:P Ideal Garden :P

[thistlebloom]

Mine would have beautiful sunny days and the rain would do the watering at night. And lots of flowers.

 

[thistlebloom]

Oh and I forgot, my ideal garden would have to have the ideal gardener!

 

[seedcorn]

I take offense to that thistle. We are all perfect gardeners. We are great! Well, except for those dang southern gardeners that have produce before we can even work our ground. :watering


And wife can't follow me out there pointing out things I need to do! If she doesn't like my garden, go plant her own......

 

[canesisters]

Oh and I forgot, my ideal garden would have to have the ideal gardener!

And a nice comfy place where I can sit and watch him work...

 

[journey11]

And wife can't follow me out there pointing out things I need to do! If she doesn't like my garden, go plant her own......

LOL, seedcorn. Wonder what kind of fence keeps the spouse out? My ideal garden wouldn't have grass from the lawn mower blown into it to seed new weeds and burn the leaves of my tender plants.

My ideal garden would lean more toward the asthetic aspects...a place of beauty that wouldn't raise my blood pressure each time I hurried past it from one thing that must be done, on to something else taking precedence.

 

[baymule]

My ideal garden would be bigger. And 4 of them with a chicken coop in the middle. I would plant garden #1 in spring and let it grow all summer. Then as fall approached, I would plant garden #2 full of the vegetables that grow in the fall/winter here because it is too darn hot otherwise. Garden #3 would be composted and mulched ready to go for the next spring. The chickens would have the run of garden #4.

As the spring/summer (#1) garden finished for the season, I would turn the chickens in it. Through the time they were in that garden, I would toss in leaves, or whatever organic materials I had available for that season. The fall garden (#2) would produce all winter, then as spring approached, I would plant garden #3. As the fall garden finished up (#2) I would let the chickens in it. And I would rotate the gardens in plantings and letting the chickens in them to do what chickens do. Depending on the season, I would probably plant a green cover crop on the fallow garden and let the chickens back in on it.

And for Seedcorn's perfect garden, I would send him a ray of sunshine to warm up his soil and garden spot so he could plant early!

 

[Smart Red]

Oh and I forgot, my ideal garden would have to have the ideal gardener!

I really can't complain about my garden soil. It is built on 50 years of pig pasture and 40 years of grasses left to themselves - at least 9 feet deep over an alluvial deposit of sand. I have all the chicken litter and rabbit pooh that I need. I can't find a rock wherever I dig. While not right beside the kitchen (that's shade) it is just past my clothes line and close to the garden shed.

I should have the perfect garden . . . if I could find the ideal gardener to tend my crops and water when needed. Like a little child with eyes bigger than her stomach, I have ideal veggie garden visions that my body fails to bring to fruition. I am getting better as I recover from my "EVENT" of 8 years ago, so perhaps an ideal garden is still in my future.

Other than myself, the only factor preventing me from that ideal veggie garden is my cooler zone 4-5 growing conditions. I am hoping to get hoop housing and heat in my garden shed to extend my growing season. That would be ideal.

 

[digitS']

Now, I was NOT suggesting that we create a perfect universe! Well, maybe we are the flawed element and there really is a perfect universe .

Anyway, weather can't be too much under control of some of our gardeners. Otherwise, us mere mortals (& Seedcorn) will take offense . . . . Gotta live with what we've got. See, I'm thinking that some "crew" could come in and sift several thousand square yards of topsoil to get the rocks out of my garden! Meanwhile, all deficient nutrients could be added .

Watering? I've always lived where that was necessary and, almost, 2nd nature. Other than driving the hay truck when I was 8 and milking cows and such, I was the kid in the rubber boots and shovel out dealing with the "ditch man" and trying to handle the flood irrigation while Dad was at his day job.

"Changed pipe" for farmers and my gardens have always had sprinklers. The flood irrigation farm was hundreds of miles away from the current gardens :/! Sophisticated system of fertilizer injection in the irrigation at the greenhouse but that is a different story.

Oh, and my ideal garden isn't in a greenhouse! I don't care how much control I have there - it is partly an illusion anyway. I can enjoy the 4 seasons in my ideal garden :watering.

You know, Bay's #1 & #2 & #3 & #### - That's pretty much what I'd want to be doing . Until I have completely lost count (& my mind )!

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

Thanks Bay! I take back all me future evil thoughts while you enjoy your weather. :coolsun

 

[baymule]

Thanks Bay! I take back all me future evil thoughts while you enjoy your weather. :coolsun

You're welcome! I guess you can like me until next spring when I post pictures.