Vegatable Gardens or Mini Gardens!
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LOL well I am calling it the kids garden becuase everything in the ground right now is what they wanted to plant..LOL and yes they help weed...LOL
Today! I should have left the yellow and red on the vine until after the photo.
Wow I didn't think they would get this big LOL.
I have a black thumb. I am from the city and never had a garden I had a cement patch for a yard.
My bonus daughter was raised in Brooksville on a 10 acre horse farm, she is always planting something but lets the weeds take over. She use to plant here all the time till she moved back to her Mom's. Now she is back here and has a small garden in front of the house. It is extremely over crowded . She spent 3 hours today taking stuff out and putting it in pots. It is nice to see her maturing enough to actually take care of it.
My bright idea was to get one of those hanging deals, so mine is hanging down about a foot now with nothing on them yet. I think my planters are over crowded too. I suck at growing things.
Wow I didn't think they would get this big LOL.
I have a black thumb. I am from the city and never had a garden I had a cement patch for a yard.
My bonus daughter was raised in Brooksville on a 10 acre horse farm, she is always planting something but lets the weeds take over. She use to plant here all the time till she moved back to her Mom's. Now she is back here and has a small garden in front of the house. It is extremely over crowded . She spent 3 hours today taking stuff out and putting it in pots. It is nice to see her maturing enough to actually take care of it.
My bright idea was to get one of those hanging deals, so mine is hanging down about a foot now with nothing on them yet. I think my planters are over crowded too. I suck at growing things.
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Just water every day..they drain out most of it, so you can't over water.them and feed them! I watch for suckers too...those are the little branches that form in the Y of a branch. The real plant always forms branches in forks. like a Y but if you see a new branch coming up in the middle of the Y..pinch it out. Those are called suckers and they don't grow any tomatos, they just use up resources and take up room. Like a third arm.
Mine are touching the ground now..we need to lift then with something of the ants will take up residence!
I meant to add since I have lived in St, Cloud I have plated at growing things nd having chickens. But I am a city girl at heart! My first MIL showed me how pickeles were made. I was shocked to find out pickles were cukes first!
Mine are touching the ground now..we need to lift then with something of the ants will take up residence!
I meant to add since I have lived in St, Cloud I have plated at growing things nd having chickens. But I am a city girl at heart! My first MIL showed me how pickeles were made. I was shocked to find out pickles were cukes first!
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Ok you almost made me spit my bagel all over the monitor... I guess country girls just know these things...LMAO
Ok now I am curious MaryKay... what did you think pickles came from?
Oh and thanks to you we now have a Tomato and Pepper hanging garden!
Oh and thanks to you we now have a Tomato and Pepper hanging garden!
My one guy freind here and I loved telling his city girl girlfreind about things that happen on farms... we are soooo mean...
hehe that sounds fun if you are not totally scared of mortal danger like I am...LOL I would not even do wheelies on my bike. Had this great fear of the sudden stop if I fell...LMAO
Don't pick on MaryKay cause she is not alone...I thought pickles came from special little cucumber plants (named Vlasic or something like that).
I just found out this March that they actually have to be picked when they are small or they keep growing and get too big for the jar and don't taste like little sweet gerkins midgets at all.
Uh Oh! It's beginning to get out of hand! We are eatting the tomatos as fast as we can..but they just keep coming! I have 4 more to plant yet!
I love your hanging gardens idea. Sounds like it's time for you to make some tomato sauce.
I might try your hanging garden thing just because we get so much water our tomatoes often rot before they ripe. Maybe this will work out in the middle of the sunniest spot which gets maybe 6 hours of sun a day before the shade from the trees strikes.
I have picked 2 1/2 gallons of strawberries in the last 4 days...they like the water. Yum, Yum.
My son would have a field day (pun intended) with picking that many strawberries, of course only about 1/2 gal would of ended up being saved, Next year I need to put in some strawberries, didn't get that far this year....
It was totally by accident when I poped the wheelies on the tractor, thats my story and I am sticking to it!
Course I loved poping wheelies with the neighbor kids mini bike! We would trade, he would ride my horse and I would ride his motor bike. His mom put a stop to that after catching me pop a wheelie down their drive way.
I really am curious what MaryKay thought they came from, pickles that is.
It is interesting finding out what peoples perceptions are from diffrent backgrounds.. I usually pick on her with peanut butter!
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Growing up, my mother would can alot of stuff! So I learned early.
We used to have tons of tomatoes!! We would make spagetti sauce from them (no meat) and tomatoe sauce then can it.. Sure made supper easy mid winter when you just went down to the cellar, grabbed a quart of spagettie sauce and added in ground beef. Any sauce you make from tomatoes would can up nicely I am sure
Course I loved poping wheelies with the neighbor kids mini bike! We would trade, he would ride my horse and I would ride his motor bike. His mom put a stop to that after catching me pop a wheelie down their drive way.
I really am curious what MaryKay thought they came from, pickles that is.
It is interesting finding out what peoples perceptions are from diffrent backgrounds.. I usually pick on her with peanut butter!
heheGrowing up, my mother would can alot of stuff! So I learned early.
We used to have tons of tomatoes!! We would make spagetti sauce from them (no meat) and tomatoe sauce then can it.. Sure made supper easy mid winter when you just went down to the cellar, grabbed a quart of spagettie sauce and added in ground beef. Any sauce you make from tomatoes would can up nicely I am sure
The worst canning experience I had growing up is the one year my mom decided to try canning sauerkraut. She had about a dozen jars canned and put them out on the screened in mud porch. A day or 2 later we heard what sounded like multiple explosions from the back of our house. Every single can exploded! Imagine sauerkraut flung at great speed at screen, it embedded itself in the screen to such a degree that no matter how much we cleaned a lot of it was still there 3 years later when we moved. The smell of sauerkraut was still there when we moved too .
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LOL! That was funny Kelly!
The thing is I never thought about where pickles came from! Pickle Vines I guess. I thought the pickle juice was just how they tasted when raw~!
You can't eat beets raw by the way! I nearly broke a tooth..ouch!
But on the other hand, my in-laws were amazed we could open and eat oysters right from the gulf and I could catch blue crabs with chicken necks and a net. They loved my grilled flounder..that my FIL caught and I cleaned and cooked.
So each to their own region and skills. BTW I was born in Denver and lived as an adult in Cheyenne..know all about Rocky Mt. Oysters..pass!
The thing is I never thought about where pickles came from! Pickle Vines I guess. I thought the pickle juice was just how they tasted when raw~!
You can't eat beets raw by the way! I nearly broke a tooth..ouch!
But on the other hand, my in-laws were amazed we could open and eat oysters right from the gulf and I could catch blue crabs with chicken necks and a net. They loved my grilled flounder..that my FIL caught and I cleaned and cooked.
So each to their own region and skills. BTW I was born in Denver and lived as an adult in Cheyenne..know all about Rocky Mt. Oysters..pass!
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