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Garden Gate:  Owie- Blisters but the Tomatoes are in!  |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 5:35:01 PM
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Well my garden is only half dug over but I only have this weekend to get the majority of the garden in so I decided to go ahead and break up the shovel clumps and get some stuff in the ground.
I spent about $50 at the nursery getting plants and tomato cages. I have 17 tomato plants, peppers, catelope, cucumbers, zuchinni, celary, and swiss chard. Oh and cabbage. I am sure I am forgetting something.
I have some blisters on my hand from all of the digging, hoeing and raking. Ouch! I hope next weekend my hands are tougher!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 7:50:15 PM
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Borrowing a quote from Kahlil Gibran (my version): Blisters are love made visible. Have fun in your garden!
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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Heartbroken farmgirl
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Annette
rio vista
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 7:53:45 PM
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When I pulled my lawn to make a garden, my blisters had great-grandbaby-blisters!! Paid is right! I'm sorry you got blisters, they sure hurt, especially when you do the dishes that night!
Gardens are sure worth it though! Enjoy yours tons!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 7:58:55 PM
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Luckily Hubby is in charge of the kitchen- dinner and dishes! The only blister that really hurts right now is the one that formed and popped on the web between my index and thumb fingers! Ouch!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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henlady35904
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kim
Gadsden
Alabama
USA
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 8:19:21 PM
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| My blisters were well worth the yellow squash I had for supper last night. Yummo! |
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Turtlemoon
Farmgirl Legend Schoolmarm
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Tanya
Port Orchard
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 8:28:48 PM
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ouch but i am sure you feel so good about the progress!
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 04 2011 : 9:12:01 PM
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Yes! I am very glad about the progress and my dad is going to try to bring me his giant rototiller when he comes on Friday. I want to triple my garden space but am not sure how I am going to do it without help. If I can rototill it then that will make my life so much easier. I want to put in corn, pumpkins, cantelope, cucumbers and some zucchinni- all take up quite a bit of room. I will need a lot of help if I am going to get it all in!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 05:13:11 AM
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Ah, blisters. I have had plenty. I get them mostly now from trimming goat feet. So I have to wear gloves. I am so glad you got to get out and work in the garden, Alee. Doesn't that feel great to know you did all that work and got blisters, but that the food you'll soon get will be SO good and so worth all the hard work and pain. I need to remind myself of that too. We'll have fresg green beans in a few weeks! I am going to dig up some potatoes and put some fresh ham hocks from my little pig in the pot and that'll be dinner! Yum! I love those first fresh green beans. They are the best.
Kris
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 07:40:23 AM
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That is great Kristin! You are so lucky to have such a long growing season! I am a bit late this year because we had rain all but 3-5 days in May! It was nuts!
I just got my green and black peppers in the ground. I had to try the black peppers. They look great! They are called "dusky beauty". I have another 5 in my potting room that are still trying to get big enough to be transplanted so I have to leave room for them in the pepper row. Those are from a multicolored mix so I have no idea what color they will come up. I have another $50 in my gardening budget that I am probably going to buy more plants with. I want more canteloupe and maybe some more cabbages. I still need to get garlic and onion in the ground as well.
I have never grown celary before. I am hoping I don't kill it! LOL I picked a pack that had a lot of leaves. I am not sure if they were over seeded and if I can seperate the plants or if they really are just one plant per quarter. We'll see!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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Turtlemoon
Farmgirl Legend Schoolmarm
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Tanya
Port Orchard
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 09:24:03 AM
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If you only lived closer! My rototiller colects dust except when the neighbors need to borrow it, lol. We went to raised garden beds a few years back, so much easier! I have 6- 6x6 boxes plus a huge double decker for the strawberries. The berry bushes and rhubarb stand on their own without boxes. Almost all is planted, just been waiting for some summer weather! Have a few seeds to plant still, chard, etc and need to replant the lettuce table up on the deck, today makes day 3 of sun!! (it's a heatwave, lol)
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 09:33:38 AM
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Tanya- Oh I wish I could come pick it up!! We are living in a rental so I don't want to put money into raised beds until I have my land. I am going to do raised beds (probably horse troughs like MaryJane has shown in her magazines!) around the house but I also plan on plowing and planting an acre or so. I would really like to be able to grow enough that our family will be mostly self sufficient. I might even try my hand at growing a small bit of wheat for bread and pasta! I figure if I have a garden tractor anyway for the horses (manure spreading and such) then I can actually use it as a garden tracter for my garden too! LOL
I know it will be a lot of work but I think in the end it will be worth it. I will have lots of compost from cleaning up after the horses so I will have really great garden soil. If I grow enough then I can dry, can and freeze fresh veggies and won't have to buy from the store.
I also want to have a green house that can keep producing fresh veggies well into the cold seasons and a fruit orchard. We have one lone apple tree in the back yard and I would love to have 3 or 4. Especially if they were different varieties that would mature at different times. I also would love cherries and plums too!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
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Turtlemoon
Farmgirl Legend Schoolmarm
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Tanya
Port Orchard
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 5:05:56 PM
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Your dream is very similar to my own. Hubby keeps looking at a small greenhouse for us as we figure we will be in this house for ten years more (with daughters college and student loans) but we have a grove of 200 feet plus trees at the back of our property that drops huge limbs in winter storms. I am afraid it would smash the greenhouse the first storm! I am about 50% on providing family veggies so far. What i cannot grow i buy from a local farmer, then i dehydrate, freeze can and process as much as i can. I have 3 neighbors that we trade goods as well. One will bring me veggies he has extra of, i bake them bread, other baked goods and make them pickles. (he also does woodworking for me from time to time, fixinf fences, etc) The other neighbor is good for extra strawberries and blueberries. The third neighbor is a sweet widow lady who i just enjoy taking fresh veggies and goods to and visit with from time to time. I would love more acerage and a few animals! someday.... no matter what city husband thinks ;)
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 9:18:42 PM
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I just put in some black pastic weed fabric stuff in my garden. We'll see how that goes. I might hate it but I am hoping it will warm the soil up enough to really help the plants take off and keep the weeds down. I will mulch on top of it once the plants are big enough for looks and if I like it might do it over the whole garden next spring. Right now it will be on about 3/4 of my garden.
Tomorrow I am going to plant corn and hopefully it will sprout quickly and grow well. I got quick maturing varieties to accomodate our much shortened season. Tomorrow or Tuesday I would also like to get my watermelon and cucumbers planted so that they can take off as well. I am really nervous about this growing season. It always seems to take my nursery transplants a few weeks to recover from the transplant but then they do pretty well. Every day of delay at this point is nerve wracking! We have a short season hear already and the garden is about a month behind schedule! Eeek!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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