Organic Gardening Tips for Better Health!

MICHAEL,,,,,,,, you doin good boy. Did this in my youth when I had a good back. Now sorry and just throw all my debris into two worm beds and let them turn it into worm castings. You know we all would not have to sup borax water if we still had boron in our soil. I think it is Jamaica that has depleted their boron by continuously growing sugar cane. Now all these folks have arthritis, which is a modern thing.

As most know, we take our garden veggies to our little country church and let folks get what they need. What brought tears to my eyes this week is that we got an anonymous card thanking us with an appropriate biblical scripture. Partner, that will tare up even an iron ass like me.

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You are correct ORH! Interesting that Jamaica has low Boron in the soil and Fiji has enough and that levels of Arthritis in their respective populations differ so much, presumably as a consequence! Both grow sugar cane though! So whether it is this that depletes the soil or possibly the fertilizers that they use to grow the crops or maybe even the burning off of the cane fields afterwards is a moot point. You see, in Fiji it is the Indian half of the population that grow the sugar cane and the Fijians confine themselves to tilling their own plots / gardens (which still, largely in the villages at least, sustain them). If the Fijians come to New Zealand to settle, they can succumb to arthritic conditions for the first time. At least that is my understanding of the situation.

Cheers and take care of your back.

Michael

Tricia from Ireland, Ireland replies: "You say not to water the plants in the evening. I always thought this was a good time to water plants as they got to keep their moisture for a longer period of time due to the coolness. Does this go for all plants or just the ones with the mildew.

This is a new idea for me. Do you spray 3% food grade peroxide on the plant, or do you need to dilute it further? Do you spray the entire plant, and can you also water with it so it reaches the roots? Thanks :)

OM, , , , , , , spring is busting out all over East Tenn. The dog wood bloom barely made Easter and that means the crappie will be spawning and we will fill our freezer with this delicious fish.

Since my last post, our sour cherry trees are in bloom and our 14 apple trees are about ready. The freezing did not kill back our fig trees as it did two years ago. I have given up on Peach trees. Too much trouble. Can't grow plums because of the black rot from the native Black Cherry Trees.

Know you are not supposed to work on Sunday, but we may go over and till a raised bed for our beet, spinach and black radish transplants because they are ready now and we have rain in the forecast for the next 10 days. We have cover we can put on to protect the plants should there be a frost.

If you recall, I promised our boy , Timh, some black radish juice to help with his ailments. Don't want to let him down.

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HI U OM, , , , , , , , , we still working in our raised beds and only do the big garden for bulk stuff. Today, we planted two kinds of carrots, and added a succession planting of green onions. Transplanted beets , spinach, kale and black radish.

Learned years ago to encourage birds to keep down the insects and the Tree Swallow scouts are here checking out our 20 plastic gourds for nesting. Initially put these up for Martins but Swallows will do. In the Sweat South folks put up gourds for Martins because they kept the hawks run off from catching the young free roaming chickens.

We have many skunks digging for grubs which turn into June Beatles and eat our grape and bean leaves. So we love skunks. Found two new Ground Hog holes and that is not good. These critters will devastate our garden. I love turtles in Sewee Creek and try to feed them Ground Hogs every chance I can. Won't get into my methods as I know your are a tree hugger.

The absolute worst critter for a gardner is deer. I know every trick there is and only one works and that is a multi-level electric fence. It messes up their head. They don't know whether to jump high or jump long. So they just go away.

Our electric fence is in disarray and we have to get it going this week because our blue berries are budding out and deer love to bite off these buds.

What is so sad is the we live in the sticks where people were reared by a garden. Now , most are too sorry to do that work, but they keep up with our goins on as our farm is on a busy state highway. Is that sad or what?

What we try to do is eat healthy and try and avoid ailments. Even that is hard.

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HI U OM, , , , , , , know you a gardener, so I'm not talking down to you. The fence entrance to our little farm is falling down and we got a price to replace the entrance with a 16' gate and a 4 slat fence. Above my pay grade, so me and my 74 year ole tractor driver decided to take this project on. We are right on a busy state highway and folks are not accustomed to seeing a silver haired lady driving a tractor. Guess we have nearly caused a few wrecks from drivers craning their necks. We have been at this for about two weeks and have let our greenhouse plants do what they do.

