Hey Don,
I saw that Darlene Heater was going to contact you about the adult gardening at clean and green. Amy and I are concentrating on the "kid and family" activites/demo in this same area. Let's talk and try to co-ordinate!
Michaele Fitzpatrick

Hey Don,
The herbs are great, how have you been?
Are you looking for any herb or veggie plants?

Don, try clicking on the little letter symbol at the top of you page. It's on a gray bar at the top of the screen between your name and a person symbol. Took me a long time to figure out how to work it, too. :)

I'm doing fine. You're just now starting your toms? I've got two trays of tomato seedlings in my house which were started by the third graders at the Shamrock Gardens dinner event, and I'll be returning them in a week or so. They will be missed. They're kind of like my foster toms. We're not having a garden this year because the soil around our ancient rent house is just too obviously contaminated with large chips of lead paint. :(
The big plant in the picture is from my TX garden. Pruning tomato bushes in that area made them too prone to disease, heat stress, and sunburn, so I just let them grow up and over their six foot tomato cages and back down to the ground again. And I promise I wasn't loading them up on nitrogen. :)

The frost-free date around here is about April 16th, isn't it?

Anyway, try to check your mail, it's about the school thing.

-Amy

Don,

I sent you a private message. :)

Hi Don,

Sorry for the delay in answering. I've been a little short on time this week. :) Hope you and your kiddos are feeling better. I've had the flu a couple of times and it's no picnic.

Are you coming to the meeting at Earth Fare tonight?

Hi Don,

Yeah, I'm still facebookless and myspaceless, too. I had to ask the other slow fooders what this "friend" thing was about.

And, no---I don't do busking. The closest I ever get to public performance is accidentally tripping over a rough spot on the sidewalk and saying "tah-dah" to make it seem intentional. I'm pretty unmusical----though I can still play "yankee doodle" on my midschool recorder. I agree that busking could make the markets livlier. Maybe I should learn the sax in my spare (HA!) time. No---the concertina would be better.

What's your wife's area of study? Not Psychology is it? Matt's always looking for research partners. :)

It's good to have another lacto-ovo on this site. When Matt and I have theoretical situations in which we'd eat meat, such as your Togo example, but in 13 years, not one person has ever offered to cook a chicken in our honor. Perhaps we're not honor-able enough.

I do think maybe from now on Barbara K. should stick with essays from now on. We'll have to discuss the literery merit of each of her works sometime----I think I've read them all.

I had a peek at the urban ministry garden site, and I'm so impressed. The garden looks great! Permanant beds with no edging materials, mulch, covercrops------just what I hope to see for our schoolyard project in the future.

I had a mouse move into my compost heap once, but never a Russian painter! Neat!

Finally, ---yes I have some tomato seeds to swap. A few, anyway. Some were lost in the move, including those from a heat-resistant pink beefsteak I was developing. I have a half a dozen or a dozen seeds from several dozen varieties left and a cup or two of a cherry tomato that might be particularly useful for your project. It's my selection of Broad Ripple Yellow Currant (see the sse listing for details). It's VERY productive and VERY drought resistant. I've never distuributed it because I worry about it escaping cultivation and becoming invasive, but that might not be such a concern in an urban setting.

Did you get my e-mail about the Shamrock Garden Project? Michaele said you might be interested in helping out. I can see that you've got your hands full with the other garden, but we could really use a little help right here at the beginning of our project,----even if only in terms of encouragement and advice.

Wow, Busking, eh? What kind of preformance do you do?