Gardens

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Hey All,


Garden season is comnig up for me in a month or so. Anyone Here plant garden at their homes??

[Fragony]

Live in an apartment don't have one

[Veho Nex]

not flower but veggies yes

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

not flower but veggies yes

I do veggies to! If I can't eat flowers, I ain't planting them.

[Adrian II]

Anyone Here plant garden at their homes??

People do that for me. I sit in it and drink.

[Moros]

I do veggies to! If I can't eat flowers, I ain't planting them.

Tullips are nice. Both for viewing and eating.

[Lemur]

We have a biggish garden. I do the digging, wife does the skilled labor. It supplies us with more veggies than we can really eat in a season, so this year we're going to can some stuff, just to keep the home-grown goodness going a little longer.

I gotta say, though, when Mrs. Lemur selected the spot for the garden, my heart sank. Could she have found a lumpier, slopier, more difficult place to construct raised-bed gardens? Not on our property she couldn't. Back-breaking work for a hairy prosiminan. Especially since I have no bent toward engineering, and was reduced to using boards and strings to measure out the beds.

All's well that ends well, though, and now we have loads of greenstuff for minimal cost. It's our little victory garden.

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Example: this is one week's haul from the tomatoes. (The peaches in the white bowl don't count.) No family can eat that many tomatoes in a week. The mind boggles.

[Fragony]

Looks good

[naut]

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Jesus Lemur. I had a lot of tomoamotes the past two years, but not that many!

[Martok]

Damn, I can feel kankersores forming in my mouth just looking at all of them....

[Lemur]

The cool thing is that Mrs. Lemur planted all sorts of "heritage" tomatoes, very different from the stuff you get at the supermarket. Entirely different set of genes.

I can't find a good shot of the whole garden, but here's a picture that shows you about a fourth of the beds.

Obviously, this is from last year, so my littlest lemur has gotten bigger. But it gives you a notion of how the garden is laid out.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

The cool thing is that Mrs. Lemur planted all sorts of "heritage" tomatoes, very different from the stuff you get at the supermarket. Entirely different set of genes.

I can't find a good shot of the whole garden, but here's a picture that shows you about a fourth of the beds.

Obviously, this is from last year, so my littlest lemur has gotten bigger. But it gives you a notion of how the garden is laid out.

We have a pretty big garden too. Unfortunately about half of our area is taken up by my mother's sick obsession with flowering plants. Fortunately we still have a lot of room for tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, berries, lettuce, onions, beans and a variety of other crops. We end up never having enough time to weed the garden, and I really hate weeding so I tend to stick to mulching, and other grunt work. We do end up with a lot of excellent produce, though occasionally our garden is washed away by a horrible summer rainstorm.

[Vuk]

My girl always plants a massive garden, and I end up spending half the summer tilling it and mantaining it for her. :P She is not putting one in this year though, cause she says it is a cliche thing for a woman to do and it runs contrary to empowerment. :P Normally I would not have let that one up, but I do not want to till the garden. :P As it is I end up cleaning up the kitchen, :P. (but I wear slippers at least :P)

[Uesugi Kenshin]

My girl always plants a massive garden, and I end up spending half the summer tilling it and mantaining it for her. :P She is not putting one in this year though, cause she says it is a cliche thing for a woman to do and it runs contrary to empowerment. :P Normally I would not have let that one up, but I do not want to till the garden. :P As it is I end up cleaning up the kitchen, :P. (but I wear slippers at least :P)

How does wearing slippers make that any better?

[Vuk]

lol, I was saying that I was not barefoot. :P NVM, it was a cheesy joke. :P
My girl is not as bad as I am making her out to be. :P I am just whining and having fun at her expense. She does go on with her feminist crap a lot, but it is not hard to ignore most times. :P

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

We have a pretty big garden too. Unfortunately about half of our area is taken up by my mother's sick obsession with flowering plants. Fortunately we still have a lot of room for tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, berries, lettuce, onions, beans and a variety of other crops. We end up never having enough time to weed the garden, and I really hate weeding so I tend to stick to mulching, and other grunt work. We do end up with a lot of excellent produce, though occasionally our garden is washed away by a horrible summer rainstorm.

I know this past summer I lost some Corn/Sun Flowers due to a bad summer storm, but it is usally those dry spells that kills my stuff

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I know this past summer I lost some Corn/Sun Flowers due to a bad summer storm, but it is usally those dry spells that kills my stuff

Ah, Vermont's a pretty wet place so we don't get too many of those. Our main problem is the nearly annual torrential downpours that we get, and the fact that our garden is right below a nearby rise in our hill, which makes it very likely that run-off will go straight through the garden.