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Re: Introducing Ourselves

Hi Roland,
I too am new on the list but haven't really introduced myself.  My
husband and I moved to Albuquerque, NM from Arlington, VA 2.5 years ago.
 We are renting an old 3 bedroom farmhouse with a giant kitchen and lots
of windows with large sills to hold baby plants.  It stands on 1/4 acre
of sand with two 50 foot cottonwood trees!!  I have 3 garden plots that
are looking much better each year (lots of compost and manure added).  I
did very well with corn, squash, tomatoes & tomatillos last year.
Gardening is very different for me here.  I had a community plot for
three years in Arlington.  I planted on hills there, and now I plant in
ditches to conserve water!

This year we are turning one of the plots into a rock garden with pampas
grass, fescue, shasta daisies and Sage.  The other two plots will be
square foot with 6 varieties of tomatoes (bisignano, san remo,
manalucie, black plum, heatwave, & spitfire).  All of which have been
started from seed in the house and look pretty good so far.  Outside I
have spinach, romaine & salad bowl lettuce, beets, snowpeas & collards
covered with remay covers and coming along nicely.  And finally, we plan
to line the fence with drought tolerant wildflowers (we have two dogs so
this should be interesting).

Sorry I got longwinded, but I love to talk about gardening!!  Welcome to
the list.  Your place sounds like paradise!!  We're still looking for
the right piece of land, until then, we'll play with our little 1/4
acre.
Diana
USDA 6; Sunset 10


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>From:  Roland[SMTP:roland@TEXAS.NET]
>Sent:  March 07, 1997 1:23 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list SQFT
>Subject:       Re: Introducing Ourselves
>
>Hi y'all!
>My name is Roland and yes, I'm the one that's trying to grow some luffa
>this year in  Texas!  I would like to say that of all the list and
>newsgroups I've been part of, this is by far the friendliest.  I'm glad
>to be such esteemed and helpful company!
>I have only started gardening last year as I only got my first garden
>when I bought 2 acres and built my first house. 1 acre I'm leaving 'au
>naturale'(blackland prairie) and the other acre wildflower pasture and
>garden.  Having been raised by a family of gardeners in Singapore, it
>was a real challenge for me to garden in black clay and z8 in Texas.
>My passions are tropicals(in the house), fragrant flowering plants,
>orchids, flowering trees, grasses, bamboos and of course oriental fruits
>and veges!  I have 120' of raised beds around the house and a 5' x 32'
>one for my veges.  I also have a 8 mth old rottweiler puppy(which makes
>gardening even more of challenge).  My horticultural ambitions for '97
>are to add a greenhouse, a pond and of course more trees and plants!!I'm
>not very experienced in gardening but I'm learning fast..thanks to this
>group.
>
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