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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Since you are in MA you might have access to trash fish you could use this, BUT not sure I would want to do this along side your house.

I am sure I would not, in this densely pack city of approx. 25,000 pe sq. mile. My compost barrel itself must be tended to regularly. But thanks.

Yet it is a relatively lost cost garden, with water from the rear of the building (in which we rent the 2nd fl. from a LL who has given use much freedom of use of land) being shunted via tarps into unused former trash barrels, and transferred from the collector barrel to others via a $12.00 12V DC 1100gph Submersible Water Pump , powered by a computer power supply (jump the green and black wires on the main connector with a paper clip), and using a combination of trashed water and vacuum cleaner hoses.

The water barrels are given a one-two second non-stick food spray to prevent mosquito breeding.

The main storage barrel is elevated and has a thick hose, connected using polyurethane gorilla glue and some Great stuff, and connected to some other trashed hoses, reaching about 60 feet to the street end of the garden, all flowing downhill.

A lot of soil has been screened via a homemade 2''x4'' wood frame using 1/2'' 5'x2.5' screening. Nevertheless, rocks continue to be the most abundant "crop!"

Tomato plants are grown from harvested seed (fermented a couple days before drying out) in discontinued 20oz. Dunkin Donut cups i found thrown out (I usually help the trash pick up).

But what is not being told is how we established this small place for gospel outreach, and of God's manifest providence after I left with my clothes on my back to serve in the Lord's work full time in 1986, without ever asking for salary or money for that labor. Any glory is to God, for it was not my idea.

56 posted on 05/29/2023 2:39:37 PM PDT by daniel1212 (As a damned+destitute sinner turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves souls on His acct + b baptized 2 obey)
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To: daniel1212
Daniel; Assuming you have a specific tomato variety for your seeds? If its from a tomato from the supermarket its hard to know if the variety will be true.

Your local hardware or gardening center will be clearing their seed racks for the next year and are motivated to sell. You can usually pick up packets for $1 to $2.

Rockport & rocks....Better to live on rocks in MA than up north in the Allagash in ME where its all water and mosquitos! :0

I hope that God continues to bless your ministry!

61 posted on 05/31/2023 10:28:04 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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