I do not know if my parents a planning a garden this year, generally they plant tomatoes. But I do not know if they are planning on doing anything, I have not heard. I would not be suprised.
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LOL! Yes, I have read all about Lady Rev. and HO and their hunting exploits. The only way I would go hunting if if I was hungry! I butcher and I am fine with that part (except for Raynauds which makes it very difficult.) I am not a hunter. I would cry over Bambi every time!!
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I plant heirloom tomatoes every year, they are very tasty. Cherokee Purple is probably my favorite. I plant other stuff, but the tomatoes are the favorites around here.
The homegrown tomatoes,taste way better than the kind you get from the store.
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There they can find plenty of fault.
I should have also stated that I am entirely surrounded by concrete, and there is no place in my apartment to make things grow properly. That is why I said what I did about my terrible soil. Great for souls, bad for food.
LOL! Ok, a raised bed in your living room probably won't work so well.
I feel your pain, I've been in apartments for 6 years and desperately miss having a yard and a real garden. This is the first time I am in an apartment I think I can make some container gardening work.
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-Steven Colbert
when I was a kid, if we ate something, someone in the family picked it, dug it out of the ground or killed it.
ive walked a thousand miles behind a 1930 ford tractor picking tatters out of the ground (both Irish and sweet).
we raised pretty much everything you would find in the grocery store and canned it. we even had a canning room in our house.
we even had a water melon named after the family that only we had. and we raised sheep. LOTS of sheep. we raised hogs and after the first freeze we would butcher the hogs and make sausage and bacon and smoke it in our smoke house. we rendered the lard in a big cast iron pot that would hold 15 gallons or more. we would build a big fire under it and toss in the fat and my grandmother would oversee rendering the lard....
I can smell the kracklin's cooking on that cauldron. mmmmmm....
makes me sad thinking what my boys will never know about.
when we ate chicken, we went to the chicken yard and picked a hen that had quit laying eggs and wrung its neck. My job was to sit on the bucket the tossed it in while it flopped aound! LOL! it was all just part of life on the farm back then.
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Gas prices soaring & food prices expected to head up, are any of you planting a food garden & if so what are you planting?
My wife has a small garden with peas, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, celery & green onions. We even had a corn stalk but alas someone vandalized it.
Sorry about your cornstalk, but don't you need more than one? LOL!
Okra is our el numero uno favorite. If you don't buy it early, it will be gone. Everyone around here plants okra. We bought the last package on Saturday.
Tomatoes - bought a "BoxCar Willie" tomato plant to see what it would do.
Yellow squash
zucchini
green beans
cantaloupe
strawberries
jalapeno
red and green bell pepper
cilantro
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