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Old 24-05-2009, 04:42 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens
SteveB[_11_] SteveB[_11_] is offline
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brooklyn1 wrote:

I don't believe SteveB has a 2 acre garden, in fact I don't believe he
has any size garden or has ever had any garden, and probably once he
wakes up from his beer fogged trailer trash dream and realizes what
gardening is about he will never have a garden... no one who has a 2
acre garden (that's a farm, folks) would ever ask such questions about
killing grass and weeds with Roundup defolient... a person could feed
a family of four with veggies from the market for two years for the
price of enough Roundup to treat 2 acres. A person can easily feed a
family of four (and two other families of four) veggies all year from
a 1/16 acre garden and not pay a cent for any chemicals whatsoever...
Steve couldn't afford to treat a 2 acre garden with H2O. When I read
of people with their claims of 4 1/2 acre and 2 acre gardens (none
have ever posted a photo) I seriously wonder if folks here have any
concept of what's an acre of garden.



He never said he had a 2 acre garden. He said he has 2+ acres and uses
Roundup, and he's getting ready to put in a garden.


He certainly did refer to his 2 acre garden... why would someone mention
2 acres in reference to a garden when they are putting in say a 10' X
10' plot?!?!? Actually he did say he already has a garden, a "weedy"
garden _"My garden is weedy. I'm tilling it and preparing it to plant.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I waited a long time, I know."_ He led folks to
believe he has a 2 acre garden that is all weedy and he was asking if it
was okay to get rid of the weeds in his garden with Roundup... it is
quite clear that his intent was to lead folks to believe he has a weedy
2 acre garden. Had he truly wanted suggestion about how to weed his
garden (which many offered) an honest person would have said right from
the gitgo what size area (he said 2 acres), otherwise no one could offer
help except some generalizations and mostly wild speculation. Just
like the last person who boasted that she had a 4 1/2 acre garden but
when I asked her to post pictures of her garden she didn't deny it but
instead posted pictures of all sorts of things but none of any garden
(probably a neighbor's property). People on usenet are smarmy, they
make all sorts of wildly exaggerated claims and tell down right lies...
very few are who they say they are. Many of the pictures folks post are
not of their garden and/or not of anything they themselves did. It's
easy to post a picture of someone elses garden, or some landscaper was
paid to do and then claim they did it, and cameras are very portable so
anyone can take a shot of a garden across town, and it's very easy to
lift an image off the net... when someone posts a pictures of fully
cropped flowers I wonder where they stole those images.


You made your point when talking about smaller acreage and affordibility
of Roundup vs. feeding the family. I don't digress. You did just waste
your "breath" though on a point that is really moot from the prior
replying poster.


Sheesh, who made you sole arbiter of what peeps post... your responding to
my post added nothing, whereas yours and you are the total waste... and
obviously you haven't a clue what "digress" means or is your use germaine,
you just inserted the tired overused word self-servingly in hopes of
elevating yourself to a position of importance and superiority, not. I'm
positive you don't have a garden either, never did, never will.... what an
insignicant pinhead your momma bred.


And it sounds like you're a pimple faced idiot with little real world
experience. Either join in the conversation or STFU.

On second thought, you haven't written anything yet I consider worth
reading, so, it's to the compost pile with you.

bubye

Steve