Comments on: Housing landscape architecture and planning

By: christine

christine — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:40:18 +0000

Sorry. To clarify the answer – it would seem possible to make mayonnaise without salt…without substituting sugar for the salt. So sugar and salt free mayonnaise should be possible for the coleslaw. Chef could do this best.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:24:32 +0000

In reply to Christine. I can see that doing without sugar is a possibility - but what about doing without salt? It is another appetite stimulant and contributor to high-blood pressure, obesity, CHD etc.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:24:15 +0000

Looking quickly at the best recipes to adapt that suggests this might be possible (without adding sugar) is quail eggs with mayonnaise. [ http://www.eatdangerously.com/mayonnaise_quail_eggs.html ] I am sure a chef would be confidently able to do this!

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:33:15 +0000

In reply to Christine. Can you make coleslaw without mayonnaise - and can you make mayonnaise without salt?

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:43:14 +0000

In reply to Christine.

I will give more thought to artistic vegetable growing but how about this to get you interested in the creative potential of Pok Choi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMSHpBwzQR4 ? Or here is some more help from the same artist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHKauwKDCLY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLD20C8A3D2E9D0BD1
http://www.youtube.com/user/Eliseharris

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:26:53 +0000

True, I have been dreaming of the garden at Versailles and the details of the various trees in the arrangement eluded me. [ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-clEufYlLqDQ/Thij0kcdr9I/AAAAAAAAAps/fd9LQ98QQEg/s1600/orange+trees+along+a+building.jpg ] Perhaps if you start me on the artistic tasks progress to the more practical tasks in the garden will be easier.

Yes, never use salt or sugar in coleslaw. Good idea to clarify the different types of sustainability.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:09:07 +0000

In reply to Christine. Sorry but citrus trees are not suited to topiary and I am beginning to think that there may be quite a lot involved in turning even the tips of your fingers from dark brown to light green. Coleslaw is a possibility - but can you make it without sugar and salt? The residents of thatched cottages probably boiled their cabbage for hours and hours, with beans, and then got their vitamins from herbs. Maybe we need new names for alternative approaches to the problem eg Martini Sustainability and Claret Sustainability and and Champagne Sustainability and Luxury Sustainability and Sunlounger Sustainability and Visual Sustainability.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:34:21 +0000

Perhaps too much time was spent in the garden of Eden where the gardening was less demanding so (1) an electric 4 x 4 limited to home-generated power would do fine (2) perhaps beginning with a few citrus trees in pots might be a good idea? Quite looking forward to learning how to shape them into ornament spheres. (4) I could probably manage on the LCHF diet but have a fish allergy….(5) OK, I will compromise and grow cabbages instead of having a terrace…coleslaw is good. Other possibilities…[ http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/collections/cabbage-recipes.aspx ]…may take some time to learn the diet rules.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:47:39 +0000

In reply to christine. Unsealed roads, unless they are very well drained, suffer from mud and slush in winter. These should cause no worries after your experience of Australian outback roads. So I was going to start looking out for you, to see who is giving away thatached cottages to sustainable people, but now I have a few concerns (1) I am not sure if driving a 4x4 counts as sustainable living (2) those brown fingers (3) you want a terrace for lounging in the sun instead of remembering what it says in Genesis: 'In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust shall you return.' But these problems could be overcome (1) you could have an electric 4x4 and limit its use to home-generated power (2) I could get you a DIY gardening book and a supply of green gloves (4) you could have the LCHF diet, despite Genesis recommending bread (5) you could do without the terrace and use the land for cabbages, as in the lower photo. How does this sound?

By: christine

christine — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:14:11 +0000

What would be the worst possible thing you could disclose on a landscape garden blog? To being in possession of a ‘brown’ thumb! [ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brown_thumb ] Despite having a brown thumb it is still possible to “touch the flowers, the grass and see the growth of them, which is wonderful feeling!!!” as Jerry says.

So (1) being partial to lawns perhaps a raised planting terrace to the rear of the cottage would be the best solution to maintaining the cottage garden. Advise accepted. (2) If a neighbor contributed the ‘green’ thumb I would be happy to share the produce. (3) Yes, have lived by and traveled on many unsealed roads [ http://www.portdouglas-australia.com/media/images/gallery-cape-tribulation.jpg ]. Please clarify the winter problems? (4) Is there solar heating and power or other alternatives available?