Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening
Alex Smith | 07.12.2011 19:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield
As hard times close in, learn how to grow veggies even in UK winter. We'll also need an edible landscape instead of ornamentals and crappy lawns. Tips from Guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson to plant public and private spaces.
SHOW LINE UP
1. "Winter Gardening with Eliot Coleman"
How to grow food in winter, even in Northern climates. Master gardener Eliot Coleman, from Four Seasons Farm in Bar Harbor Maine, grows (and sells) vegetables year-round, using inexpensive portable "hoop house" greenhouses, with no added heat source. Classic how-to interview, from Radio Ecoshock Show
2. "Guerrilla Gardening"
How to create an edible landscape on public and private lands. UK "Guerrilla of Love" Chris Tomlinson explains how he secretly plants food, perennials and trees, in waste lands, untended gardens, and even city streets. Fun interview on serious topic, as economy erodes.
3. "Global Famine Starts in Texas"
From You tube, excellent rant and demonstration of Texas heat killing off ability of garden plants to set fruit. Above 85 degree F days, and without going below 68 F nights - no tomatoes, beans, mellons, nada. A portent of coming global famine as global warming develops, says this You tube poster "Humptydumptytribe".
full video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEESU4k2dA
4. "Locavore: Winter Gardening in Canada"
Nuts and bolts of how to grow vegetables even in a Canadian winter, with no extra heating. Walter Garrison, host of "Locavore" on CFRU Guelph, Ontario interviews Martin Ronda in greenhouse of Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. All possible in UK, right up to Scotland, as well as Scandinavia.
1. "Winter Gardening with Eliot Coleman"
How to grow food in winter, even in Northern climates. Master gardener Eliot Coleman, from Four Seasons Farm in Bar Harbor Maine, grows (and sells) vegetables year-round, using inexpensive portable "hoop house" greenhouses, with no added heat source. Classic how-to interview, from Radio Ecoshock Show
2. "Guerrilla Gardening"
How to create an edible landscape on public and private lands. UK "Guerrilla of Love" Chris Tomlinson explains how he secretly plants food, perennials and trees, in waste lands, untended gardens, and even city streets. Fun interview on serious topic, as economy erodes.
3. "Global Famine Starts in Texas"
From You tube, excellent rant and demonstration of Texas heat killing off ability of garden plants to set fruit. Above 85 degree F days, and without going below 68 F nights - no tomatoes, beans, mellons, nada. A portent of coming global famine as global warming develops, says this You tube poster "Humptydumptytribe".
full video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEESU4k2dA 4. "Locavore: Winter Gardening in Canada"
Nuts and bolts of how to grow vegetables even in a Canadian winter, with no extra heating. Walter Garrison, host of "Locavore" on CFRU Guelph, Ontario interviews Martin Ronda in greenhouse of Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. All possible in UK, right up to Scotland, as well as Scandinavia.
Alex Smith
Homepage:
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