Foxy Lady:

Hi Foxy

Why is there a little green (1) after the link to our Gardening board
on my favorite boards site?

I have never seen this before

rednaz23: We have a rabbit family and a chipmonk that lives in our yard all year.We share the garden with them.It's no big deal since our garden is good size.So is my neighbors.

ajtgirl: That shows a pawn has posted and waiting for approval.

ajtgirl: oh, thank You, dear Lady, but i didn't take that picture. that's the picture from the tillandsia page You linked to.

Foxy Lady: oh boy! =)

i wish i knew where to find blackberries around here. i love picking those and gobbling 'em up.

plaintiger:

I know that!

Just looking for an oportunity to flatter you!

Have a great day, everybody

plaintiger: Have you checked out any wooded areas,sometimes you can find lots of wild berries.

ajtgirl: lol! You're wacky, Ma'am. and thank You!

Foxy Lady: as i wrote that i was thinking about a wooded area not far from here where i used to explore when my Mom first moved the family to NY. those woods seemed so big to me then, but they'd only seem a little patch now...and i don't know how i'd even get to them without crossing someone's property.

i'm not sure where i'd find a wooded area on long island that hadn't already been all picked of berries... :/

plaintiger: Awwwwww thats too bad,i love fresh berries.

Foxy Lady: me too, Ma'am. i'll have to have a look around...and maybe off-island.

plaintiger: Try a nursery for thornless blackberry, I've got one growing and the person I got it off just has his growing in a cylindrical 6"wire mesh. It's about 6 feet tall and apart from the birds he does all right. My one grows alond a boundary fench

skipinnz: thank you for the suggestion, but that's just not the same as encountering them in the wild, plucking one, admiring its beauty, popping it in my mouth, tasting it, and marvelling at the wonder of it all.

plaintiger:Well I get the same satisfaction just walking out my back door and picking straw,black,blue,gooseberries. The only one I haven't had to much success with is cran berries, poor little bush doesn't want to get off the ground.

skipinnz: heh...yes, i can understand that...i just feel an especial connection with the perfection of Nature when i have an experience like that in which no human hand has taken part. it reminds me that we're loved and provided for. :)

cranberries need a bog, don't they?

plaintiger:It is planted in the open so it might need to be sheltered. I'll look into it thanks

my pleasure. and here's some information on the particulars of growing cranberries, in case that helps.

plaintiger:Most informative, it seems my plant might not be old enough to fruit as it's only 2 years old.

skipinnz: aha. there you go...

glad that helped. :)

skipinnz: we have strawberries growing in the adult garden here.. I can't wait till the berries start coming out and ripen..

ScarletRose:Strawberries they are sweet memories now we have to wait for next season, seeing as we're going into winter. So enjoy them whist you can. :o)

skipinnz: And we are starting into Spring.. :) I will..

biggest onions:
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veggie humour
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http://www.dfordog.com/funnies/blinddate.jpg

please don't be angry ms.Foxy,a little veggie humour won't soil the gardening board.it might even grow on you.

nobleheart: ark ark ark!

the great James Thurber said, "humor should be left out of nothing, as it improves everything."

I have always felt that there is much truth in humour.but we really are wandering off topic..so sssh now,before we get a "beeting". ok ok somebody stop me now.

nobleheart: yep: we better spinach up here or the FoxGoddess'll turnip and weed us out!

(oh, aren't we a pear?)



okay, okay...i must remember: i am a moderator here, and i am afraid of the Fox (and proud of it). so let's shhhh indeed.

plaintiger: Tapping foot with arms crossed




but i do have a sense of humor today that is.

Foxy Lady: whew!! saved by the Fox's sense of humor!!

thank You for sparing us, merciful Goddess. =)



we were discussing veggies...kind of...

plaintiger: Sure you were.

Anyone grown anything by this method?

well ms foxy doesn't mind a LITTLE humour,even if some of these snorks are real lemons(pun).
but seriously,lettuce leaf these jokes alone & get down to the real dirt and discusss some real gardening issues.
anyone got any tips/experience with growing veggies?shall we share?

Mousetrap: Is that growing plants in water?

nobleheart: We have a pretty good size veggie garden,right now our garlic is up.Can't plant here yet the nites are too cold,by the end of May is safe.We use alot of compost,and peat moss.Being our soil is clay we have to add soil every year.

Foxy Lady: well, okay, maybe "discussing" is too strong a term...

clay soil a big problem here too

Foxy Lady: i have it from one site that it's "the growing of plants without soil," Ma'am. and here's one of the few sites i've found so far that doesn't look to be trying to sell a specific line of hydroponics equipment.

plaintiger: Yes, I picked one up today. Mine is like a propergator but its called a Hydro Greenhouse. You can grow anything in it and use it inside and out. Whatever you grow is fed automatically by a water bottle with nutrients in. It says in me book of destructions there is no fear of soil born diseases, insects or weeds as it uses no soil.
I never heard of it before today, but I was looking round the toy dept at Toyrus, saw it and picked it up.
I got it set up already with plant seeds.

Mousetrap: awww, You got it at Toys-R-Us! :D how cuuuuute! =)

please keep us posted, Ms. Mouse! sounds fun!

"book of destructions." heeheehee! =)

ooh, and here's some more information on hydroponics that looks very interesting. :)

plaintiger: Okey dokey!
I don,t supposed you wanna hear about my sea monsters do you lol!

Mousetrap: i do, i do!

but this is not the board for it.

hmm...are You a member of Ms. Foxy's CoffeeHouse, Ms. Mouse? we can talk about anything in there! :)

plaintiger: Lol no I,m not, I am not really very active in fellowships.

Mousetrap: neither am i, really - i'm a member of a lot more than i'm active in.

okay, we're officially . but i'd love to hear about Your sea monsters, Ma'am! PM me?

Mousetrap: Hey i may get my oldest one of those greenhouses.I saw a TV program where they had tomatoe plants growing in water.It amazed me how big they were.

Toys R Us great store

Foxy Lady: If you do make sure they pour the growing medium into the base in a well ventrulated area, preferbly outside, it is very dusty as you pour it out.

When I was at Disneyworld 10 years ago they had a tour through a gigantic greenhouse where everything was growing in water. I wonder if it's still there.

ajtgirl: wow...how cool. :)

i've never been to disneyworld, so i couldn't tell You. i should go. i really enjoyed disneyland the three or so times i went.

*sings* iiiiit's a small world aaaaafter all! iiiiit's a small world aaaaafter all! iiiiit's a small world aaaaafter all! it's a small, small worrrrrrlllld!

plaintiger:

My grandpaents took me to the NY Worlds Fair in 1964, and Disney had an exhibit of It's a Small World... with the boats and singing figures from all over the world. It was so enchanting when I was 8 and my grandmother loved it too!

We were all so innocent and secure back then...I guess

ajtgirl: hmm. i found it enchanting when i was about 32...