Comments on: Here Comes the Summer http://zone5.org/2008/12/here-comes-the-summer/ ...on the edge between Nature and Culture Thu, 03 May 2012 05:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Albert Bates http://zone5.org/2008/12/here-comes-the-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-37551 Albert Bates Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:20:05 +0000 http://zone5.org/?p=336#comment-37551 <p>Love that fractal broccoli! One of the great things about the postal service is that, here in the colonies, it is written into the Constitution. You can send for seeds. Even from Ireland. Even if they go by packet steamer or clipper ship.</p> Love that fractal broccoli! One of the great things about the postal service is that, here in the colonies, it is written into the Constitution. You can send for seeds. Even from Ireland. Even if they go by packet steamer or clipper ship.

]]> By: Robert http://zone5.org/2008/12/here-comes-the-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-37537 Robert Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:28:58 +0000 http://zone5.org/?p=336#comment-37537 <p>Hi Graham</p> <p>Similar thoughts here on passing the solstice - which (by the way) seems like a much more interesting thing to celebrate than the supposed birthday of some bloke a couple of millennia ago.</p> <p>I'm planning the garden beds around our cabin at the mo (Zone 1-2 in perma-speak) and looking specifically for perennial and self-seeding annual herbs, vines & bushes - things that once established will stay there or keep coming back, since I really haven't got the inclination or the time to prepare the soil, plant and weed every spring.</p> <p>Any suggestions, recommendations?</p> <p>(By the way, our climate here in N Spain is very like Cork but a bit warmer, so things that do well there will probably do better here.)</p> Hi Graham

Similar thoughts here on passing the solstice – which (by the way) seems like a much more interesting thing to celebrate than the supposed birthday of some bloke a couple of millennia ago.

I’m planning the garden beds around our cabin at the mo (Zone 1-2 in perma-speak) and looking specifically for perennial and self-seeding annual herbs, vines & bushes – things that once established will stay there or keep coming back, since I really haven’t got the inclination or the time to prepare the soil, plant and weed every spring.

Any suggestions, recommendations?

(By the way, our climate here in N Spain is very like Cork but a bit warmer, so things that do well there will probably do better here.)

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