wow did everyone garden do this year?, Mine,, since I didnt plant much, did pretty well. the taters still hasnt done much, nor have the sweet taters, but I didnt expect much either. I did plant a BUNCH of onion starts, 3 differatn kinds,,, those did ok, considering the chickens got into them, and pulled them up too early, but I still dont think they would be ready, si Ill save em for next year. Did have some volunteer cherry maters come up,,, was a nice treat when I picked em. I canned a bunch of green beans this year, (first time),, carrots are next, ( another first), maybe taters,, (yea), hopefully soon, Ill be able to grow them myself, instead of buying them, though throuout the state,, we can produce most of everything, everything but the southern goods anyways,,,,,, LOL

-- Stan (satanswelp@hell.nets), September 19, 2002

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Mine did OK but I hadn't planted nearly as much as I probably should have. I hate to see things go to waste and since this was my first summer doing all the farm & home maintainance alone I didn't want to raise more than I could handle & get canned. The cherry tomatoes are late but now coming in great guns. Mine are a wild type; the vines will climb fences or walls and get over 9'tall. The tomatoes are really small about the size of a big pea to small (peery) marble. They're really sweet and hang in clumps of 8-12. Peaches got hit by frost during blossoming, the apples are small this year and there are no grapes on any of my vines. My whole garlic bed got accidentally cut down by a well meaning friend who was helping me with lawn work. He thought they were weeds. :( It looked like it would have been the best harvest yet, they were really coming along nicely. My herbs did really well, we had plenty of moisture and heat. I'm planting greens this weekend: kale,turnip,mustard & collards. they will be ready by about Thanksgiving and I will be harvesting through most of a normal winter. That is one nice thing about the south, growing things during the winter.

-- Kathy Aldridge (beckoningwinds@yahoo.com), September 19, 2002.

my neirhbor came up 2 days ago,, and I hadny mowed that side of my house all summer. The grasshoppers would all go there, and the weeds got bug and tall.., ,bees loved it. The chickens went nuts for the grasshoppers. But he came up, and mowed everthing down,,, but had to take a saw to one of the lambs quarters,,, so, he even mowed doen my crab apple tree, (which he said he didnt see). He wants me to remove a bald face harnets nest, that appeared within a month. Right in the eaves of the roof, nice size one.

I should be geting some old hay bales, so I can start my winter greens soon, but thats where I am growing the radish, along with sweet basil.

I got a call,, to pollinate blueberries this spring,, so that may be my first "cash crop" with the bees

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), September 19, 2002.

My garden did poorly this year. First it was too overcast and wet, then the drought and the bugs hit. I got some vegetables for eating, but not near enough to put up.

I tried some currant tomatos, which were excellent excepting they kept splitting. I tried not watering them for a month and it DIDN'T rain, but they still split. I had 20 plants and couldn't get more than a handful at any given time. Next year I will try Pink Ponderosas!

-- Terri (hooperterri@prodigy.net), September 19, 2002.

Corn was my failure this season. The gophers cut down 8 squares in about 4 days. I told my neighbors it was "corn circles" :>)

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), September 20, 2002.

First - - my garden died. I'll blame it on the drought, and not my lack of gardening talents.

Next - - I just gotta say this. Gotta. Stan, I like you lots, and that is one of the major reasons I participate here - - but I HATE it when you morph into that Satanswelp ID. Hate it. It makes me tense.

-- Granny Hen (clucking along@cs.com), September 20, 2002.

It's terribly distracting, isn't it?

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), September 20, 2002.