A super fantastic week.

Just in case...

Hydroponics

It seems to me that hyroponic gardening can be as low-tech or high-tech as you wish.  I have had great success growing green onions and mint in some old shot glasses. Sometimes I start mint here and then plant it in the garden... or just pinch leaves off as needed.   The only upkeep is changing the water and rinsing the roots every few days. The green onions are really fun because they grow really fast... It's great to just use sissors to snip fresh green onions when needed.  You can get about three regrown sprigs from your store bought green onions before it's best to start over.

I recently spotted a classy way of doing a similiar thing online: 

Image and more information on grow bottles can be found here: http://inhabitat.com/grow-your-own-hydroponic-garden-with-the-growbottle/

RarelyWrongErin: Fall & Winter

Reposting this from my friend Erin's Blog.

RarelyWrongErin: "You may recall that I told you about the amazing film, Fall & Winter, that my amazing friends are making... Here's the new trailer."

Companion Planting

Companion planting is the planting of different crops in proximity, on the theory that they assist each other in nutrient uptake, pest control, pollination, and other factors necessary to increasing crop productivity.

With this idea in mind I have planted garlic chives around my tomatoes and borage with my strawberries.  I just learned about the "three sisters" apparently the "three sisters" are the old ladies of companion planting.  I am also growing corn and plan to attempt a pole bean growing up the stock so I was almost there.

More info and image taken from here: http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/teach/2003045238014436.html

Bike LB or Bike Somewhere

Friday night I worked a booth at the Long Beach Bike Festival.  The Long Beach Bike Festival & Tour of Long Beach continues Saturday so if you are in the area head to Pine Avenue & Shoreline Drive to join in the fun as we continue to make Long Beach the most bicycle friendly city in America.


There was a viewing of the movie Riding Bikes with the Dutch, a film by local cycling advocate Michael Bauch.  You don't have to be in Long Beach to check it out:

Remember, Bike to Work Week is May 16th-20th!  If you can't bike to work, just bike somewhere.


Have fun & be safe.

You are getting sleepy...

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Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday by a team of U.S. Special Forces and CIA operatives, a sampling of facebook reactions:

"Just landed. Watching CNN, what a historical moment in the fight against hatred."

"OBAMA IS THE MAN!! SOMETHING GEORGE W. BUSH COULDN'T DO!!!"

Lot's of these: "AMERICA.... FUCK YEAH!!"

"Oh hell yeah we got that bastard!"

"Sorry, but ima need to see his death certificate."

"Maybe this is just the European news coverage, but why does everyone celebrating in the streets look like they should be wearing shamrock necklaces and screaming at me on St. Patrick's day? WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING SHIRTS!? We did not just win the World Series, come down off the telephone pole."

This was very popular: "what a Disney weekend princess married, bad guys killed. The world lives happily ever after"

"They traced Bin Laden through our game of Words with Friends. I guess we know who lost"

"Ding dong the Bin is dead"

"I have a sinking feeling this is not over..."

A slew of this misquote: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Seldom is facebook this amusing..."