sgt.barney

Slow day in the garden today ... but even slow days produce something. 5 Cayenne Chillis and a mid-sized Canteloupe. Wonder what Canteloupe tastes like with Cayenne? :huh: Easy Peasy

Pest control? Grandpappy Sarge taught this to Wee Lad Sarge: Plant 5 times what you want to haul out of the garden. You will, many years, only get 20% of the harvest for yourself. 1 share goes to the bugs. 1 share goes to the disease. 1 share gets eaten by critters (rabbits, birds, squrrel, etc.) 1 share gets beaten down by the weather 1 share for you - what's left is all yours. This has served Sarge well over the years. Plant waaaaay more than you think you need and you will be fine. (like - 5 times more). Plant just exactly what you think you need and you will be sorely disappointed when everything else takes its share before you get yours. Easy Peasy

They overwintered at the recommended temperature and humidity in the Seed Refrig/Freezer for 5 months. Sarge is an amateur orchardist with 80-ish fruit trees of all sorts in the orchard and on the property. Easy Peasy

Start small. Expand next year. Rinse. Repeat as necessary. Move to a bigger place when the produce outgrows the front lawn. ;) Easy Peasy! Seriously? If you plan on living there a while, start with the perennials (things that come back year after year). A blueberry bush takes 4 or 5 years before it really starts producing, but it's good for a metric crap-ton of blueberries for 40 or 50 years after it's planted. Asparagus takes 3 years before your first harvest, but then it's no work (don't have to re-plant) for the next 15 to 20 years. Sarge started with all the things that are planted once, but keep on going and going and going, year after year after year. Aim for two or three new types of plants each year. This year Sarge planted Goji (wolfberry), 3 types of Honeberry (a fruiting holeysuckle-family perennial), and Paw-Paw trees. The Paw Paw seeds were a failure - failed to germinate seeds. Learn how to save seed and propagate your own. The Hazelnut Hedge (make your own Nutella (hazelnut and cocoa) on the Eastern fenceline of The Sarge Homestead would have cost over $600 to fully populate the first year if he bought all the plants. Instead, Sarge bought 3 individual 1-year twigs for, like, 18 bucks + shipping and over the last three years has been propagating himself. Now he's got a quarter mile fenceline that will produce a couple hundred pounds of nuts every year in ... maybe 3 more years. All for 18 bucks. Google is your friend here, so is youtube. It's a time-sink, too. Don't think you can "set it and forget it". It'll never work if you do. Disease. Bugs. Rabbits/squirrel/dear. Weather. Bad Luck. The neighbor's dog. The neighbors' kids. They're all conspiring to ruin your harvest and your job is to succeed. This doesn't happen passively. Easy Peasy

Pffft. The Sarge left because he was accused of being a bully and banned. Easy Peasy

The Sarge posts this not to celebrate, but to witness[1]. All you folks out there just starting out or who haven't yet started[2], there will come a day[3] when you can say same-same. Does this qualify as a MonsterQuit™ yet ? [999] Easy Peasy FOOTNOTES: [1] Definition #1 Here [2] You know who you are, quit lurking and sign up. [3] Much sooner than you think ... if you just get started. [999] It's a day early, only 999 today (1000 tomorrow, so sue me!)

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This morning's haul from The Veggie Garden: First day of Cayenne Peppers!! All three of 'em ;) Easy Peasy

Don't forget to protect that from the birds if you want the seeds for chewing on. We use those mesh bags onions/potatoes/apples etc. come in from the store. Just save 'em all year and near as we can tell, they'll last a lifetime. The plastic doesn't appear to break down in UV too quickly. Ours are just now flowering - first one was day before yesterday [2014.08/05]. Easy Peasy

Shows how much you "know" - you don't know Jack. Quit being a dammed know-it-all and listen to the rest of us. It goes away. Ignore it and it goes away. Easy Peasy.

Hands up and step away from the cigarettes. Turn around and walk slowly towards the sound of The Train ... We're waiting for you in the Party Car. It's a blast, but you really need to be here to see ... Easy Peasy

So ... f_ck freedom, then, right? Throw freedom under the Ignore Personal Responsibility bus, right? Quitting is ABSOLUTELY a choice. The Sarge says again: stupid idea is stupid. ** You're requesting money and it is unsolicited/un-asked-for by the members of this forum. In exactly the same way that an active addict denies addiction, the active spammer denies spam. Keep it up. See how far it gets you. Easy Peasy

Illogical argument is illogical. For the logically challenged: It infringes on my right, as a convenience store owner[1], to sell cigarettes to any adult I dammed well please. Go away. We don't take kindly to spammers here. Easy Peasy FOOTNOTES [1] Assuming The Sarge still was one ... which he isn't ... but he was ... EDIT: words are hard.

1100 is far below "normal". For anyone. It's barely over work camp prisoner starvation rations (about 800/day) Easy Peasy

"When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap." -- Thomas Sowell Stupid idea is stupid. There's your requested feedback. Easy Peasy

So ... how long 'til you disappear this time? A support group can't possibly work for you without your presence and participation. The Sarge suggests that maybe you want to stick around ... y'know ... for a while at least... Easy Peasy

Did somebody say sausage? BTW - Sarge is a big fan of fasting. Not so much for dieting or losing weight, but he always feels better health wise after a day or three running around the woods or mountains without food. Sleeps better, too. No - seriously. He's not kidding. Easy Peasy

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Please remain seated, keep hands and arms inside the car at all times. Secure loose items and fasten your seatbelt. Next stop: Quittsville. Enjoy the ride and see you on the flipside. [1] The Quit train leaves the station Sunday morning. Easy Peasy FOOTNOTE: [1] you must be at least this tall to ride ....

... my farking gubmint. [1] Easy Peasy FOOTNOTE [1] government