Anyone Growing a Garden This Year?

Logs · Post by **Logs** » Wed. Mar. 25, 2015 5:40 pm

Thanks for the info labman ill give that a try. I guess using tires would be comparable to buckets.. The guy that told me about the buckets never mentioned straw, but that sure seems easy . Thanks

Starting Out · Post by **Starting Out** » Wed. Mar. 25, 2015 6:09 pm

No garden for me EVER. I worked on a farm for 7 years for $2.25 per hour when I was young. I swear I will never ever plant anything.

labman · Post by **labman** » Wed. Mar. 25, 2015 10:45 pm

By planting on top of the soil, it negates some of the problems experienced due to heavy types of soil that restrict their growth. If you have as much trouble with birds as was mentioned by someone, you must live in a bird sanctuary! This is the least labor intensive method I know of. Other than buying them. The 11-52-0 will almost double your yields, and it is organic.
Good luck.

labman · Post by **labman** » Wed. Mar. 25, 2015 10:57 pm

Starting Out wrote:No garden for me EVER. I worked on a farm for 7 years for $2.25 per hour when I was young. I swear I will never ever plant anything.

WOW!! $2.25 an hour!! A lot of us would have loved to have made that much. Baled hay ALL DAY long for $.50 an hour in the 1960s, and a lunch time meal of ham sandwich and mint tea. Then put the hay up in the mow after dark when it was "cooler". Never regretted that hard work or what I learned. Just wish I could still do it, but I am disabled now days and can't work!

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 4:59 am

Indeed LM. This will be my 2nd plantin/hayin season down in 70 yrs & I hate it. Hope to be back at it in 2016. Ya either love it or not. Just the work ethics part is way so impt in this day & age. Kids have gotten way to lazy! 50 cents & damn grateful along with a decent meal.

That's 100 bales on the old chevy--broke a leaf spring that day.

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 6:38 am

Can't say that I can ever remember getting paid by the hr to work on the farm. Paid weekly @ $40 + house to live in,then in 1976 I married my wife ,we got $150/week + house. Those were indeed the "good" days.Our garden helps us keep in touch with those good times without it overburdening my Lyme ravaged energy level too much.

labman · Post by **labman** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 11:41 am

windyhill4.2 wrote:Can't say that I can ever remember getting paid by the hr to work on the farm. Paid weekly @ $40 + house to live in,then in 1976 I married my wife ,we got $150/week + house. Those were indeed the "good" days.Our garden helps us keep in touch with those good times without it overburdening my Lyme ravaged energy level too much.

We were what is now termed as "day labor". The farmers would show up at the local greasy spoon for their breakfast and decide if they needed help that day and how many. So it was a wait and see type thing.
That wasn't too bad a deal for 1976 in terms of pay and housing. I remember it well; 2 kids, a wife, a house payment, car payment, and 2 full time jobs to support my "habits"( all of the above). Went to work for Grove Cranes in 1970 for $2.25 an hour plus .20 shift premium and thought I was rich! Worked 7 12 hour days every week welding. Still remember my first check where I cleared $100.00. Oh how times have changed! My kids are grown, but won't leave home? They help out some if you push it! I know when I'm dead and gone they won't give a rat's ass about what was important to us. The farm will be sold and they will be on easy street till the money runs out!
Then, maybe, they will have to revert back to what they had to learn from the old man???

labman · Post by **labman** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 11:51 am

freetown fred wrote:Indeed LM. This will be my 2nd plantin/hayin season down in 70 yrs & I hate it. Hope to be back at it in 2016. Ya either love it or not. Just the work ethics part is way so impt in this day & age. Kids have gotten way to lazy! 50 cents & damn grateful along with a decent meal. That's 100 bales on the old chevy--broke a leaf spring that day.

Yes it sucks for sure! I worked 7 days a week at my job, and tried to farm and garden till 2013. Then Kidney disease and a heart attack brought me to my knees, literally! Now I can get tired thinking about what I need to do next.
Just like the sign at the top of the highest point of a roller coaster says! "It's all down hill from here!"

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 11:58 am

The $150/wk was the gross pay,still wasn't bad considering housing,free milk & some other benefits. The farm life is all I knew those days,it was hard work but not much of a rat race as the general population lives. Gardening for us helps us slow down mentally & enjoy life a bit more .

Logs · Post by **Logs** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 12:13 pm

Ahh the good old days. My mother always says getting old aint for sissys and boy is she right.i can't remember a time when nothing hurt. It seems once you body let's you down and you get starrted on meds , it is one thing after another. I think the best medicine is keep moving if you can.. We didn't get like this from sitting on our ass. Cabin fever huh Fred

labman · Post by **labman** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 2:14 pm

It seems once you body let's you down and you get starrted on meds , it is one thing after another. I think the best medicine is keep moving if you can..

Spoken like someone that doesn't require them to survive for another day. Heart meds for blood clots, fluid pills and chemo for the kidneys. Not too much of a choice now is there? It sure isn't my idea of living!

Logs · Post by **Logs** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 4:34 pm

Sorry it sounded like that, I do require them to survive. I had , still have blood clot in leg . UPMC said I had gout, as it turned out I had growing clot from calf to thigh. As it started breaking up it went to my lungs. I'm taking blood thinners to stay alive. All I'm saying as hard as it is , if you can, it's best to keep moving. Any day above ground is a good day. Try to make the best of it . I hope you feel better soon.
Dave

labman · Post by **labman** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 6:03 pm

Logs wrote:Sorry it sounded like that, I do require them to survive. I had , still have blood clot in leg . UPMC said I had gout, as it turned out I had growing clot from calf to thigh. As it started breaking up it went to my lungs. I'm taking blood thinners to stay alive. All I'm saying as hard as it is , if you can, it's best to keep moving. Any day above ground is a good day. Try to make the best of it . I hope you feel better soon.
Dave

Everyone has their cross to bear. I always said I was on top of the mountain; but one day that mountain would be on top of me! Happens to us all.

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Thu. Mar. 26, 2015 7:55 pm

You 2 are making me feel older than my 58 yrs.,kidneys,liver,neither one of them is working as they ought to be for me. Stronger doses of herbal brews is hopefully going to get them functioning at the proper level again,& hopefully soon.Lyme ain't bad enough to live with ,gotta have lazy kidneys too.!! I have always said that I will garden even if I have to drag myself around to do it,hope to put that off till I am older than 80,if my kidneys will go that far.

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