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I know when I posted pictures of my obstacle garden recently that many of you felt great pity for me, and I feel compelled to confess that that was not my real garden.
I was too humble to post pictures of my real garden and I didn’t want anyone to feel inadequate. But I must, now, show you my real garden.
I know. What can I say? It is so awesome.
My peas are coming along nicely.
As are my onions.
Weeds dare not touch my tomatoes.
And my corn is coming up.
Please, do not be afraid now of my amazing and fabulous garden. I can’t help it if I have incredible botanical skills, if I have a soul-mate type connection with the earth, if the very soil speaks to me and sings my name. It’s a gift, a blessing, a wondrous–
Who is that in my garden? GEORGIA!! What is SHE doing in MY garden?!
“If you ever want to have a garden like mine, Suzanne, you’re going to have to work. You’re going to have to–”
“pick up–”
“–that–”
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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However, YOU have teenagers – labor! – well, maybe not but you can try
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The trick is to get your kids out there hoeing. I *hated* having to do garden work when I was a kid, but I had to. You know, back in the days when kids were disciplined and were taught to respect their elders, obey their parents and all that. Before they were coddled and over-indulged.
So if you don’t have time to pick up a hoe, get your children out there earing their keep!
-Kim
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I wish for a BIG garden also. Don’t have time. My small garden is suffering this year. Oh, well!
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I think bigger gardens are easier to handle than smaller ones, personally. More room to move.
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I bet your kids are a huge help, didn’t the boys put in a fence for you?
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I hope Taco is around for several more mornings for you.
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Hoeing can mostly be avoided you know, if you can get enough old hay, straw or grass clippings to use as mulch. We’ve been mulching for years, and the gardens improve every year from the added organic matter. Weeds pull out easily too, so the hoe is only needed right at the beginning before things are big enough to be mulched. On our ridge, the much helps hold in moisture too, so even during last year’s drought we had a pretty good garden, and excellent tomatoes.
I have a couple small gardens that I tend by hand i.e. hoe. Then there are three other mid-to-large gardens that require the tiller and only partially mulched. We also have one of those really small rototillers that is a wonder for getting the weeding job under control. That might be something you’d want to look at for your obstacle garden. That and mulch–you will definitely need mulch to make that garden grow.
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Yes, get a rototiller…well worth the money…the boys will be able to handle it quite nicely.
Amelia
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By the way…when you kids (or you) moved to the country from the city, did you need to be re-educated as to what a REAL “hoe” is? LOL!!! :rotfl:
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~A
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a couple of suggestions to refresh…if you know how to clear your temporary files – NOT all of your browsing history or cookies, just the temporary files, that might help.
and if you have a dsl modem – modem/router combo, cable modem or satellite modem…reboot that if you know how. Those modems typically have some memory and I have occasionally had problems with mine holding an old page – particularly if there was some sort of unusual outage or my computer hung.
I would suspect the modem memory before the temporary cache since you have tried 2 different browsers.
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It is actually the best way to have all you want from a garden, vegies, fruit and mulch without the cover crops and you can grow all year in some way or the other.
I am hopeing for a greenhouse. Suzanne, I love ALL of your blogs and I sit for hours and read them. I was born in Virginia and Oregon is alot like it.
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