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Monty Don has stroke

Jonathan Lozinski — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:23:40 +0000

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV gardener Monty Don has stroke

This saddens me. He’s been missed on Gardener’s world the past few weeks. Now we learn that he’d had a stroke and will no longer be presenting at all.

I will miss monty, I trust his gardening presence greatly.. No word on who will take over. Perhaps they’ll keep the current format of having different presenters tending their own part within the show..

Thirsty Plant Notice

Jonathan Lozinski — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:22:06 +0000

This design which makes Plants Fall Over When Thirsty could be the key to not killing all my houseplants.

Preservation

Jonathan Lozinski — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:26:37 +0000

Spent this weekend preseving my tomatoes from the greenhouse. I made among other things:

Roast Tomato & Courgette soup with curly kale (3 nice large jars, two servings in each)
Roast Tomato Pasta Sauce with garlic and basil (3 large jars with pasta maybe 4 servings)
Sweet Tomato Chutney (this was lovely with ham in a toasted sandwich) (3 large jars, 1 small)

All in all, very productive, if not messy in the kitchen area. Nice that my hard-grown toms will see us right for a few months over winter. I am particularly looking forward to christmas left-overs with that chutney!

Vertical Farming

Jonathan Lozinski — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:53:51 +0000

This article on the BBC is pretty interesting. I think this would be pretty good. I’m not convinced that this is the best if it replaced all outside farming, biodiversity and eco-systems are important in food production also. However farming within urban city environments is very cool.. smaller food miles, much better. They also seem to think parasites wouldn’t be an issue. Not sure about that. Greenhouses get many a pest, and these need dealing with, which can be done organically, but on this scale they would probably resort to chemicals, but you never know.

Very interesting any way..

Sun and Global Warming

Jonathan Lozinski — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:12:39 +0000

According to: BBC NEWS | Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high. So increasing sunspot activity == increased earth temperatures. But it’s still our fault because our pollution is making things worse. Hmm.. Time will only tell what the deal is and how daft scientists assumptions really were. I wonder what would happen if the temperature starts going down at some point, despite us doing nothing about our fuel use. It would be interesting to hear what they say. Of course it could all get worse, regardless of what we do, and they’ll naturally be right (sarcasm).