Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread

[Radogast]

Uva Ursi - Arctostapylos uva-Ursi
Arberry, Bearberry, Bear's Grape, Kinnikinnick, Mealberry, Mountain box,
Mountain cranberry, Red Bearberry, Sagackhomi, Sandberry, Uva Ursi

Spreading perennial groundcover. Circumpolar. All temperate zones.
Smokeable. Tea or tincture for mild urinary infections. Acid soils. Full sun. Scarify seeds.


Cunningham:
Do not take internally if pregnant, kidney problems, or acidic urine.
Gastrointernational irritant, digestion disturber, in fact not for long term internal use.

Psychic workings, Native American ritual plant, add to sachets for increased psychic powers.

Paul Beyerl:
Increase psychic abilities and skills. Native American ritual pipe smoking. Shamanic training in divination and prophecy.

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Thanks for asking, I needed to do some research anyway

 

[SweetSue]

I went looking for images and immediately spotted one of the Uva Ursi growing across a stone field and thought ... "that large rock they dug out would be perfect!"

 

[Radogast]

I went looking for images and immediately spotted one of the Uva Ursi growing across a stone field and thought ... "that large rock they dug out would be perfect!"

My thought exactly!

I might need to relocate the heather later. It depends on how they both naturalize.

The rock is likely to be an early spring project. I want to see if I can gravity drain into the pond from a basin at the base.
It may or may not be practical depending on underground rock formation. I won't know until I dig
I can drain into and pump from the brook, but that's a lot more digging. It is fresh flowing water, which is better

 

[Ranger275]

Radogast,
Only now do I begin to know the depth and breadth of the knowledge in your clan. It's wonderful when like find each other. You are so right, so much of medication is a function of dosage: some of one is good for the blood, too much stops the heart.
I think it's wise to tread cautiously when the Coyote is about. My garden is a GaiaGarden consisting of 10'-diameter raised keyhole beds, the Core, surrounded by 6 (looks like a daisy to the Hawk). The MainEntrance and the CoreEntrance are opposite, so that you must walk all the way around to ge to the Core, for complete isolation if needed. The 6 surrounding 6 surrounding beds naturally focus energies both physical and spiritual. The plants flourish in the broadest sense. The energy they send to the Core adds to it's own in a way that is non-arithmetic. One can only imagine; seated comfortably in the Core, meditating/communing with a pipe full of herbs grown, from w/in this very, flower-shaped garden, under the moon, w/Eyes wide open. Separate beds could easily be set aside by type or any relevant criteria.
Pawpaws always smell. I've seen Amish plant them near pig-sties so that they harvest 1/2 & piggies get fat on the other. Piggies reduce bug problems by making sure there are no rotting fruit on the ground, whilst busily manuring the area, and the tree shades the pigs. They know a thing or 2 about growing.
Sweetsue: Always grateful, and frequently enlightened when you chime in. Thx.

 

[Radogast]

Radogast,
Only now do I begin to know the depth and breadth of the knowledge in your clan. It's wonderful when like find each other. You are so right, so much of medication is a function of dosage: some of one is good for the blood, too much stops the heart.
I think it's wise to tread cautiously when the Coyote is about. My garden is a GaiaGarden consisting of 10'-diameter raised keyhole beds, the Core, surrounded by 6 (looks like a daisy to the Hawk). The MainEntrance and the CoreEntrance are opposite, so that you must walk all the way around to ge to the Core, for complete isolation if needed. The 6 surrounding 6 surrounding beds naturally focus energies both physical and spiritual. The plants flourish in the broadest sense. The energy they send to the Core adds to it's own in a way that is non-arithmetic. One can only imagine; seated comfortably in the Core, meditating/communing with a pipe full of herbs grown, from w/in this very, flower-shaped garden, under the moon, w/Eyes wide open. Separate beds could easily be set aside by type or any relevant criteria.
Pawpaws always smell. I've seen Amish plant them near pig-sties so that they harvest 1/2 & piggies get fat on the other. Piggies reduce bug problems by making sure there are no rotting fruit on the ground, whilst busily manuring the area, and the tree shades the pigs. They know a thing or 2 about growing.
Sweetsue: Always grateful, and frequently enlightened when you chime in. Thx.

Though kind, you grant me more knowledge than I have acquired.
I have too much book knowing and not enough direct knowledge and experience,
Yet I have been blessed with many experiences this life.

