Amen to raised gardens.
Unfortunately, our house is centered on a ridge of land. I tried to put in
a small 4X8 raised garden
just off the deck. Using 2X10's, I had to go three boards high on the
downhill side and still wasn't completely level. :o(
Most of the hard-hauled dirt washed away in the first big rain! On the plus
side, we never worry about floods.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are moving in the same direction. Gardening gets harder every year. I
> hope to have a basement full of canned, frozen and dried food before we
> start growing more and more in pots and window boxes. Right now I raise
> most of my herbs and all of our lettuces on the back deck. The raised beds
> in the garden catalogs are very tempting, too!
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Chuck... it tasted as good as it looks.
> > Impressive Tina... but, too much work for the geriatric crowd.. We gave
> up
> > the big garden three-years-ago.
> > The back 3A are well downhill from the house, and the climb back up was
> > getting too much for our old legs.
> > Hence the deck and pots. BTW - We used to have two evaporators going to
> dry
> > our tomato plant yields.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I only planted 40 tomato plants this year. Last year, I planted 80.
> We
> > > have fresh tomatoes a few steps from the kitchen from June through
> > October.
> > > The rest of the year they are in jars in the basement ;-)
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151485578
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151485595
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151485595
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> > > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wish I'd had it earlier today. While preparing dinner I reached
> into
> > > > the basket on the counter containing the sole tomato. Yuck! The
> > hidden
> > > > side was rotting. I had to run to the store and settle for something
> > not
> > > > very ripe.
> > > >
> > > > Chuck Norcutt
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 8/5/2014 7:10 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14089
> > > >>
> > > >> Really, really good!
> > > >>
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