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Railroad Gardening
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Can anyone tell me where I can find info on Railroad Gardening? Thanks! Um, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the tracks are laid down by crews of workers. They don’t just grow naturally in those long straight lines. Allyn or Bill or SKIDS, please feel free to correct me on this.
I believe this started in the early 1900s when rail traffic was at a peak. B&O converted a flat car into a raised bed to grow veggies so their customers could enjoy fresh produce. Once the refrigerator was invented the raised bed flat cars became obsolete. Always check the museums you visit for a display. <G XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX John Huff Personal Web Page: http://web2.airmail.net/jhu554 Tom & Susan Schmidtke 3S Emu Ranch HC3, Box 1017; Bandara, TX 78003 210-796-7145
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| Can anyone tell me where I can find info on Railroad Gardening? | Thanks! A search on Infoseek for "garden railroads" brought up a number of web pages about this interesting topic. "Lemke’s Garden Railroad Page" has some nice pictures: http://www.wisnet.com/trains/default.htm Another interesting site with lots of pictures is "The Sacramento Valley Garden Railroad Society" page: http://www.c-zone.net/dochemp/lgb.html I haven’t found one yet with how-tos – if you do, post the URLs please, I’d love to build one of these some day – imagine, a 2-acre model railroad – we could model the Orient Express!!!!!%:^) — Judith Reed 607-254-8623
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Can anyone tell me where I can find info on Railroad Gardening? Thanks!
Um, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the tracks are laid down by crews of workers. They don’t just grow naturally in those long straight lines. Allyn or Bill or SKIDS, please feel free to correct me on this. Don Chapman Bio/Organics, Inc. Camarillo CA <http://www.bio-organics.com
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Can anyone tell me where I can find info on Railroad Gardening? Thanks! Um, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the tracks are laid down by crews of workers. They don’t just grow naturally in those long straight lines. Allyn or Bill or SKIDS, please feel free to correct me on this.
No correction needed. Railroad gardens are best set up and maintained by the Railroad Brownies. I’ve always left out bowls of milk and plates of Mint Milanos, with plans generated in ClarisDraw for them to work from. If it’s cold enough, some Breyers ice cream can get them going, too. (It’s great fun to watch them shovel snow from the tracks!) There are two really critical points: leave them whole milk NOT skim, and under no circumstances generate your plans with a MegaSloth product. Either of these can make the poor brownies so upset that they’re likely to stage a train wreck of hazardous fresh chips, destroying your garden for at least a year unless you manage to clean them up into an Elevated Fresh Chip Aging System before the first light of dawn. Don’t expect them to follow your plans slavishly. They have plenty of ideas af their own, and it’s worth putting up with a bit of inconvenience from time to time (the bridge that crosses my favorite garden chair) to get the benefits of their imagination (the funicular going up to the garage roof). As for materials, I don’t know where they come from. I just let the Brownies deal with it. If anyone knows of something I could give them to help out (I haven’t persuaded them to finish the tunnel yet), I’d love to hear about it. And if anyone has a good idea for attracting House Brownies, and Dog-Grooming Brownies, I need some of them too. I’ve been leaving offerings of old drywall and samoyed hair, but that hasn’t been effective. Does anyone know of a mail-order source? — PNW Native Wildlife Gardening: http://chemwww.chem.washington.edu/natives/ Any advertisements sent to any of my email accounts will be billed $25 per message, $1 per character, including all header lines. No exceptions. Sending such mail constitutes agreement to these terms.
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Can anyone tell me where I can find info on Railroad Gardening? Thanks!