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"Hi Nicholai, Thanks for signing up! Along with the gardening materials you can get from our community garden, plan on participating in the North Charleston Plant Swap on Saturday, April 28th. Between the two sites you can start a pretty…"

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"Like everyone else we've had a very strange winter...with about 80% of our normal snow pack (I'm in the mountains of East Oregon) ... Worried about drought!"

Mar 16, 2012

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"Posted this front page - Folks need to check out Member Germaine Jenkins blog - She's walking the walk! http://ning.it/wiA5jd Thanks for all you do!"

Feb 25, 2012

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Dec 27, 2011

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spiral strawberry bed

"When I grabbed all those discarded Christmas trees last year, I also grabbed a ton of wine bottles from downtown restaurants and wanted to use them in the landscape. So I planted a spiral strawberry bed a couple days before Christmas. Its in the…"

Dec 27, 2011

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succulent shoe raised bed

"My husband works for the City of Charleston Grounds Dept and gets a new pair of boots every year. I started planting in his boots and my kids old shoes this spring and decided to fill them with succulents I got from the plant swap and my volunteer…"

Dec 27, 2011

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dec 2011 rainy front yard2

"See how big the rosemary plant has gotten? I'm going to start a ton of seedlings to cover the berm around the beds."

Dec 27, 2011

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dec 2011 rainy front yard2

"The other side of our front yard. While there's still collards, a bell pepper near our asparagus bed, I want to make this side mostly medicinal herbs. Along the fence you'll see pineapple guava, pineapple sage, 4 blueberry plants (now butt…"

Dec 27, 2011

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dec 2011 rainy front yard

"December 27, 2011 - the majority of our front yard this morning. Not the cutest thing on the planet but its a work in progress. Coolest part is that I got most of these winter veggies for free as a City of Charleston Horticulture Department…"

Dec 27, 2011

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front yard 2011 w bush beans

"I let wild morning glory cover the berm this past summer and thanks to the bees and butterflies that followed, this was our best growing year to date. The extreme heat made it difficult to grow these beans, but when the morning glory started to…"

Dec 27, 2011

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Zip Code or Postal Code: 29405

Gardening Experience: many seasons

Gardening Philosophy and Preferred Methods:: no dig, permaculture, companion planting, moving towards under-sowing green manures

Skills and Tools I can share:: starting raised bed gardens, worm bins, standard compost piles, basic backyard chicken care

Seeds, Fruit, Nuts or Veg I can share:: seeds (lettuce, asst heirloom tomatoes, etc.), rosemary cuttings

Seeds, Fruit, Nuts or Veg I am hoping to find:: fruit trees - apple, peach, almond, hazelnut (filbert), cherry etc.

My interest in yard sharing:: actively seeking yard to share

Other Contact Details (Twitter, Your Website etc): Twitter (germainesolns)
Websites (www.germainesolutions.com; www.urbanveggucation.com)

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At 1:44pm on March 16, 2012, LizM - Site Moderator said…: Like everyone else we've had a very strange winter...with about 80% of our normal snow pack (I'm in the mountains of East Oregon) ... Worried about drought!

At 12:25pm on February 25, 2012, LizM - Site Moderator said…: Posted this front page - Folks need to check out Member Germaine Jenkins blog - She's walking the walk! http://ning.it/wiA5jd

Thanks for all you do!