Victory Garden' plant that bell and let it ring!

[whitehall]

Kind of a bizarre comment whitehall?
I dont think anyone alive today thinks they 'invented' gardens or gardening.
I do though think that its not a very 'funny thing' that some corporations assisted by gov would love for us all to forget anything and everything about gardens and gardening etc.
Funny how some folks cant see beyond their own mind filters

Maybe a little bit out of line. I apologize for that. I have 90 acres and I guess I get a little smug about people who have to fight for every foot of dirt. My wife and I have an efficient recycle schedule. We burn paper stuff in an outdoor stove that also helps heat the house. Plastic and metal go to the county recycle center. Food scraps go to the dogs or chickens and chicken litter goes in the garden. I dig the beds by hand every year but the crazy spring we are having has set us back almost a month.

I hear ya, much of the same weather issues where I am as well and it seems to be effecting everything.
I don't have that much land by any means (wish i did though) but we are still behind as well.
Most of my metal gets reused by me usually...actually i tend to reuse or remake anything i can get my hands on lol...can't see the point in buying stuff all the time etc.
You must have a good seed collection I'm guessing?

No seed collection except what we didn't use last year. You can't trust genetically altered plants to produce good seeds and everything is questionable. We pick a pack from Lowes or Walmart. Once in a while I get a bug to grow giant pumpkins. In order to grow giant pumpkins you have to get giant pumpkin seeds from champion growers and I get them on line. I grew hundred pounders in the past but that's chump change to real pumpkin growers. Maybe I'll try it again this year if the weather ever warms up.

 

[DNAprotection]

Maybe a little bit out of line. I apologize for that. I have 90 acres and I guess I get a little smug about people who have to fight for every foot of dirt. My wife and I have an efficient recycle schedule. We burn paper stuff in an outdoor stove that also helps heat the house. Plastic and metal go to the county recycle center. Food scraps go to the dogs or chickens and chicken litter goes in the garden. I dig the beds by hand every year but the crazy spring we are having has set us back almost a month.

I hear ya, much of the same weather issues where I am as well and it seems to be effecting everything.
I don't have that much land by any means (wish i did though) but we are still behind as well.
Most of my metal gets reused by me usually...actually i tend to reuse or remake anything i can get my hands on lol...can't see the point in buying stuff all the time etc.
You must have a good seed collection I'm guessing?

No seed collection except what we didn't use last year. You can't trust genetically altered plants to produce good seeds and everything is questionable. We pick a pack from Lowes or Walmart. Once in a while I get a bug to grow giant pumpkins. In order to grow giant pumpkins you have to get giant pumpkin seeds from champion growers and I get them on line. I grew hundred pounders in the past but that's chump change to real pumpkin growers. Maybe I'll try it again this year if the weather ever warms up.

yup I have also been taken with pumpkin growing, also been obsessed with growing water melons. I've never grown the giant pumpkins but a friend in North Carolina does and he tells me about needing to cover each one so the sun doesn't promote splitting.
I try to always buy heirloom seeds and then save seeds every year after starting with those. Been growing heirloom black aztec corn for about 4 years now and its getting harder and harder to keep it from cross pollinating with all the hybrid and gmo varieties everyone else grows.

 

[whitehall]

Giant pumpkins require a lot of water and some areas just don't have it when you need it. I have a well fed hydrant near the garden so that isn't a problem and cover for the plants ain't a problem either. In my case it seems that vine borers are a menace and other stuff that I don't have a handle on yet. I'd like to get a 200 pound monster and I think I might try it again this year. Heirloom growers are in a class of their own and God bless 'em but I have enough trouble trying for garden variety stuff without killing myself with chemicals.

 

[DNAprotection]

I hope you can post some pics when they are ripe
I owe everything to worms...so everything we grow is strictly organic, we just feed the worms and they do the rest. We always try to grow enough to feed whatever wants to munch and we usually always end up with enough for us and other humans as well. Can't imagine spraying/using any kind of chems on our food...seems counter intuitive. We eat to stay healthy and alive and imo the bugs need to eat as well so 'if ya can't beet'em join'em', actually thats not my outlook lol, I just feel better when more working with the nature that made me rather than trying to conquer or control such in the ways that modern gardening or farming is approached in large part these days.

 

[DNAprotection]

12-year-old Food Grower Donates 2 Tonnes of Vegetables to Homeless |

12-year-old Food Grower Donates 2 Tonnes of Vegetables to Homeless

(excerpt)
"When Katie Stagliano, from South Carolina, was just nine years old, she planted a cabbage seedling that grew to change her life."

 

[Sunshine]

I know I am an evil conservative....

But for every row I plant for us, I plant for a woman's shelter. Teddys at Christmas, but veggies in the summer.

Not concerned about your 'politics' after that post because to me you are a hero plain and simple and thanks

I watch the current evolution of (Crocket"s) Victory Garden on PBS from time to time and you can't go ten minutes without getting a lecture about man-made global warming. It's all about politics.

Who resurrected the term 'victory garden.' I remember the renaissance of it, but don't recall who it was. I think, by then my husband and I had already been raising a garden for a while. He helped a guy with a small construction project and worked off a freezer. I canned and froze all we wanted and gave the rest away to any who would come get it. The reason we started is because one of the specialists in the extension service office where I worked said that a good garden was worth $600. That was a significant amount to us, so we went for it. I didn't stop 'putting up' food until my husband died and I had to go to work. But I do still work as much as I can in my yard. I grow a nice little herb garden, but I've given up on tomatoes. Too shady here.

 

[whitehall]

I used to watch Crocketts Victory Garden back in the 70's or 80's when I first got cable TV. Crockett was a gardener who got down and dirty and you could feel the soil in his hands. The PBS program evolved into a political rant about global warming or vagan subculture and became not much more than a cooking show.

 

[JWBooth]

I used to watch Crocketts Victory Garden back in the 70's or 80's when I first got cable TV. Crockett was a gardener who got down and dirty and you could feel the soil in his hands. The PBS program evolved into a political rant about global warming or vagan subculture and became not much more than a cooking show.

I once watched it as well. I quit before it got to that point. Since it was set way up north, much of the topic matter didn't apply in my part of the world.

 

[Steven_R]

I've been doing some gardening for a while (tomatos, strawberries, various herbs, corn) but this is the first year I've tried cucumbers. It's also the first year I'm going to try canning. I've got some sauerkraut and kimchi in the root celler already, but I'm hoping the cukes turn out okay and if I do, I'll never buy another jar of pickles again!

 

[GreenBean]

The EPA already has plans to do away with such private gardens. Enjoy them while you can still have them.

Then get my garden when they pry my hoe from my cold dead hands.
If Gardens are outlawed only outlaws will have Gardens !

 

[JWBooth]

Today will be spent preparing for this year's garden. Given the weather events in California and across the south, I believe that I will double what I planned to produce. Grocery prices will be high unless Mexican produce fills the void.