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How many plants of each veggie for 2 people?
Comments (8)if you're new to gardening, consider starting small. If your garden is too big the first year while you're still learning (everything is hardest the first year and gets easier each time you do it again) you will have a lot of frustration and be more likely to experience a failure that will sour you on gardening forever. That said, I garden for two. I can get by (for summer) with 4 tomatoes (a cherry, a slicer, a plum, an early), 1 summer squash (and this is too much, I'd plant a half of a summer squash if I could), 10 ft. row of pole beans, 20 foot row of pole peas, two cukes (which is too many), a 12 foot row of carrots, a 4 foot row of green onions, a couple jalapenos and 4 bell peppers. I don't can or freeze any of this - I always have way too many tomatoes. In addition I plant an eggplant, lots of lettuce, spinach in spring, and 4 or 5 broccoli. I grow tons of garlic as well - don't know if zone 5 is good for this. For herbs, I plant two parsley in spring and eat them until they freeze out in about January (zone 8). I like to make pesto in summer and freeze lots for winter, so I plant 16 sweet basil and take multiple harvests from them over summer. I plant a couple of thai basil as well as a couple cilantro and dill. The perennial herb bed has a sage and a rosemary and some mint that I am perpetually whacking back to keep it under control. You'll probably find it really useful to keep some notes - your garden plan, and then what you had too much of and not enough of. Was 60 carrots enough, or could you have eaten twice that? Were you drowning in summer squash and can plant less next year? that sort of thing. Good weather to you!...See Moremaybe a tiny OT, but when asked why you have so many bulbs
Comments (17)Thanks guys. I'll probably be printing this thread out and passing it along. ;-D Well I think that for the next little while, every new client is going to entitle me to money in the bulb fund. I've been telling myself that I could gift some of the bulbs I'm ordering, but I may decide that its not reasonable to give them away before I've seen them bloom myself. he he In the meantime, I've cleaned up the far side of the house and set up shelving against the west wall so I have plenty of room to winter my seedlings. Genez...See MoreSo how many flats do you have on the go so far?
Comments (5)I have about 6 or 7 flats started and mostly doing well. I have 28 tomato plants just put into separate pots (3 varieties: Black Krim, Iidi and Padova). Also, there are 3 flats of coleus, one flat with cuttings from last year's favourites and the other 2 with new seedlings. I'm trying for ones with a lot of yellow in the leaves but not having much luck. But I do have one rather small and weak one with almost completely black leaves. Probably the colour is why it's not growing very fast (not enough chlorophyl),but it seems healthy. I also have lots of baby primulas of 3 kinds. Two sets are in the cold frame as they are from last year, and the others are auriculas from this year. I got the seeds from France and had quite poor germination so I'm watching the plants I did get really closely. For unusuals, I have seedlings of things I collected in parks and nurseries locally. They didn't care if I collected seeds, so I went wild! Now I have red yuccas, pineapple lilies, phormiums, pearly whites (a local wildflower) and eryngium agavafolium.I also have 3 different kinds of penstemons, but while growing, they're very slow and tiny. Let's hope at least some of them survive!...See MoreHow do Mean people have so many friends?
Comments (60)Last week I saw a list of top 10 careers that have the most sociopaths/psychopaths and lawyer was high on the list. The litigator relative sounds like he fits in well with this group. You cannot change sociopathy or shame these people into better behavior. Look up narcissist personality disorder, for instance. Many entertainers/celebrities and politicians, etc. fall into this disorder. They can be charming personalities, but are toxic and selfish to no end. Avoid these people. Unfortunately, not many people have guts enough to get evil relatives out of their family get-togethers. There are many reasons for behaviors and choices people make: negative/dangerous personality disorders, or autism-spectrum disorders which cause people to not understand "polite" social rules, abuse and neglect from childhood, damage from past bullying, maintaining a bad attitude/complaining or choosing an attitude of optimism/gratitude, lack of education, a reaction to loss, or just a mental disorder not of their own choosing. It's a matter of what family/environment/gene pool people are born into, with what abilities and attitudes and choices they make as life goes on. I use my judgment about other people's behaviors and words to gauge who I want in my life. People who work to be positive or move ahead regardless of what happens to them are at the top of my "welcome" list. Attitude is life and death to well-being, so I don't accept manipulations/negativity/gossip. My BFF and I help each other through our bad days and try to laugh through our difficulties when possible, but we also deal with our problems. Watch an episode of Hoarders and see how the hoarders live in a state of denial in the face of mountains of trash and stinky filth. Their mental health, maturity and choices as life has happened are reflected in their living conditions. Fascinating to see their thinking, but has to be hellish to live with....See More
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