back.  Next we tried a pickax and lots of water.  I was very
discouraged, but determined.  Went to the garden center and bought myself a
copy of OG and read it cover to cover......then started composting the area
I wanted to plant.  By the next spring I could actually dig the area with a
shovel and had a few tomatoes to show for my effort.  By the next year I had
great soil and a bumper crop.  Nothing breeds success like success (plus
some blood, sweat and tears!)  :)

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


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Sent:	Monday, December 23, 2002 8:25 AM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: BBC Gardener's World now Organic G.


There are only so many things one can read on
growing a tomato, really there are so few failures here. If a gardener does
not progress beyond the tomato, he is probably not going to explore the huge
world of horticulture. Organic Gardening is fairly confined.

There are many who swear by this magazine and find something in it.  It may
be that organic aspect of it.  I do not wish to start a conflict but I am
not
able to accept the all organic or nothing concept.  A look at an issue now
and then and it is departed from original writings on the subject.  The
elder
Rodale was a zealot and he inspired.  That part was interesting.   Then a
gardener needs more information, looks further afield, trades ideas.   I
could never quite understand what is an organic principle and what is not.
It seems to me it is mulch and no chemicals and that's about it.

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