I had to look up penurious but I am that, too. I know you said you don't want to start a garden but we're growing some stuff and if you want extra plants when I thin them, you're more than welcome to them. I'll put them in pots and deliver them. So far, I have two kinds of lettuce, spinach, kale, peas, and broccoli. Let me know if you want any of them because I don't want to throw them away but I have no concept of how many seeds need to be sowed and always plant way too many.
thanks for the offersvhumperApril 30 2010, 02:13:34 UTC
penurious was definitely one of the words i came across reading that i wrote down and looked up later. Tatterdemalion is another and is my favorite word that i think describes me and that's why i use it as my name in comics and for most usernames. How much care does broccoli and spinach need? I would eat them. With the weeds i can just go find them and if i house sit for a week or get busy with other things i can just ignore them and i can eat them all summer instead of just one harvest. I guess most plants don't need much after they're established, but I remember when we had a big garden and digging up potatoes, onions, carrots, scrubbing all the dirt off, putting bug killing stuff on the plants etc and then how long it took to cut up green beans and can the stuff, etc etc. I must have been pretty young because I didn't have to help very much. i'm also limited on space (only 30 acres, right!) but my dad mows and rides his bulldozer everywhere except for a small area around the treehouse and I don't get much sun around there
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Re: thanks for the offerzeroed_inApril 30 2010, 11:48:11 UTC
Broccoli is usually only harvested once for the main head but then there are little side sprouts you can eat throughout the season. It doesn't like to be hot so the shade near the treehouse will be fine. The same with Spinach except you can harvest spinach all summer. And if you can keep it alive, all fall, because that thrives in cooler temperatures, too. If you keep them in pots near the tomatoes you're growing, you can water them all at the same time. They're a lot less work than root vegetables. If you're growing them organically (the seeds were organic) you don't really even have to wash them. Squash is sooo easy to grow. We grew zucchini last year and had so much we were trying to give it away and no one wanted it.
Re: thanks for the offersvhumperApril 30 2010, 15:23:36 UTC
cool! i'll take some. i'll get in touch with you. are you growing zucchini this year? my mom shreds it up and make little patties out of it that strangely enough are good with syrup on them. She usually make a bunch and freezes them and I heat them up int he microwave. even soggy they're pretty damn good.
if i kept them in pots that would be easy and i could move them out of harms way when needed..i always feel like if it's planted in the ground it can get more nourishment or it's easier to keep the dirt moist but i don;t really know enough about gardening to know if that's true. i'll have to take a crash course on google soon
no round up...yetsvhumperApril 30 2010, 15:19:01 UTC
my dad does like to go out there and put gasoline and other things on weeds and poison ivy, especially weeds that aren't native to north america... a lot of weeds were actually brought here to provide food and what we have now is the strains that survived the best and got out of control, but, hey, they're still edible. i may have to narrow down my collection areas once he gets into his full lawncare swing of things but the cattails are safe.
train conductor hats, like many of the other things i like, seemed to be either loved or hated by other people I meet with very little middle ground.
no running water in the treehouse haha. it's bad enough i have internet access out there.
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I know you said you don't want to start a garden but we're growing some stuff and if you want extra plants when I thin them, you're more than welcome to them. I'll put them in pots and deliver them. So far, I have two kinds of lettuce, spinach, kale, peas, and broccoli. Let me know if you want any of them because I don't want to throw them away but I have no concept of how many seeds need to be sowed and always plant way too many.
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Squash is sooo easy to grow. We grew zucchini last year and had so much we were trying to give it away and no one wanted it.
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if i kept them in pots that would be easy and i could move them out of harms way when needed..i always feel like if it's planted in the ground it can get more nourishment or it's easier to keep the dirt moist but i don;t really know enough about gardening to know if that's true. i'll have to take a crash course on google soon
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train conductor hats, like many of the other things i like, seemed to be either loved or hated by other people I meet with very little middle ground.
no running water in the treehouse haha. it's bad enough i have internet access out there.
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