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Re: Poison Ivy

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Hi Everyone,
 This will be my first attempt at communicating with the sqft gardening
list.  So please forgive the lack of lingo.

I'm not even sure this is the way to go about entering in to convo. with
the square footers on this list.  I once considered myself computer
literate, but I haven't had a computer in two years and you know how easy
it is to get behind the times in the computer world.  I had never even
been on a web site until a couple of months ago.  Hopefully I'll get a
little training or something to bring me up to the new millennium.

This is my first year of sqft gardening, and it's going great.  I may
have over done a little, but I've down scaled quite a bit from my last
years garden.  It was something like 60' x 175', of course it was to feed
80 people also.  I lived in a community and we shared all the work and
benefits of a corporate garden. This year finds me living in the center
if Historic Hollister, Missouri.  With very little gardening space.  My
husband and son put in three 4'x4' blocks, two 6'x4' blocks, two 3'x8'
blocks, and one 2'x10' blocks.  There was already one 4'x4' block
existing in the front yard of cinder blocks. There were a few tulips come
up in the perimeter of it, this year.  I planted strawberries in this
block.  Because of a shade problem, most of my blocks are in the front
yard and are raised beds because of a sloping front yard.  I haven't seen
many level yards in this part of Missouri.  

I've planted at least twenty tomato plants, one in particular is Parks
Whopper, and I have several really large tomatoes ripening now.  We have
already eaten a few of them and they are ok but not as flavorful as I
expected of homegrown tomatoes, I guess they are the nonacid type.  In
another block I have a Parks bush tomato that has much smaller fruit but
the flavor is far superior in my estimation.  I have had red sails,
butter crunch, and romaine lettuces, that are finished now and I have
replanted the same.  It may be too hot now but this particular block in
the front yard only gets sun morning till around 1:PM so I thought I'd
try again. I planted a few bunching onions and garlic in this same block
as well as a couple of sweet pepper plants.  Only one of the pepper
plants have fruit and then only two peppers.  They are large though. 
This is the block with the whopper tomato plant and it shades the peppers
so I guess that is why I have so few peppers.  I planted nasturtium in
this block also, and they are so pretty.  This is really the first time
I've tried planting flowers of any kind other than the standard marigolds
for beneficial purposes.  I really like the added color and we eat the
nasturtium in our salads.

In my two 8'x3' beds I have planted corn and two different kinds of
crowder peas.  Most of the corn in one bed is about eight inches tall now
and the peas are doing well.  The other bed gets a little more shade and
not as many of the corn seeds seem to have sprouted.  It was also a
different type of corn, so maybe that's the problem.  Time will tell. 
I'm learning anyway.  I really like the way it all looks, though I still
have quite a lot of empty spaces to plant yet.  I'm planning on a fall
garden as well.

By the way I'm trying to stay as chemical free as possible, but haven't
been in this location long enough to have any compost yet so I am using a
water soluble fertilizer now and again.  Do most of the square footers go
organic?  I do prefer to.

By the way, I had ask a few weeks ago about veggies to grow in the shade,
and thanks for the response.  I also contacted The Organic Gardening web
site and they were very helpful.  They send a list of quite a few veggies
that may grow in the shade.  I'm going to try anyway.

Also, would the colloidal silver would be good for chigger bites?  They
are really bad this year and my grandchildren look like they have the
chicken pox.  I get bit but they don't affect me the way they do the
children.  Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

Please, anyone feel free to offer suggestions as I'm new at this type of
gardening.

Thanks,

Johnnie M.
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