TheGardenDude

TheGardenDude

"If the Dude can do it, you can do it."

Facebook photo albums of the Dude's garden

Coming soon: YouTube videos showing Dude's gardening techniques and tips

1. Introduction: Grow veggies in limited space (begin each episode). Dude decided to act on his belief that the highest art form is growing, preparing and consuming veggies. With the recent collapses of the economy, environment, basic civility, everyone has a duty to live sustainably. Dude began to learn gardening two years ago with the great advantage of having no knowledge or skills on gardening. This freed him up to try things "the Dude way." He learned as much from things that didn't work as those that did. This series documents some of the developments in Dude's second year gardening experiments. The series will address the following topics:1

2. Containers maximize production; minimize labor

3. Vertical growing makes the most of limited space

    PVC structures

    hanging containers

    cages

4. Vertical storage makes the most of limited space

5. Composting and worm farms

6. What to do with all your veggies?

eat them (veggie tips and recipes)

give them away

preserve them (freeze, dry, pickle)

barter with them (tips and cash crops)

7. How to deal with pests and disease

8. Resources (links, books)

9. Conclusion: "If the Dude can do it, you can do it. But only if you want to."

Segments

Dude Fashion Tips

Prefer conservative footwear. Avoid gaudy colored crocs. For garden work, wear the strap informally to the front; for formal occasions (weddings, funerals, state dinners) wear the strap formally to the back.

Dude also enjoys his custom made "Cool Feet" by Steve Martin (have been resoled many times)

Dude enjoys setting trends, like bringing back cut-off levis.

Dude thinks classic Hawaiian shirts make the best fashion statement just about anywhere. Note the rare purple one he wears in the series. It's from the original Hawaii Five 0 television series.

Dude wears a Jerry Lopez circa 1970s hoody when it gets chilly.

Dude wears a variety of tee shirts when it gets hot.

When the sun gets really hot, Dude wears a fashionable, stylish hat.

Dude Pearls of Wisdom

Jefferson: The absence of hunger is a felicity, eating the means to attain it.

Sales: Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Great American philosopher: Can't we all just get along?

Fort: To measure a circle, begin at any point.