Comments on: Hearing The Yes In No http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/ in the garden, in the kitchen and on the page Fri, 16 May 2008 03:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: merseydotes http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41492 merseydotes Tue, 29 May 2007 19:06:54 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41492 Are you loving that Barbara Kingsolver book or what? I'm almost done with it, and my husband is now starting to read it whenever I put it down. I would think that for someone like you, who grows so much of her own food, it would be particularly meaningful. It's making us think about how to restructure our grocery budget to get more local foods. Are you loving that Barbara Kingsolver book or what? I’m almost done with it, and my husband is now starting to read it whenever I put it down. I would think that for someone like you, who grows so much of her own food, it would be particularly meaningful. It’s making us think about how to restructure our grocery budget to get more local foods.

]]> By: Kris http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41411 Kris Tue, 29 May 2007 00:38:15 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41411 Feeding our minds and bodies with the positive, and losing the negative can be so hard. Glad to see that you are working in the things that fulfill you. Feeding our minds and bodies with the positive, and losing the negative can be so hard. Glad to see that you are working in the things that fulfill you.

]]> By: Steph http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41368 Steph Mon, 28 May 2007 11:34:45 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41368 Sounds like a great way to spend the day. love the new blog look. ;) Sounds like a great way to spend the day.

love the new blog look. ;)

]]> By: debra http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41288 debra Sun, 27 May 2007 14:29:42 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41288 I was at a friend's home last night. She has rhubarb plants with leaves the size of elephant's ears! She is going to give me some plants since she wants to thin them. I don't care for rhubarb, but Grandma Rosie loves to bake with it. Glad your day was good for you--to be good TO you! xox I was at a friend’s home last night. She has rhubarb plants with leaves the size of elephant’s ears! She is going to give me some plants since she wants to thin them. I don’t care for rhubarb, but Grandma Rosie loves to bake with it.
Glad your day was good for you–to be good TO you!
xox

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41286 Kelly Sun, 27 May 2007 13:17:58 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41286 Yep, SO good, Lisa. xo to you too... Yep, SO good, Lisa. xo to you too…

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41285 Kelly Sun, 27 May 2007 13:17:32 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41285 It did feel soooo good to just go with my own sense of what the day needed to be. That sounds dramatic or something, but really, most days I squeeze myself into action that I don't much feel up for. Rhubarb is a rhizome: <a href="http://www.rhubarbinfo.com/rhubarb-growing.html"target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rhubarbinfo.com</a> Mulching your potatoes with straw is probably perfectly fine, throwing dirt on top won't hurt either, you'll be building soil fertility with that combo, but I've done just straw many, many times. Actually I once planted them by laying them on top of an overwintered bed of chopped leaves and then mulching them with a foot of loose straw, adding to it as they grew. I had a LOT of potatoes from those few plants. I considered doing that again this year, but I decided I want to work on layering those leaf beds for next year planting instead. They're in a sunny spot and will be for tomato/pepper/eggplant rotation with beans and maybe beets and carrots. It did feel soooo good to just go with my own sense of what the day needed to be. That sounds dramatic or something, but really, most days I squeeze myself into action that I don’t much feel up for.

Rhubarb is a rhizome:

rhubarbinfo.com

Mulching your potatoes with straw is probably perfectly fine, throwing dirt on top won’t hurt either, you’ll be building soil fertility with that combo, but I’ve done just straw many, many times. Actually I once planted them by laying them on top of an overwintered bed of chopped leaves and then mulching them with a foot of loose straw, adding to it as they grew. I had a LOT of potatoes from those few plants. I considered doing that again this year, but I decided I want to work on layering those leaf beds for next year planting instead. They’re in a sunny spot and will be for tomato/pepper/eggplant rotation with beans and maybe beets and carrots.

]]> By: Lisa B-K http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41239 Lisa B-K Sun, 27 May 2007 01:40:43 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41239 Good. Just... good, OK? xo Good. Just… good, OK?

xo

]]> By: Angelina http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41228 Angelina Sat, 26 May 2007 23:46:26 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2007/05/26/238/#comment-41228 I am so glad you went with what you wanted to do and not what you thought you should do. I'm working on the same for me. Is rhubarb a bulb, rhizome, or other? I wish I had hilled my potatoes, I went ahead and mulched it with straw. I wonder if I could just dump a bunch of dirt on top of that? Well, it can't hurt anyway. I am so glad you went with what you wanted to do and not what you thought you should do. I’m working on the same for me.

Is rhubarb a bulb, rhizome, or other?

I wish I had hilled my potatoes, I went ahead and mulched it with straw. I wonder if I could just dump a bunch of dirt on top of that? Well, it can’t hurt anyway.

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