[JoeProBono]

Photo taken in the backyard of Eliza and Leonard Tillmann’s home in New Rochelle, Weschester, New York in summer. Circa 1903

[cripplecreek]

Its a source of food for me.

[al baby]

1903? My bs meter is pegged

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Another grow your own ping!

[FlyVet]

On the left foreground, looks like Swiss Chard. Not the tastiest green, but super nutritious and easy to grow. I have some in my back yard too.

[blam]

Load Up The Pantry [Flashback to April, 2008]

[FrogMom]

Doesn’t this violate BO’s Food Safety Act?

[Terry Mross]

Got a huge back yard. Ran a fence down the middle. Never got around to buying the tiller I’d need and not sure the dirt is good enough to grow anything. So, I got me two topsey-turveys and they’re doing pretty good. Maybe next year I’ll have a big garden even though I do know it’s not profitable.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

I hope they report their sales and pay their State and Federal income tax!

[deport]

Limited ground space. At least two varieties growing in that container.

[aruanan]

Backyard gardens become source of income

And source of income tax for the federal government. They can tax you on what you would have otherwise spent, unless there's been an exclusion for home gardens in the recent past.

[Red_Devil 232]

Pinging the Weekly Gardening Thread list

[who knows what evil?]

People need to overcome the vanity of a beautiful front lawn...landscaping should always include some veggies.

[texanyankee]

It’s gonna take us several growing seasons to realize any monetary profit for our 18x34 ft veggie garden. Sure, it’s low-tech and stuff.

This is our first full growing season & I’ve spent approx $120 on fencing plus $50 on compost for this year. That doesnt include the purchase of tomato & pepper transplants and potato slips, plus the other seeds. Then, there is the added use of water to our monthly water bill which hopefully will be minimal.

Mostly, this is gonna keep our taste buds happy with fresh, garden tomatoes, green beans, squash, bell peppers & potatoes.

[who knows what evil?]

A garden will save you a lot of money over produce prices at the ‘grocery’ stores; the food will taste MUCH better, and provide much more nutrition.

[cherry]

are those pansies?...never saw them so blue....

[Kakaze]

Today I'm irrigating.........again

1400 ft of corn, 200 ft of black eyed peas, 400 ft of okra,200 ft of potatoes, dill, herb garden and then 50 tomato plants and 50 pepper plants of various varieties, 200 ft of pole beans and 100 ft of peas, suash and pumpkin all over...........makes me tired to type it!

[afraidfortherepublic]

When I was a kid (in the 1940s) you could always identify the homes of immigrants -- Italian, Greek, Mexican. They always used every bit of land around their homes to raise vegetables. Those of us whose families were from Northern Europe, or the British isles, kept the veggies in the back. But the Mediterranean fold, and those from south of the border, just let the plants spill all over.

THis picture from the Web has more lawn than I remember. Most of these folks did not countenance ANY lawn. Every square inch of land was used to grow something to eat, while the native born neighbors and those from other parts of Europe looked down their noses at the Mediterranean folk who "did not know any better" than to keep the veggies in teh back.

I remember Greek neighbors of my grandmother who had veggies everywhere. When you went around back to talk to the lady, her patio (pure white stucco walls) was draped with garlands of red peppers, drying in the sun.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's one thing to grow your own fruits and vegetables for your own consumption.

I wonder about the idea lifting the enforcement of laws of "selling" the produce to others, in Los Angeles, when the article focuses on only non-Hispanic named people.

Is this a practice that is popular across all ethnic lines, or is this a policy in Los Angeles to sanction an underground economy for illegal aliens from Mexico?

Is this selective non-enforcement of laws in response to the actions going on in Arizona?

-PJ

[TNdandelion]

I love looking at well kept veggie gardens just as much as I love looking at well kept flower gardens! Veggies and herbs are so pretty.

With that said, my garden looks like crapola. I've got weeds sprouting, tomatoes needing fertilizing and strawberry plants needing to be thinned out.

I've passed two kidney stones in the last month and have been a little "stoned" in more ways than one to be much of a gardener! lol

[LomanBill]

I like it. Thanks for posting.

Seems to me citizen-gardening is a potential beneficial use of “open-space” property acquired by certain municipalities which can’t afford to maintain it...

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