OT: Anyone doing vegtable gardens… what’s in your garden.

[bearishgurl]

You can add numerous bags of gypsum to clay and work it in, little by little.

Your vegetable bed plans sound interesting, Eugene. I love artichokes too, but don’t buy them very often. Good luck with your garden!

[NotCranky]

Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?

[NotCranky]

Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?

[NotCranky]

Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?

[NotCranky]

Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?

[NotCranky]

Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl] LOL, eavesdropper, I, too, have been attempting to break up hard clay today, with #50 sunscreen on and aggravating my carpal tunnel syndrome in effort to plant more water-storing succulents.

I’m not a pot user but have considered trying to get a pot-growing license, for medicinal use, to supplement my income. Given our current powers-that-be, I’m probably located in the wrong county for that – LOL!!

I’m not counting on SS either, and am most likely in your same demographic. It’s sad, because we’ve already put so much $$ into SS on our own behalf!!

Your environment sounds bucolic to me![/quote]

The funny thing is that our place in central Virginia is in a county that is famous for some of the finest quality pot out there. It is a big agricultural area, and if you treat the soil properly, it can produce some amazing stuff. Lots of apple and peach orchards. Lots of grapes – all different varieties – some for local wineries. We can get grass-fed beef and free-range chicken from neighbors, and incredible cheeses from other farmers. The rivers come right out of the mountains, and are stocked with trout, rockfish, and bass. There’s a strong local movement to buy and eat what the county’s farmers produce, and to patronize restaurants and stores that sell it. I really like that.

It IS incredibly bucolic there. 3 hours from DC, and I’m in a completely different world and mindset. Unfortunately, I only get down there once or twice a month for a couple days. Last summer, I was lucky enough to be able to spend 10 days there. That’s when I put the perennial garden in.

It’s just a little 1,000 sf farmhouse where we’d like to be able to retire to one day. In the meantime, I treasure every hour that I manage to spend there. The nice thing about living in the crazy DC suburbs is that I really value the time when I can escape.

As for the clay, I’ve lived all over, and NEVER come across anything like this soil. Unbelieveable!! A geologist would probably love it, though. Lots of mineral deposits.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl] LOL, eavesdropper, I, too, have been attempting to break up hard clay today, with #50 sunscreen on and aggravating my carpal tunnel syndrome in effort to plant more water-storing succulents.

I’m not a pot user but have considered trying to get a pot-growing license, for medicinal use, to supplement my income. Given our current powers-that-be, I’m probably located in the wrong county for that – LOL!!

I’m not counting on SS either, and am most likely in your same demographic. It’s sad, because we’ve already put so much $$ into SS on our own behalf!!

Your environment sounds bucolic to me![/quote]

The funny thing is that our place in central Virginia is in a county that is famous for some of the finest quality pot out there. It is a big agricultural area, and if you treat the soil properly, it can produce some amazing stuff. Lots of apple and peach orchards. Lots of grapes – all different varieties – some for local wineries. We can get grass-fed beef and free-range chicken from neighbors, and incredible cheeses from other farmers. The rivers come right out of the mountains, and are stocked with trout, rockfish, and bass. There’s a strong local movement to buy and eat what the county’s farmers produce, and to patronize restaurants and stores that sell it. I really like that.

It IS incredibly bucolic there. 3 hours from DC, and I’m in a completely different world and mindset. Unfortunately, I only get down there once or twice a month for a couple days. Last summer, I was lucky enough to be able to spend 10 days there. That’s when I put the perennial garden in.

It’s just a little 1,000 sf farmhouse where we’d like to be able to retire to one day. In the meantime, I treasure every hour that I manage to spend there. The nice thing about living in the crazy DC suburbs is that I really value the time when I can escape.

As for the clay, I’ve lived all over, and NEVER come across anything like this soil. Unbelieveable!! A geologist would probably love it, though. Lots of mineral deposits.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl] LOL, eavesdropper, I, too, have been attempting to break up hard clay today, with #50 sunscreen on and aggravating my carpal tunnel syndrome in effort to plant more water-storing succulents.

I’m not a pot user but have considered trying to get a pot-growing license, for medicinal use, to supplement my income. Given our current powers-that-be, I’m probably located in the wrong county for that – LOL!!

I’m not counting on SS either, and am most likely in your same demographic. It’s sad, because we’ve already put so much $$ into SS on our own behalf!!

Your environment sounds bucolic to me![/quote]

The funny thing is that our place in central Virginia is in a county that is famous for some of the finest quality pot out there. It is a big agricultural area, and if you treat the soil properly, it can produce some amazing stuff. Lots of apple and peach orchards. Lots of grapes – all different varieties – some for local wineries. We can get grass-fed beef and free-range chicken from neighbors, and incredible cheeses from other farmers. The rivers come right out of the mountains, and are stocked with trout, rockfish, and bass. There’s a strong local movement to buy and eat what the county’s farmers produce, and to patronize restaurants and stores that sell it. I really like that.

