Follow me as I walk-around my garden back in mid-September. This year I had some successes and disappointments. I talk about some o them.
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Hi Jannine! I am trying to get ahold of you to ask you to speak at the Los Alamos Master Gardeners early next year. Please LMK how to contact you. TY! Janine
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Hi Janine-I have a tentative April 3 class in the evening with the SF seed library. But I am open to speaking with the MG Los Alamos group too.
What would you like me to talk about and give me some possible dates/times please.
Let’s do correspondence via my email below.
Jannine Cabossel
email: jcabossel@hotmail.com
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Hi Jannine! I have a meeting with my board on Thursday to see if we can encourage our members to go to SF to hear you. A few of our members have heard you in SF in the past and suggested you as a speaker! Thank you. Janine
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Hi Janine-
I am willing to go to Los Alamos as I can’t imagine people coming down here and I’m pretty sure the turnout would be better. But of course I would need a place to speak, room for people to sit, and a screen and audiovisual computer set up so I could do a powerpoint presentation. I usually bring a memory stick to plug in.
Let me know what you all decide.
Can we switch to email, as these are private conversations and don’t involve the general public. Please REPLY to my email: jcabossel@hotmail.com and not in this format. Thanks.
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Hi Jannine! We are finally ramping up for this year. I would love to have you present either on March 6, April 3 (night), or May 1. Of course, the broad topic of veggie gardening in our climate is of most interest. Perhaps your experiences with working with the changing climate – tips on tomatoes and varieties that have done well in your experience, squash bug resistant squash or squash plant timing, companion plantings you employ, tips on seed starting, … even starting a blog! We like to have our programs first so the time for any of these meeting would be 6:30 PM. We alternate between Los Alamos (April) and White Rock (March, May). Thanks so much! Please let me know your speaking fee as well. Janine
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Wonderful tour! You’ve given me some good ideas for next year’s garden.
Thanks so much for the garden tour.
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Hi Pamela- Glad you liked the tour and maybe I gave you some ideas.Thanks for following me!
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Twenty minutes later, I can not remember many of my comments. What is the Datura? Is it the native Datura stramonium that Georgia O’Keeffe made famous? We will be tossing seed for two native species when the rain starts, so I hope that we do not regret doing so. ‘Gem’ marigold is rad! I am impressed by the Cosmos also. Ours ‘can’ do the same, but does not stay so happy into September. Chard would not look so good for September either. Your honeyberries did not look like much last time I saw them. I still do not grow them. I do grow blueberries, and they can do well with redwoods, . . . . but I could do without blueberries. We got salmonberry, but it is still in its cans because the landscape that they go into is not ready for them. They are not happy about it.
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Hi Tony-Yes Datura is the flower that Georgia O’Keefe made famous. I just love the Gem marigolds and they are so easy to grow-definitely rad!
I have to admit the honeyberries are not struggling, but not very productive. They are just an experiment to see if I could grow them down here as they are not pH sensitive like blueberries. I grew them because down here the soil is so alkaline that blueberries do not do well here.
And lastly, the salmonberries just produced a few berries this year as the drip went off for a week when I was traveling and I thought they died but are coming back slowly. My garden is an experiment which keeps it interesting for me-no boredom here!
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I am impressed with how well blueberries do for us for the same reason. However, although soil is a bit alkaline in the Santa Clara Valley, it is acidic with the redwoods, which makes sense. Blueberries dig it.
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Is this mid September or about two weeks ago? As the video ends, you mention that it is mid October.
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Good catch Tony. Me bad. It was actually filmed on Sept. 19 even though I said in the end it was mid-October.
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“It was just after midnight when the support boat’s rack of lights cut out, leaving Gary Kristensen in near-darkness as he paddled down the Columbia River in a roughly thousand-pound hollowed-out pumpkin.”
http://www.chronline.com/stories/46-miles-on-the-columbia-river-in-a-1000-pound-pumpkin-lands-oregon-paddler-a-world-record,365082
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