I have been cautious around Coyote. Let's just say that I have taken the time to double check his references and received a go ahead from my security team.

I'm sure I would love to meditate in your Gaia Garden. Literally.

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About 4 years ago, I wrote a few chapters to begin a fictional book on the magical and sexual birth of a witch.
When I got to the point of describing a garden the witch had inherited, I stopped writing the book because it was more fun to imagine the garden than continue the book.

Your 'like a daisy to a hawk' garden description is quite similar to that one, although I chose 8 'petals' based on the number of sabbaths established by Gardner in Wicca, and now widely accepted in the neo-pagan communities.

I believe it was the dream of that garden, that brought me to this land, that put me on a study path to where I now know what a keyhole garden is, that puts me on path leading to old teachings. One of those perfect paths unseen until you choose it.

My wife and I aren't ceremonial, so we chose organic shapes over geometrical for the garden area.
Still, there is a circular, cathedral of trees that seems destined to be a formal gathering space

Thank you for the Paw Paw smell alert. We have several wild plots of skunk cabbage.
There is some well drained, shady ground near skunk cabbage along the path near the large Oak tree that may work very well.
I'll be starting the seeds indoor, hoping for several mature trees in several years. So I have time to learn the right place I may even be able to apply the principles of a plant with many uses, like the Amish

 

[Ranger275]

Though I am proud of my garden, I did not intend to boast about it. It was meant more as a suggestion as I know you're in the process of designing your space. While I'm aware of the inherent power of this space, and have tapped into it, the primary use is mundane: fill my plate during Summer, and my pantry during Fall-Winter. Your clan, I think, could use this to it's fullest potential. Just a notion. Makes for ez weeding too.

 

[Radogast]

Like the crocus in spring, Boston parking meters are starting to emerge from the snow.

 

[SweetSue]

Priceless!!!

Damn! That snow has stratigraphy!

 

[Ranger275]

That loox like my old stomping grounds. Was in Allston for a while, when working for HMS/DFCI. Also stayed over on ParkDr across from the MFA. Many moons ago.

 

[Radogast]

That loox like my old stomping grounds. Was in Allston for a while, when working for HMS/DFCI. Also stayed over on ParkDr across from the MFA. Many moons ago.

Yep. Taken on commonwealth ave in front of BU, where the sidewalks are normally 12 feet wide, right now the snow pile confers 8 feet of sidewalk and the parking lane. This is AFTER the national guard was out clearing snow there this week.

I should trudge out into the back yard to take a picture of my log bridge. It has well over a dozen snow layers.

 

[Radogast]

A Red Squirrel on the back porch

 

[Radogast]

Off off topic, a local hydro store was open for business, just barely.

 

[Ranger275]

Been by there many times. Asian mkt where Allston & Comm split. Greek diner a block up. Irish pub. Brazillian chirascuria. NewBalance outlet. Fell in love near the MLK sculpture of the birds. Thx for the memories.

 

[Radogast]

They've moved the 57 bus stops.
They now charge for the green line in front of the MLK bird statute.
Big City Pool Hall closed ( the one with the murals.)
Other than that, not much has changed in the last decade.

 

[Radogast]

Aerosmith did a Wednesday afternoon concert in front of the Asian market last summer _ in memory of their early days

 

[Ranger275]

Small world. My buddy Scott owns Stingray Body Art on Cambridge St.

 

[Radogast]

Weather update: This week same as last week

Snow from ground floor windows

Snow from second floor windows

 

[Radogast]

I divided my seeds on order into soil, light, drainage categories.

Then I drew a quick sketch of the island and decided which areas would get which plants.
I also made notes on spacing, toxicity, and planting dates.
I'll double check the information at the first of each planting month and try to get to know the seeds a little better.

Except for this whole snow and time of year, I'm ready.

 

[Radogast]

Small world. My buddy Scott owns Stingray Body Art on Cambridge St.

They have a good reputation.
My wife's body art was done in Illinois.
She'll probably as more in the future.

She's a free spirit.This week it's dreadlocks

 

[SweetSue]

Your wife, a free spirit? Who would have guessed? A match made in Heaven.

I like your organizational plan for planting Rad. My mother used to do the same sort of thing every February.

It can stop snowing there any day now. We haven't gotten significant snow yet here, but were protected by a bluff to the south of the confluence of rivers that splits the weather and sends it around the metropolitan area. We did get the unending freezing temps though. That can stop any time too.