yaledelay wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:Here's a fairly important question:

Where are you?

Milwaukee.

Zone 10. You got a minute before you can plant.

You can also go to Johnny's Seed Company and get seeds. Their catalog has detailed hardiness zone descriptions. So you know you won't be buying tomato seeds that only do well in Florida for use in your WI garden.

iembalm:
seven years and most of that stuff has photo/bio-degraded to the point where crops grown there can be sold as "organic".

you can always till in your own stuff, too. That will further dilute anything that's there in the soil.

I should think that you deal with significantly more toxic chemicals at your day job.

When I tour from overseas, I try to buy heirlooms/varieties of seeds that you can't find in the US. Depending on the space I have, I will grow anywhere from 10-30 varieties of tomatoes alone. I also exchange seeds via mail with friends.

Here's some foodporn of one day's harvest:



This year it's an assortment of tomatoes, peas, beans, chard, spinach, peppers, squash, arugula, basil, parsley, shiso, and cilantro.

Oh, it's like that, is it?

well, then:





making salsa.

dontfeartheringo wrote:

Why do you glue your food to the wall?

You don't?

dontfeartheringo wrote:iembalm:
seven years and most of that stuff has photo/bio-degraded to the point where crops grown there can be sold as "organic". You can always till in your own stuff, too. That will further dilute anything that's there in the soil.

I should think that you deal with significantly more toxic chemicals at your day job.

Indeed. However......I do not usually eat the results of my labors.

We just got a house and my wife has planted:

Strawberries!
Jalepenos
Green peppers
Tomatoes
Broccoli
lettuce, two kinds I think.
Arugula
Green onions

Not much has come up yet except the toms and green onions (of which we have a shit-ton and use them quite a bit). There are also wild strawberries out in the back yard which is a little strange and cool but that's where the dog pees. We do compost but haven't had a good harvest from the composter yet to be of any use for the plants. Weeding sucks. Dandelions love Georgia in the spring.

iembalm wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:iembalm:
seven years and most of that stuff has photo/bio-degraded to the point where crops grown there can be sold as "organic". You can always till in your own stuff, too. That will further dilute anything that's there in the soil.

I should think that you deal with significantly more toxic chemicals at your day job.

Indeed. However......I do not usually eat the results of my labors any more.

FYP.

I say "grow your own food, doude."

Any chemicals that were put in your lawn by the lady that used to live there are benign in comparison to what you're getting from Pizza Hut, y'know?

GARDENS: CRAP

SweetDaddyPatty wrote:GARDENS: CRAP

You have a problem with sitting on a deckchair under the shade of an apple blossom tree drinking white wine spritzers?

Your moustache has clearly mislead me.