Today, I looked at our tomato plants and they have to be transplanted to larger pots least they become root bound. That is when the roots have no where to go so they go round and round. That is not good as you know. I get a kick out of city slickers who buy the largest plants in the smallest pots, and think they got a deal. No, you just got snookered. Those plants will be slow to grow because of their root bound system.

Well, we are shutting down our fence work tomorrow and transplanting our tomatoes into larger pots , least I be the dummy of this story. I get a kick out of folks saying that tomatoes contain Lycopene and helps prevent cancer. Cooked tomatoes contain Lycopene and that's the reason we can about 30 ea. 1/2 gallons of tomato juice each year. The only juice we buy is Cranberry Juice for our Kidneys. We do tomato, apple , grape, pear and muscadine juice to last us all year.

For those excited about reading this ....my counsel is to get started now because when you retire its 'bout too late.

As Joy said, I's a story teller and she's right. Just hope this has lit a fuse in some to grow their own healthy fruit, berries, and veggies. At least you know what you are eating. With our Big Agri friends, you are shooting craps.

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HI U HEALTH NUTS DOIN, , , , , , , , spent the day at the farm erecting our 16' gate and I's a happy camper because it works.

Next, we transplanted our Arkansas Traveler, Cherry and Roma tomatoes to big pots. Transplanted our Green Tower lettuce to a raised bed. We have grown ever variety of lettuce known to man and this is the best for home gardeners.

Got two frogs in our greenhouse water beds and we playing games. They blow up their throat like a balloon and let out their call. When they stop calling then I try to mimic their call and they start up again. Here is an old man playing games with a frog. Are you kidding me? Run out of something to do, huh. I took a picture of them with their throat thing. Wish all could see that.

Got a young kid working for us tomorrow and I require him to tell me the name of the trees, fruits, veggies , etc. He also has to tell me the name of the tools he works with. His dad passed some 10 years ago and he has no mentor. His momma appreciates my counsel except she doesn't know I'm an iron ass. He has to answer me yas sur or no sur. If all did that, when the cops would not be shooting down folks running. They would just stop and talk it out as took place in my youth. You always lost, but at least you did not get shot. Are we dumb or what?

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HI U OLE PATOOTS DOIN, , , , , , , , SAT. got our garlic planted in a raised bed and tomorrow will transplant our pearl onions. I have our Ambrosia Cantaloupe, Crimson Sweet Watermelon, Straight Neck Squash, Zucchini Black Squash, and Little Arkie Cucumbers seeds soaking in a 1 % HP solution as our hero, Bill Munro, advocated. He only wrote about health HP on this site, but he was a fantastic gardener and used HP to grow vegetables resistant to disease and insects. You can find his tales on the internet. We will set them out in our floats and into our sprouting cabinet.

I think his slide rule slipped because when I used the strength he supposedly did, it killed my plants. This just works for hard seeds as things like beans will turn to mush and the skin falls off if soaked more than an hour or so. For the hard seeds , they will start to sprout in the HP after a day.

This will be an interesting week because we are on a limited apple juice fast to soften up our Liver, Gall and Kidney stones in preparation for our flush come Sunday night. This means drinking 32 oz of quality apple juice a day. I want to incorporate Timh's menthol cough drops protocol into this, but running blind. He told me to dissolve 6 of the cough drops and I would pass stones in my gall. Kinda spooked to do this without doing it along with the Hulda Clark flush.

This flush is to get my liver in better shape to handle the toxins released from my daily use of my Rife Machine. This is to address my preclinical detection of blood cancer for the second time. This in not carte blanche as I am following a strict protocol developed by The Independent Cancer Research Foundation. I follow each session with massive amounts of Ozonated water and a FIR Sauna to get rid of the killed toxins.

I also take Transfer Point's Beta 1,3D Glucan to get my immune system in good shape. I also have added 1/2 T of baking soda at bed and on awaking to get my urine pH close to 8. This was based on my research and a nudge from an EC reader.

