Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[R2elk]

One good size slice on your 1/4 pounder hamburger, changes it to a HALF POUNDER.

I will have a BLT with at least 5 slices of bacon.

 

[R2elk]

I will have a BLT with at least 5 slices of bacon.

Used 6 slices of bacon. It was delicious.

 

[wyoDreamer]

@R2elk
Those garden pictures are beautiful! If you can protect the plants from the incessant wind and add enough good water, Wyoming is a wonderful place to grow stuff. Temps are decent most of the summer and lots of sunshine. There was a company that was looking into putting up a greenhouse system for commercially growing tomatoes near Cheyenne but the water rights issues made it "not feasible"

 

[R2elk]

@R2elk
Those garden pictures are beautiful! If you can protect the plants from the incessant wind and add enough good water, Wyoming is a wonderful place to grow stuff. Temps are decent most of the summer and lots of sunshine. There was a company that was looking into putting up a greenhouse system for commercially growing tomatoes near Cheyenne but the water rights issues made it "not feasible"

Hail storms are also a huge problem. My well water will kill the garden so I use the Regional water that the house is connected to. I have the unique problem of living on a sand dune. Sand is very deficient in nutrients and will not hold water.

 

[cavemanrich]

My well water will kill the garden

What is in it that makes it bad,??? Improper PH?

 

[R2elk]

What is in it that makes it bad,??? Improper PH?

Alkali and very hard water.

 

[R2elk]

Hail storms are also a huge problem. My well water will kill the garden so I use the Regional water that the house is connected to. I have the unique problem of living on a sand dune. Sand is very deficient in nutrients and will not hold water.

Of course late frosts and early frosts don't help either. I have had hard frost as late as the middle of June and as early as the middle of August.

 

[jvls1942]

It has been awhile since I was here.
Yesterday I had a blt. One slice of a brandy wine tomato, lots of bacon and lettuce. I couldn't open my mouth wide enough to bite, hardly. It took two hands to hold everything together, and you don't put it down. Now, that's good eating.
my doe and 3 fawns are still here. they walk between the tomatoes and beans and beets and don't bother them. The fawns are still spotted, but almost as tall as the doe..
I don't think I could live on an island like Hawaii. It was a nice place to visit, though.
I get 50 pound bales of straw for $2.oo.
I have a farmer friend.
I used to get 40 pound bales of either hay or straw for $1.oo , from another friend, but he died.

 

[R2elk]

I am making ham & bean soup and ran out of carrots so I pulled a couple from the garden.

 

[R2elk]

Turned out I was short on potatoes too. Back out to the garden I went.