It IS incredibly bucolic there. 3 hours from DC, and I’m in a completely different world and mindset. Unfortunately, I only get down there once or twice a month for a couple days. Last summer, I was lucky enough to be able to spend 10 days there. That’s when I put the perennial garden in.

It’s just a little 1,000 sf farmhouse where we’d like to be able to retire to one day. In the meantime, I treasure every hour that I manage to spend there. The nice thing about living in the crazy DC suburbs is that I really value the time when I can escape.

As for the clay, I’ve lived all over, and NEVER come across anything like this soil. Unbelieveable!! A geologist would probably love it, though. Lots of mineral deposits.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl] LOL, eavesdropper, I, too, have been attempting to break up hard clay today, with #50 sunscreen on and aggravating my carpal tunnel syndrome in effort to plant more water-storing succulents.

I’m not a pot user but have considered trying to get a pot-growing license, for medicinal use, to supplement my income. Given our current powers-that-be, I’m probably located in the wrong county for that – LOL!!

I’m not counting on SS either, and am most likely in your same demographic. It’s sad, because we’ve already put so much $$ into SS on our own behalf!!

Your environment sounds bucolic to me![/quote]

The funny thing is that our place in central Virginia is in a county that is famous for some of the finest quality pot out there. It is a big agricultural area, and if you treat the soil properly, it can produce some amazing stuff. Lots of apple and peach orchards. Lots of grapes – all different varieties – some for local wineries. We can get grass-fed beef and free-range chicken from neighbors, and incredible cheeses from other farmers. The rivers come right out of the mountains, and are stocked with trout, rockfish, and bass. There’s a strong local movement to buy and eat what the county’s farmers produce, and to patronize restaurants and stores that sell it. I really like that.

It IS incredibly bucolic there. 3 hours from DC, and I’m in a completely different world and mindset. Unfortunately, I only get down there once or twice a month for a couple days. Last summer, I was lucky enough to be able to spend 10 days there. That’s when I put the perennial garden in.

It’s just a little 1,000 sf farmhouse where we’d like to be able to retire to one day. In the meantime, I treasure every hour that I manage to spend there. The nice thing about living in the crazy DC suburbs is that I really value the time when I can escape.

As for the clay, I’ve lived all over, and NEVER come across anything like this soil. Unbelieveable!! A geologist would probably love it, though. Lots of mineral deposits.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=bearishgurl] LOL, eavesdropper, I, too, have been attempting to break up hard clay today, with #50 sunscreen on and aggravating my carpal tunnel syndrome in effort to plant more water-storing succulents.

I’m not a pot user but have considered trying to get a pot-growing license, for medicinal use, to supplement my income. Given our current powers-that-be, I’m probably located in the wrong county for that – LOL!!

I’m not counting on SS either, and am most likely in your same demographic. It’s sad, because we’ve already put so much $$ into SS on our own behalf!!

Your environment sounds bucolic to me![/quote]

The funny thing is that our place in central Virginia is in a county that is famous for some of the finest quality pot out there. It is a big agricultural area, and if you treat the soil properly, it can produce some amazing stuff. Lots of apple and peach orchards. Lots of grapes – all different varieties – some for local wineries. We can get grass-fed beef and free-range chicken from neighbors, and incredible cheeses from other farmers. The rivers come right out of the mountains, and are stocked with trout, rockfish, and bass. There’s a strong local movement to buy and eat what the county’s farmers produce, and to patronize restaurants and stores that sell it. I really like that.

It IS incredibly bucolic there. 3 hours from DC, and I’m in a completely different world and mindset. Unfortunately, I only get down there once or twice a month for a couple days. Last summer, I was lucky enough to be able to spend 10 days there. That’s when I put the perennial garden in.

It’s just a little 1,000 sf farmhouse where we’d like to be able to retire to one day. In the meantime, I treasure every hour that I manage to spend there. The nice thing about living in the crazy DC suburbs is that I really value the time when I can escape.

As for the clay, I’ve lived all over, and NEVER come across anything like this soil. Unbelieveable!! A geologist would probably love it, though. Lots of mineral deposits.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=Russell]Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?[/quote]

We’re in an resort/ agricultural area. The people who live in the resort area just want to play bridge and golf, and get landscapers to cut their fifth of an acre of grass.

The other residents are farmers or else folks who have enough land of their own to garden. We’re close enough to an urban area for it to be convenient when serious health care is required, or we want a little culture, or when we’re forced to patronize a big-box store, but not nearly close enough for city residents to come and work our land.

What we’ve been doing is allowing the neighboring rancher to graze his cattle there (We keep about two acres for the homesite, and that’s plenty). I don’t charge him to use the land. It would be a hardship for us to have to mow it and care for it, and we don’t need it for anything right now. I figure cooperation is a good thing, and it’s worked out well. We had record-breaking snows in Virginia and Maryland this year, and I never had to pay to have my road to the house plowed out. He sent some of his farmhands over to help with the digging last year, and he’s helped out with a couple other things.

