In the garden
Well, pretty soon, I've got to get some pics of the garden, before and after kind of thing, onto the site. Right now, my home computer is broke, so I'm using my kid's school computer, so I can't download pics. I could do it at work, but somehow, that just doesn't seem like a habit I want to start. Hopefully the geek squad can hurry up and do their thing.
Gardening - Some guys like to golf, I like the solitude and growth of a garden. Its hands on work and gets me outside after being in the greenhouse or office all day, and while my dear wife puts up with it, my kids have actually sort of taken a liking to planting some of the basil and cilantro. We'll do more seeds with them later. I especially like some of the more exotic fruits and veggies, but being in Ohio...guess I'll have to wait till I live in Hawaii or something. This is totally a hobby kind of thing. If you saw the garden, you would agree. It is far from professional and really neat and orderly, but it is also not your average couple of tomato and pepper plants. I do about 25 different kinds of tomatoes, 15 peppers, tomatillos, 2 ground cherries, 3 different eggplants, 3 cucumber, 2 lettuce, kohlrabi, broccoli, 2 cantaloupe, 2 watermelon, squash, 3 raspberry, strawberry, onion, 3 carrot, collards, sweet potatoes, and about 10 different herbs (the favorite is cilantro). I get to give credit to Steve Thomas of Dan Schantz Farms for about half of the tomatoes and peppers. He does over a hundred varieties easily and everyone at their farm gets to use the 1.5 acre area that the crop grows on. I think his goes beyond hobby and into the obsession, but hey, its fun...for us anyway.
Hence, more inclusions into the Garden Geeks links on the sidebar will appear intermittently.
Gardening - Some guys like to golf, I like the solitude and growth of a garden. Its hands on work and gets me outside after being in the greenhouse or office all day, and while my dear wife puts up with it, my kids have actually sort of taken a liking to planting some of the basil and cilantro. We'll do more seeds with them later. I especially like some of the more exotic fruits and veggies, but being in Ohio...guess I'll have to wait till I live in Hawaii or something. This is totally a hobby kind of thing. If you saw the garden, you would agree. It is far from professional and really neat and orderly, but it is also not your average couple of tomato and pepper plants. I do about 25 different kinds of tomatoes, 15 peppers, tomatillos, 2 ground cherries, 3 different eggplants, 3 cucumber, 2 lettuce, kohlrabi, broccoli, 2 cantaloupe, 2 watermelon, squash, 3 raspberry, strawberry, onion, 3 carrot, collards, sweet potatoes, and about 10 different herbs (the favorite is cilantro). I get to give credit to Steve Thomas of Dan Schantz Farms for about half of the tomatoes and peppers. He does over a hundred varieties easily and everyone at their farm gets to use the 1.5 acre area that the crop grows on. I think his goes beyond hobby and into the obsession, but hey, its fun...for us anyway.
Hence, more inclusions into the Garden Geeks links on the sidebar will appear intermittently.
posted by Keri at 6/02/2005 10:35:00 PM
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