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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 18, 2012, 05:21:25 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1159878
Oh my.
Skinner (55,123 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Showing off our weekend projects.
Hello, DU Gardening group. This is my first post in the group, as I am new to gardening.
My family and I spent the weekend creating a new garden. I think it it turned out to be pretty good, so I wanted to post here in the DU Gardening group to show off all of our hard work from this weekend.
Here is our raised bed, approximately 11 feet x 3.5 feet. The sides of the bed are made from old roof slates.
after which a photograph
And here is the salad table I built. Instructions are here. My boys helped paint it.
after which a photograph
We haven't actually planted anything yet. I think that'll be next week's project.
Denninmi (2,257 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Well, way to go Skinner!
You will become "one of us" now. In a few years, you'll be telling everyone you know in great detail about that certain eggplant or tomato or whatever you grew. Their eyes will all glaze over, but you'll love every minute of it.
I also think it's really important that children learn where their food comes from.
Tuesday Afternoon (34,943 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. off to a good start, Skinner
NEOhiodemocrat (717 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Nice!
Looks like you acomplished a lot this weekend. Welcome to the gardening club You will love it and your boys will learn so much.
Curmudgeoness (6,542 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Well, you were busy. Looks nice.
I like that idea of using roof slate to construct the raised bed. It makes for an interesting look.
I am still feeling like a beginner too, even if I have been doing this a few years now. But the people posting here in Gardening are awesome. You will learn a lot from them and from your own mistakes.
Welcome to the world of gardening. Ah, the wonder of nature!
lpbk2713 (20,672 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. Looks good.
I hope your garden is in a spot that gets full sun most of the day.
Good luck.
Vanje (6,879 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Nice work!
You're gonna love gardening
Vanje (6,879 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. For your boys : a Bean Teepee!
Next weekends project?
http://www.kiddiegardens.com/bean_teepee.html
(I make myself one EA year......and I'm, uh , old.
Skinner (55,123 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. Funny you should mention the bean teepee.
That actually is my next project.
Vanje (6,879 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
10. Awesome!
JDPriestly (30,038 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. Good start!
I like the raised bed with roof slats.
It looks practical.
HopeHoops (29,550 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
16. Excellent! Have fun!
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If DUmmies think a 3.5' X 11' raised bed will feed a family of 4, it's no wonder they think a farmer with 40 acres and a mule is a millionaire.
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He better make sure that if he's growing vegetables and he has deer in the area? he better surround that garden with a plastic fence.
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Skinner can afford to buy the best fresh organic whatever with all the money he gets from the DUmmies.
He's fronting, pretending to be one of them.
I had a rose bed bigger than that.
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Hope the lad doesn't listen to DUmp advice.
Probability of "over fertilizing" will be quite high.
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He better make sure that if he's growing vegetables and he has deer in the area? he better surround that garden with a plastic fence.
You got that right. Eight feet high.
But surely Skimmer hasn't moved his family into one of those awful, leafy red suburbs, where there are deer and bunnies and coyotes, and decent people.
I'm confident that even with torrents of cash pouring in from the Valentine hearts, and $42-$60 memberships, and flashing, animated ads, he's keeping his wife and kids in a nice inner city location, where they can enjoy all the benefits of diversity, and where anything edible, like a deer, has long since been capped with a nine and cut into pieces.
His problem will be keeping vegetables in his garden until they're ripe. The neighborhood 0bamaites tend to harvest early.
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You got that right. Eight feet high.
But surely Skimmer hasn't moved his family into one of those awful, leafy red suburbs, where there are deer and bunnies and coyotes, and decent people.
I'm confident that even with torrents of cash pouring in from the Valentine hearts, and $42-$60 memberships, and flashing, animated ads, he's keeping his wife and kids in a nice inner city location, where they can enjoy all the benefits of diversity, and where anything edible, like a deer, has long since been capped with a nine and cut into pieces.
His problem will be keeping vegetables in his garden until they're ripe. The neighborhood 0bamaites tend to harvest early.
Skimmer might not take it too kindly if neer-do-wells perloin the fruits of his labor.
No, wait. :rotf: