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Boots wrote:Oi John! Was just wondering last night how your TV show went. Heaps good to hear it went well and people are growing and trialling your ideas. I think you are a right little trooper and if you were on my telly I reckon I'd be tempted to turn it on! I don't watch much TV. You hang in there. If you know deep inside that what you are doing is right, then wild horses won't stop ya, and would only be wasting time trying.

All the best to you and your gardens.

Hi Boots,thank you once again for your support.
May you and yours live long and happy. John. J.R.P.

I keep meaning to watch you on telly but I forgot last week. Just like I keep forgetting to tune into Tracey on the radio! Not forgetting Luath has been in the same series as John.

All you media stars!

Anyway good luck John with spreading the word!

Millymollymandy wrote:I keep meaning to watch you on telly but I forgot last week. Just like I keep forgetting to tune into Tracey on the radio! Not forgetting Luath has been in the same series as John.

All you media stars!

Anyway good luck John with spreading the word!

Hi Millymollymandy,thank you.
May you and yours live long and happy. John. J.R.P.

Hi ALL who are interested in the way I do things. To day the 5-11-2006 I reveal my latist design in a upright transportable growing system,which is my latist project to help those who have not a lot of space on the ground surface,but have a fence or railings or a wall going round it,which could be used to help hold it in place. I designed it for children to use or someone in a wheelchair or someone who can't dig any more. I've added 3 photos to my Cereal Crop Growing photo page for you to look at,and I've changed others on my 3 other Crop Growing pages too,which I hope will change your mind about digging in the future. My Project is to be used by our local community to show a different way of growing things,and to have fun too doing it, by adding some colours to the containers to show who's who's when in use. With a end result of a Private back yard with lots of coloured plastic containers surrounding it,with lots of different things growing in them, which also has a new green wire screen as a backing too,attached to railings which go all the way round it. Which my 3 photo show the first 3 stages of on my websit. I have other designs for you to look at in the future which I hope you will find of interest too. May you and yours live long and happy to see lots of fireworks. John. J.R.P.

Hi ALL,it has been suggested I put a link in my message to the relevant page on my website,because it might get more people looking.
But if I did that people might not look at anything else,in regards to spreading the word. John. J.R.P.

Hi John,
The spud thing sent me back into your site for another poke around.
What sort of returns are you getting on your vegies? And are you noticing reduced sizes?
I can't fathom how you are producing spuds in milk containers? Are you just growing the plants, and not actually after produce, or are you raising lots of little quantities of little new taties? Can you let me know what's working for you?

Also noticed your barley, wheat and corn was heading pretty small too and figure this is probably due to them needing to spread their roots wide below the surface of the soil. If you were able to box in some pallets, you might find you get better results with them. These crops rarely grow well in lines and are much better planted in a clump or square. Even placing your containers in a box shape might help.

I really like the fences... and think they would make a gorgeous sight if filled with flowers. Am still a bit hesitant to move my vegies from the ground - but would definately consider some upright gardens of some sort. Though space is definately not an issue for me, soil is, and so is soil containment.

Let us know when you have pics up of the community garden. Would like to see what they do with your ideas.

Hi Boots,thank you for showing your interest in my ideas.
I grow all different sizes of potatoes depending on the water the container gets. The other day for example we wanted some,so I went to my plot containers and I emptied out ( 135 ) small size King Edwards like 50ps from one row of ( 10 ) 4 pinters,and I got ( 35 ) large ones from ( 5 ) of my 4 pinters milk containers. Every thing I grow does not get a lot of water,Potatoes are so easy to grow in containers. My Cereals crops you can see are of crops which had not a lot of water,yet I still got a good crop. Come on join me, just make up rows of containers like I do,and sow what ever you like,and mother nature will do the rest. My system works because it was designed to use not a lot of water for the third world mainly,but if I were to add a lot of water to my crops,of course every thing would be larger,but to me size doesn't matter,it's the taste. After all we normually cut up every thing anyway before we put into our mouths.
I do believe root crops need their roots to help keep themselves upright like trees do. But because there's less room in my containers they grow more if watered. May you and your live long and happy. John. J.R.P.

I like the idea of growing in old milk bottles - always seem to have enough of them.

I can understand most of what you are suggesting from the website, but what is the flap/lid for? Is it just to avoid throwing it out, or does it serve a purpose.

Now, if you could figure out a way to make it self-watering (unattended) for a couple of days, i'd be very interested :)

jonc wrote:I like the idea of growing in old milk bottles - always seem to have enough of them.

I can understand most of what you are suggesting from the website, but what is the flap/lid for? Is it just to avoid throwing it out, or does it serve a purpose.

Now, if you could figure out a way to make it self-watering (unattended) for a couple of days, i'd be very interested :)

Hi Jonc,thank you for showing your interest in the way I do things. My system was designed to be used as a self-watering system,done by using any water in the top rows to then drip down into the container below,done by simply undoing the cap on the bottom of the upside down container a bit, if you made my pallet section,or you used my upright growing system to grow something,either way you have fall control of what ever water there is in the containers.
The flaps can act as a bird scarrer when they move in the wind or bang against a cane in the handle hole,or a seedling protecter from the frost when layed flat,or form a protection from the wind. If you want to know more please post again. May you and yours live long and happy. John. J.R.P.

:mrgreen:Hi everyone,may I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas,and a very Happy New Year 2007 too.
I will look forward to shareing some more ideas with you in the future.
May you and yours live long and happy. John. J.R.P.

Got to admit, I was wondering where your Christmas greeting was, John. Hope things are good for you too and you have a great Christmas!
I look forward to more bright ideas next year...

Happy Christmas to you John. All the best.

Hi ALL, if you went to see or exhibited something growing at the CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW this year or in the past, would you like to see the way I grow things exhibited there, as I've been sent an invite TO APPLY to next years show, because my projects are to do with saving lives, reusing waste, and growing things, which all come under the heading 'Gardening with Climate Change'. Of cause I wont the answer to be Yes, and the reason why, but if you don't then say so, and the reason why, as they say it's good to talk if it helps to solve a problem. May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John. J.R.P.