Posted on 04/11/2008 11:49:46 AM PDT by Gabz
You’re right, it is appalling how many kids have no clue about where food comes from. I grew up in NYC and knew better, so you better believe my child is going to grow up knowing better.
She and her friend (if you see me refer to my kidS, I’m talking about my daughter and her friend Becky) know exactly where food comes from. Jax has helped daddy and mommy butcher deer and not only does Becky’s dad work on chicken farms, her great-grandparents raise sheep and goats.
These kids truly know where food comes from.
The weather was perfect here today and I continued my digging and dividing the Dahlias in the garden . Some of the clumps must weight 20 pounds. Too bad they are not editable but maybe they can be fermented into a fuel. I have done 32 plants and have about 15 to go. My First Wife is a spading fool and the soil is perfect and she is bugging me to get the potatoes in...
It’s apalling how many adults have no clue! Good for you and the munchkins! Mine know too!
HAHAHA I thought I deleted that line—oopsie! I only do a monthly column and I’m using old ones—I believe taht one was from 06.
Weather was perfect here today too and the greenhouse was rocking! I’m whooped!
LOL! Cy........that still tells me nothing. I used a wheelbarrow when I lived in a townhouse with a 150’x35’ lot.
My veggie “garden” is currently over 10,000 square feet.
Uh, I think that was sposed to be whupped! LOL Told you it’s been a long day!
Our greenhouse heater died Monday and it is only a year old and out of warranty. I need to find someone to check it out plus the one that died last year after several years of service...
My veggie “garden” is currently over 10,000 square feet.
** :green with envy:
I grew up with my mother and grandfather using Miracle-Gro and so I used it when I finally had room for a garden, it didn’t last long. I stopped using MG products years ago because they did more harm than good, in my opinion.
I never used that many of the other Scott’s products, so I’m obviously not going to hurt their bottome line. Then again, I use little to no chems at all. Not for any other reason except I’m too danged lazy.
The munchkins are GREAT! They actually enjoy it -—— of course they’re still young enough to like playing in mud puddles!!!! And I’ve got pix to prove it. From yesterday, no less.
My friend Sue (Bcky’s mom) called me down at the Lodge yesterday to ask me to bring a change of clothes for Jax because they were playing in a mud puddle. She also told me to slow down on my way home and get a look at them. We live on the same road and I have to pass their house to get to mine. I did not recognize ny own child, her blonde hair was just as black as that of her friends.
It was hilarious! The were 4 of them in that mud puddle. 2 three year olds and 2 nine year olds.
Not a one of those kids is going to grow up thinking food comes from the back of the grocery store.
Don't be, but now you understand why I asked what you meant by huge. LOL!!!!
You can grow a lot of weeds and bugs in 10,000 sf....
LOL I still like playing in mud puddles—and mud! I spent most of my growing up years on a farm. When I wasn’t in the barn, I was in the creek!
Just this summer, we went to Cherokee. The guys went trout fishing. I went wading. They couldn’t catch any fish on the bait they were using. They wanted crawdads to use a s bait. Guess who they turned to?! Haven’t lost my touch after all these years! I had a ball!
What kind of heater do you use? We have gas, but we don’t turn it on until end of Jan and then it’s only on about 40. Just enough to keep the greenhouse from freezing.
Tube is right.......believe me :)
We use a 240 v electric heater and set it for 55 to 60...
Thanks for the article and the ping! I always enjoy the Weekly Gardening Thread.
This year my boss made me an “incubator”. A greenhouse within a greenhouse—three levels, covered with greenhouse plastic, about 8’x4’x4’. He put a piece of plywood on one of the greenhouse tables, and put the incubator on top of that. We put a $15 electric heater from Lowe’s on the bottom level, and set it to come on every so often. We put all the seeded trays in there until they came up. It worked great, and we didn’t have to turn up the heat in the whole greenhouse. He’s such a brainiac. :)
Thanks, and I’m glad you do!
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