OT Might be problems with our food chain this summer or fall, so thinking about planting garden

Not after this month with everyone at home. It's probably pretty depleted already.

 

Yes sir. My brother was on his lone state championship football team.

I played a couple of years but hated football. Loved basketball.

You guess the year if you know Ridgefield well enough. My brother is 7 years younger if that helps.

 

Ridgefield won it 95’. So you graduated in 88?

I have friends who played for oz. they hated the guy. I was around him one time when I played baseball at River. He was old and about to retire then

 

I graduated when I was 17. My brother was a freshman or sophomore when they won..can't remember but he was varsity from freshman year I think. He played baseball and went to Eastern Washington on a baseball scholarship. He still played baseball in a league somewhere recently.

If you know him he'll tell you I'm really the asshole I am here only worse.

I hated Oz too. I could have been good at football but all we did was run run run run run. Run the wing T offense. So all we did in practice was RUN.

It was soooo boring. I wanted to hit people. If Joe Montana played for Oz you'd ask me who the fuck is Joe Montana.

 

convenient timing.

I cleaned out half the garden box yesterday. fixin to clear out the other half today. Then till it with my little tiller and then plant this weekend!!!!





Wow... just realized how badly I need to paint the Barn in the background... whoa...!

 

I've planted pretty much everything in my lifetime. Never planted okra or peanuts, though.
Right now, we don't have any room to plant much of anything other than the trees and bushes that we now have.

 

I had a mantiss for years. When I needed something larger, I would rent it or borrow my parent's mammoth tiller. They had like a half acre, or maybe more, garden. Mine was maybe somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 square feet not counting my apple tree or two large grape vines. I love to plant stuff.

 

My food garden is coming in great. Good eats a coming.

 

I'll help you paint, but you have to stay 10 feet away.

 

Tomatoes are America's no. 1 favorite home garden vegetable. Also, my favorite.
Wanna hear something shitty? Sure you do, everybody does. They're supposed to be off my diet. It's got something to do wiht potassium which can cause my heart to stop with no proceeding symptoms. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. Sometimes I can't stand it any longer and eat one anyway because I laugh at danger.

 

Potatoes are easy to grow if you have the right soil. In my garden, the only spot I had left for them had a lot of clay, hence the soil was too dense for them.
When I was a tot we had a vacant field next to our house. My mom planted her potato peelings there and in a year or two we had an entire field of volunteers. All we had to do was go out in the field in random areas and start digging pulling in more than enough russets to feed us for dinner.
My favorite summer squash is the yellow crook neck. We also had plenty of acorn squash.

 

I've never grown kale. Why? Because I hate the stuff.
I recall that potatoes and tomatoes should not be grown close together.
Carrots and radishes are fun. Carrots are fun because I love their tops for looks and when you dig them up each one is a wonderful surprise. Radishes need to be washed and eaten soon after being dug up. Yum
I also had fun when I planted a mint plant. Don't know why I planted it but it multiplied and I soon learned uses for it.
Chives were fun because we could go out and pick some for a baked potato.
Same goes for scallions and lettuce.
I enjoyed dill because of it's use in pickling.
I never grew any fennel but my mother grew lots of it which I always wanted to try but never did.

 

I've grown corn about 20 years ago that was so good that I still recall it. It was better than any corn I've gotten from the store EVER. But yeah, it does take a little more ground than the average vegetable.

 

When you attended Ridgefield, did you ever know a Chris (Robby) Roberts? He's probably quite a bit older than you but his son was a star football player there.

 

Leaves work better. Corn cobs have a strange but interesting after taste if you want to nibble on them later.

 

Mine is a battery operated tiller. lol.

 

Correct on potatoes and tomatoes. Also don't plant onion family near peas. Radishes taste better when planted among lettuce. Beets and onions like each other. Fennel doesn't play well with others and needs to be in a separate area. Beans and corn like each other. So do carrots and radish or carrots and scallions.

 

Your photoshop skills are shit, but I still enjoyed your efforts.

 

Yes, my photoshop skills are shit, but that wasn't done by me, lol.

 

Still, it's pretty damn humorous.