Weekly Garden Thread -- Gardening business blooming for teenage entrepreneur

Le Mars, Iowa Daily Sentinel ^ | Friday, June 27, 2008 | Amy Erickson

[Gabz]

I thought this was a really great article!!!!

[Red_Devil 232]

Sounds like something I wish I could have done when I was younger. Like something I would like to do now also. Good luck to this young gardener.

Is this the Weekly Gardening post?

If it is you forgot the ping list.

[Gabz]

And who says today’s teenagers are all lazy layabouts!!!!!

[Gabz]

Good luck to him is right!!!

I didn’t forget the list.....but got called away before I hit post on the list!!!! LOL

[Zuben Elgenubi]

[Gabz]

Ping

[ZGuy]

My gardening thoughts . . . . IT’S JUNE!!!!! The apples are ripe. The peaches are ripe, The various berries are ripe. The corn is looking great. The flowers are up. The roses are at maximum bloom. The zuchinnis are ripe. This is for me in southern California. I hope all of you are having great gardens too!

[Gabz]

Clint will be a senior at Le Mars Community High School this fall.

But, but, but.........public school kids can't do this.....or so we are continually told.

[Gabz]

There was no 4H available for me when I was growing up in NYC, hopefully my daughter will take an interest in it because she is interested in the garden.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Contact the Cornell Agricultural School in Ithaca. They have had 4H Extension Programs in NYC in the past and I’m pretty sure there are at least two in the city that are functional.

[Gabz]

YUp, it’s JUNE all right!!!!

I was just checking our fruitcocktail tree, boy is it loaded with fruit. YIPPEE!!!!

[Gabz]

Thanks, but it’s not needed. I left NYC 25 years ago and now live in rural Virginia.

[Red_Devil 232]

My garden has been doing very well. I just got through canning another 5 pints of tomatoes. 12 pints total now plus two trays of slow roasted tomatoes. The Early Girl, Arkansas Traveler and Roma are producing nicely. The Big Boys have produced a few.

I really like the Arkansas Travelers. Nice pinkish color with a great flavor.

I have been sharing my cukes and tomatoes with the neighbor, an elderly lady and her family. She planted 3 or 4 tomato plants. But they got neglected and I think she gave up on them. I just know she had hopes for fresh home grown tomatoes.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Oh, OK now I understand.

A tomato should not ship more than 50 feet or so. Right from the garden to the kitchen sink. I've got some beautiful Romas this year. And basil. A little sauteed garlic and pasta, and I've got a fine meal. Healthy too.

[patton]

Fruitcocktail tree?

[Gabz]

I don’t have anything to pick yet ***SIGH***

I put in a container salad garden for my friends down the road, their lot is mostly trees but their deck has wonderful southern exposure.

[MaxMax]

LOL

[MaxMax]

It's a fruit tree that has been grafted with branches from many varieties of fruit trees.
Plum, Apple, Cherry, Peach, etc. etc. It's weird but it works.

[Gabz]

A tomato should not ship more than 50 feet or so.

LOL -- aI wouldn't go to that extreme, especially sin my garden is about 2 football field from my kitchen!!!!

My daughter is in charge of the herbs this year, she'll be 10 next week, and she has really been on my case about me having run out of catnip seed.

[Gabz]

Yes, that is what it is called. It is a dwarf tree that supposedly bears peaches, apricots, plums, and nectarines.

This is the first year we just might actually get ripe fruit from it. So far nothing has attacked it.