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Post by prairiegardens on Apr 10, 2020 18:36:59 GMT -5
yikes. I was burning a little patch of thistles once, still patches of snow on the ground, a pail of water etc handy... the wind came up out of nowhere and soon the damn fire split in two and was racing along two sides of the field, it almost beat me up the hill to the house. Took the fire department about 4 hours to put it out and even then it was another couple of hours of me patrolling the trees from time to time to put out the stuff under the trees we hadn't seen still had coals.. scared the stuffing out of me and I'd been burning without incident for years. anyhow, hope you are feeling better.
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Post by steev on Apr 20, 2020 9:55:21 GMT -5
Yeah, well; you can wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which fills up first; he'll learn to eat veggies eventually on his own schedule, not yours.
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Post by Dewdrop on Apr 20, 2020 11:10:39 GMT -5
Rototilled some more today. Tomato transplants are doing ok. Looked better this evening when I went to turn on their heater than they did this morning. Turgor was a little low on a few of them. I'm going to give the boy a corner of the garden. Maybe he would like to grow watermelons. Wish he would eat vegetables and not just fruit. If it helps, I started out on shelling out and eating Wando garden peas directly from the garden early on. Granted, it probably helped that my Mom not only taught me how, but that I had (and still have) a sweet tooth. It may also help that I could watch her pick and enjoy eating them often herself. While what veggies kids will willingly eat may vary, I didn't realize that for years my Mom would sneak in a little sugar into the store-bought frozen peas or corn. Then she could eventually cut back on the sugar. The other possibility is we can intentionally select and grow extra-sweet veggies. Other than the first impression on taste and texture, perhaps we can also explain that some vegetable varieties may be sweeter than others, just like how some apple varieties are sweeter than others. I don't remember my first years gardening, but I might have started out on flowers I liked or something for my patch or row. I remember I thoroughly enjoyed planting seeds in a square foot garden, one seed for each square, in a grid made out of twine inside a wooden frame. I have no idea if I took care of it much after that though, I was pretty young. |
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Post by reed on Apr 21, 2020 4:07:30 GMT -5
To me even still a lot of vegetables taste better raw than cooked. I remember getting in trouble one time for eating most of a patch of peas before they were ready to harvest. Also loved sweet corn, straight off the stalk and that juicy white end of a corn tassel stem is better than the corn itself, might be better not to teach him that.
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Post by synergy on Apr 27, 2020 12:03:37 GMT -5
My mother in law gifted me with an egyptian walking onion that has struggled in a pot with amoung other things , grass . I am thinking of turfing the pot and gleaning out the onion to replant in a fresh pot so I can save the onion and perhaps have it flourish .
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Post by reed on May 25, 2020 7:30:20 GMT -5
I sure am glad I gave up on messing with machines in my garden. How much do you expect the bill to be for getting them all back in shape? Here it could easily be a hundred bucks for just one.
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Post by steev on Jun 5, 2020 20:06:22 GMT -5
See, that's I like my no-frills p'up, fewer things to go wrong. Took Sukie to the shop 5 weeks ago; still not back; mechanic hadn't been able to get the parts shop on the phone and he'd forgotten it; it's cool, too dry to till anyway and I don't have the jing to ransom her.
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Post by reed on Jun 6, 2020 1:37:52 GMT -5
I do have a tiller and couple weeks back thought I might get it out and till the back garden. Got everything cleaned up in the shed to where I could get to it and shit, a flat tire. Just one small reminder of why I hate the things so much. Lost an hour cleaning a path to the damn thing but got the corn planted anyway using the hoe. Didn't bother getting it on out let alone fixing it. On the plus side I found the two broken 100 year old Red Chief corn grinders that together will make one perfect condition Red Chief corn grinder.
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