The work of a vegetable garden doesn’t bother me so much, but, since we only get down there every other weekend at the most, I’d need help with the watering, picking, and pest control in between. But you’ve given me an idea: I have a couple neighbors who are about our age. They do a lot of flower gardening, and their lot is gorgeous. I’m going to see if they’d be interested in a cooperative veggie garden on either their lot or mine. Cool beans. Thanks, Russell!

[eavesdropper]

[quote=Russell]Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?[/quote]

We’re in an resort/ agricultural area. The people who live in the resort area just want to play bridge and golf, and get landscapers to cut their fifth of an acre of grass.

The other residents are farmers or else folks who have enough land of their own to garden. We’re close enough to an urban area for it to be convenient when serious health care is required, or we want a little culture, or when we’re forced to patronize a big-box store, but not nearly close enough for city residents to come and work our land.

What we’ve been doing is allowing the neighboring rancher to graze his cattle there (We keep about two acres for the homesite, and that’s plenty). I don’t charge him to use the land. It would be a hardship for us to have to mow it and care for it, and we don’t need it for anything right now. I figure cooperation is a good thing, and it’s worked out well. We had record-breaking snows in Virginia and Maryland this year, and I never had to pay to have my road to the house plowed out. He sent some of his farmhands over to help with the digging last year, and he’s helped out with a couple other things.

The work of a vegetable garden doesn’t bother me so much, but, since we only get down there every other weekend at the most, I’d need help with the watering, picking, and pest control in between. But you’ve given me an idea: I have a couple neighbors who are about our age. They do a lot of flower gardening, and their lot is gorgeous. I’m going to see if they’d be interested in a cooperative veggie garden on either their lot or mine. Cool beans. Thanks, Russell!

[eavesdropper]

[quote=Russell]Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?[/quote]

We’re in an resort/ agricultural area. The people who live in the resort area just want to play bridge and golf, and get landscapers to cut their fifth of an acre of grass.

The other residents are farmers or else folks who have enough land of their own to garden. We’re close enough to an urban area for it to be convenient when serious health care is required, or we want a little culture, or when we’re forced to patronize a big-box store, but not nearly close enough for city residents to come and work our land.

What we’ve been doing is allowing the neighboring rancher to graze his cattle there (We keep about two acres for the homesite, and that’s plenty). I don’t charge him to use the land. It would be a hardship for us to have to mow it and care for it, and we don’t need it for anything right now. I figure cooperation is a good thing, and it’s worked out well. We had record-breaking snows in Virginia and Maryland this year, and I never had to pay to have my road to the house plowed out. He sent some of his farmhands over to help with the digging last year, and he’s helped out with a couple other things.

The work of a vegetable garden doesn’t bother me so much, but, since we only get down there every other weekend at the most, I’d need help with the watering, picking, and pest control in between. But you’ve given me an idea: I have a couple neighbors who are about our age. They do a lot of flower gardening, and their lot is gorgeous. I’m going to see if they’d be interested in a cooperative veggie garden on either their lot or mine. Cool beans. Thanks, Russell!

[eavesdropper]

[quote=Russell]Eavesdropper,

If I understand your situation, you have land and are really into good produce and a garden enviornment but not so much the work to have it?

If the acreage in Virgina is not too far from an urban area I think you could enlist some help in exchange for sharing the land and produce grown? Does that sound like it could work?[/quote]

We’re in an resort/ agricultural area. The people who live in the resort area just want to play bridge and golf, and get landscapers to cut their fifth of an acre of grass.

The other residents are farmers or else folks who have enough land of their own to garden. We’re close enough to an urban area for it to be convenient when serious health care is required, or we want a little culture, or when we’re forced to patronize a big-box store, but not nearly close enough for city residents to come and work our land.

What we’ve been doing is allowing the neighboring rancher to graze his cattle there (We keep about two acres for the homesite, and that’s plenty). I don’t charge him to use the land. It would be a hardship for us to have to mow it and care for it, and we don’t need it for anything right now. I figure cooperation is a good thing, and it’s worked out well. We had record-breaking snows in Virginia and Maryland this year, and I never had to pay to have my road to the house plowed out. He sent some of his farmhands over to help with the digging last year, and he’s helped out with a couple other things.

The work of a vegetable garden doesn’t bother me so much, but, since we only get down there every other weekend at the most, I’d need help with the watering, picking, and pest control in between. But you’ve given me an idea: I have a couple neighbors who are about our age. They do a lot of flower gardening, and their lot is gorgeous. I’m going to see if they’d be interested in a cooperative veggie garden on either their lot or mine. Cool beans. Thanks, Russell!

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