Garden in, finally!

[LDS]

I finally got some veggies in the ground. Praying it will not freeze again, since it is nearly mid summer.

Raised beds made form hay bales. No time to till and prep this year. Easy garden, tomatoes and peppers with a few potatoes in the spaces. with all my other chores it will be all I can deal with.

Not wild victtles but still good eating. Mayhap I can add a chunk of wild meat to the 'tatters and 'matters.

Makes me feel like Jed Clampet.

[LDS]

This is the easiest garden I have ever done. We have been wet this year and the bales have offered raised protection and drainage to the veggies while retaining the moisture they needed between the deluges. I am covered up with tomatoes and the peppers are heavy with small pods. The potatoes are growing like crazy.

I will definately do this every year. I am getting more yield from a small patch than I have ever seen.

[dixieangler]

Just keep the bugs and critters out and you will be good to go then. Otherwise they will reap what you have sown.

[LDS]

I have dusted them with Seven. No problems so far.

I really need to stake the tomatoes now. I'll do that tomorrow. I need to rip some stakes.

[Kingoftheflock]

i tried growing vegetables, but i got sick of trying so i dug a wide hole and dumped all of the seeds i bought into it. yesterday i walked outside and couldnt believe my eyes when i saw that a bunch of them are growing and are a pretty good distance from each other. this farming stuff is easy!

[LDS]

You probably stumbled on the way agriculture was discovered King.

Hunter gatherers found a good camping spot and the men went hunting while the women gathered seeds, roots and nuts. As they lived there they threw trash around the edge of the campsite. The next year they came back to find their favorite foods growing in a circle around their old camp.

One of the women had a toddler on the ground, a baby on her hip and was pregnant with another. She took one look at all that food and said "I ain't going nowhere!" The rest of the women said "Me neither!" and voila! They greated a farm.

Domestication and hearding of animals followed that as a way to keep the heards OUT of the gardens. You send the young boys out to chase the critters away and soon they are staying out with the heard to keep it from doing damage, harvesting the critters as needed. Voila! You have ctreated shepherds.

Most folks do not realize that the entire U.S. was a free range area. My own area was free range until the late 1920s. At that point they needed to keep the animals off the roads due to increaased car travel. Before that You fenced your crops, not your animals. Now it is reversed, and a very unnatural condition.

[LDS]

Success!!!

I ate the first tomato from the garden this morning.

DEEEELICIOUS!!!

Every year I forget how good a fresh home grown tomato tastes. That first bite always shocks me with its tart burst of flavor.

I have peppers comming in too. I have not dug up any potatoes yet.

[LDS]

Looked out the window this morning. Red green and yellow splotches in the garden. A quick look through the scope confirmed my suspicions. (Yes, I have a spotting scope on a tripod aimed at the vegies)

Five minutes latter I am eating the best omlet anyone in the world has ever tasted.

Also noted that the poke salad is in and the blackberries are turning. I have a big patch in the fence row. It will only be a few days before "pie time". Since I do not have a working oven the BB pie will be done in the dutch oven, probably in the grill.

[LDS]

I am absolutely pigging out these days.

Poke salad & scrambled eggs w/bell and banana peppers, fresh sliced tomatoes and fresh biscuits on the side.

It don't get any better than that!!!

[dixieangler]

(Yes, I have a spotting scope on a tripod aimed at the vegies)

More than likely a bipod on a scoped .30-06.