At any rate,I get a lot of relaxation out of gardening.It's a lot different than when I was a kid and had to help weed and tend an acre of garden.Back then my parents canned everything so it was more like work than fun!
Ron
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Just wondering if anyone else likes to grow your own veggies.I have a small garden where I raise the usual stuff such as radishes,carrotts,green
beans,corn,etc... Somwething new I'm trying this year is Square Foot Gardening. In theory it has potential but I skimped on the soil in my 4ft square boxes
and it's now beginning to show.Plus the fact that I put my plants out too early for the N Ohio spring and we had several very cold nights which really set
my plants back.
At any rate,I get a lot of relaxation out of gardening.It's a lot different than when I was a kid and had to help weed and tend an acre of garden.Back then my parents canned everything so it was more like work than fun! Ron Psalm 14:1
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My wife and I have a small garden, though it's more of the practicality of growing vegetables than an enjoyment. We have something like an 8' x 3'
raised bed garden (the "square foot" variety) and 25' x 15' (or thereabouts ;-) ) tilled garden. Cucumbers, squash, zucchini, a couple of
varieties of peas and beans, okra, an watermelon will be ready to harvest in a few weeks. As a matter of fact, my wife picked the first couple of zucchini
yesterday. Unlike the previous few years, we're having some nice rain to help it along.
Bill
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Bill, I thought you would be planting honey locust trees to get ready for another build !!
So many guitars....So little time.
So many taxes......So few guitars
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Yea, I do but only real small, grew up on a farm and spent many hours in the garden with my family, weeding picking etc... I have 3 tomato plants that I baby
along most of the summer. I harvest what I can eat a few but mostly I enjoy just growing them and giving them away!
Soli Deo Gloria!
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I admire people who do, but I barely landscape let alone grow anything. Not to mention that my property is small. I have a hedge row between my house and the
next door neighbors that is 100% growing out of control at the moment
. It's going to be an insane project to get it trimmed down. Chainsaw anyone?
Ryan
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gospelRon wrote: I grew up on a south Georgia farm, but I don't know anything about a "green thumb." My wife sees after the garden more than I, but we are having a great spring with a nice amount of rain. And yes, I love fried green tomatoes, as well as fried squash. My cholesterol loves them too! Bill
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I also have a small vegetable garden...It really is an enjoyable way to spend some time...I tried the square foot garden technique but found it difficult to
weed and pick the veggies...now I try to leave some room between things to get in there when I have to......the weather in New England has been cool so things
haven't really taken off yet......but soon I hope to be eating fresh veggies........Dan
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Pappy wrote: Hi Pete. You may have seen on AGF that I discovered that the back of the guitar there was a slight break along the seam of the lower bout. Also, the box displayed sign of an impact at that area with the tape separated from the box. At any rate, UPS is picking it up today for inspection. Bill
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Oh Wow! No I didn't see that Bill. I'm sure you are sick about it. I know I am, and it isn't even mine! Both you and woody are now shipping damaged, as was louie a while back. Seems like an awfully high percentage in such a short time span. Seems like shipping a guitar is a very dicey proposition. Hope it all works out O.K. for you.
So many guitars....So little time.
So many taxes......So few guitars
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Thanks, Pete. Not to be glib, but it all works out.
Which Woody? I must have missed a thread. Bill
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Being a farm boy, I was raised with a garden. Spent many HOT hours weeding and hilling potatoes. I never understood why it was always Mom and "us
kids".
My Dad let me in on a secret after I grew up and moved into my own place and tried to keep a garden going. It was " Never plant more garden than your wife can hoe". I now understand his logic
Currently, I till up about an acre and every year threaten to fill it with cuc's or squash but usually 90% of the garden I till up just goes to weeds. I get a few tomato plants and other things but the coon's steal all my corn, the deer steal all my beans... I guess I give all my stuff away as well.
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Hmmm...sounds like a lot of work for what you end up with.
Too much
hard labor for me. I think I'm allergic to work - every time I do it, I break out in a sweat. My "fitness" program consists of pushing
my luck, running up bills, and jumping to conclusions.
You forget it and I'll forget it, but I'll remember it, and don't you forget it!
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Tilling an acre has gone from gardening to farming in my book!
Bill
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When I get the plow, spring tooth, disks and harrows on behind the tractor, it's easier to work up an acre that try to do a little square that the tractor
can't even turn in.
Besides, if I work up an acre, that's 1 less acre I have to cut the grass on every week. I just "wild sowed" all the seeds from an acorn squash I ate for supper last night. Sowing squash this late in the year, I don't expect much, but what to heck, they can compete with the weeds and may the best plants win ! Trying to keep an acre totally weeded is a full time job for about 2 or 3 people but having 2 or 3 wives is illegal. I'm too far north to hire migrant workers...they don't quite migrate this far north
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