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Re: Poison Ivy

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Johnnie-  (sorry, have I got the name right?) Nice to hear from you and
welcome to the best sqfter list on the net. Your garden sounds intriguing
being in your front yard and on a slope. Care to scan a pic or two, upload
them to a personal web site and share the address with us?

You mentioned your parks whoppers. I have one (our first) that just barely
survived the two weeks of heavy frosts here in June. It is just now
beginning to grow again and I hope to taste them on my hamburgers later this
summer.

Have a great day,
bill missen.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald L Townsend" <titustwo4@juno.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Cc: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:23 PM
Subject: 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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