Chaos Gardening
- karstopography
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Chaos Gardening
I believe Chaos gardens might be an actual discipline or formalized way to define a garden (which seems to be at odds with chaos) but whatever it means or is to you I look at it as more or less direct seed or scatter a bunch of seeds of various things in one bed and sort it all out later.
Several kinds of lettuce are coming up between three or four types of bread seed poppies. There are bulb fennel, cardoon, Mizuna, tiny basil, three kinds, seedlings, rosemary, spearmint, calendula, sunflowers, arugula. Garlic, cilantro and I think that might be all.
Just a whole lot of fun and I’ll find some way to sort it all out. The thinnings of many of these are useful. I did have to thin out the breadseed poppies as evidently ever one of the several hundred seeds I scattered into the wind germinated.
Several kinds of lettuce are coming up between three or four types of bread seed poppies. There are bulb fennel, cardoon, Mizuna, tiny basil, three kinds, seedlings, rosemary, spearmint, calendula, sunflowers, arugula. Garlic, cilantro and I think that might be all.
Just a whole lot of fun and I’ll find some way to sort it all out. The thinnings of many of these are useful. I did have to thin out the breadseed poppies as evidently ever one of the several hundred seeds I scattered into the wind germinated.
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Re: Chaos Gardening
Are you's old enough to recall the Maxwell Smart (of 60s trés corny sitcom Get Smart fame-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart) perennial nemesis KAOS (https://getsmart.fandom.com/wiki/KAOS)?
A pre-teen Gotch was seriously crushin' on Barbara Feldon/Agent 99!
The Gotch
A pre-teen Gotch was seriously crushin' on Barbara Feldon/Agent 99!
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Re: Chaos Gardening
"Sorry about that Chief!" Remember that quote, at least once in every show, Gotch?
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- Cornelius_Gotchberg
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Re: Chaos Gardening
Sure do! This familiarity indicates you's are of a...um...certain age...not that there's anything wrong with that.....pepperhead212 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:24 pm "Sorry about that Chief!" Remember that quote, at least once in every show, Gotch?
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Re: Chaos Gardening
Controlled chaos haha it’s what I call it.
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Re: Chaos Gardening
We grew up on Get Smart as well - best show ever.
It has really come of age with the gadgets - I have everything but a shoe phone now! (and the Cone of Silence...)
Chaos Gardening - I like it!
Best part is that, if something doesn't do well, something else does, right?
I might have to take this up, seriously...
It has really come of age with the gadgets - I have everything but a shoe phone now! (and the Cone of Silence...)
Chaos Gardening - I like it!
Best part is that, if something doesn't do well, something else does, right?
I might have to take this up, seriously...
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temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm
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Re: Chaos Gardening
Comforting to hear...and a trip down Corny Lane?
F Troop, Hogan's Heroes, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle, USMC, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Munsters, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched...heck...King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (Biggie Rat-n-Itchy Brother!), The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (Mr. Peabody and Sherman's Wayback Machine), Felix the Cat (P-O-I-N-D-E-X-T-E-R) ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
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Re: Chaos Gardening
Chaos gardening is when you have 12 pound watermelons suspended in your lilac bushes.
Don't ask.
Don't ask.
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Re: Chaos Gardening
I’ve got seven beds, six framed cedar raised beds and one masonry framed garden, that are planned and ordered. Two in the ground, unframed or without hard borders, beds that are mostly wild and experimental and chaotic isn’t too much to ask for is it?
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