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Mark in Colorado
13 years ago

Awesome, Jack. Can’t wait to see you at the show this weekend! Thanks for the preview 🙂

Morgan
13 years ago

Oh wow. Very cool! I wish we could see the entire presentation. But this will have to do for now. 🙂 I had no idea there were so many ways to reduce water or even completely get rid of watering. Great stuff! Will be sharing with our comrades.

Lynn
Lynn
13 years ago

I hope you will post the complete talk on your podcast…..

Sadly, we have losts thousands of acres of our forests here in the Central Texas area due to wildfires…. 🙁

metaforge
13 years ago

7.5 inches of precip here annually, and over half of that is in the form of snow. Can really use the info, but can’t make the expo – hope it is available in MSB or the gear shop or something. Thanks!

Mark
Mark
13 years ago

Looks great, let us know when you find out the presentation time(s) for SLC.

Lidia
Lidia
13 years ago

Thanks. I’ll try to remember to bring a USB drive with us!

Casey
Casey
13 years ago

will you consider sharing some of your data on bit torrent for those no where near the expos?

Brian Kelley
Brian Kelley
13 years ago

Have you considered posting the full presentation video in the msb? It would be great for those of us that are not able to attend the expo.

Brian Kelley
Brian Kelley
13 years ago
Reply to  Brian Kelley

If you decide not to post all of the info, I would like to purchase one of the usb drives, if possible. Wish I could go to one of the expo presentations but I just live too far away.

Donna
Donna
13 years ago

More evidence to back up your forest floor is a lake piece this week. “Water Evaporated from Trees Cools Global Climate, Researchers Find”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110914161729.htm

cranberryrose55
cranberryrose55
13 years ago

Somebody should say this- Forrest is spelled forest, but this may be a new term you are coining.
Also, in CA unless we acidify or plant in peat/acid mix, we can’t grow blueberries only because while the ground is neutral to alkaline ph, the ground water is alkaline. We have no acid pockets for the acid-loving plants unless we create them, but all other plants culture well under the system you are describing, especially artichokes and stone fruits.

InBox485
13 years ago

Two things:
1 – for those of us that won’t be able to make it, will the videos make it to the MSB archive or anything like that?

2 – I’m curious what you had in mind for the blueberries. I’ve been using pine needle mulch with some success, but another approach would be interesting.

Joseph DuPOnt
Joseph DuPOnt
13 years ago

There is a guy in Oregon who wrote a whole book on growing things in low water environments.. mainly … separating plants.. fewer plants square foot.

Joseph DuPOnt
Joseph DuPOnt
13 years ago

The above website is additional info you might want to look at on low water gardens.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gardening Without Irrigation: or without
much, anyway, by Steve Solomon

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Title: Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway

Author: Steve Solomon

Posting Date: August 8, 2009 [EBook #4512]
Release Date: October, 2003
First Posted: January 28, 2002

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