An Update on Gardening

[Dexter Morgan]

At this point in time, my garden is really taking off. My Ornamental Indian corn is now 5 inches tall. I have 9 hills of pumpkins. I planted 10 but one of my cats pooped on one of them as soon as it broke ground and killed it LOL!! Anyway, the remaining 9 look really good, they're about 3 inches tall. Most of my bedding plants got killed when my wonderful cats decided to use my flower bed as a litterbox  so I have 6 out of 24 still alive, but I'm expecting more fatalities any day now. My Sunflowers are about 5 inches tall, but they've been under the attack of aphids of some sort.So I'm keeping my fingers crossed on those. I caught one of my tomcats hosing down one of my Alberta Spruce trees, and shot him with the hose. You'd be surprised how a direct hit of cold water, to the nuts will clear a cat out of stuff. All in all I'd say it's going pretty good. 

[~Daisy~]

cool!

[Dexter Morgan]

It would be awesome if my cats weren't terrorists. They seem to rape and pilage everything in the yard.  Today I caught them killing those cute little ground squirrels. Has your new place got room for a garden?? It's probably too late for one this year, but there's always next year. 

[~Daisy~]

Definitely next year. I am looking forward to it.

Plus theres a small farmers market about a quarter mile away, so I'll be hitting them up after we move in.

[Dexter Morgan]

Definitely next year. I am looking forward to it.

Plus theres a small farmers market about a quarter mile away, so I'll be hitting them up after we move in.

Have you ever done any gardening or will it be your first time?? When I was a kid we had an acre garden. I spent alot of Summers planting, weeding  and harvesting the garden. At harvest we had to pick apples,grapes and other stuff. I spent alot of time stemming grapes, shelling peas, snapping beans, bundling onions,digging potatoes, etc etc etc. Maybe that's why I don't like very many fruits. 

[~Daisy~]

Just tomatoes. Once.

[Sandy Eggo]

Have you ever done any gardening or will it be your first time?? When I was a kid we had an acre garden. I spent alot of Summers planting, weeding  and harvesting the garden. At harvest we had to pick apples,grapes and other stuff. I spent alot of time stemming grapes, shelling peas, snapping beans, bundling onions,digging potatoes, etc etc etc. Maybe that's why I don't like very many fruits. 

I don't know how big our garden was, but I could get lost in it as a little girl. I hated weeding. That was the worst job ever. Not because it was so hard, but because I'd end up day dreaming and get in trouble.

I used to eat raw corn while I worked or tomatoes, but for some reason, Mom noticed the tomatoes. We had every green and bean known to mankind. Several different types of lettuce, cabbage, potatoes (white and sweet), pumpkins, grapes. We had berry patches too and we use to pretend they were forts and get lost back in the bushes. We encountered so many turtles and snakes back there and to this day, I'm not afraid of snakes. In fact, I kinda like them. Mom would send me for berries and I'd end up w/more on my face and clothes than in the pail. We canned EVERYTHING! I hated it.

One thing that I'm not real fond of, but I eat them because they're good for me, is apples. We had crab apples and a slew of other types of apple trees. They must have been easy to grow. Sour, sweet, you name it..if it was an apple we had it. We even had the most delicious winter apple that Mom used to call a "water crest" that matured in the fall/late fall and it was SO delicious. It is a huge apple w/packets of juice throughout the apple. If you bite into one of those you have juice running down your face. Every now and then I see a similar apple at a farmer's market and I have to buy them.

Unfortunately, I didn't inherit mom's green thumb.

[~Daisy~]

I detest apples, but that water crest one actually sounds good! My number one complaint about apples is how they are so dry and spongy.

[Sandy Eggo]

I detest apples, but that water crest one actually sounds good! My number one complaint about apples is how they are so dry and spongy.

They make me hungry. I can't explain it, but I can eat an apple and I'm starving afterwards, yet I can eat an orange and it curbs my appetite.

[Dexter Morgan]

Just tomatoes. Once.

It will be an awesome expeirience for you.  I love to wait for the plants to pop out of the ground. When they do, I feel a real sense of achivement. I know that sounds corny, but I get real excited about it. It doesn't take much to entertain me LOL!!! I think you'll enjoy it too. 

[Dexter Morgan]

I don't know how big our garden was, but I could get lost in it as a little girl. I hated weeding. That was the worst job ever. Not because it was so hard, but because I'd end up day dreaming and get in trouble.

I used to eat raw corn while I worked or tomatoes, but for some reason, Mom noticed the tomatoes. We had every green and bean known to mankind. Several different types of lettuce, cabbage, potatoes (white and sweet), pumpkins, grapes. We had berry patches too and we use to pretend they were forts and get lost back in the bushes. We encountered so many turtles and snakes back there and to this day, I'm not afraid of snakes. In fact, I kinda like them. Mom would send me for berries and I'd end up w/more on my face and clothes than in the pail. We canned EVERYTHING! I hated it.

One thing that I'm not real fond of, but I eat them because they're good for me, is apples. We had crab apples and a slew of other types of apple trees. They must have been easy to grow. Sour, sweet, you name it..if it was an apple we had it. We even had the most delicious winter apple that Mom used to call a "water crest" that matured in the fall/late fall and it was SO delicious. It is a huge apple w/packets of juice throughout the apple. If you bite into one of those you have juice running down your face. Every now and then I see a similar apple at a farmer's market and I have to buy them.

Unfortunately, I didn't inherit mom's green thumb.

It sounds like we had very similar upbringings.  I hated it when Mom used the pressure cooker for canning. Back in those days pressure cookers were a bomb waiting to go off. I was always scared to death of it. I work around them at KFC, but I totally avoid the frying area. I've never heard of that kind of apples. They sound like they'd be good. I've got a Cortland apple tree out back that has some apples on it. Last year it had a bumper crop, it was soo loaded it almost snapped in half. I've never seen that many apples on one tree.

[Dexter Morgan]

I detest apples, but that water crest one actually sounds good! My number one complaint about apples is how they are so dry and spongy.

I hate it when apples get mealy. I love Johnathons. The only time I eat apples, is when they're freshly picked.

[Dexter Morgan]

We've been enjoying our first few tomatoes of the season. I have baby peppers the size of a nickle in the garden. The ornamental Indian corn is 6 inches tall and my pumpkin plants are just starting to vine out. The Sunflowers have taken a direct hit of aphids, but I think they'll make it. All of the spruce trees we planted are doing good. The grape vines and berry bushes are showing signs of growth. It has been so dry here, I have to water everything every night. It takes about an hour. I wonder how everybody's gardens are doing? Lets have an update guys!!! 

[Sandy Eggo]

Yes, I'm wondering if Kimmi got her trees yet?

[Dexter Morgan]

Yes, I'm wondering if Kimmi got her trees yet?

I'm not sure, I haven't seen her around tonight. Hope everything is ok.