Because I know all of y'all have been wondering

[Bidin~Time]

The BT vegetable garden is mostly planted. The first planting of corn drowned, so it was replanted. The second planting is up and thriving are are the beans. The tomato plants and pepper plants went in the ground today. I'll be patiently waiting for the squash, cucumbers, and zucchini seeds to spout into beautiful plants while I coddle, baby, and just generally become annoyingly OCD over the blueberry bushes.

No, the weather didn't work with me this spring, but I'm stubborn and even though I'm a little behind, I will win in the end.


There now, y'all feel better that you know, don't you?

 

[barefootgirl69]

The BT vegetable garden is mostly planted. The first planting of corn drowned, so it was replanted. The second planting is up and thriving are are the beans. The tomato plants and pepper plants went in the ground today. I'll be patiently waiting for the squash, cucumbers, and zucchini seeds to spout into beautiful plants while I coddle, baby, and just generally become annoyingly OCD over the blueberry bushes.

No, the weather didn't work with me this spring, but I'm stubborn and even though I'm a little behind, I will win in the end.


There now, y'all feel better that you know, don't you?

It sounds like you are going to have a beautiful garden! Do you plant the same thing each year? You'll have to update us with pictures, and invite us over for a cookout when everything is ready!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I will sleep better tonight

I was thinking about my grandfather today and his "garden"....

He retired from the Airforce a general with over 39 combat missions fling a B52 out of Africa over Germany. ( he was actually rejected by the Airforce so joined the Royal Canadian Airforce. He was drafted during WW2 and came back under threat of losing his citizenship)

But what I most recall was the to infrequent visits to his house. I would guess it was about 10 acres he farmed year around in Mississippi. From sun up to sun down he was working the crops or in his "shed" working on a tractor. He grew everything. And it was 100x what they could can or eat. It was a poor town. But a poor town that could have all the fresh vegetables they wanted....

 

[Bidin~Time]

It sounds like you are going to have a beautiful garden! Do you plant the same thing each year? You'll have to update us with pictures, and invite us over for a cookout when everything is ready!

How does Labor Day sound?

I will sleep better tonight

I was thinking about my grandfather today and his "garden"....

He retired from the Airforce a general with over 39 combat missions fling a B52 out of Africa over Germany. ( he was actually rejected by the Airforce so joined the Royal Canadian Airforce. He was drafted during WW2 and came back under threat of losing his citizenship)

But what I most recall was the to infrequent visits to his house. I would guess it was about 10 acres he farmed year around in Mississippi. From sun up to sun down he was working the crops or in his "shed" working on a tractor. He grew everything. And it was 100x what they could can or eat. It was a poor town. But a poor town that could have all the fresh vegetables they wanted....

One of the great things about gardens is when your plants overachieve and you can share with family and friends.

Maybe I'll start one of those gardens people buy shares in...

 

[Ishmael]

All my seedlings are up, and now I have to decide which are the weak and need to die. It's like botanical eugenics.

And then there's the genocide. I was on my way to using an insecticide when I saw some baby Preying Mantis's on the crops. Decisions, declensions, decisions. Should I use a scorched earth policy, targeted genocide, or just 'share' with my six-legged fellow travelers?

On Tuesday I'll be talking to the local agricultural extension agent to ascertain the very best chemical, and method of deployment, to achieve the very best genocidal outcome.

War is hell.

Ishmael

 

[pink]

I remember when my Dad used to plant a garden, I was little then. We had corn, green beans, tomatoes, and I think cucs. I'm sure he planted more, I just don't remember.

 

[Ishmael]

I will sleep better tonight

I was thinking about my grandfather today and his "garden"....

He retired from the Airforce a general with over 39 combat missions fling a B52 out of Africa over Germany. ( he was actually rejected by the Airforce so joined the Royal Canadian Airforce. He was drafted during WW2 and came back under threat of losing his citizenship)

But what I most recall was the to infrequent visits to his house. I would guess it was about 10 acres he farmed year around in Mississippi. From sun up to sun down he was working the crops or in his "shed" working on a tractor. He grew everything. And it was 100x what they could can or eat. It was a poor town. But a poor town that could have all the fresh vegetables they wanted....

No he didn't son. In the spring he, and his fellow 'farmers,' talked about who was to grow what. When you were in the kitchen it gave the appearance of his having grown it all, he didn't. He'd take some cucumbers over to Tom and Tom would give him some tomato's. It was all planned out before the first seed went in the ground.

And the excess of all that planning, planting, and growing went the poor and the elderly in that community, not to the "Farmers Market."

Ishmael

 

[hashtag45]

∧ lol…

The OP's post also reminded me of my own grandparents and those awesome childhood memories.
While they had a rel. small garden, they grew almost everything. They also grew these special rose bushes, and the rose syrup and so on were absolutely delish.

 

[Bidin~Time]

All my seedlings are up, and now I have to decide which are the weak and need to die. It's like botanical eugenics.

And then there's the genocide. I was on my way to using an insecticide when I saw some baby Preying Mantis's on the crops. Decisions, declensions, decisions. Should I use a scorched earth policy, targeted genocide, or just 'share' with my six-legged fellow travelers?

On Tuesday I'll be talking to the local agricultural extension agent to ascertain the very best chemical, and method of deployment, to achieve the very best genocidal outcome.

War is hell.

Ishmael

I think you should should offer to send the baby mantiseseses(what th plural of mantis anyway?) to the spider haters on the board.

I remember when my Dad used to plant a garden, I was little then. We had corn, green beans, tomatoes, and I think cucs. I'm sure he planted more, I just don't remember.

I like planting those veggies I can preserve as themselves or turn into other things. I think kids should have a veggie garden it teaches them patience and creativity.