Following my flush I will do a coffee enema followed by an Ozone Anal Insufflation. The last time I did this I passed a handful of segmented Candida. So I know this parasite is giving me grief. Bill is the expert in this area and has suggested I do turpentine inhalation and I will try to work that in. He also suggests a fiber shake which we already do, but not in earnest.

At 78, I figure this will be a way of life 'til I meet the Lord. Not a problem. I have planned this meeting in 14 years, but HE'S calling the shots. My friend at church is going the Chemo way and he will be sick as a dog from here on out and his chances of beating his cancer is 3%. I like my odds better.

I had a whole body Thermograph made a few weeks ago and I'm inflamed from asshole to appetite. My tractor driver was clean as new blown snow.

Dr Simoncini says cancer is a fungus. That is disputed , but fungus is always in a cancer patient. Our Allopathic doctors do not even recognize Candida as a problem.

To keep tabs on my progress , I will have my DNA tests done monthly. The cost is $80. A PET SCAN is thousands and you are radiated.

This is not a pity party as I've said before. Lets just see how this works out as we all watched Bill Munro live 25 years after he was found to have two cancers and he lived a good life until age 89.

This is not a ATS, this one is 100%.

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HI U GOD FEARING FOLKS DOIN, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Deirdre thinks folks are interested in growing good stuff in gardens so I'm the Guinea Pig if she ever gets the program going. I have told her that I'm like Goldwater, some love me and some hate me. Anyways, I am pretty good at gardening and you can learn some interesting stuff. The health stuff, I'm just so, so, and defer to the bright guys like Ted, Bill, Dave, Timh and Mama.

Everyone now knows about GSE now but years ago this product was unknown. We learned about it when we raised commercial black berries some 15 years ago. They don't keep well and spoiled quickly. We read the story about how GSE came about and started spraying our blackberries. Wow, they lasted for many days before they started to deteriorate.

I tell you this because it works with the veggies and berries that you purchase at the store. GSE is a natural anti-fungal product. We buy the product from NuriBiotic and add 20 drops to a 16 oz spray bottle and spray all our bought veggies prior to putting them into the frig. They will last twice as long before spoiling.

Anyways, I look forward to telling ya'll how we raise stuff to try stay healthy. For you serious gardeners, join in. Dang, at 78 I still have things to learn. So teach me.

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ORH: I hope to one day have a veggie garden, fruit orchard, a few egg Hens, and a pond full of fat catfish, all for the harvesting. For red meat I don't think I have enough disregard to kill a Deer so would proly opt for the grocer on that one.

Anyway, yesterday I bought a pack of "reduced for quicksale" Strawberries w/ the hope I could clean em' up for consumption. I cut away the worst parts and placed the berries in a plastic container and added a cup of water and 1/2 cup Colloidal Silver. Have had two large serving and zero gut infection, so hurray on that.

Also, lately I have gone back on Milk because my metabolism and appetite is increasing. I still need to take Strontium Citrate caps as my mineral deficiencies cause me to take on radiation rapidly. Living by oneself is a disadvantage in food wise. So, I have found an effective way of keeping that milk from spoiling. After consuming about half a container (1/2 or 1 gal) add a few spoons of Colloidal Silver and you're good for several more days; maybe as much as doubling the shelf-life of the Milk.

ORH, have you got any tips for us city folks who only have a porch (mine is in southern sunlight all day) and who want to "wet their feet" doing a little food gardening?

To add to ORH, I use 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide to help sprout slow starting seeds before planting. Also, if you mist your seedlings with 3% h202 it deters root rot for those of us that water too much. I found that by spritzing mature vegetable plants, it can revive plants that are near death. I've extended my harvest season doing that. Wakes up tired old house plants too. Ya gotta love oxygen!

HI U GERTIE, , , , I presume that's short for Gertrude. One of the prettiest in my high school was named Gertrude. I know you are pretty too.

