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Garden Master
I knew I should not look at another of your threads, NyBoy! It just promotes these intense feelings of self-loathing. Shoot. Good thing I didn't read this before I shaved this morning . . .
Yeah, I was standing in there thinking how the my Native American ancestors had made it possible for me to maintain a winter tan. I mean, I used to be a little blonde kid! See, like most everyone, there are winners and losers in my ancestry . . .
Not quite willing to cut my throat for another few days, I was thinking how a 3 year relationship with Avena nuda had turned out okay. Yes, naked wasn't quite my experience with naked-seeded Oats and I had to beat the heck out of it to have enuf for a rice salad! Wonderful salad but, you know . . .
Anyway. I have NOT managed to turn those oats into a Wild Weed in my gardens! Wild oats are common around here - maybe everywhere nationally or post-nationally, but I haven't payed enuf attention in my travels. Aaannd, I've even mentioned using those oats on TEG as a living mulch in the garden!
I should say right off that a Colorado gardener informed me that he managed to bring Wild Oats right into his backyard by growing Avena nuda. Talk about risky!! I haven't done anything special but may be held guilty for TEG advice.
Elsewhere, too. I have even given some talks to gardeners about various things. This was pre-Avena nuda. I once told a roomful of market gardeners about my experience using cotton twine in trellising. Well right, I had years of experience - in a commercial greenhouse - where the twine was just tossed in the garbage after use. I suggested that it could be composted . . ! This based on me having put it in my compost the autumn before. Upon returning to my gardens, I discovered that all that cotton twine was still there in the compost as binding as ever!. It was there 3 years later - I kept rotating it to new compost piles. At that point, I tried to rototill it in and had a miserable job cutting that d**n twine outta the tines!
Those market gardeners were nearly all from west of the Cascade Mountains. I am soooo very fortunate to have never seen any of them again! I've made sure not to attend any more meetings over there!
Around the forum, I once suggested the Russian Olive as a nice, small lawn tree. I'm so very sorry that the Utah gardener who got that recommendation has released an invasive species that has invaded Utah's canyons from one end of the state to the other. You see - it can happen! Honestly, I never knew my idea could turn on the people of Utah like that!
Steve
with not even a sprout to show for the 2014 gardening year
Yeah, I was standing in there thinking how the my Native American ancestors had made it possible for me to maintain a winter tan. I mean, I used to be a little blonde kid! See, like most everyone, there are winners and losers in my ancestry . . .
Not quite willing to cut my throat for another few days, I was thinking how a 3 year relationship with Avena nuda had turned out okay. Yes, naked wasn't quite my experience with naked-seeded Oats and I had to beat the heck out of it to have enuf for a rice salad! Wonderful salad but, you know . . .
Anyway. I have NOT managed to turn those oats into a Wild Weed in my gardens! Wild oats are common around here - maybe everywhere nationally or post-nationally, but I haven't payed enuf attention in my travels. Aaannd, I've even mentioned using those oats on TEG as a living mulch in the garden!
I should say right off that a Colorado gardener informed me that he managed to bring Wild Oats right into his backyard by growing Avena nuda. Talk about risky!! I haven't done anything special but may be held guilty for TEG advice.
Elsewhere, too. I have even given some talks to gardeners about various things. This was pre-Avena nuda. I once told a roomful of market gardeners about my experience using cotton twine in trellising. Well right, I had years of experience - in a commercial greenhouse - where the twine was just tossed in the garbage after use. I suggested that it could be composted . . ! This based on me having put it in my compost the autumn before. Upon returning to my gardens, I discovered that all that cotton twine was still there in the compost as binding as ever!. It was there 3 years later - I kept rotating it to new compost piles. At that point, I tried to rototill it in and had a miserable job cutting that d**n twine outta the tines!
Those market gardeners were nearly all from west of the Cascade Mountains. I am soooo very fortunate to have never seen any of them again! I've made sure not to attend any more meetings over there!
Around the forum, I once suggested the Russian Olive as a nice, small lawn tree. I'm so very sorry that the Utah gardener who got that recommendation has released an invasive species that has invaded Utah's canyons from one end of the state to the other. You see - it can happen! Honestly, I never knew my idea could turn on the people of Utah like that!
Steve
with not even a sprout to show for the 2014 gardening year
