Growing Heavenly
Gardens
WPRZ Praise Radio
Date - March 5th, 2014
Hosted by Tomas
Fernandez Lesson 2: starting potatoes gardens
Praise Garden verse
is from Corinthians chapter 3: Brothers and Sisters, do you not know that you
are the temples of God, and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Welcome back to
“Growing Heavenly Gardens”. Today we are going to give some direction to
planning your garden for the upcoming year.
Let’s start by
stating that for our Central Virginia area there are 4 growing seasons, so
you’re never too late or early to start your garden! Just like building any
structure there should be a plan and today we will look at creating a calendar
for growing.
Central Virginia has
an ending frost date in the Spring of late April and a Fall early frost
date of mid- October.
A word about the
term, “open pollinators - large communities of people globally are very
concerned about ensuring that the ancient linage of seeds that produce life
continue.
What should be going
in the ground right now? Potatoes, that's what! These are one of the crops you
can start about a month before the last frost date. So for us that means mid to
late March. I’m including a link to show you two methods, one for a bushel
basket container style and the other the more traditional plant them in rows
method.
Thank you, once again,
this is Tomas Fernandez praying that we may continue to grow in the wisdom of
the Lord and be a witness to this malnourished world. Please join me next time
for more on growing heavenly gardens.
More on open
pollinators: http://www.southernexposure.com/open-pollination-ezp-19.html
Garden planning and
vegetable planting calendar:
Potato
planting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RznfHX7ur7k
Organic Seed
Potatoes for sale site:
http://www.southernexposure.com/potatoes-c-217.html
7 foods you want to
buy organically. Potatoes are on the top of the list as they are a “root”
vegetable and absorb the chemicals they are treated with both in the soil and
as pesticides above the ground. Read…
Read about industry
buying out local seed companies and family farms:
Tomas & Bonnie’s
face book farm page
Here is a
quote: "In 2003, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) looked at
pesticides in the blood of ordinary citizens. Of the thirty-four pesticides
tested, the average person had thirteen in his/her bloodstream, and blood
levels of chlorpyrifos (an organophosphate pesticide banned for residential use
in 2001 because of its negative effects) were found to be twice as high in
children as in adults. The CDC report showed that children and women of
child-bearing age carried the heaviest pesticide burdens - which is alarming,
because pesticide exposure in the womb and during the first three years of
postnatal life has been found to lower birth weight, increase the incidence of
birth defects, and hinder normal neurological development and
reproduction."