I got into soaking seeds by reading what our ole buddy, Bill Munro, wrote in his blogs. I only use 1% as the 8 % Bill used, killed my seeds. I have found that you can also soak the seeds too long.

Why do you use food grade H2O2 on plants? I am not an expert on the use of H2O2 on plants and appreciate your input. Folks are getting interested in using food as a way to cure their ails. We just try to eat healthy.

My Dad was country as dumplings and his famous saying is that I'd rather pay for milk than a doctor's bill . So we drank more milk than anyone in our little South Arkansas town. The milk then was whole milk in glass quarts. You had to shake the bottle to get the butter fat to mix.

Modern milk these days will not cure any ails, and I'll leave it at that.

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HI Mmsg, , , , , , , , my suggestion is to start with one tomato plant in a large pot on your porch. Take your choice of Grape tomatoes or Roma tomatoes.

Next year, add a second pot of bell peppers. Just remember that nitrogen aids the plant and the phosphate and potassium aids the fruit. Your coffee grounds are mostly nitrogen. Dump them in the pot. Keep us posted.

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Oh dear, ORH, I don't drink coffee....Anything else good for the plants?

So you give nitrogen while the plants are growing and the phosphate and potassium after the fruit comes out??

HI U Mmsg, , , , , , , , , , , here I am on the gulf beach at St George island Fla and you pestering me about coffee grounds on tomato plants.

Just messn with you girl. Yeah, plants must have enough nitrogen to grow but need potassium and phosphate for roots and fruit. Maybe you just need to get a good fertilizer and forget the table waste route until you feel comfortable.

We just pulled in a few hours ago and besides my face and hands, I's lilly white. We like it here because St George Island has not been turned into a carnival like Gulf Shores, Destin and Panama City. It's mostly old folks sitting in the sun letting their capillaries turn the rays into Vitamin D.

Anyways, I need to get into my swim trunks and join my lovely wife of almost 55 years. Will soak in the magnesium gulf waters for awhile, so I will sleep tonight. The Lord provides.... as he has told us all.

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Oh ok, ORH. I do happen to have some organic powder that is supposed to be plant fertilizer. I'll use that. Thanks!

I use food grade hydrogen peroxide on plants because I don't know how safe the brown bottled hydrogen peroxide is. I'm thinking if I can't pronounce the ingredients, then I shouldn't be eating/using the product.

I made the mistake of planting my zucchini in the same spot two years in a row. This is an invitation for disease on my zucchini. Sure enough blossom rot happened, so I sprayed with h202 and restored the plant. Had a bountiful harvest last year.

Mmsg - I somewhat agree with ORH, do one pot at a time. Although I would add a second pot the next week!!! Then a third the following! Why wait??? You can buy some good organic seed (which by the way will sprout for several years) and grow lettuce, spinach, chives, scallions, endive, kale, oregano, basil, ...should I go on? You could actually grow enough to make a big salad for lunch every day and not be able to eat it all. I did this last summer all in containers. Don't forget to go out and pick the dandelion and wild onion and blackberries, etc. and you will be living a vibrant life. Let us know what you grow, I would love to hear about it! :)

HI U SWEET PEA, , , , , , , , , you are right on. However, folks that have not been into gardening get burned out pretty quick. I was wanting her to succeed at one thing, get pumped, and expand with time.

I even watch experienced gardeners in our area shoot a bear in the butt and plant a big garden only to have the weeds take it over in a month or so.

I have been guilty of that in the last few years and that's the reason our garden is 1/3 of what we once raised.

Your selection of veggies and herbs tells me that you eat healthy and with a raised bed is not too much of a chore. Thanks for joining in as we only do a few herbs like chives, and sweet basil, so I will learn from you.

