09-04-2006, 04:34 AM
well by the time I got around to harvesting them they were already seed stock...[angelic] I killed half the plants on that row by piling shingles next to thier roots. and my fat fanny pack fell on the fence the kintucky pole beans were growing on. stood it back up the best I could but the dammage was done.
it would be nice if I could spend more time on the improtant things like fishing, unfortunatly I am a waistfull person, I had to take out a lone against my house to fix my roof, and with out a job in the last 8 years its kind of hard to pay it back.
this puts me in a position that one, I am still picking up shingles off the ground and filling my trash can and my neighbor trash can every week, I got the front side done this week, so I will spend 4 weeks on the back side now, It only takes a couple hours to fill up both cans.
and secondly I am finding my self in the position that I need to find an income to pay for my new roof... Since I am no longer a viable commodity in the labor feild regardless to my education background and good looks. I find my self comming to the conclusion that if I want a job, I will have to buy one... This means retraining myself, (educating) in a feild where I can work when my health allows, work my own hours, to work in side or out side, work in one location or travel across the country, work with my hands, work with people, to work for proffet or non-proffet, work on my own. hot dog sheff.... I cant beleive the hoops, the ropes, the miles and miles of red tape, certifications involved, the licensing involved. On the up side, I am glad I decided to go through it, I got the time, and if I dont make it though I will have learned things that I never knew that affect me and every one in day to day living...
so as long as I have my house on hock, I figured I might as well shoot for moon, weather I loose my house to a new roof or a new roof and a business venture the end result will be the same.... the payments are the same... so I will either float or sink if I do, I will surly sink if I dont.....[crazy]
so at least I have a plan, its better than no plan at all and just sitting here waiting for the enevitable....
maybe the new roof is a blessing in descise, with out it I would still be thinking about what was oprah going to anoy me with day after day (on those days when I cant get on the water that is)... last winter with the no ice thing was a killer.... ya talk about your cabin feaver [pirate]
the aspestos I was talking about is stuff you cant wash off, it's the pink panther fiberglass type insulation. those tiny fibers stick right in to the flesh of the bean, and me.... You ever get the itch after installing that stuff on a hot summer day? I hate itching from the inside....[
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I got a look at my neighbors garden here about a week ago, boy, I thought I neglected my garden, I spent the whole day tilling his 20x70 garden, I could not beleive what I saw, he had a lawn between his plants! litterly he was taking a lawn mower and a weed whip to handle the weeds in the garden, grass growing right up to the vines/stems of his plants.
granted there is a little weeding to do in may, june and the first half of july, but after that its clear sailing... I havent pulled a weed out of my garden since july 10th... there is no weeds in my garden...
to say the least with 20 tomato plants he only got 4-6 tomatos on each plant insted of a half bushell.
well when it comes to hunting morells this year, he beat me by about 1110. he found 1110 and I found 0... lol, Think I will stick to farming...LOL He dose fill his freezers with deer turkey and phesent every year, so I think he kinda sabatashed his wifes efforts....LOL he cant go hutning or fishing if there is no room in the freeser....LOL
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he did come over to look at my garden several times and scratched his head and wondered why my tomato plants were 7 feet tall. that is what prompted me to go look at his garden.
he spent a lot of time putting in an airigation system in his garden only to let it get strangled out by weeds. I know and pointed out to them why his plants are only 2 1/2 feet tall and spindly along with the rest of his plants in his garden. he told me next year he is going to buy plastic to put down between the rows.... I told him he was going to strangle out his plants that way as well, the deal is the roots need air. plants growing in their root space or plastic covering the roots is the same thing. he said he would cut holes for the plants, and I told him he would have to weed the holes even more than he would if he just went out an bought a hoe...LOL (city slickers....go figure)[laugh] aint life just a funny funny riddle...Thank god I was born a country boy....
well I told him for what he is going to spend on plants watering plastic and time he could for less money to go down to the farmers market/co-op and buy a pickup truck load of what ever he wanted in the way of vegitables if he wanted fresh. ya can buy vegies in bulk cans by the case for less than what he spent on his garden this year... he forgets when he goes back to work what it is like every year when he gets layed off for months at a time....
I am guilty of that from time to time as we all are, I guess it is human nature to forget the hard times, and if you never have experienced it you can never know the hardships, the pain, the stress...
