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I have a lot to learn about gardening but I seem to produce a lot. The compost from the composting toilet seems to be the answer! It takes about a year to get it ready for the soil. I put a lot of sunflower meal in the compost which gets it very hot very quickly..

And the sunflowers really took off. This is the place that I put the sunflower meal when I was expelling oil this past winter.. obviously it has great properties.... and really makes the compost hot too!
June 21, 2008 Anjali Sharma intern digging a place for some tomato plants.
The planting table.
June 20, 2008 Here is the start of my flax patch.
Some tomato plants and a few peppers.
The potatoes do very well each year.
The tree that gives the best pears is doing really well. I was worried that the Bees did not do their job this year... but I guess some got though.
The sunflower patch beside the compost box. I piled the sunflower meal on this spot and it really made quite a difference to the growth of the sunflowers!
June 2008, The stawberry patch is getting better!
June 20, 2008 A great patch of lettuce

May 12, 2008 So here is the lawnmower that my sister donated. I removed the worn out inadequate battery and put in a 32 amphour battery by cutting the case to allow for a larger battery. The controller sits on top but it will be housed in a better fashion once this mover is deemed satisfactory in all aspects.
Well here is the solar powered lawn mower. I plug it in the charge the batteries from the windmill and solar cells. I'm not much of a fan of mowing lawns! Mowing lawns is a waste of energy but I do some of it to please the municipality.... its agains the law to have grass over 8.5 inches... about the dumbest law ever made!
Summer of 2008: I got started early with working with the compost pile through the winter. The Sunflower meal really made that compost hot and I turned it frequently. I dug all of the gardens by hand and then put the compost on the top. The picture on the left shows good promise for pears this year. In the foreground is parsnips planted last year. They are wonderfully sweet!
The cherry tree has also come to life... but I worry about the pollination as I have not seen many bees around the flowers.
Peach blossoms! Last year the peaches did not do well as the tree had been accidently sprayed with roundup by the previous owner. I cut back as much as I could and this year we have blossoms but the tree is really in bad shape. The new peach tree that Ron brought over although very small has some blossoms!
The front garden early august 2007. There are sunflowers in the foreground, cabbages, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, peppers, egg plants etc behind that and in background there is a patch of flax!
The test plot of flax . This was a real success evn though we got very little rain this past summer of 2007.
Thats Broccoli! And I had broccoli all summer and in to December!
More of the garden.