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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2011 8:23:48 GMT -5
As a child my parents would often have a garden, would add to the soil in the beginning of the year, and use Miracle Grow the rest of it. I would beg to start a compost heap, but Dad would want a fancy bin that we never seemed to be able to afford, and it never happened. Most of the time the garden was made up of California Wonder peppers, Early girl tomatoes, Big boy tomatoes, some kind of cherry tomato, a slicing cucumber, or a melon of some sort, Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, and bulk seed green beans simply labeled "bush beans" at the local hardware store. Always the same varieties, pretty much ones you can get at the grocery store. I have seen posts saying "I never knew there were so many varieties of _____ growing up" is this the usual gardening education, or was I just deprived?
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 18, 2011 10:05:14 GMT -5
Greycloud9,
I think that was a typical backyard style garden education for 70's-80's era.
We had a bit more backyard devoted to garden than most. Purchased manure and compost were layered on the garden and tilled in. Manure/compost tea was created by hanging a plastic bag from a low hanging tree branch and allowing it to drip into a 5 gallon bucket. We did have a small compost bin made from 2X4's and chicken wire. Took forever to cook. Miracle grow was used extensively as a foliar feed.
Cowpeas were purple hull and the only thing I remember us saving seeds from. Beans: bush beans bought in seed packets at the local nursery. Peppers: Banana, Jalapeno and bells bought as starts at nursery. Tomatoes: No-name red cherry and Big Boys bought as starts at nursery. Cucumbers: Don't remember name but bought as starts at nursery. Lettuce, collards, mustards and green onions sown from seed packets bought at nursery.
For the most part no variety names were ever discussed. It was the variety they had at the nursery and what was available.
I didn't start realizing there were so many OP varieties of most veggies until a couple of years ago. Still coming across a "new" variety of this or that veggie pretty much daily.
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 20, 2011 5:49:33 GMT -5
Ya brought back some great childhood memories with this thread! I remember yellow crookneck squash, greenbeans, and big boy tomatoes and green peppers, and I too thought that big boy tomatoes were the only tomatoes...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 12:13:28 GMT -5
My mom didn't have a produce garden.
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