OT: Our Garden on Organic Gardening Group

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Howdy Deb, Bonnie, Barbara, Marge .. other good folks ...

 

dking12924 wrote:

> Big congrats to you, Butch! Deb

 

Thank you ma'am .. appreciated it is. :-)

 

flashnsaber wrote:

> Butch, i am available for adoption.....hehehe..... bonnie

 

We could probably work something out .. if you clean fish .. pick

green beans and cucumbers .. handle a pitch fork .. use a post hold

digger .. and a few other bits of light work here and there. ;-)

 

Sewingstorms wrote:

> I have been away and just love coming back and seeing you.

 

Noticed that you were missing .. welcome back. :-)

 

> I was so afraid you were still over there.

 

We came back last summer .. didn't wanna raise our little boy in

Turkey, plus I suspected that I had seen the best of times there

already and it couldn't go anywhere but down .. I was right.

 

> You want to see my tiny size of everything here in Northern Alberta.

> With Winter temps at -40 and snowed right up to almost June this

> year. I got a late start on my organic garden. But we hope our fruit

> trees will make up for the small veggies we will get.

 

Let us see some photos .. I went looking on the photo link but didn't

see anything from you.

 

Y'all grow some nice trees up there . ;-) We had two Dwarf Alberta

Spruce behind the house when we moved in but they were on their last

legs .. browned and damaged by spider mites and draught. I had to

take them out this Spring .. hated to do that since they are slow

growers and are beautiful .. the perfectly shaped Christmas Tree.

They grow around 10 inches a year and these were over 10 feet tall.

 

> Nice to see you also have a green thumb...LOL

 

Thankee ma'am .. I have a little bit of experience with a lotta things

and a lotta experience with a few things and that combination keeps me

too danged busy. ;-) I'm seriously thinking of starting to raise

Pharaoh Quail again .. and experiment with Guinea Fowl. I have had

Pharaoh's before but not been around Guineas since I was a youngun.

Quail would be kept up in a coop year around but the Guineas would run

wild .. meaning I would have to be shooting at coyotes all the time ..

and might even have to put my danged cat on a leash. ;-)

 

> Barbara

 

Good to see you back Barbara. :-)

 

marge wrote:

> nice shot, Butch... love it... makes me miss the garden I had in New

> England (can't grow anything in this **** TN clay

 

Thankee ma'am .. but we're less than 100 miles apart and I have the

same dang clay you have .. difference is you being right next to our

capitol city (Nashville) the Bovine Excrement in your neck of the

woods is two laig generated .. it comes outta the gummit .. here its

four laig generated .. the land I am on was once pasture land. ;-)

 

> the house, the garden, everything is just... beautiful. no wonder

> it's time to retire!

 

Thankee ma'am .. I am really giving a lotta thought to that .. there

is just not enough time to do all I want to do now and there are a

lotta distractions anyway. Like today .. it took me 2 hours to put a

dang pressure cooker together .. if I had thrown away the instructions

as soon as we opened the box .. it would have taken 10 minutes.

 

In any case .. we are now canning Red Maters and pickling Green

Maters. ;-)

 

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Y'all keep smiling. :-)

 

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Hey Butch

 

You have a major flaw in your garden. I really hate to point it out to you,

but as no one else has had the gumption, I'll do it for them.

 

You are seriously lacking in WEEDS!!! Where the heck are the WEEDS??? Mine

always had a ton of them. That's the one part of gardening I hated. Tilling

(used an roto tiller), planting and harvesting, not a problem, but I loath

weeding and I was seriously miffed not to see any in your garden. So what's

your secret?

 

I know some people use plastic between the rows, other will make raised

garden beds to make everything easier and more accessible... I didn't see

that in that one picture. So how do you do it?

 

Also... Don't forget parsnips, they're not harvested until February/March.

Garlic does well being planted in the autumn. If you don't have a cold

winter, then peas, lettice etc are good autumn plants. Which you probably

already know...

 

any who... correct that flaw so some of us don't feel so inadequate

 

K

 

 

On 7/17/08, sewingstorms <sewingstorms wrote:

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> <%40>,

> " Butch Owen " <butchowen

> wrote:

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> > Howdy y'all,

> >

> >Butch:

>

> I have been away and just love coming back and seeing you.

> I was so afraid you were still over there. Well talk about gardens.

> You want to see my tiny size of everything here in Northern Alberta.

> With Winter temps at -40 and snowed right up to almost June this year.

> I got a late start on my organic garden. But we hope our fruit trees

> will make up for the small veggies we will get. Nice to see you also

> have a green thumb...LOL

>

> Barbara

>

>

>

 

 

 

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