Comments on: I Got the Gardening Bug

By: DragonLady

DragonLady — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:32:53 +0000

Nobody in my family (including myself) will eat radishes, so those weren’t considered. I did consider beets, but I know I would be the only one eating them and I don’t like them that well. I wouldn’t bother with the hardening except for what happened with the flowers I started indoors last year. When I transplanted them outside, the stems were all flimsy and so they all just fell over when the flowers bloomed. LOL, one of my uncles used to plant peas in December (in Arkansas) so that he would have peas before his sister.

While I missed out on the weeding & picking, my parents had me at the kitchen table with them snapping beans, shelling peas, and slicing strawberries. I liked the strawberry duty, and the green pea duty because I would eat those as I worked, but I absolutely HATED green beans and so that was just torture. Didn’t much care for shelling purple hull peas either because they weren’t good raw. LOL

By: AProudVeteran

AProudVeteran — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:46:58 +0000

I’m jealous. I was going to try a veggie garden a couple years ago (all I really want are tomatoes and bell peppers), but my travel schedule keeps me gone most of the summer, and they would be eaten up by bugs.

Unlike you, my family made sure that we all helped in the garden (then again, my mom’s garden plot was probably 1/2 acre). So I’ve got a strong history in weeding, hoeing, and picking off potato bugs/tomato bugs.

One of them, I forget which, we would flick into a coffee can that had sand in the bottom of it. Then a quick dash of gasoline into the sand, a lit match, and no more bugs. I’m thinking it was potato bugs, but it’s been over 30 years ago, so I’m allowed to be a little fuzzy in the memory area.

By: Timmer

Timmer — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:20:17 +0000

Can’t wait until we can start working on our backyard.

By: gretchen

gretchen — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:07:21 +0000

Good luck!
Radishes and beets do well in the ground

By: gretchen

gretchen — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:06:07 +0000

I don’t know that you have to put them out to harden them up. I never did. I think when I did I just ended up forgetting them, and it’s warmer in the ground than it the plastic things I plant them in. But, starting them inside is good – especially for tomatos. I’ve been able to start zuchini, kale, swiss chard, peas, caorn, beets, and radishes in the garden. Also, I’m not sure that it was too early to plant in January. It seems like everything is waking up in my garden now, and I’m in S. CA. Good luck!