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Jill Madigan

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My mother's name was Rosemary and at 72, I still manage to kill that plant every time I bring it inside for the winter.  Once, it killed the glass window on my oven.  
3 years ago
In my friend's Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Zone 5B) back yard, I'm timing-out long-term bigdog manure, hoping to get a delivery of wood chips, and dealing with the aftermath of the demise of a two-bole mulberry.  The female bole died first and the male sent a forest of roots out to blossom all along the wood-topped-brick-block fence base border that protects and creates an excellent southern exposure microclimate.  Someone cut them to around a foot in height and I've stripped the bark and have been removing the suckers from the stumps this year.  I am planning to dig around the double-bole stump in the wettest part of next spring to cut off the roots there and try pulling the satellites out with a Harbor Freight $30 winch, unless someone has a better idea.  The younger stumps might be easier to grab with the height than if they were shortened to ground level.  I want to dig around the main stump to disconnect all the roots I can find, perhaps leaving its corpse, or turning it into two planters at its ~3' height.  I worry that I might be creating a slew of separate trees if I disconnect them too soon.  The salt solution (above) has the disadvantage of leaving the salt behind in the greater part of the yard since the parent tree is located toward the middle of the yard.  Any suggestions?
7 years ago

Hello - I did not see a reply to the question about light and location requirements for Hazelnuts. I'm trying to decide where, in my yard in Milwaukee, to plant the two cultivars, American and Beaked. If they, as I suspect, reside naturally in the woods under the canopy of the larger trees, I can plant them in the mostly-shadow of the neighbor's 6-foot fence, leaving the sunnier areas for those who really need light and heat. Also, how do I figure out whether they are trees or bushes, or does it even matter? The American hazelnut has a rather tall primary branch and a bunch of much-shorter soil-level branches, while the Beaked has numerous branches of about the same size. I know what I suspect, but I'd love to hear from someone who has familiarity and experience. Now, I have at least a year to to start thinking about setting up something more alluring to distract the squirrels' appetites.
10 years ago

Topher Belknap wrote:
I love the idea of making this information available, and while I wish that Geoff was able to make it available at a lower price, that I might afford it, I understand if he can't. Same as any other professional.

What bothers me is if he is NOT making information available at any price, which it sort of sounds like. Having information that Geoff claims will cure the planet, and not sharing it at reasonable price (whatever Geoff thinks is a reasonable price, not what I might think) is ... unkind to the planet. Cachet is fine for works of art, but not for medicine. I hope I am wrong about what it sounds like, someone please correct me.

Thank You Kindly,
Topher



Hi, Topher. Actually, Geoff has made the information available to all through those of us fortunate enough to be able to afford to sign up for the class - only one Permiculture Design Certificate will be awarded after timely submission of the required design. I was encouraged to share the class with anyone who wanted to join me - and I did invite many, many people. To my great disappointment, none have yet accepted my offer, even with my enthusiastic introduction. I received my DVD copies of the class a week or so ago. Whereas I will not loan or distribute copies - since watching them again reinforces the lessons for me, I will be overjoyed to share the class. I am getting together with some other urban Milwaukee gardeners/farmers to work on building gardens on lots that have had houses removed, and I part of my contribution will be to share Geoff's DVDs and class notes - all of which are excellent.

Here and now let me invite sharing of the DVDs with any interested Permies who live within roughly 40 miles travel-distance of Milwaukee, Wisconsin - if I am to drive my moped-type scooter to meet up. I know that ayt least one person in Maine is taking the class right now, but I cannot make any commitments for anyone else. I will try to share this pair of messages on the class site.
I'm new to permaculture, Permies.com, and to Geoff Lawton's PDC, but I have been gardening (and eating, breathing, drinking, etc.) all my life and see the very disturbing shortcomings of both 'better-living-through-chemistry-' and corporate-farming. One of the aspects that made it acceptable for me to call in a debt to pay for this course is that Geoff has encouraged us to share the course with friends, neighbors, clubs, communities, etc., in order to get the word and knowledge to as many people as possible. One person (I) will receive the signed certificate, and I will have to complete a design, submitting it within a month of course completion. If any other friends, SE Wisconsin Master Gardener Volunteers, or any of you who live near enough to Milwaukee want to join me, please, PLEASE feel free to let me know - and I will happily share both access to course information and materials, as well as my enthusiastic conviction that this is the right thing to do (and I will run my design project past you, too, if you like).

The Introduction section has only piqued my fascination, imagination, enthusiasm, and my deep admiration for the high quality of the presentation. If this is the sign of things to come, as far as online classes are concerned, then the bar has indeed been set high! Come on - please help create that face-to-face discussion-group!

Thanks, Paul - without your daily-ish email, I never would have known about this! (I really want to drive that digger in Montana!)



Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)