For those who have a garden
Started by LifeisaGarden, Jun 14 2011 06:11 PM
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#1
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:11 PM
Every time I go out to pick my garden I feel like I'm getting free food. I know it's not really free when you factor in labor, time, fertilizer, etc.. But it still feels free to me. It feels like a big Eff You to the grocery store!
I love it because I know what goes in it. I try to keep mine as natural as possible although I do fertilize with both organic and chemical fertilizers. My garden is virtually weed free since I put down landscape fabric and I use manual pest control as well as natural applications for pests as needed only.
At the moment I have cayenne peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash and zucchini growing so fast we cant eat it fast enough. My bell peppers, tomatoes and eggplants are just about ready. And hopefully in about a month we'll have corn and okra to eat too.
I love it because I know what goes in it. I try to keep mine as natural as possible although I do fertilize with both organic and chemical fertilizers. My garden is virtually weed free since I put down landscape fabric and I use manual pest control as well as natural applications for pests as needed only.
At the moment I have cayenne peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash and zucchini growing so fast we cant eat it fast enough. My bell peppers, tomatoes and eggplants are just about ready. And hopefully in about a month we'll have corn and okra to eat too.
#2
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:12 PM
I don't eat what MamaSan grows. She don't know it but I pee on her garden when I am outside drinking
#3
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:12 PM
In N Out
#4
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:13 PM
My Dad has a garden and he had it the whole time I was growing up, it was about a 1/3rd of an Acre and produced more food than we knew what to do with. He would can stuff so it wouldn't go to waste. I don't think that man ever spent money on produce.
#5
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:15 PM
I have to wait until October to try my crops.
#6
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:16 PM
We always had a garden growing up. It only seemed natural and the right thing to do to have my own. I only wish I had paid better attention to my grandpa, I probably wouldn't have the trouble I've had with pests. Thank goodness for the internetz and the feed store or otherwise I'd have given up long ago.
#7
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:17 PM
a friend of mine (my age) has a big ass garden.. full of everything you could eat.. I look forward to more food since he has too much.
#8
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:21 PM
When you have a garden it's similar to having a kid. You will seriously eff up anything that messes with it.
#9
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:26 PM
I have to wait until October to try my crops.
Hydroponics is your firend
#10
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:27 PM
sounds about right, he has to spend an inordinate amount of time weeding out everything...
#13
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:45 PM
Watch your tomatoes, when there is no rain for awhile. Squirrels will eat them.
#15
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:52 PM
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