Vegetable Gardening

[smilingcat]

Tulips' winter garden looks very appetizing. It's a good thing I'm not a snail in her garden...

And to Spokewench, you and I are just going to have to look forward to next year. My house in Troutdale (east of Portland) closed this past Monday... It's mine it's mine!!!

YIPPEEE!!!

I get to start my garden from scratch once again. not so cool.
but its bigger and full sun all day very cool.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Congratulations Smilingcat! We look forward to the progress reports of your new garden as it gets created.

[mudmucker]

Well, it's funny how life gets in the way of finishing things. Here's the latest on the root cellar, which has been extremely fun to make. It's so liberating being handy. I would have finished today except I needed a couple more pvc fittings and I wasn't going to make an hour round trip to get them.

I finished making the doors which wasn't a standard size at all, and finished insulating them. I began on the air exchanger and was able to easily pull out my basement window and replace one half with plywood and foam insulation. I took my trusty hole saw and made some nice clean holes for the piping to get through. I fit together the pipe on the outside, but I think I will cut them a little shorter. Although, they have to be high enough to be above the snowdrifts. Link to more narrative

[sundial]

Senate Bill 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, the most dangerous bill for farmers and gardeners, passed. The House version passed earlier this year. Should this bill be signed into law, you will no longer be able to clean, store or sell seed, transport or sell home grown produce without prior FDA approval, you will be subjected to fines if you found in violation of the law, and puts all food and farms under Homeland Security. Your home garden will now be regulated by the government. Healthy, home grown, organic foods will no longer be available as the government will continue to introduce genetically modified produce.

For more information about this bill, please go to the following links:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S510:

http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/05/...grown-produce/

[tulip]

The Tester-Hagan amendment protects farms with less than $500,000 income from the requirements. It appears that the Tester-Hagan Amendment is included in the bill that is coming up for a vote.

Mudrucker, that is quite a wonderful root cellar that you have built for yourself!

[OakLeaf]

Michael Pollan is strongly in favor (and confirms that the Tester amendment did pass).

That's good enough for me.

[tulip]

Good enough for me, too. The fact that the large agribusinesses were against the bill speaks volumes.