Worked a bit in the garden

[tbird]

  After most of the day repairing carts I went in and tiled most of the garden.  Nancy has harvested all the potatoes and unfortunately this year was my worst tater garden ever.  I planted 10# and harvested 20#.  That being said the onions were a bust except my multiplying onions.  They did great.  I planted 120 onions and harvested right at 600 onions.  I will save almost 200 for planting in October.  The rest make perfect pickling onions.   

  So I tilled in everything but 3 - 120 foot rows.  They hold tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and cukes.  Oh yeah, I left my 6 - 30' rows of Merit sweet corn up also because it is finally showing signs of nice growth.  It is now about 3 1/2 feet tall now and looking pretty good. 

  So I decided I am going to till the garden every 9 days until there is now weed action an come July 4th I plant the entire garden, because teh maters and the rest will be done by then, in 1 row of Okra, 8 rows dent corn, 8 rows grain sorghum and the rest in Top Pick PEHP.  That should get me into October with plenty of grain for chicken feed.   

  OH yeah,  I also have my one hydroponic tomato too.        

[1tongarden]

Sorry to hear about your onions.But im gladyour able to get out there and work some.

[ashlogcreek]

It's especially tough, when you have ALL the equipment you could ever need, and the weather doesn't allow you ANY way to use it, except to sit on it and make tractor sounds and play with the steering wheel. On the other hand, that's not a bad way to kill an afternoon, IF you have some diet drinks....     

[tbird]

 Wow!  I'm glad I posted this.  I am so glad to find out that I am not the only one to sit on the tractor and make tractor sounds while playing with the steering wheel!          

[Stoney]

LOL, reminds me of when I was little . I'd climb up on daddy's equipment and make all kinds of sounds. The combine was an army tank sometimes and sometimes it was a fighter jet. The cotton picker had more levers than everything else so it was my spaceship when I played astronaut.  Guess kids don't do that anymore since they have video games now.

Stoney.

[tbird]

  Truthfully Stoney,  I think they lack imagination today to do the things we did.  Sometime in the last 40 years or so the American children had their imagination taken out of them.  I know I had very few actual toys when I was real little so a couple of 2x4 blocks, a few pieces of short wire, a nail and maybe a few knock-outs from the old electrical boxes (my Dad built houses) was a whole toy box for me.  With just those I built what I imagined as cars, space ships, tanks, jeeps, ships, planes and factories.  I bombed em, flew em, drove em, built em and enjoyed em.  Now it is PS3, X-Box, real R/C toys and notebook computers along with 200+ channels.  No more imagination to stay occupied,  now it is hitch your brain to a data stream and take the ride.   :-(

[Pjames]

Wow!  I'm glad I posted this.  I am so glad to find out that I am not the only one to sit on the tractor and make tractor sounds while playing with the steering wheel!          

When I had a tractor (as an adult) to play with I'd sit and sing the theme song to "green Acres" ..well in my head anyway... 

I remember as a little kid first couple years of elementary school, we had a drainage ditch running (with flowing water) behind the houses. At both ends the water was deep and dirty looking to us kids, but in the middle it was only a few inches deep. We'd go out and make dams. Also had our 'construction toys making all the things in the sand. plus the Army men thing..

 i remember minnows in the water which fascinated all us kids. But there is NO way I'd allow my kid ar grandkid to play in that ditch today...

I remember terms like infantigo ?? and ringworm and of course every now and then a kid would get boils... (which is a staph infection..) but back then it was part of growing up...

[rhashell]

True about todays kids I grew up without TV and I'm now raising my 4 year old without TV. Everyone always coments on how smart he is and how creative, I strongly think it is because he learned to entertain hisself. Trow the TV out and get them in the garden!!! In the winter he is in the barn workshop making things.

[tuttimato]

I certainly think all that stuff we used to do as kids made us more well rounded adults.  While we were playing, we were learning to think, to improvise, to fill in the gaps with our imaginations.  We didn't mope around saying we were bored because a parent was at home to find us something to do.  The last thing on my parents minds was worrying about me being entertained.  We used to all sit down at supper and I loved trying to impress my parents with what I'd learned at school that day.  I wonder how common that is now days.

[Texan]

T-Bird your account of growing up was like reading my own writing. 2X4 Blocks and Bricks comprised most of our fleet.
Old boards, hammer and nails we salvaged and straightened so we could use them again and we would build a fort or tree house.
We had one tv and one channel and it went off at 10:30. Got the test pattern after that. I can probably count on one hand how many hours of tv I watched until I was 18.

Sure am glad I got to grow in the country. If swimming in creeks and ponds will kill you I would be long gone years ago.   

[ashlogcreek]

Ya'll forgot the most important part:    The big holes under the house where the dogs slept...IF you could get the dogs to move over, you could use the water hose and fill up the holes and make your own ponds, to use your  make believe sail boats, and your make believe bulldozers on and in.   

[Stoney]

Yeah, and we knew where every blackberry, huckleberry and wild plum patch was and exactly when they'd be perfect for picking. Mama would send us with buckets to fill but there were some full bellys that came back with them too.

[Texan]

Yeah, and we knew where every blackberry, huckleberry and wild plum patch was and exactly when they'd be perfect for picking. Mama would send us with buckets to fill but there were some full bellys that came back with them too.

You got that one right. My brother and I knew what was behind every rock and tree within five miles of where we lived. There was a large pond about 5 acres on a ranch back behind where I grew up. The pond dam on one end was covered with black berry bushes. We used to pick berries by the bowl full. My mom would make us a fresh berry cobbler. And occasionally a real treat we would get some vanilla ice cream to go with it. Man, were those the days or what.
I had a couple of horses growing up. There was one particular place along the side of an old road that was loaded with native plums. We would ride over there on the horses and ride up under and alongside the plum trees and eat till we could not hardly move. Also knew where all the muscadines where in late summer.