Economic Woes May Bring Back Victory Gardens

Centre Daily Times ^ | Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 | Bill Lamont

[FreeManWhoCan]

Thanks.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

There is landscaping material that you can use to keep weeds away.... land scaping professionals use it before they lay down mulch and plants.
You put this material down over the dirt, and you can cut holes in it and put the plants in the holes, water still gets to the plants, but, mostly keeps the weeds away. I heard you can keep bugs away with boric acid.

[Cindy]

Yes, we have used the fabric on some of the gardens.

[Pikachu_Dad]

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[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidefactsheets/leasttoxic/boricacid_borates_borax.htm

[Prophet in the wilderness]

With Boric acid... always be careful and use it in a " bait " form to bait bugs.... and keep it away from animals, pets, children, and food.
When using it, use a face mask, and wash your hands.
Did you know ? that Boric acid is used to make paper ( ground up news paper ) insulation in homes fire retardant ?

[Cindy]

No I didn’t know that.

[RedMonqey]

WTF is your problem! I said “wild”, not on farmland or “Govt owned land.”

This isn't the 1800s, there are no lands that are "wild" i.e, nobody owns it.



My problem?

Fed up with idiots from the cities...people who think there are "wild lands" and trampled clearly fenced property and steal, yes steal, anything and everything because they think it is "wild".

We own and pay taxes on our "wild" property. And just because we choose not to farm every acre or cut down every tree and put up asphalt driveways with cheap McMansions on every square inch doesn't give anyone the right to trespass and steal my property.

Don't say it doesn't happen because we have a least three such fools every year, usually from the cities up north, wanting to go hunting or sightseeing or berry-picking or mushrooming....always without permission.

They all seem genuinely surprised, some highly indignant, when we usher them out of our pastures and tell them "yes", this is private land and "no", those cows aren't "wild"

How would you feel if my kin and I took up camping in your yard, picked fruit from your trees and garden, shot your animals, and left garbage strewn about your property? All because we didn't think anyone owned it?

The same as us, pissed off, that's how.

Oh and not forget all the unwanted pets who are no longer cute and cuddly and now a problem solved by setting it "free" (abandoned, to be starved) in Mother Nature's wonderful "wild lands"..
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ps. If you find some truly wild land, "squat" on it. You'll make easy money.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/turf/pdf/boricacid_fs.pdf

[Prophet in the wilderness]

How about putting a victory garden about 3 feet or 32 inches on stilts ,,, put a galvanized screen on the bottom, and make a shroud of chicken wire around it ( or smaller screening material ) so the rabbits, rodents, cats, dogs can't get into it.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Can I come to hiredhand's and your house to eat ? sounds yummy,,, and Hired Hand ? I love home made stew...
In the last year or 2 .... I started to get tried of the taste of processed foods... and yes, home grown food or fresh foods taste better.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FozmG9PzTQ&feature=PlayList&p=3F2BC28B2F5C5734&index=1

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FozmG9PzTQ&feature=PlayList&p=3F2BC28B2F5C5734&index=1

[JoeProBono]

An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability

[Dianna]

I think my kids will also have fun working in the garden.

I bet they would love it! We started a small garden years ago, mostly because Dustin was sure that growing food was some horridly complicated process. We enjoyed it so much we expanded and kept going.

He was never so excited as the year he found out we could make our own pickles! LOL! Unfortunately, we have a deer problem here so we're giving up on corn. But we can grow zucchini and cucumbers like nobody's business.

[Red_Devil 232]

My compost pile is under an oak tree also. Nothing organized it is just a huge pile from garden debris and lawn and leaf gatherings. I start in the fall turning it every now and then over the winter months. There is a picture of last spring's pile on my about page.

Man is it good stuff!

[Red_Devil 232]

I read your post about your apple tree and checked your about page and it indicates you are in Va. But you say you are in central Alabama. I bring this up only because I am in central Miss and wanted to plant an apple tree or two but I thought it did not get cold enough for them down here. May be there is hope for an apple tree for me yet.

[Red_Devil 232]

My Mother was a wonderful gardener and I have always wanted to grow my own veggies. Now that I have some room and time I have had a garden for the last two years.

When I was young my Mother would take me up to her aunts place somewhere around Stockton, Ca. She loved going up there because her aunt was a big time gardener and her place was one huge garden.

These pictures were taken in the summer of 1948. My Mom and me walking around her aunts garden.

Her aunt holding fresh picked strawberries

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Arrowhead1952]

Well, I've had a backyard garden at both homes I've been in since 83. My current one is only about 10 X 25, but we have fresh veggies all year. I just cut the first cauliflower this week. They taste much better than store bought.

We have broccoli, onions, turnips, radishes, and I covered the bell peppers when it was cold. I just planted another crop of turnips and radishes last weekend.