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Plants in my Garden: tomatoes, potatos, sweet potatos, green beans, carrots, beets, broccoli, cabbage, sqash- hubbard, butternut and zuchini, watermelon, peppers-hot and sweet, basil, parsley, rhubarb, asparagus
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: getting outside in the sunshine, and having something to show for my efforts
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: in my kitchen canning.....
Occupation: spoiled domestic diva
Twiggybet1
Member Since: 8/8/2007
Last Seen: less than 1 hour ago
About Twiggybet1
For the last 20 years, my husband and I have been planting a vegetable garden every year. I'm not so sure the work is equitably split; we both believe we do the lion's share of the work. I definitely spend more time in the garden, while he does the really heavy difficult things such as till.
We have certain staples that we always plant, like tomatoes and green beans, and we like to try some different and unusual vegetables every year. Over the years, we have planted purple string beans, various colored carrots (red, purple, yellow and white along with the usual orange) white cucumbers, yellow tomatoes, and speckled watermelon. We've planted carrots shaped like pingpong balls, and zuchini shaped like pool balls. We've planted some vegetables that we had not seen in the grocery store before (but they seem to make it to the produce section a couple of years after we try them).
Every year, our garden seems to get larger. We started with a small plot about 10` x 15` about 20 years ago. Our garden this year must be about 30` x 60` but I can't be sure, I haven't actually measured it.
Although we've been gardening for years, we don't consider ourselves experts at all. Some of the vegetables we have planted have done really well, and others not so good. We tend to keep planting the successful ones again in following years, and save room for new experiments. But isn't it all just one great big experiment, really?
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We spent the 4th and the weekend out of town visiting relatives. While we had a very enjoyable time, it still is good to be back home. I could hardly wait to get back to check on the garden. Only another gardener would understand... Before we l...
Update on Garden's Progress 6-28-08
How about that? I can't think of a very original name for my blog post, but that describes it best, I suppose. It has been 8 days since my last post. I had intended to blog w/ photos about once a week to keep a photo journal of how the garden progr...
A very happy gardener...
am I! Today my sweet potato slips arrived. Boy, that sure was fast! I placed the order less than a week ago. I had called the grower to make sure that some were available before I mailed in my order, and explained my situation to him. I suspect ...
Happy Father's Day
It's Sunday morning and the sun is shining! It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. I haven't checked the forecast for the day, but I think I'll just take what I see. I couldn't ask for better! We plan on a family get-together today at a...
Sweet Potatoes finally arrived...
...and this is the condition they arrived in: Any bets that they will live???? And check out the moss the company uses to "keep the shoots from drying out": I am SO dissapointed and upset. The first thing I did was grab a small va...
