Green | March 25, 2009 | 6 comments

Slow, Easy, Cheap and Green

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/garden/26slow.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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Felder Rushing is preaching slow gardening.

Simply put, the doctrine calls for gardeners to relax, take their time and follow seasonal rhythms, instead of doing everything at once — an urge that’s especially prevalent in early spring, when people are tempted to run outdoors and plant to affirm that winter is over, taking with it the naked expanse that passes for a backyard.

Rushing's principal garden, a leafy fantasia that obscures his lavender-colored cottage and was once described, unfavorably, by a property assessor as containing “excess shrubbage,” reflects his slow-grow philosophy. Vegetables like peppers and lettuce are in pots rather than in the ground for easy maintenance (no bending over, no tiller) and versatility (not everybody has a patch of land). And while he and his wife, Terryl, enjoy growing their own food, you won’t find potatoes, because it’s less work and more cost-effective to buy them at the store.
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6 comments // Slow, Easy, Cheap and Green

  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • Following rhythms like the Farmers almanac? That sounds right, plant according to the moon? The native americans did things like that, once they were no longer nomads.(hunter/gatherers).
      We need a site with info on the facts related to the rhythms.

    • 3 years ago
  • vistapoint
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      vistapoint  

    • it seems like we've lost a lot of knowledge about natural rhythms of the season. Maybe before the industrial age people just 'knew' what was in the Farmer's Almanac. So it's interesting how we are being drawn back to basics, rediscovering and reconnecting with nature/food/gardening in a modern way.

    • 3 years ago
  • Robert_S
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      Robert_S  

    • So you have a large garden for which you have found acclaim for on current?

      Please post pics so that we may be inspired!

      =)

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  
    • Robert_S:

      acclaim is not quite the word i would use. more like self-satisfying and tasty.
      i'll post some pics later.
      anytime i can get my hands in the dirt, i feel fulfilled.
      must be my inner-child LOL

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • potatoes are work? i think he's what is clinically known as 'lazy'....
      seriously, the idea of going with the natural rhythms of the season is wonderful and is what the early cultivators of plants learned.

    • 3 years ago
  • alivein85
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