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18-06-2003, 06:42 AM
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Fertilizer & Tomatoes in Pots question
In article , Pat Meadows
wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 03:32:59 GMT, Repeating Decimal wrote: in article , Jan Flora at wrote on 6/16/03 5:40 PM: Honey, I live on 400 acres with the most awesome, deep topsoil you've ever seen. My domestic water source is a 7 acre lake that's 40 feet deep. And Alaska just doesn't have most of the bugs and diseases that ya'll enjoy. I'm not going hydro, but thanks : ) I would appreciate you sending me an acre or two of your land and a small portion of your lake as well. How much would that cost me? I'll take some of it too.... Pat (who has a bit less than 1/2 acre to work with) This may sound like whining, but sometimes I wish I only had a 1/2 acre or an acre. The yard here is a weedy blank, except for a couple of native spruce trees and a birch. It's overwhelming to look at a huge yard and decide what trees to plant and where; what bushes; how many peonies I can get away with buying before Chris screams about what they cost [they thrive up here]; and stuff like that, before I even *start* building beds and doing naturalized spring bulbs. I'm into edible landscaping, which is a hoot. (One of my Master Gardening teachers in Calif. was Robt. Kourick, who wrote the Edible Landscaping book that didn't sell as well as Rosiland Creasy's.) I've been instructed to respect the normal bulldozer paths to plow snow in the winter; the path to the fuel oil tank behind the house; the path into the [10 acre] horse pasture next to the Cowboy Cabin, the driveway circle that's big enough to get our log truck and belly dump in and out of without backing up [much], etc. *ack!* When one of my really organized [read: anal retentive with creative talent] friends comes over, I grab a legal pad and ask them to tell me what they would do. Man, I've gotten some *great* ideas like that! They look right past clutter, weeds, dead snowmachines, and the radial arm saw in the yard because we're still building and tell me what to do and where. *big grin* (I've done the same inside the house.) Jan |
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18-06-2003, 06:42 AM
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Fertilizer & Tomatoes in Pots question
In article , Frogleg
wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:25:09 -0800, (Jan Flora) wrote: [...] a later post -- What's the problem with 5-gallon paint buckets? They're not exactly in a class with a urinal planted with marigolds on the front lawn. You could spray them black or green or terra-cotta to make less conspicuous, I suppose. It's just a personal preference. I don't like kitchens that are painted orange either, but some people love them. 5-gallon buckets are for carrying horse tack, grain, axle grease, water, my horse shoeing tools, but in my camp, we don't use them for planters. I use a bucket for a chair, while sitting around a campfire all the time : ) Jan |
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18-06-2003, 02:20 PM
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23-06-2003, 11:56 PM
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