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10:02 am
January 16, 2011
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Some that I have:
If you want to hear the latest dirt, ask a gardener!
Bloom where you are planted!
This house may be a mess, but you should see my garden!
Kids play in the dirt, grown-ups garden!
Gardening is dirty work but someone has to do it!
I love my garden…so do the bugs, birds & bunnies!
Gardener's love to toil in the soil!
Old gardeners never die, they just loose their bloomers! 
Weeds for sale! Pick your own!
Hi Hoe, Hi Hoe…it's back to work I go!
10:34 am
February 10, 2009
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Or you could put a 'garden wordle' in! I have to go look that up again!
10:58 am
December 14, 2010
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Gardens are bait for food.
11:22 am
February 4, 2011
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These are great! I am thinking shorter is better, and I like the "dirt" references especially, but I am so open to suggestions! I'm starting to regret I only need one!
11:24 am
February 4, 2011
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BuckeyeGirl said:
Or you could put a 'garden wordle' in! I have to go look that up again!
Is a "wordle" anything like a "girdle"?
11:26 am
January 21, 2011
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lol Keep them for future articles. 
11:30 am
February 4, 2011
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MaryB said:
Helen, that is something new to learn. knancy just taught me that to pm someone there is a little p.m. button on the top of these boxes we write in! I'm embarrassed… it was there all along. Ok, next to learn your new lesson. lol
A-h-h-h! Thanks, I'll try and remember. I only discovered the quote&post button this morning--duh-h-h-!
12:24 pm
February 4, 2011
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e-r-r-r, quote and reply. Sorry.
I am such a newbie!
12:51 pm
February 10, 2009
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Oh my goodness! Details, details, details!!! You're fine and we enjoy having new friends here. Don't worry about a thing, and when you've been here a while, you'll see that this is the kind of site that people join who would normally never join a computer forum. It means there's a bit of a learning curve, but also that we are all very understanding about it. Don't be worried at all!
12:54 pm
December 28, 2008
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Note from a mod: We try not to overuse the "quote and reply" button! There are many times it must be used, of course, and in this topic it seems to be used properly. But, it isn't necessary to use it when replying to the immediately preceeding post for instance. (Keeps those of us with attention issues from having to say things to ourselves like "Didn't I just read that somewhere?" and such… 
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We now return to regular programming! 
1:21 pm
January 21, 2011
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My husband and I lovingly plant a vegetable garden every year for the benefit of wildlife. Last year we planted cauliflower for the cabbage moth larvae to feast upon. Then we planted corn for the raccoons, tomatoes for the deer, lettuce for the rabbits and potatoes for the grubs. We picked over what they didn't want for ourselves.
Aren't we generous? 
1:30 pm
January 21, 2011
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I wish you lived by me!
5:11 pm
February 4, 2011
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Pete said:
Note from a mod: We try not to overuse the "quote and reply" button! There are many times it must be used, of course, and in this topic it seems to be used properly. But, it isn't necessary to use it when replying to the immediately preceeding post for instance. (Keeps those of us with attention issues from having to say things to ourselves like "Didn't I just read that somewhere?" and such…
We now return to regular programming!
okdokey! It's good to know these thing. So far, I've learned what a nice group I've run into, and you are right, I would not probably respond in any other forum, at least. not on such a regular basis. I've just returned from an afternoon chatting with an informal garden group that meets in the next town up. My conclusion: gardeners are really nice people, aren't they?
I didn't mention this before, but I have 24 hens and 1 rooster. I am picking up about 1 dozen eggs each day. These girls don't seem to care that it's wintertime! I should probably mention this on another thread, but in the interest of full transparency…
5:46 pm
December 28, 2008
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Then you really ARE in the right company here! Many of us have chickens (with some, such as me, having worked up the nerve to get them from the encouragement of the members here), pretend to garden (or as you have already observed, find more appropropriate things to call it!), and generally have a good learning together.
