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Gardener says Newspaper makes for Bigger Crops

I use mulch for my veggies but never used newspaper.I will try this next year, what the heck. I know from my garden that mulch is needed and works well to aerate the soil.

Starbux will give you all the coffee grounds you want.....mix that with your newspaper, a perfect ph, and, it is soul satisfying; newspaper and coffee for your plants...why have ignorant plants?

Lifestyle gets better with age...especially, kids in college...you have more time to read and ride horses...and window shop...as far as cliche' I'll work on one....adding shreds of newspaper to my garden beds....Soon,..I am going to pick a 2nd harvest...the cukes and zucchini are in overabundant supply, a European woman...Polish... told me they consume sumac...pods..in Poland...?..you can eat the plant, wild cat-tails..cooked...must be a delicacy there..sumac...? Sumac in America is used mostly for a spice, a lemon bitter flavor...know the edible variety.. picture on the web on wild plants that are edible...the photo contest entries are super...enjoying...will check back to let you know if the newspaper clippings added to the extended growth of my garden...will try asking for the coffee grinds, use in the garden...too.the first bird tweeted at 4:59 this morning...time for Coffee...cool here and rain forcasted...yea!

I'm sorry to hear about the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. It's just insane

We are lucky in Arlington County that the county picks up leaves in the fall and brush in the spring, and then mulches the lot.  The brush is shredded.  And it is then given back free to county residents at two different mulch points.  One is about a quarter mile from my home.  No need to buy mulch.  And for $50, the county will deliver a huge amount and dump it either on the street or in your driveway.  I hadn't though about shredded newspaper, but it sounds like a decent idea.  Unfortunately, our yard is so shaded that growing vegetables does not work well.  My tomatoes are still green in October.  Makes for nice fried green tomatoes.  So, we enjoy our trees and the birds they attract.  And then go to the farmers' market.

LYNN WOW, our county workers pick up the brush and leaves and then chare us to get it back.

Old newspapers.

Leaves.

Grass clippings.

Tree and hedge trimmings.

Bottles.

cans.

Cardboard.

Think twice before letting any "trash" leave your property.

There often are other uses -- sometimes multiple uses -- for what otherwise would be thrown away.

Before tossing anything, think of it as possible "money."

Before tossing anything, look for possible ways to "repurpose" it.

Spring Fragrance has given a name to one of my flower photos...and I'll be she has to another....stay tuned!

SPRING...........................good morning. good to see you!
 
ETHELROSE.................aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...............................I mean CORABRITZA...........................

Do you think if we ate his corn we would become more wordy?  Or would be turn as stupid as most newspaper reporting happens to be in this day and age?  I wonder.....
 
My Grandmother swore by egg shells and coffee grounds...and it certainly worked for her!  My sister, however, who is a master gardener, uses newspapers to keep weeds out.  It is all in the manner you use them.  Of course, if the paper comes from a paper mill contaminated with dioxin (TCDD, not one of the other 107 dioxins) forget it.  You will not get ANYTHING to grow there!
 
Corabritza---did you see the Fresian vid I had a few days ago?

I don't know but why don't you try it?

Ginger..The Friesian Horse video was magnificent...sent on to the childrens facebook pages...Horses are a great responsibility...and I just visited a Rescue Horse Center..and carriage museum....Yes, so much enjoyed the Horses...trot.... trot....trot.....trot trot trot...lope..steady.....Yee-hi....I have walnut knockers that mimic the sound of horses hooves....that I use in music percussion recordings...my daughter is moving to London...to garden...days away....Dressed sleeveless cool airy cotton gingham plaid campshirt...and 505 Levis....Corabritza exits to window shop downtown Shady Side...the famous Walnut.....street shops....lined by the most uneven sidewalks...and un-noticed Dandelions peekin peerin under your sandled feet....

Corabritza, I'm so glad you liked it!  You'll like London...tho I wouldn't recommend going during the Olympics. Lived in ATL during the summer Olympics and it was TERRIBLE!
 
PARK4---don't know if I'm pleased you responded or insulted by the implication!

PARK.......................HUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO........................I'm goofing off, I need to get things done....................I hope your day is splendiferous...........................( or is it splendiforous???)..............

Dunkin Donuts is very good about sharing coffeegrounds. In fact, if you aren't careful youwill end up with entire day's worth which would be a little much for Tara.

#12? Boys?

Bebe and PA4, ssshhhhhhh, I am in disguise today and being oh so artistic....just gag me with a spoon. I just stopped by to tip my cap and say 'how do you do' to my bees knees of a cheeseburger gal and favorite Northside chick-a-filet.....

When it comes to mulching, i only use the comics, sports, and home and garden sections.... The rest of the paper i use to kill the weeds with bad news and political editorials.

.its me, its me, its Earnest T!!!

