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Post by hunter63 on Dec 3, 2014 17:20:00 GMT -6
I don't know how many if y'all get or read Mother Earth News....but I have been a subscriber since issue 17...(bought all the back issues)....and am still getting it. www.motherearthnews.com/This issue has plenty of garden stuff in it but was only 80 something pages? This reminds me of the trouble years,... changed hands a couple of times...stopped publication, and restarted again. Used to be a good Homesteader Manual, seems suburbanite lately..... Any one else get this magazine? |
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Post by Colorado on Dec 3, 2014 17:57:15 GMT -6
I use to get it and they quit printing and did not send back money or magazines for it.
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Post by spuds on Dec 3, 2014 19:22:50 GMT -6
I have all the issues until it was sold.A few after that.Not the same as when original guy ran it.
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Post by BestoFour on Dec 3, 2014 19:23:00 GMT -6
Gosh haven't thought about Mother Earth News for a while. Used to read it. Not sure why I stopped.
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 3, 2014 21:25:18 GMT -6
DW and I...took the kids to the Mother Earth News Eco Village on vacation in 1982.
Also attended the Knoxville World Fair as a side trip.
Many of the projects were set up and operating at the Eco Village....and was run by the staff members from the magazine.
Yeah very cool back then.......
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Post by spuds on Dec 4, 2014 7:50:43 GMT -6
Maybe its time to re-read them again.I liked the buildings folks made.
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Post by w8in4dave on Dec 10, 2014 13:21:35 GMT -6
My dad used to get it. I loved it. Is it as good as it used to be?
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 10, 2014 18:52:33 GMT -6
Not really....which is why I made the post...
Then again I can remember the old issues...and have all of them....so was just wondering wht all the younger people thought.
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Post by w8in4dave on Dec 10, 2014 19:36:46 GMT -6
I think you should dig down to the bottom of that pile just for kicks and giggles and see whats under there. I sold all of my dads Mother Earth News magazines I wish I had not done that. I also sold his other various magazines Wish I had them now. for the lil bit I got for them I cold be learning stuff now! Pffttt! hind sight!
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 10, 2014 21:40:41 GMT -6
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Post by BestoFour on Dec 11, 2014 13:17:20 GMT -6
Good article and idea. Don't much like wire cages.
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 11, 2014 13:32:07 GMT -6
I did a Google on it......and seems a lot of other sources refer to them as well.
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Post by w8in4dave on Dec 11, 2014 19:15:16 GMT -6
Hmmm get some ladders huh? Thats what they look like .. Seems you might have to tie them down tho ...
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Post by spuds on Dec 11, 2014 19:33:56 GMT -6
My dad used to get it. I loved it. Is it as good as it used to be? No,it went upscale yuppie. |
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Post by spuds on Dec 11, 2014 19:35:56 GMT -6
I think you should dig down to the bottom of that pile just for kicks and giggles and see whats under there. I sold all of my dads Mother Earth News magazines I wish I had not done that. I also sold his other various magazines Wish I had them now. for the lil bit I got for them I cold be learning stuff now! Pffttt! hind sight! I bought em,LOL! Have the full old set even has the yearly boxes for putting on bookshelves,paid a pretty penny for em too! tky |
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Post by spuds on Dec 11, 2014 19:37:26 GMT -6
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Dec 13, 2014 7:04:32 GMT -6
I and several others shared the first edition until it was worn out..the local news stand got the first editions..then..they didn't get anymore issues..until we all complained..
Back then, it was Great..then it was slowly taken up by advertisements..until useful knowledge was wedged in between ads..
in the last few years, it was full of re-hashed articles..like they ran out of stuff to publish...
Same with Rodales Organic Gardening..had issues from back when it was a magazine the size of readers digest mag...
Those are some sturdy cages there Hunter..now ifin I only had enough wood to make a hundred of em'...will have to start visiting construction site dumpsters agree
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 13, 2014 10:26:00 GMT -6
I and several others shared the first edition until it was worn out..the local news stand got the first editions..then..they didn't get anymore issues..until we all complained.. Back then, it was Great..then it was slowly taken up by advertisements..until useful knowledge was wedged in between ads.. in the last few years, it was full of re-hashed articles..like they ran out of stuff to publish... Same with Rodales Organic Gardening..had issues from back when it was a magazine the size of readers digest mag... Those are some sturdy cages there Hunter..now ifin I only had enough wood to make a hundred of em'...will have to start visiting construction site dumpsters agree Agree 100 percent.... If I were to grow hundreds of tomatoes.....and I did help out on a community garden....we used a hog wire fence, and ties up the plants....in rows. I built these for use in the city and the ability to fold them up and store under the eves of the garage. Over the years I did have as may a 12, with a couple used for cukes and climbing beans. |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Dec 14, 2014 8:02:25 GMT -6
Agree 100 percent.... If I were to grow hundreds of tomatoes.....and I did help out on a community garden....we used a hog wire fence, and ties up the plants....in rows. I built these for use in the city and the ability to fold them up and store under the eves of the garage. Over the years I did have as many as 12, with a couple used for cukes and climbing beans. Oh, I would love to have a few of them, especially for beans..we have a problem with pole beans here..it's so darn windy... Hog wire, you meaning fencing then? at present We use 3-16 ft.hog panels, which we fit 34 plants on by alternating sides..they work great.. we have 58 cages that are great..a few more that are old..but still work (we usually place them outside and away from the garden in various spots to isolate varieties for seed)
the hog panels are about the easiest, have some issues with larger varieties like Amish paste...which left to their own device will get Very big.. we put these on the back of the corn crib just to see how big they would get ...check the pic... In late September, when pic was taken they were 11ft. 6in." and they grew another couple of feet agree  |
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Post by hunter63 on Dec 14, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -6
Yeah hog panels......They were attached to a series of poles about 8 ft. apart....old light poles that co-op left for us.
This was a community garden.
Now that is some big tomatoes....
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Post by Colorado on Dec 14, 2014 15:30:55 GMT -6
I never used cages. Never pruned them. I O may doo it here if I plant any, I do not ear them. MIL said just grow things you can eat.
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