I spent 12 dollars on my garden this year, I bought 4 tomato plants, a bag of snail & slug killer, a couple packs of corn seed. the rest is all seed I have harvested from years past...
I told them there only 4 reasons to put in a garden in today's time,
1. the enjoyment of it
2. a plot for wild game
3. just love the taist of freshly harvested vegitables
4. to save a dollar.
and finialy but dosnt qualify as a ligitimate reason.......
5. just to say you put one in every year...LOL I get a kick out of those guys... they tell bigger tomato stories than we do fish stories..... LOL, I am still wating to see that 25 pound tomato they keep telling me about....[angelic][sly][laugh]
like I said earlier, god has a plan, and he will provide. this year he is giving me herloom sweetcorn and bean stalk seed stock, about a pound or two so far. (kintucky wonders 8th generation now from my garden)
maybe my empty freezer is for the deer or elk I am suspost to harvest this year [crazy][cool][
]
I found some herloom sweet corn seed last spring ears grow 14-16 inches. makes great creamed corn... Love cream corn... little salt and a pad of butter... I did put about 20 packages of creamed in the freezer this year... 1/3 quart size. I am eating it fresh about every other day, but it is going to be really yummy come thanks giving... My neighbor was over and he saw that big 16 inch long 5 inch diamiter ear sitting on my stalk, he said that looks like it is ready to pick and started reaching for it.... and is said with out time to think, "dont you touch that, it aint ready" that is my seed stock for next year. I always save the largest and earliest of all my vegitables for seed stock... that is why my stuff grows so big, that is my secret.. along with regular maitance, and putting my fish waist in the soil of my garden...nope not composted fish waist, it goes in as is.....
now that the rain has come back I will have more corn to harvest more tomatos are comming on my vines. I planted in stages, a week apart from first week in may to the last week of june.
Yes I know the old rule, corn needs to be knee high by the forth of july in order to get a harvest, but on those years when we get a deacent indian summer I can harvest corn all the way though october... so for that it is worth it to me to put in patches that can mature during then.
Yah I love to talk about my garden as much as I love to talk about my fishing... "Ya think?" dont get me going....LOL
this was fun, I needed the break, but now I will have to get back to my text on how to be a weiner cheff....LOL
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it would be nice if I could spend more time on the improtant things like fishing, unfortunatly I am a waistfull person, I had to take out a lone against my house to fix my roof, and with out a job in the last 8 years its kind of hard to pay it back.
this puts me in a position that one, I am still picking up shingles off the ground and filling my trash can and my neighbor trash can every week, I got the front side done this week, so I will spend 4 weeks on the back side now, It only takes a couple hours to fill up both cans.
and secondly I am finding my self in the position that I need to find an income to pay for my new roof... Since I am no longer a viable commodity in the labor feild regardless to my education background and good looks. I find my self comming to the conclusion that if I want a job, I will have to buy one... This means retraining myself, (educating) in a feild where I can work when my health allows, work my own hours, to work in side or out side, work in one location or travel across the country, work with my hands, work with people, to work for proffet or non-proffet, work on my own. hot dog sheff.... I cant beleive the hoops, the ropes, the miles and miles of red tape, certifications involved, the licensing involved. On the up side, I am glad I decided to go through it, I got the time, and if I dont make it though I will have learned things that I never knew that affect me and every one in day to day living...
so as long as I have my house on hock, I figured I might as well shoot for moon, weather I loose my house to a new roof or a new roof and a business venture the end result will be the same.... the payments are the same... so I will either float or sink if I do, I will surly sink if I dont.....[crazy]
so at least I have a plan, its better than no plan at all and just sitting here waiting for the enevitable....
maybe the new roof is a blessing in descise, with out it I would still be thinking about what was oprah going to anoy me with day after day (on those days when I cant get on the water that is)... last winter with the no ice thing was a killer.... ya talk about your cabin feaver [pirate]
the aspestos I was talking about is stuff you cant wash off, it's the pink panther fiberglass type insulation. those tiny fibers stick right in to the flesh of the bean, and me.... You ever get the itch after installing that stuff on a hot summer day? I hate itching from the inside....[
] I got a look at my neighbors garden here about a week ago, boy, I thought I neglected my garden, I spent the whole day tilling his 20x70 garden, I could not beleive what I saw, he had a lawn between his plants! litterly he was taking a lawn mower and a weed whip to handle the weeds in the garden, grass growing right up to the vines/stems of his plants.