Many of us are still adjusting to having the "new" Farm Bell Recipes area, for instance. It's almost a year old, but some of us are more difficult to retrain than others. (Hey! I can say that because I am one of the oldest around here and willingly admit to both hard headedness and being difficult to teach new tricks!)
And now 
I must poke at myself for straying so far off-topic! (You will learn that I sing that song frequently. 
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7:28 pm
January 9, 2011
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Window On The Prairie said:
My husband and I lovingly plant a vegetable garden every year for the benefit of wildlife. Last year we planted cauliflower for the cabbage moth larvae to feast upon. Then we planted corn for the raccoons, tomatoes for the deer, lettuce for the rabbits and potatoes for the grubs. We picked over what they didn't want for ourselves.
Aren't we generous?
Hahahaha…Hahaha..whew :^)
8:20 pm
Window on the Prairie:
I can relate to that! My peas usually end up as salad course for the deer. My tomato vines are main course for the Tomato Horn Worms. AND, my basil and parsley are "landing pads" for these weird little flys that look like their made out of copper?? They actually shine the color of copper. They don't do anything that I can see, just sit around on the plants?? Oh, and the squirrels nibble here and there and love to dig in the dirt in the containers. They also plant the acorns they gather throughout the garden. I usually find half a dozen sprouted acorns here and there. Then there are my voracious hens who can stretch their necks to amazing lengths to nibble any plants that stray into their immediate surroundings.
The bunnies used to eat my peas and assorted other plants but I don't see them anymore. I think the Fishers ate the bunnies or maybe it was the coyotes. Or the occasional bear that lumbers by. My plants may have been munched on by the turkeys, or the grouse, or the pheasants, or the Saber-Toothed Minature Schnauzer that lives across the way. Not to mention the feral cats, assorted snakes, and hawks that lurk about.
SO, if it wasn't eaten from the garden, it may have been eaten while in the garden. And like you, we get whatever is left.
8:28 pm
January 21, 2011
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That's why this year, I'm trying container gardening. I hope to control who gets to eat it! 
9:40 pm
February 4, 2011
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Container gardening! Now there's a topic near and dear to my heart!
Last summer, I tried using old galvanized tubs that have collected around here for years. We drilled holes just above the bottom rims, filled them with a mix of compost and soil-less potting mix, so they wouldn't be so heavy to move, when necessary, and loaded them with transplants of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, herbs and seeds of different lettuces. I used teepees of bamboo to support the tommies. My husband put the containers on pallets that we got from my son's workplace just to add more drainage possiblities. I tried putting in cukes and summer squash too, but they didn't do as well. Oh! and lots of nasturtiums. The tubs were out in my yard, but, on my deck I had a long wooden rectangle that was part of another project from long ago; I lined that with plastic, punched holes in the plastic, filled it once more with soil and compost mix and put in more toms, lettuce, and nasturtiums. 
Very successful--had to put up a lattice work support and tie it to the deck posts though. We learned that lesson when we woke up one morning after a windy night, to find the whole thing flat on its back, on the ground! Fortunately, we were able to put it all back together again! Large ceramic pots with drainage and big 5-gallon plastic tubs work great too. You need lots of fertilizer though. I had mixed in a time-release type and kept adding more. I don't think it lasts as long as the manufacturers claim, especially in a rainy summer. I also mixed in organic slow-release and even used liquid. I just tried to keep the nitro number down. Maybe that's why the lettuce got stunted!? 
OK, I'll stop now…
10:13 pm
January 21, 2011
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Girl, don't stop! This is where I'm at! Mrs Fuzz (on this site) recommended a book to me, Bountiful Container, that I am reading, and it tells all kinds of that stuff that you apparently learned on your own! ha! I love it! Right now I plan on putting up blocks with planks running across them to put the containers on, so I can have a couple of levels… then I can see where to begin. Whatever happens this year will be my experimental garden. Least the deer won't eat it! (I hope)!
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