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Growing Plants in Straw Bales
In response to your question, soil can be spread over the surface, but unless the sides have some protection against soil falling off the situation can become messy, and to get sufficient depth of soil for some vegetables requires holes.
frankbeswick, on 06/18/2016
Greenhouse Gardening
frankbeswick, Thank you! Do you just not grow in your greenhouse the plants that have a need for some periods of darkness or for supplemental lighting?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/18/2016
Growing Plants in Straw Bales
frankbeswick, Thank you! It's helpful having the examples to the explanations, such as locating the bale alongside a mesh fence or staking proximitous to the bale in the case of edibles and ornamentals requiring stakes.
Also, I like the product ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/18/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
frankbeswick, Thank you! Yes, there'd have to be a dialogue, and it shows because I'm coming up with either exceptions or variations allowed in all structured poetry, such as in the lines of Homer and of John Keats (and of course many others), ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/18/2016
Beatrix Potter
It appears that publishers now want writers of children's stories to illustrated their books as well. I find that too much too ask of most people! Why not simply have the author work closely with an illustrator? True, it's wonderful when the ...
Mira, on 06/18/2016
Beatrix Potter
This is so lovely. You have emerged a sweet memory for me.
Beatrix Potter books have an enduring appeal. She owned a house and large areas of the Land in the English Lake District. I visited there with my husband and standing looking at her ...
Veronica, on 06/18/2016
Gun Laws in The United Kingdom
Some of you might have heard of the recent assassination of a British member of parliament by an alleged right wing extremist [16th June 2016. ] This innocent female was shot with an illegally held weapon that had a shortened barrel, so it is ...
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2016
Air Pollution
I don't know what conclusion came from the research that I cited, but as it was the government who commissioned it they are likely to have kept it to themselves.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
I think that where structured poetry is concerned there is a tension between structure and creativity. Without some structure thoughts are jumbled and nonsensical, but structure can become a prison or a straitjacket that stifles thought. We ...
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
I do not know of either of these writers.
I can understand that before the age of an agreed categorization system works could easily have been lost.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
I do not know of either of these writers.
I can understand that before the age of an agreed categorization system works could easily have been lost.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2016
Biochar for Gardeners
frankbeswick, Very nice article about life-friendly biochar (and compost, leaf mold, manure, rock dust, sea weed and wood ash). It always helps to know where and why something works, and I enjoy your explanation of terra preta since I lived in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2016
Gardening when you are getting older
frankbeswick, There was a public broadcasting program, whose name escapes me, about accomplishments by older people, one of whom was a lifelong gardener. He managed to garden all the way to I think it was 102, but only because he recognized his ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
frankbeswick, It's no fun not knowing where a book is, particularly if alternative sources aren't forthcoming. Do you know of the mystery writer Donna Leon, whose books By Its Cover and The Jewels of Paradise I've reviewed? She thinks, as a long ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2016
10 Highly Organized Habits for Personal and Professional Development
frankbeswick, I'll look forward to your conclusions, be it by Wizzley article or post!
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2016