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Icebox Pickles Radishes out the wazoo Sauteed Green beans Leather britches Saladings galore Looking forward to: Yellow squash Tomatoes Okra

I love to see green beans come up. There is little doubt about them, as they shove the soil aside with their thick 'cots. Plus, they leaf up quickly and you can pack a tin of them in each square foot. Im doing leathbreeches this year.

No change - still no chickens. Its why I dont run on BYC anymore - kinda moot talking about chickens and not having them. That's one of the reasons why I was reluctant to move in here... cant have them. But I can grow plants just about anywhere, and usually have *something* green going...

And the trellises are cheap, and made from recycled yard waste - which I really like. Gardens should be about simplicity.

We each have our little faults now, don't we?.... It will take all season to rotate through. By the end of summer I should only have some tomatoes/peppers/cukes and winter squash coming along. We'll see how my timing works out....

Good for you Pat. There is nothing like a dog to show us how to live life, the way we wish we could. When I moved to my dads old house, I was against the relocation. It was my wife that pushed for it. I'm still not sincerely behind it, but I'm making do. I brought some of my old garden with...

If anybody know it, its you. Work never ends - there is always something more to do. It is the nature of the human condition. But I am content in the garden; the work seems only like labor and not drudgery.

Cute!

Ill snap a pic or two tomorrow!

Hey garden monkeys! Its been awhile. New house, new garden, tons of work still to do. But hey its all good. Love you!

...Followed by, "Now watch this shjiit!" C'mon lets face it, dynamite is just plain fun!

This is the esoteric I mentioned above. "Nasty" tasting, "fun" and the supposed benefit of organically grown crops all fall in the realm of the subjective.

Both peppers and tomatoes are well suited to light loams (sandy-ish). Tomatoes are also deep feeders. If you think about what soil is, it is mostly sand or clay in varying amounts, with organic material mixed in, what we call humus. The aggregate is called soil, as opposed to plain dirt. Sand...

What should every garden have? For starters, whatever is high priced in the stores or local farmers market. There is little point beyond the esoteric in growing what can be had for little money elsewhere. Tomatoes and peppers are good examples. So go to the store and let the sticker shock be...

Im never ready to jump on the bandwagon, especially when its for someones idea of 'the common good.' More dictators and despots have risen to power on behalf of the common good than almost any other platform. With Monsanto bashing one focus of www.commondreams.org, I'm leery. That smells like a...

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Happy birthday, Hattie! This is an awesome topic, one which has stirred some controversy in my little corner of the world. I actually found myself seeing both sides of the argument today, in fact, after one of my friends brought it up. She said she'd been thinking about it, too.** One of her...

Im just anti... period. I'm the guy progressives laugh at when they chat among themselves.See, I prefer to let people make their own choices, even if they are stupid or ill conceived choices. Most people do NOT do stupid things, contrary to popular belief, and in the end things balance out...

Dynamite!!

Exactly - whose watching the watch dogs? It is the pariah complex, and its growing in strength among us. I asked this very thing among some coworkers and each one came to the same conclusion: First labels and then persecution. Why do a bunch of holier than thou types, have to run my life...