CD ~
Nice try but there is no #12 in Cooperstown.

Oh!! I even looked t the baseball scores! And as for AKA HUDSON JOHN, I asked BEBE to switch names with me but she didn't seem to think it was funny.

this has to be one of the most sleep inducing topics ever.......

About the best that could be said about last night's episode of Lewis, Fearful Symmetry, is that dozens of Oxford Dons were likely grateful to have survived it.
Too many moving parts too loosely related and, as so often happens, tennis attempted by persons attired and equipped well beyond their abilities which did not extend to knowing how to grip a racket.
No worse, come to that, than Hathaway's painful stab at looking like a proper sculler.
Maybe I'm still upset about the death of Briony Keagan.

A note on mulching with coffee grounds...they are excellent for adding acid to alkaline soils.  If you are trying to grow acid loving plants such as blueberries or blue hydrangeas, amend your planting soil with a hefty amount of coffee grounds and place more around the base of the plant ever 6 weeks during the growing season.  I have turned my pink hydrangeas blue using this technique, and successfully grown blueberries in soil with high alkalinity by adding coffee grounds.

If I said "Let me talk to Peter Lake now" like they do in the movies, would it work?   (I like either one, of course, it's just in the interest of psychology that i ask this)... So many personae in the Village lately...but I'd know Peter Lake anywhere by the slant of his typewriting.  It's his and his alone.

Eeeeeeewwwww I'm tired, tired, tired. Marathon driving weekend to attend my son's wedding. Who buys newspapers? I  read mine online. I'm still waiting for the day when they have the honesty to say that there is no interesting news so they'll give us a couple of Tom&Jerry cartoons instead. Grief! Is it really Tuesday tomorrow!

I started a compost bin in my back yard about 18 months ago. I keep putting more stuff in there--I've put in shredded newspaper, coffee grounds, egg shells, vegtable peels, oak leaves. But I haven't taken any of the compost out yet. I'm sure there is some pretty good stuff at the bottom of the bin, and I sure could use it--some of my beds need a boost. Procrastination 101. Sigh. Maybe sometime this fall after the weather cools down I'll go in there and pull out the good stuff and put it in my annual flower bed which is pretty raggedy.  With this hot, dry weather it's all I can do to keep stuff watered enough to keep it from frying.  Right now my next door neighbor is watering her vegtable garden in the back and the water from her sprinkler is hitting my daisy bed. Nice. Except my daisy's are all brown. I need to deadhead them all.  It's just been too hot to do much work in the garden. Fortunately, plants are forgiving life forms. They don't mind that they haven't been dead headed, they just don't look as tidy as I would like.  There's a couple weeds in there that should be pulled out too, but they are getting a reprieve. I love the garden.  Every year is something different.  I have some roses in the daisy bed that have disappeared because the daisys have taken over. We'll see what happens to them.  Survival of the fittest!

HO      LEE      SOCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
I feel like I'm watching Re-Runs of, FOREIGN  INTRIGUE with Joseph Cotten  cir: 1952
 
Sponsored by; VEL  SOAP   and    DUZ  SOAP (they altered Wednesdays) "A Cup of Joy in Every Wash " .......
 
Tune in next week ... Same Time, Same Station ....  When Little Orphan Liebowitz says .......

HI IVAN...YES, IT IS INTRIGUING...MYSTIFYING.  CONFUDDLING, even.   I don't think 'confuddling' is a real word, but if it isn't, it should be.  I submit it to the Minister of The Village Lexicon for consideration.

I'm with ChefDeb.  If I hadn't had a nap I'd be asleep despite the "excitement" of the topic.
 
Good thought Park.  Do you think Peter Lake will make return appearance as himself?   

Expanding on Ginger's comment about the content of newspapers (ours in Atlanta is so liberal I can't stand it! They even ran an editorial cartoon showing a killer named US Gun Laws armed with multiple weapons implying our gun laws are responsible for the Aurora shooter!), I'd only add that with all the fertilizer (euphemism for manure) they print, it certainly should make any plant grow

I will pass along all the helpful suggestions to the farmers I know. (My pots are on an upper deck, and too small for that kind of experiment, I think....I rely on Miracle Grow. Is that bad?)

Heck, thought I'd try it on to see what the big hoohaa was about with the frequent name changes but the sleeves were too short andit made me itchy.  Besides, even my Iphone addresses me as Peter Lake. Holy Socks!!!  One of my favorite IVAN expressions. PArk..... remember the line from Three Faces of Eve...... I think....... "who am I talking to now." Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm schitzoprenic,And so am I" tah-da...... who is on first?   

A good many of us have been deprived of plants and gardens this summer due to the extended dry hot conditions..............so, we really have no interest this year in how to garden.  Next year.................perhaps...........

