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Garden Master
This will seem critical, and from a risk-averse gardener, maybe overly so, but it's something I've stopped myself from saying enuf that it's getting kind of frustrating to me.
I'm talking about someone who has never been on this forum and probably knows nothing about it so I can give particulars... I hope. You should know that I tried this once about a business with forum comments and was contacted by a company rep, so this sort of thing can backfire.
Well, here goes: She used to live near Vancouver BC but moved from there about 10 or 12 years ago. I got the idea that she and her husband then packed up and moved to get away from her son and his wife in their new location, in south central BC. If anyone knows about this area, it isn't such a bad place for a gardener to be but they moved on to Calgary and after a few years retired outside of Edmonton!!
She is a person with an interest in gardening, at least, she says she is. It's the basis of our relationship, anyway. She has concentrated lately on plants she can move indoors during the winters. Cactus ..!
I guess it's fortunate for me that I don't know much about cacti but in the 4 or 5 years they have been there, she continues to try to have an outdoor vegetable garden. Her interest really seems to be heirloom tomatoes. ..!
The story has been the same at the end of each season. There were those days with a hailstorm or whatever, about mid-season. She tried to protect the tomatoes thru that and some other inclement weather but the plastic coverings blew off, or something. The tomatoes more or less survived until the season ended, much too early for them to produce any actual fruit ...
She seems to have dreams of big, meaty beefsteaks every year. Most recently, I watched from afar while she tried to grow yet another "German something or other." She didn't even know the name but I finally discovered it was another 80-day heirloom, yet again. I don't know if it was joined by the 3 or 4 other new varieties she tries each year.
Over the years, and at her other locations, I have shared a little of what has worked for me but she doesn't seem to pay any attention. I don't really know if my ideas would be of much help because she says she now lives in zone 1 ..! Canadian zones are different from USDA but I figure this must be about as far north as she could grow any single thing you might find in someone's yard!
Why do you suppose people move beyond the realm of possibilities in their efforts? Doesn't being successful mean anything to these folks?
Steve
I'm talking about someone who has never been on this forum and probably knows nothing about it so I can give particulars... I hope. You should know that I tried this once about a business with forum comments and was contacted by a company rep, so this sort of thing can backfire.
Well, here goes: She used to live near Vancouver BC but moved from there about 10 or 12 years ago. I got the idea that she and her husband then packed up and moved to get away from her son and his wife in their new location, in south central BC. If anyone knows about this area, it isn't such a bad place for a gardener to be but they moved on to Calgary and after a few years retired outside of Edmonton!!
She is a person with an interest in gardening, at least, she says she is. It's the basis of our relationship, anyway. She has concentrated lately on plants she can move indoors during the winters. Cactus ..!
I guess it's fortunate for me that I don't know much about cacti but in the 4 or 5 years they have been there, she continues to try to have an outdoor vegetable garden. Her interest really seems to be heirloom tomatoes. ..!
The story has been the same at the end of each season. There were those days with a hailstorm or whatever, about mid-season. She tried to protect the tomatoes thru that and some other inclement weather but the plastic coverings blew off, or something. The tomatoes more or less survived until the season ended, much too early for them to produce any actual fruit ...
She seems to have dreams of big, meaty beefsteaks every year. Most recently, I watched from afar while she tried to grow yet another "German something or other." She didn't even know the name but I finally discovered it was another 80-day heirloom, yet again. I don't know if it was joined by the 3 or 4 other new varieties she tries each year.
Over the years, and at her other locations, I have shared a little of what has worked for me but she doesn't seem to pay any attention. I don't really know if my ideas would be of much help because she says she now lives in zone 1 ..! Canadian zones are different from USDA but I figure this must be about as far north as she could grow any single thing you might find in someone's yard!
Why do you suppose people move beyond the realm of possibilities in their efforts? Doesn't being successful mean anything to these folks?
Steve
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