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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 4, 2013 20:14:06 GMT -5
Tickled to see you join Timothy!
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Post by timothyt on Feb 8, 2013 5:16:00 GMT -5
Thank you kindly good folks for the warm welcome!
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Post by horsea on Feb 8, 2013 11:54:17 GMT -5
"have 1 year's experience 40 times"
Ha ha ha. Sounds familiar. Welcome!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 23:34:11 GMT -5
Hello... I am a newbie here, and glad to have found this board. New here but an old timer with gardening, I have had some sort of garden for as long as I can remember. I live in S. California and love to watch my family's amazement and awe with my gardening antics..lol. Looking forward to getting acquainted here.
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 30, 2013 6:32:18 GMT -5
Hello... I am a newbie here, and glad to have found this board. New here but an old timer with gardening, I have had some sort of garden for as long as I can remember. I live in S. California and love to watch my family's amazement and awe with my gardening antics..lol. Looking forward to getting acquainted here. Well howdy barefootgardener nice to meet you we can't wait to here about some of your garden antics, so just jump in anywhere you like and tell us all about them.
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Post by izitmidnight on Mar 30, 2013 9:09:00 GMT -5
Welcome to the family!
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Post by txdirtdog on Mar 30, 2013 22:43:12 GMT -5
Welcome Barefootgardener!
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Post by stratcat on Mar 30, 2013 23:29:32 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by timothyt on Mar 31, 2013 9:23:29 GMT -5
A hardy Welcome aboard BFG and delighted to have you join us!!
What are your gardening plans and pleasures for this year?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 14:22:36 GMT -5
We have a community garden plot at the local universities arboretum. Raised beds and various edibles being planted by "R" girls(home school group of school age girls). They will bless the needy community with produce eventually, it is a work in progress and a learning experience for us all. We have just cleared the plot and will be building the raised beds etc in the next week or two. We have progressed as money allowed. My family has several seedling growing from seed(cheaper) in our kitchen to take there soon.
On the home front, we have a very very small area of dirt beyond out back patio we are planting with beans, beets, squash and herbs, we have several topsy turvy hangers with tomatoes, eggplant, cukes, peppers almost ready to put in the hangers.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 1, 2013 9:06:44 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by timothyt on Apr 1, 2013 15:09:35 GMT -5
We have a community garden plot at the local universities arboretum. Raised beds and various edibles being planted by "R" girls(home school group of school age girls). They will bless the needy community with produce eventually, it is a work in progress and a learning experience for us all. We have just cleared the plot and will be building the raised beds etc in the next week or two. We have progressed as money allowed. My family has several seedling growing from seed(cheaper) in our kitchen to take there soon. On the home front, we have a very very small area of dirt beyond out back patio we are planting with beans, beets, squash and herbs, we have several topsy turvy hangers with tomatoes, eggplant, cukes, peppers almost ready to put in the hangers. Cool Beans!!! Errrhh, and others started and going!!
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Post by whistech on Apr 8, 2013 18:00:31 GMT -5
Hello, I am retired guy that has started gardening in my back yard. I have four raised beds that are 4' X 24' long and one bed that is a little narrower and not as deep as my other beds that I am trying to grow asparagus and blackberries. I just found this forum and am really excited to join. I live in Montgomery County between Spring and The Woodlands Texas and have tomatoes, peppers, green beans, potatoes, cucumbers and squash growing right now. I have a lot to learn so I ask for your patience as I'm sure I will be asking a lot of questions.
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 8, 2013 18:51:37 GMT -5
Whistech, welcome to the forums! Ask away. No question too silly or too serious....
kay
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 8, 2013 20:07:55 GMT -5
Well howdy-doo Whistech and welcome to NJT! Just jump in anywhere you like and ask away.
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 8, 2013 21:16:08 GMT -5
Welcome Whistech!
You ought to be able to do pretty well with the blackberries, as I recall there is a large blackberry farm or 2 up in your area.
