Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

Well, I ordered seeds today, figure I'll grow them in pots so if worse comes to worst, I can bring them in...

also, all my tomato clippings rooted, so the neighbors will have plants in a few days...

This gave me a flash back to an old story of my Dad's. He loved to garden and every year had more plants than he needed. One year he gave some tomato plants to a neighbor that had never gardened. Dad helped him fix up a bed, plant them and helped him all along and the neighbor seemed to be doing a good job with them. Until, one day the neighbor comes to Dad's door with an entire tomato plant in his hand. He had pulled it up from the garden looking for the tomatoes in the ground. Apparently Dad didn't think to mention they would fruit on the plant, not the roots. :lau
 
This gave me a flash back to an old story of my Dad's. He loved to garden and every year had more plants than he needed. One year he gave some tomato plants to a neighbor that had never gardened. Dad helped him fix up a bed, plant them and helped him all along and the neighbor seemed to be doing a good job with them. Until, one day the neighbor comes to Dad's door with an entire tomato plant in his hand. He had pulled it up from the garden looking for the tomatoes in the ground. Apparently Dad didn't think to mention they would fruit on the plant, not the roots. :lau
:gignow thats funny
 
Why is it that roosters pick the worst possible times "for them" to be d-bags? Iv'e got three perfectly good little men small enough for my girls to mold into their dream guy and Negan wants to start being a butt to the hens that aren't putting out. Not the time dude, not the time. I love that roo to pieces, but if my girls aren't happy don't let the door hit ya guy!:rant

:yuckyuck:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:gig:yuckyuck
 
I once helped a gal put in a little garden. I went to her house. Took tools, fertilizer, seeds, tomato plants... We scouted out the perfect place in her yard. I showed her which end of the spade fork to hang on to, and which end to stick into the ground. Showed her how to lift the sod... how to break up the soil. Her response: "I think you'd better do it... it looks too complicated." Next we planted the tomato plants. Her reply... "You'd better do it, I think I'll break them." Then the seeds: "They're too small. I won't put them in the right place." I even took some marigolds to spruce up her little garden. "They smell funny." And, on and on it went. Fast forward to tomatoes setting fruit... She's laughing at work b/c her darling daughter likes the little green balls on the tomato plants and she pulls them all off and throws them. She won't eat the lettuce because it grew in the "dirt". I saw her the next spring, and she asked me if I was going to "come over and help her plant a garden." :mad: "Nope. I'm busy that day."
 
I once helped a gal put in a little garden. I went to her house. Took tools, fertilizer, seeds, tomato plants... We scouted out the perfect place in her yard. I showed her which end of the spade fork to hang on to, and which end to stick into the ground. Showed her how to lift the sod... how to break up the soil. Her response: "I think you'd better do it... it looks too complicated." Next we planted the tomato plants. Her reply... "You'd better do it, I think I'll break them." Then the seeds: "They're too small. I won't put them in the right place." I even took some marigolds to spruce up her little garden. "They smell funny." And, on and on it went. Fast forward to tomatoes setting fruit... She's laughing at work b/c her darling daughter likes the little green balls on the tomato plants and she pulls them all off and throws them. She won't eat the lettuce because it grew in the "dirt". I saw her the next spring, and she asked me if I was going to "come over and help her plant a garden." :mad: "Nope. I'm busy that day."[/Qoute]

Your heart was in the right place. Ya I would be busy from now on! :smack
 

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