Confuddlingmay not e a real word , but it's meanig is known throughout the realm......

Park, did you folks get any rain up north of the Cheddar Curtain? We only got hot-n-humid down here. I picked a bad day to trim hedges.

PL.............. a.k.a. Hudson John.....................you are correct, the name change does NOT suit you. I am afraid that you have frightened IVAN.....................but you did manage to make me laugh out loud.................thank you for that & your wonderful sense of humor!
 
CHEFD..................baby I'd take your name anytime, anywhere.....................
 
STONEY.............................I REEEEEEEALLY want you to like Lewis darnnit.............
 
HAZE..................welcome back..................you're now a mother-in-law, congrats!
 
IVAN........................huuuuuuuuuullllllllloooooooooooo!!!!!!
 
PARK....................you is on fire!
 
 

Would coffee grounds work for tomatoes?

The Old Knoxville News Sentinel the rag of my yute. Lined many a canary cage, started a host of campfires, swatted countless flies, & kept me abreast of the activities of the Vols. and the Funnies. Major Hoople, Amos to his friends and Alley Oop.oop Oop. Oop-Oop the prime cut of The Hollywood Argyles. Love to see it put to good use. There will come a day when people will long for the good old days when the paper was read from cover to cover and try growing tomatoes from broken plastic and microchips. Balance it's all in the chi of we.

NO, Southsider, no rain at all, just sulky sultry humid and hot as hot can get.  The sky sure looks like it's got rain in those clouds, but I guess not.  At least it's overcast.  This a.m. with the sun out, it wasn't fit for man or beast or me, for sure, not me.   You?  Got Rain?

Captain, I think that combination would taste just terrible. ;)   (It's the heat, I can't help myself)

Haze!  Welcome to the Wunnerful World of Mothers-in-Law!  Or mother-in-laws as it's commonly spelled but that's so wrong.  You can now be cross and overbearing OFFICIALLY whenever you want to be... my own mother in law has that part down perfectly, and she should, she gets in a lot of practice.   Daily, in fact.   bad on me, not.... 

"      It's like deja vu all over again"

Hello Mz. Blue.  It is, indeed.

MISS BLUE.............."I'm living in my own private Idaho".....................you got that right!

SSDD

Maybe it's just me but this mulch day seems to lack the intense passion, erudite commentary and white heat of the first mulch day… or was it the second?

A-a-anyway…

Well, I
volunteer to come off the farm, set the physical labor aside, join the rest of
the world (only for a bit though) and present a topic.

Any other
takers?

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
PL..................???

Spent a good part of the day in 93 degree heat waiting for the granddaughter to have her horse riding lesson....then they went on a trail ride....at least that was shady....for them....I wasted gas an let the auto run for the AC....mea culpa.....I was reading and the radio and AC seemed so much better than the hot, still air.

No real interest in mulching, as the deer eat everything planted int he yard...My little flowers have to be in pots on the deck where the deer can't reach. I keep the birdbath full so they have water too. I admire them and know they were here long before the humans were, so I can't begrudge them.

My newspaper get recycled to the animal shelter for cage bottoms. I only take the AJC on Sunday, and enjoy the Living section....the rest is liberal slanted editorializing. It makes me feel better to take the old ones to the shelter, and know that at least that way they are of some use. Over and out...going tot he pillows early...the heat wears one out....To all, good health and good times!

Mulch ado about nothing.

Peanerbucle and jelby in the club car tonight, a vegetarian delight,and if it don't rain, it be still awrite

Ride around Sally, Ride Sally Ride.                                                                                     
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8M_3JTwtPg

I'm sitting outside, the huminditeee is pretty high, but I can smoke a stogie, and drink a wine, except the wine seems to have suffered...just enough to tase 'off', but not so's I;d throw it out.....the cigar is good,tho, and the sky is overcast, not a star in sight....*sigh*...and if it WAS gonna rain, it'd prolly evaporate befor it hit the ground- - 85degrees at almost 10 Pm.....if I stay out much longeer I'll prolly become mulch my own self...

The whole thing about a rain dance is the timing!!!  I just felt a drop!

R.I.P. Sally Ride....thanks, Paolos

If the clouds part for a brief moment and you see a light shoot across the Milky Way, that would be Sally, God bless her.

G'night Sally. G'night sleepy little village adrift amidst a river of stars.

Mooseloop--I did the same when in ATL...took the AJC only on Sunday.  (Everything else was "Never, never on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, cause that's my day of rest!")
 
l marjorie, better turn that compost before it either rots or catches fire!
 
TT---I remember the Knoxville News Sentinel from grad school days.  Funky paper if there ever was one!
 
What's #12?

PAOLOS.................lovely tribute to Sally Ride.............really nice.........................

Thanks Miss Bebe... What's on second. Who's #12.