Comments on: Garden Update http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/ renewable energy,survival,save money,self build,Green homes,Solar power, cheap power, 12 volt, Solar panels, Wind power, peak oil, Batteries, Inverter, Generator, Rainwater harvesting, survivalist, prepper, self-sufficient, vans, yurts, yachts, RVs Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Wretha http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/comment-page-1/#comment-219615 Wretha Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/#comment-219615 <b>Deke</b><br/>I remember that name "My Side Of The Mountain", I don't know if I read it (very possible) or if it was maybe made into a movie... anyhoo, thanks for reading and commenting! :)<br/><br/>Wretha Deke
I remember that name “My Side Of The Mountain”, I don’t know if I read it (very possible) or if it was maybe made into a movie… anyhoo, thanks for reading and commenting! :)

Wretha

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/comment-page-1/#comment-219611 Anonymous Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:49:00 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/#comment-219611 Wretha, I did watch Grizzly Adams. I also read a book called My Side Of the Mountian when I was very young about a boy living in a tree trunk in the Catskills mountians. This book may have had the most profound effect as far as my desire to live by my own hand. Thanks again for sharing you radventure. <br/><br/>Deke Wretha, I did watch Grizzly Adams. I also read a book called My Side Of the Mountian when I was very young about a boy living in a tree trunk in the Catskills mountians. This book may have had the most profound effect as far as my desire to live by my own hand. Thanks again for sharing you radventure.

Deke

]]> By: Wretha http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/comment-page-1/#comment-219601 Wretha Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:59:00 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/#comment-219601 <b>Deke</b><br/>Thanks! I read your comment to my hubby, it put a smile on his face as he remembered doing the same things in his younger years. I also built "forts" and such with scrap material I could find laying about... Did you ever watch Grizzly Adams? That was one of my first inspirations to want to live "in the rough".<br/><br/>Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, I appreciate each and every one!<br/><br/>Wretha Deke
Thanks! I read your comment to my hubby, it put a smile on his face as he remembered doing the same things in his younger years. I also built “forts” and such with scrap material I could find laying about… Did you ever watch Grizzly Adams? That was one of my first inspirations to want to live “in the rough”.

Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, I appreciate each and every one!

Wretha

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/comment-page-1/#comment-219600 Anonymous Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:41:00 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/09/09/garden-update/#comment-219600 Wretha, Thanks posting your blog. I actually tripped over it a couple days ago after the "living off grid" bug hit me again. I have been "practicing" it since I was a kid "squatting" on other people's land and building what I called "forts" from scavanged materials. I would spend my days there for most of the summer, or until I got kicked off of the land. I also lived with my grandfather who was decidedly on the grid (if you can call it that in SE Oklahoma) but built the house and all of the power/water/ gas connections himself back in the early 40's. Of course we added on, bricked and reroofed the home, but we still cooked at least half of all the food eaten there on the wood stove and used what we called swamp coolers instead of air conditioning.<br/><br/>I had a couple of ideas you may or may not have tried. First, planting cilantro around the edge of your garden is a good way of keeping most of the bugs out and is a great spice too. And second, hanging a large light colered cheese cloth type material at the down wind end of your porch/deck and periopdiccly soaking it with water will sure cool things off in the middle of the hot summer days.<br/><br/>Thanks again for your posts and for sharing your experience. I hope to join you someday with an experience of my own.<br/><br/>Deke Wretha, Thanks posting your blog. I actually tripped over it a couple days ago after the “living off grid” bug hit me again. I have been “practicing” it since I was a kid “squatting” on other people’s land and building what I called “forts” from scavanged materials. I would spend my days there for most of the summer, or until I got kicked off of the land. I also lived with my grandfather who was decidedly on the grid (if you can call it that in SE Oklahoma) but built the house and all of the power/water/ gas connections himself back in the early 40′s. Of course we added on, bricked and reroofed the home, but we still cooked at least half of all the food eaten there on the wood stove and used what we called swamp coolers instead of air conditioning.

I had a couple of ideas you may or may not have tried. First, planting cilantro around the edge of your garden is a good way of keeping most of the bugs out and is a great spice too. And second, hanging a large light colered cheese cloth type material at the down wind end of your porch/deck and periopdiccly soaking it with water will sure cool things off in the middle of the hot summer days.

Thanks again for your posts and for sharing your experience. I hope to join you someday with an experience of my own.

Deke

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