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gardenlen · Guest

g'day,

just updated our web site added some new pages.

let us know what you think?

also are guest books outdated now? seems lots of visitors don't see
the need or whatever so maybe we should weed it out?

see you:

http://www.gardenlen.com/

With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

gonzo · Guest

Len,

Very cool approach. Are you purchasing all the rough materials in your
strawbale garden (straw, mushroom compost, sugarcane remnants) or is
that all available locally (don't see how you manage THAT in a small
yard! )?

How long does it take for the materials to break down inside the
strawbales?

Thanks for sharing!

Happybattles · Guest

Its great that you''re able to produce your own website, but a little
more design and a little less banners would really make it better. The
banners, while you may think they are useful, really don't match the
website and just bulk-up the page, (think doughnuts, not steak and
eggs).

gardenlen · Guest

g'day gonzo,

yes i purchase it but it comes from local suppliers not retail outlet.

as the height of the medium has reduced i'd say it is well on the way
to be broken down especially the leaves and softer bits, the grass hay
i used for mulch over the mushy compost is breaking down and getting
thin so i am currently topping that up by placing our kitchen scraps
on the top of the old mulch and covering that with new mulch in this
case sugar cane mulch.

On 26 Aug 2006 07:52:53 -0700, "gonzo" <sfallen2002@yahoo.com> wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

gardenlen · Guest

g'day happybattles,

not real sure waht you mean?

this apge ahs been running for over 7 years now and very ealy on i got
some constructive criticism that i follwed and to date have no other
comments apart from positive ones.

when i use banners apart from my own they are to mainly promote other
web pages that othes have online and generally connected to the
subject matter.

and i have always placed those banners to the bottom of the pages so
the imprtant information comes up first and gives the reader something
to peruse as the page fully loads

now i'm just a common garden type gardener who has learnt to use html
code and create a web page, i'm no fancy web master. and i see their
pages many times they are often hard to navigate and very slow to load
not simple at all.

i could easily provide text links for other pages but then hey that
would be a trifle boring wouldn't it?

could you maybe be more specific about

Happybattles · Guest

gardenlen · Guest

g'day happybattles,

you're a very switched on person by the sounds of it, me i'm an old
foggy if i can put it that way just rying to get the hang of computers
and this technology online.

yes we would all like to earn some respecatble money but then there i
usually a price to pay for that, and i guess one would need moderators
and be able to generate topical gardening topics to keep people coming
back at least on a weekly basis? and a lot more bandwidth than what
our isp offers for a free homepage, and of course then the isp doens't
provide service for business pages which is what we would become if we
generated income.

for me i'm from the old school of "if we oldies don't pass down what
we know then the youngies won't have the opportunity to do likewise
and lots of information/experiences is going to be lost. that's how i
learnt as i grew up".

you can see we have generated app 50k in hits from the site over about
8 years, and yes if all those people where paid memebers or even paid
once we would have supplemented our income, but this old brain just
can't see that happening, and maybe if i went that way my opportunity
to help others may just fade away. and as i am also there to help
people of our own age groups who ahve never gardened then there is
going to be those who simply can't apy anything (just like us).

on the paypal thingy i have read where people especially over here
have had problems ie.,. getting their money whatever? out of paypal.

so the $9 to $25 i would assume USD rate? is quiet a lot of money for
us, currently we pay app' $17AUD a year for the domain name, not
through our isp but another source. so a monthly bill on top of our
isp charges of around $59AUD would be out of the question, and i
suppose you could answer by saying 'yes but if you generate enough
income that will be covered' and i can see that maybe? but then the
only income we get may only cover the costs of earning it.

the only pool of friends i realy have are who i chat to online.

my connection is a broadband connection so it is connected at all
times when teh computer is on. and i am currently running win xp hm,
but would realy like to move to linux.

On 18 Sep 2006 11:45:43 -0700, "Happybattles" <happybattles@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

Happybattles · Guest

E-mail me at happybattlesXXX@XXXyahoo.comXXX

Just take out the X's when you send the email. I'll send you a website
to download something nice. Run a virus scan if you want on it.

gardenlen · Guest

g'day hb,

i sent you and e/m did you recieve it?

ta

On 19 Sep 2006 19:35:39 -0700, "Happybattles" <happybattles@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

Happybattles · Guest

Yep, dont check my email every day, but i think i got it back to ya,
unless i messed something up.
gardenlen wrote:

sockiescat · Guest

Happybattles Yep, dont check my email every day, but i think i got it
back to ya,
unless i messed something up.
gardenlen wrote:-
g'day hb,

i sent you and e/m did you recieve it?

ta

On 19 Sep 2006 19:35:39 -0700, "Happybattles" happybattles@yahoo.com
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com-

len i just wanted to let u know that i finally got a chance to take a
peek in and see how your bale garden was doing it sure looks like it
took off and did great smile

.
im still trying to get our youngest son to finish my frame for my
raised
garden beds but hopefully will get them done before winter lol.
everyone here and your site as well has really helped a lot as far as
giving me information on how to go about doing them.
thank u and everyone here as well for the info that was given.
cyaaaaa, sockiescat:).

--
sockiescat

gardenlen · Guest

thank you sockiescat,

i have just yeserday updated those pages again, but yes the garden for
a quicky temporary one produced very well from our stand point. and
will continue for a long time yet.

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:42:49 +0100, sockiescat
<sockiescat.2fwk7z@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:
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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com