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ORH, I am doing the Ruth Stout method of gardening. So far my garden is about 26 X 8 feet, but I am expanding. My first mistake this year is to plant too soon, the soil was not quite warm enough. I lost a few tomato plants. However, in my first experiment, I threw in celery roots, potatoes, garlic, & onions in last autumn and covered them with lots of straw and guess what? - Virtually all of them have survived and are thriving! And we had a BRUTAL winter. I still have containers, too. They are great because you don't really have to weed! Just pick and eat! That's what I love about container gardening, no going out of your mind with weeding! If anyone is not familiar with Ruth Stout, please, please, do yourself a favor and watch a video of her on youtube. It's only about 30 minutes long. You can also find copies of her book which is awesome! Okay, I'm off to my garden... :)

HI U SWEET PEA GIRL, , , , , , , , you have heard the word... play-like, well I would play-like I knew who Ruth Stout was, but you would see through me PDQ. So, I looked her up and now 'bout half smart.

Sounds like a good method for a small garden and hopefully you have sparked some others to join in to grow veggies for a better health.

What most don't understand is that in our ancestors' lifetime, the men took care of the bulk crops that fed the family and their livestock and the wemmins took care of the small vegetable garden.

Anyways, there seems to be an interest here, so tell us more about this system.

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HI U OLE PATOOTS, ORH here, and learned another garden trick this year. I have never used an inoculant with our beans seeds, but this year, I coated our lima beans prior to planting. Have raised them for some 50 plus years but today we picked a gallon from a 25' row and we are a week from our first frost. They always played out during August. Sad that I did not read more in my youth. Also gathered 2 bushels of Arkansas Black apples. This is a tart mountain apple and our favorite. We picked 4 gallons of muscadines. We are running out of canning jars. Two things I regret about not planting 30 years ago at our little 6 acre farm and that is pecan and maple syrup trees. East Tenn is unusual in that you can raise both. East Tenn has trees from the north and south. A more diverse forest than any section of the US. If you are less than 50, you have time to develop a survival farm for your old age. You must have water.......or forget it. I promise you there is a difference in what you raise and what is in the store. Think my gardening is the reason I am still above ground. My 3 best HS buddies were gone years ago....all from cancer. You are what you eat. None gardened.

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HI U OLE PATOOTS, ORH here, and I guess I got flushed again because I try to sneak things in. I will only talk about our gardening and not try and sneak other evil things in. At 84, with a crushed T 12 and in CHF, putting in a garden is tough. But, that is my life. I got enough jack that I could live in the best, but that is not me. I only want to eat what we raise. We got lots of people playing games. So let me tell you the latest and you think about what you can raise to help your health. Our winter garden still has kale, collards, green onions, and carrots. Yesterday, we planted spinach, beets, lettuce and carrots in a raised bed. We planted tomatoes, peppers and egg plant in flats that went into our sprouting house for later transplanting. Encourage you to grow your own veggies. All will soon get the message. ====ORH====

Thank you, can't wait to see it up and running

Hi Rebel ---- but this is quite common practice including in my garden. My neighbour has a wood stove and lets me have what I need. just mix it in well. Also acts as a repellent sprinkled on top. No need to be scientific about it. You may find info on the 'net, too. Om

Hi Rebel,

There's some really useful information about the use of wood ashes in the garden on this site http://voices.yahoo.com/wood-ashes-improve-garden-3-ways-as-fertilizer-soil-2803696.html

One thing to remember is that you want to make sure your ashes are pure WOOD ashes and that a little sprinkle over the soil is plenty. You don't want to overdo it.

Happy gardening!!!

HI U OLE PATOOTS DOIN, ORH here, and after 5 hours at the farm, we are eating raw veggies from our garden for supper. At my age, bowels in not too good a shape and raw veggies help. Ask my Tractor Driver if that would work and she did an outstanding job. She had green onions, sliced beets with carrots, banana pepper, cucumbers, sliced yellow squash and zucchini and a z-muffin to finish it all off. Sprayed the garden with a solution of epsom salt and borax and just hope I did not destroy months of work. I have never done this before, but I's a gammer. Lots of folks on the net said it was the thing to do. Now, I got to live up to my anniversary pledge and give her a massage, and a mineral bath that I promised once a week. Lordy, that was a weak moment. Should have just bought a vase of flowers. This is hard work.

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I've come across a lot of references to boron deficiency in crops. Very interesting. Borax seems too alkaline for vegetation, to me, but I look forward to reading of your experience with it.