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Re: Stan's hot tomato

Ross E Stanford wrote:
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> 
> P.S.     I guess I should explain this sig.  The cheap part is the fun
> part.  I think anybody can have a great garden if they had unlimited
> money to throw at it.  The challenge for me is to get good results as
> cheap as possible.  I try to make things as reusable as possible and  I
> try to use things that would normally be thrown out, (hence my obsession
> with 2 liter pop bottles).  I feel that the fun in the hobby is in the
> labor, not in the spending.
>              The lazy part comes from trying to make the garden as care
> free as possible after putting it in.  I really don't know anyone who
> "enjoys" pulling weeds, repairing animal damage, watering, fertilizing,
> debugging etc.  Putting in the garden is the fun part for me.
> 
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Stan,

For me the part I hate is "putting in" the garden.  I find it tedious
and sometimes hard work.  (I'm gardening a 1/4 acre, however, so it's
probably just a matter of scale)  I love pulling weeds after a day
"driving a desk" however, and I never outgrew a fascination with "bugs"
so debugging the garden is "fun".  Except for cabbage root maggot and
the ever-present slug, however, the garden mostly debugs itself.  Which
means I can watch the ladybugs eat the aphids and asparagus beetle
larvae, or my other hard-working friends: the green lacewing, the
trichogramma, the rove beetle, the assasin bug and the yellow jacket,
all of whom contribute to my garden pest patrol.  There I go with that
fascination with "bugs" again.  Sorry.  ;-)

Steve  (Maritime...)
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