No he didn't son. In the spring he, and his fellow 'farmers,' talked about who was to grow what. When you were in the kitchen it gave the appearance of his having grown it all, he didn't. He'd take some cucumbers over to Tom and Tom would give him some tomato's. It was all planned out before the first seed went in the ground.

And the excess of all that planning, planting, and growing went the poor and the elderly in that community, not to the "Farmers Market."

Ishmael

Here, I had him sleeping better tonight and you go and mess that up by telling him his granpa wasn't superfarmer. Shame...

 

[Ishmael]

I think you should should offer to send the baby mantiseseses(what th plural of mantis anyway?) to the spider haters on the board.


I like planting those veggies I can preserve as themselves or turn into other things. I think kids should have a veggie garden it teaches them patience and creativity.





Here, I had him sleeping better tonight and you go and mess that up by telling him his granpa wasn't superfarmer. Shame...

Oh he was, the kid just didn't know there was a conspiracy involved. Crop rotation writ large.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

∧ lol…

The OP's post also reminded me of my own grandparents and those awesome childhood memories.
While they had a rel. small garden, they grew almost everything. They also grew these special rose bushes, and the rose syrup and so on were absolutely delish.

Rose syrup? <goes to google>

Oh he was, the kid just didn't know there was a conspiracy involved. Crop rotation writ large.

Ishmael

So now he can just think of gramps as an innovator before him time as a garden coordinator.

 

[BotanyBoy]

One of the great things about gardens is when your plants overachieve and you can share with family and friends.

Maybe I'll start one of those gardens people buy shares in...

If you're in CA and a few other states with psychotic laws don't do it...they will literally send cops to come gun you down for CSA's in California.

Especially if there are eggs or raw milk involved, that level of offense gets SWAT'ed hardcore.

Check your laws before you start a CSA or they will fuck you up like you were Osama Bin Laden or some shit....seriously.

 

[Ishmael]

Rose syrup? <goes to google>




So now he can just think of gramps as an innovator before him time as a garden coordinator.

More like a "community organizer" that made a REAL difference to those in need.

His wife, "The Widder Tanner" told me that there were more 'black folk" at his grave side service than white. And I can't help but to remember thinking, "Do you think I didn't know him, or didn't you not know him?"

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

If you're in CA and a few other states with psychotic laws don't do it...they will literally send cops to come gun you down for CSA's in California.

Especially if there are eggs or raw milk involved, that level of offense gets SWAT'ed hardcore.

Check your laws before you start a CSA or they will fuck you up like you were Osama Bin Laden or some shit....seriously.

Actually, I was just being facetious. I have zero intentions of doing a coop thing. All those yuppies tramping through my garden would set my teeth on edge and most likely bring out the very worst in me.

Blessedly, I live no where near Cali, and too far out in the boonies for any ridiculous zoning crap. Which reminds me, what sort of dumbassed thinking makes it illegal for people to grow a squash plant in their back yard?

 

[Bidin~Time]

More like a "community organizer" that made a REAL difference to those in need.

His wife, "The Widder Tanner" told me that there were more 'black folk" at his grave side service than white. And I can't help but to remember thinking, "Do you think I didn't know him, or didn't you not know him?"

Ishmael

Folks is just folks; generally speaking.

 

[Ishmael]

Back on subject. My little spice experiment last year is working again. The only problem I have is that the Sage has to be transplanted. When I first planted it I thought is as an annual..............it's not.

I still have plenty of last years Basil/Thyme/Sage leftover after giving away as much as I could. Maybe I should ask more than "free" as a price. Tell everyone it's 'organically' grown. If for no other reason that to laugh at the assholes that turned down free. Labeling and price point are king, quality be damned.

Ishmael

 

[NOIRTRASH]

God gave me few brains and no looks, I cant dance, and have exactly two FACEBOOK friends, but I'm better than God at gardening. I'm beyond good, and get results no one's duplicated.

At the moment I'm harvesting fat Vidalia sweet onions. lemons the size of baseballs, and peaches sweeter than Kim Kardashian kisses. My Guava trees are loaded with fruit, ripe down the road. No pears as yet but the trees look good. My grapefruit trees are fulla golfball size fruit for late fall.

The temps are in the 90s, so its summer for all intents and purposes, and too hot for anything but cotton, peanuts, and cowpeas.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

http://www.bopf.com/images/P/YGX_row.jpg

VIDALIA SWEET ONIONS

 

[Bidin~Time]

Back on subject. My little spice experiment last year is working again. The only problem I have is that the Sage has to be transplanted. When I first planted it I thought is as an annual..............it's not.

I still have plenty of last years Basil/Thyme/Sage leftover after giving away as much as I could. Maybe I should ask more than "free" as a price. Tell everyone it's 'organically' grown. If for no other reason that to laugh at the assholes that turned down free. Labeling and price point are king, quality be damned.

Ishmael

I'm thinking that since the blueberry bushes, being newly planted this year, weren't supposed to bear fruit, I will raffle off the crop. Say, $5 a ticket, winner gets the whole crop. I'll them Miracle Berries since most of the blueberry crop elsewhere froze this spring.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Trumpspoupee, would you do me the kindness of going to hell and never posting in one of my threads again? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ishmael]

I'm thinking that since the blueberry bushes, being newly planted this year, weren't supposed to bear fruit, I will raffle off the crop. Say, $5 a ticket, winner gets the whole crop. I'll them Miracle Berries since most of the blueberry crop elsewhere froze this spring.

Why not? "You pick it."

Ishmale

 

[Ishmael]

"Trash boy' Just made 'ignore' for the screen stretcher. It's not as if his other BS doesn't annoy me enough.

Ishmael

 

[Ishmael]

Ahh, so much better now.

Ishmael