Comments on: Beautiful food gardening – for fruit, vegetables, honey, mushrooms and eggs https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: John Seed https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2497 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:52:48 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2497 As a true Brit I could never give up the term ‘vegetable gardening’!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2496 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:52:00 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2496 The Carrot City Exhibition has some food for thought!
[ http://www.ryerson.ca/carrotcity/city.html ]

Perhaps these are grapes?
[ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P4Hsf74T70E/SvGPC69jPNI/AAAAAAAAAFM/L0YP_XGBlcE/s1600-h/untitled4.bmp ]

As for animals in urban areas…well I prefer the idea of Moose strolls through downtown Calgary.
[ http://seankheraj.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/moose-strolls-through-downtown-calgary/ ]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2495 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:26:18 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2495 We have tried some heirloom fruits and vegetables – but if they yield smaller quantities of poorer quality produce then it is hard to keep on with them!
It would/will be a great thing if farmers took up a genuine committment to biodiversity – and if they could find advantages in this policy for themselves. I believe they exist.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2494 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:35:04 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2494 It is said that American farmers are ensuring a plentiful supply of rodents are flushed out at harvest time to ensure food for birds of prey, whose numbers have declined due to intensive agriculture and urban development.
[ http://www.unilever.com/sustainability/casestudies/Biodiversity/usa-protecting-wild-birds-on-tomato-farms.aspx ]

However, habitat and species conservation is only part of the biodiversity equation. Has your wife joined the heirloom fruits and vegetables movement?
[ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_3_16/ai_n13776867/ ]

]]> By: Socrates, chives, tomatoes and biodiversity on my London roof garden | Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog – Gardenvisit.com https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2493 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:35:10 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2493 […] while my wife grows the excellent tomatoes, I am contributing to London’s Green Roof Biodiversity Action Programme. See comments on beautiful food gardening. Comments […]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2492 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:18:49 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2492 I like the SynthE project – but it would have been much better if they had used moulded acrylic shapes so that the space beneath (presumably surrounding service pipes which would support plants) could have been used as cloches to grow tomatoes etc. We have a lot of tomatoes at present (grown by my wife). Their flavour and texture is twice as good as any tomato I have ever had from a shop or restaurant (and even the so-called ‘organic’ tomatoes in the shops are vastly better than the ‘good value’ tomatoes). So we can look forward to a a future in which UK supermarkets offer:
Value Toms £1.50/kg
Organic Toms £4.00/kg
Tom’s Gourmet Toms £10.00/kg
Customers will be fighting for them. I just need to convert my green roof into a red roof (see below).

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2491 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:35:07 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2491 While perhaps not beautiful Synthe is edible…
[ http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/2074 ]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2490 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:15:05 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2490 Thank you. Plantager is a good coinage and I hope it catches on – in France if not in Scotland.

]]> By: Jasmine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2489 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:50:57 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2489 I love the term you use to describe this type of gardening; it tells everything! On my side, I was playing with the words one day for I wanted to find a French word to describe my garden plot where ornamental plants and vegetables are growing pêle-mêle. Finally, I find plantager, a mix of plate-bande and potager. But it doesn’t describe the activity in itself, only the place.
Always nice to read your blog. Thanks you!

]]> By: kate https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/beautiful-food-gardening-for-fruit-vegetables-honey-mushrooms-and-eggs/#comment-2488 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:16:17 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5231#comment-2488 Beautiful idea and garden.

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