Comments (0) Today at the Riley Park Farmers Market I met two interesting people. I cannot replay entire conversations for you but they did give me permission to take their picture. So look at the picture and try to imagine what is special/different/unique about these people:
Werner
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Auschwitz survivor
Melodie
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Railroad engineer [drives trains for CN!]
Bonus photo:
Jane Doe
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Wearing nice sunglasses [that’s all]
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I had a great time participating with my brother and his wife doing this.
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Vancouver’s changing landscape:
The Vancouver Molson Indy winners circle in August 2004*
and in August 2008
Olympic Village construction in November 2007
and in August 2008
Guerrilla Gardening in September 2005
and in August 2008:
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*photo by Andrastia [with permission]
Here’s the view in my neighbourhood this morning:
It is surreal and beautiful too.
A tweet: Love watching the falling petals of cherry blossoms; snow that doesn’t melt. The wind blows them down the street like confetti. Slippery too.
Real snow on April 19 - No one I know remembers it snowing so late in the year
But snow at the end of March is normal – it did that last year too.
Snow and cherry blossoms
First post with Windows Live Writer – positive reviews on Lifehacker. I agree.
Look closely. I see a water channel between the mountain ranges on this air vent cover outside the new Superstore / Home Depot store at Cambie at 7th
At this angle it looks like a VU meter gone crazy:
The air vent is both beautiful and cold at same time. It was probably designed to make it impossible for skateboarders to use it while evoking elements of our natural landscape.
From work
J. H. didn’t even know that what he put on that morning would be a throwback to the weird and wonderful 80’s
Bev wears hats like these all year long. As the seasons change, so do the hats. Halloween and Xmas are the best!
For my Aunt who needs to see colours like these
and Uncle who says there is four feet of snow where they live.
and anyone else east of Hope, BC
This is one of the reasons I and so many other people love Vancouver. When the rain stops and skies clear, the world looks like this:
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No explanation required:
If you need one…Wikipedia: Parodies of the ichthys symbol
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Wrote a comment here
Soil life: the best kept secret to successful container growing?
Vertical Veg supports food growing in containers and tiny spaces: ideas, inspiration and practical advice.
If you want to grow food successfully in containers, nurturing soil life can make a huge difference. Worm compost, for example, is full of microbes and life. Add it to your containers and you will get more vigorous growth, and far fewer pest and disease problems. Discovering this, was the biggest turning point in my growing (more important, even, than self watering containers), transforming sporadic successes into something more consistent.
Why is soil life important?
Healthy organic soil in the natural world supports a web of life including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes as well as larger creatures like worms and slugs. These organisms play a vital role in the life of plants. They break down organic matter to make the nutrients available for plant roots. They condition the soil and create air spaces and tunnels in it – improving aeration and drainage. And they compete with other more harmful organisms in the soil, ones that will damage your plants if left unchecked.
Soil life is complex – so the above is just my attempt to summarise some of the main benefits you can expect when you add life to your containers!
Why do you need to add life to containers?
Most commercial composts that we buy are sterilised and low in microbial life. So is municipal compost (it has to be made at hot temperatures to kill pathogens, killing much of the beneficial life, too). So if you want life in your containers – and to mimic soil in the natural world – you need to add it.
1. Worm compost
2. Homemade compost
3. Leaf mould
4. Manure
5. Bokashi
Bokashi is Japanese method of composting food quickly in a tightly sealed bucket. Benefits of bokashi are that you can add almost any food (even meat), it works quickly, can be done in a very small space, and doesn’t smell (much). The drawbacks are that you need to buy bokashi bran for it to work, and the pickled product is not as versatile as worm compost. But you can add it to the bottom of containers to add both organic matter and microorganisms.
Mix about 10 – 20% into the compost in the bottom third of a container.
6. Mycorrhizal Fungi
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