granted there is a little weeding to do in may, june and the first half of july, but after that its clear sailing... I havent pulled a weed out of my garden since july 10th... there is no weeds in my garden...
to say the least with 20 tomato plants he only got 4-6 tomatos on each plant insted of a half bushell.
well when it comes to hunting morells this year, he beat me by about 1110. he found 1110 and I found 0... lol, Think I will stick to farming...LOL He dose fill his freezers with deer turkey and phesent every year, so I think he kinda sabatashed his wifes efforts....LOL he cant go hutning or fishing if there is no room in the freeser....LOL
[sly][laugh][angelic][
] he did come over to look at my garden several times and scratched his head and wondered why my tomato plants were 7 feet tall. that is what prompted me to go look at his garden.
he spent a lot of time putting in an airigation system in his garden only to let it get strangled out by weeds. I know and pointed out to them why his plants are only 2 1/2 feet tall and spindly along with the rest of his plants in his garden. he told me next year he is going to buy plastic to put down between the rows.... I told him he was going to strangle out his plants that way as well, the deal is the roots need air. plants growing in their root space or plastic covering the roots is the same thing. he said he would cut holes for the plants, and I told him he would have to weed the holes even more than he would if he just went out an bought a hoe...LOL (city slickers....go figure)[laugh] aint life just a funny funny riddle...Thank god I was born a country boy....
well I told him for what he is going to spend on plants watering plastic and time he could for less money to go down to the farmers market/co-op and buy a pickup truck load of what ever he wanted in the way of vegitables if he wanted fresh. ya can buy vegies in bulk cans by the case for less than what he spent on his garden this year... he forgets when he goes back to work what it is like every year when he gets layed off for months at a time....
I am guilty of that from time to time as we all are, I guess it is human nature to forget the hard times, and if you never have experienced it you can never know the hardships, the pain, the stress...
I spent 12 dollars on my garden this year, I bought 4 tomato plants, a bag of snail & slug killer, a couple packs of corn seed. the rest is all seed I have harvested from years past...
I told them there only 4 reasons to put in a garden in today's time,
1. the enjoyment of it
2. a plot for wild game
3. just love the taist of freshly harvested vegitables
4. to save a dollar.
and finialy but dosnt qualify as a ligitimate reason.......
5. just to say you put one in every year...LOL I get a kick out of those guys... they tell bigger tomato stories than we do fish stories..... LOL, I am still wating to see that 25 pound tomato they keep telling me about....[angelic][sly][laugh]
like I said earlier, god has a plan, and he will provide. this year he is giving me herloom sweetcorn and bean stalk seed stock, about a pound or two so far. (kintucky wonders 8th generation now from my garden)
maybe my empty freezer is for the deer or elk I am suspost to harvest this year [crazy][cool][
] I found some herloom sweet corn seed last spring ears grow 14-16 inches. makes great creamed corn... Love cream corn... little salt and a pad of butter... I did put about 20 packages of creamed in the freezer this year... 1/3 quart size. I am eating it fresh about every other day, but it is going to be really yummy come thanks giving... My neighbor was over and he saw that big 16 inch long 5 inch diamiter ear sitting on my stalk, he said that looks like it is ready to pick and started reaching for it.... and is said with out time to think, "dont you touch that, it aint ready" that is my seed stock for next year. I always save the largest and earliest of all my vegitables for seed stock... that is why my stuff grows so big, that is my secret.. along with regular maitance, and putting my fish waist in the soil of my garden...nope not composted fish waist, it goes in as is.....
now that the rain has come back I will have more corn to harvest more tomatos are comming on my vines. I planted in stages, a week apart from first week in may to the last week of june.
Yes I know the old rule, corn needs to be knee high by the forth of july in order to get a harvest, but on those years when we get a deacent indian summer I can harvest corn all the way though october... so for that it is worth it to me to put in patches that can mature during then.
Yah I love to talk about my garden as much as I love to talk about my fishing... "Ya think?" dont get me going....LOL
this was fun, I needed the break, but now I will have to get back to my text on how to be a weiner cheff....LOL
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