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Post by stratcat on Apr 8, 2013 23:08:42 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by materman on Apr 11, 2013 11:00:12 GMT -5
Hello, my name is Mark. Joined the other day just to check out the sight for I seen daylillydude on another forum. Figured I should at least make my presence known just in case I post somewhere. Been in a garden all my life and would not know what to do without it. There is just a sweet serenity is seems like when I can spend time amongst Gods creation. I live in West Central Missouri on ten acres of land. I am a carpenter by trade but consider myself a jack of all trades. I use to own a plant retail business to pacify my passion but it was too much work for just my dad and I. We even made the farmers market circuit for several years selling the profit of our labor. my germinating greenhouse burned 4 years ago and hampered my need for dirt in the fingernails. Plants are just to expensive for a poor hillbilly like me. Well after scrounging and saving, I was able to build me a bigger and better germinating greenhouse and as I speak it is plum full of plants. My hope is to sell enough plants at the Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival to pay for my new greenhouse that really wasn't too much, and buy a few supplies. So maybe I will see a few of you there. You might want a face to go along with the name so I will post a pic of a month ago. Good luck to all and have you a great 2013 growing season, Mark
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 11, 2013 11:28:45 GMT -5
Wow, what a fantastic greenhouse! Welcome to the family.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 11, 2013 12:44:19 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 11, 2013 22:50:22 GMT -5
Welcome to NJT Junkman!
Every time I see the pics of the greenhouse you built, I'm in awe. Good luck with the plant sales at the Spring Planting Festival!
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Post by materman on Apr 11, 2013 22:55:16 GMT -5
Yes the more I use it and look at it, I come to realize it turned out pretty nice. Just hate to be without one
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Post by stratcat on Apr 11, 2013 23:54:33 GMT -5
Hi there, Junkman. Awesome greenhouse! Welcome.
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 12, 2013 4:41:11 GMT -5
Howdy junkman, glad to see you came to check out NJT, were glad your here, you can tell us all about your garden... yes even your tomatoes... ;D ! Just jump in anywhere and make yourself at home and we love pics too.
P.S. love that greenhouse ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 9:30:31 GMT -5
Hey everyone! I am new to this forum and pretty much forums in general so please be understanding and help me out as much possible. I grew up in a small town in South Georgia where farming and gardening were part of everyday life. My grandmother has a vegetable garden and loves flowers. My grandfather was a farmer and my uncle still farms. I have many memories of shelling peas with my mother and grandmother. We also had many fruit and nut trees on our property. I have recently moved to Dothan, Alabama following my husband's job. We are expecting our first child. My father-in-law is an expert gardener and I thought I might take a try at it. I am really interested in learning as much as possible from him and others. Hopefully I will also be able to bring new ideas to the forum as well.
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Post by materman on Apr 16, 2013 11:42:56 GMT -5
Great to see you LGT. Always nice to see new faces around here and yes the friendly folk around here will help you out as much as we can. Always great to see people willing to get a little dirt under the fingernails. I hope you learn enough to Make this season a success. Mark
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 16, 2013 12:06:52 GMT -5
Welcome, LGT. You're practically in my neck of the woods, but you probably have real dirt up there instead of the sand I've got. Funny you should mention shelling peas with your grandmother. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of sitting under the mulberry tree in a lawn chair with a bowl of peas in my lap. Granny, my mother, and some of my aunts and cousins were all arranged in a big circle around the wash tub we threw the hulls in. We'd sip sweet tea, shell peas, and "visit" until the peas were all shelled. Even though my thumb was sore, I was always kind of sad when we were done. As long as we were shelling, I was treated like a grownup - I got to sit and talk with the adults like an equal. Also, my aunts kept us .
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Post by stratcat on Apr 16, 2013 23:04:16 GMT -5
Hi there, LGT. Welcome to NJT! What are some of your gardening interests?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2013 11:10:20 GMT -5
Hello, new member here. My screen name is my real name, sort of. It's what people actually call me lol. I'm in the pinky of Michigan, zone 5. I have been gardening since I was able to walk the rows. I was farm raised ( sugar beets and dairy cattle ) in the Saginaw valley of Michigan, and have had a passion for plants all my life. I am one of five girls, married 17 years, no kids. My family is huge and mostly nearby. Tomatoes are as easy as breathing for me, but I grow all manner of things. My cutting / butterfly gardens are 350' X 8' and the main veggie garden is around 200sq'. I am part of a co-op of farms with my parents, my sister Laurel and a few others :-) I am the seed librarian for the co-op and get all the veggie starts ready for everybody each spring. They pay me in product from their own farms, milk, eggs, meat, cheese, bread, jams / jellies canned fruits and such. I graduated valedictorian from trade school for landscape / horticulture, greenhouse production and was one year shy of my masters from Michigan State University when family health issues forced me to move back home. I enjoy baking, sci fi and debate as well as gardening.:-)
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 18, 2013 11:37:23 GMT -5
Welcome to NJT audzeneberg, glad you made it, just jump in anywhere you like and tell us all about your gardening and farming exploits and remember we love pics...
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