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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77461 05-04-2012 03:19 AM

SSSSHHHHUUUUUSSSHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OP don't you know you're a slave to the MAN if you work?

Everything is supposed to be provided and free WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!

**Enaid nli** lop guest User ID: 14189 05-04-2012 03:19 AM

Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

**Grendelmort**

Sunny Wrote:

Grendelmort Wrote:
Here is a tip: Put several of those solar powered garden lights in your garden. They will attract bugs at night, which in turn attracts good predators like spiders, lizards, preying mantis ect .... that will hang out in the garden for a good meal.

I have a solar light next to a plant outside in my yard and that plant is eat up I guess by a caterpillar. That light isn't helping that all!

All places may not have the good insects and reptiles around. Invite them - leave a low wattage light on at night (something brighter than the solar light) to give the good critters an invite.

**Malu**

Enaid nli Wrote:

Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

nuthin like knocking around a hoe

those do work pretty slick, i've had every type a hoe you could imagine

chuckle

**~ BloodRed NLI ~** lop guest User ID: 18489 05-04-2012 03:30 AM

Enaid nli Wrote:

Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

~ HI. I'm Enaid's hoe. LOL... sorry, sorry, jk, had to... I spent ALLLLLL day (JUST got in NOW, was out there at 7:30 am, to beat the sun and skeeters)... WEEDING. Soil amending. Turning compost.

~ Tomorrow's the day I plunk in some goodies... hoping the soak-down we'll get tonight will be enough to take out/away SOME of the fresh soil 'heat'.

~ WAS going to make a LONNNNNNNGGG thread today, about my time away, but to be Honest, I can barely type lol... on top of that: have any of y'all ever gotten a 'trowel blister'...?? A frikkin' TROWEL blister?!?!?! LOL... Owwie, owwie. Ow. Ow.

~ =P

Ptime2

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 14189 05-04-2012 03:31 AM

Malu Wrote:

Enaid nli Wrote:
Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

nuthin like knocking around a hoe

those do work pretty slick, i've had every type a hoe you could imagine

MALU!!!

Good to see you.

**Glass of Orange Juice** lop guest User ID: 78235 05-04-2012 03:32 AM

I've been blowing weed smoke at my tomato plants for 30 minutes and nothing happened.

**Enaid nli** lop guest User ID: 14189 05-04-2012 03:35 AM

~ BloodRed NLI ~ Wrote:

Enaid nli Wrote:
Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

~ HI. I'm Enaid's hoe. LOL... sorry, sorry, jk, had to... I spent ALLLLLL day (JUST got in NOW, was out there at 7:30 am, to beat the sun and skeeters)... WEEDING. Soil amending. Turning compost.

~ Tomorrow's the day I plunk in some goodies... hoping the soak-down we'll get tonight will be enough to take out/away SOME of the fresh soil 'heat'.

~ WAS going to make a LONNNNNNNGGG thread today, about my time away, but to be Honest, I can barely type lol... on top of that: have any of y'all ever gotten a 'trowel blister'...?? A frikkin' TROWEL blister?!?!?! LOL... Owwie, owwie. Ow. Ow.

~ =P

Ouch!
Well, let me warn you - getting old sucks.

I couldn't garden for 2 years - because of physical probs/surgeries. etc.
Of course - none of the men in the house kept the gardens up.

So I have 2 years of weed matt to remove. I only garden an hour every day - to prevent my old bones from aching.

Trying to teach my 10 month old pup not to eat the flowers in the back yard. lol So, I got nasty tasting marigolds. - it worked. But he still stomps on them.

**Enaid nli** lop guest User ID: 14189 05-04-2012 03:39 AM

Wadsworth Shillington Wrote:

I've been blowing weed smoke at my tomato plants for 30 minutes and nothing happened.

Bogart. lol

Do not get tobacco near tomato plants. -- Forgot the reason. Some fungus or sumtin.
Tomato plants don't like to have their leaves sprayed with cold water. Aim it to the ground.

Nor does a potted tomato like dry feet. Avoid using terra cotta pots for them. (I learned the hard way.)

I've trellised them on a chain-link fence. Sharing them with my neighbor.

**Glass of Orange Juice** lop guest User ID: 78235 05-04-2012 03:42 AM

Enaid nli Wrote:

Wadsworth Shillington Wrote:
I've been blowing weed smoke at my tomato plants for 30 minutes and nothing happened.

Bogart. lol

Do not get tobacco near tomato plants. -- Forgot the reason. Some fungus or sumtin.
Tomato plants don't like to have their leaves sprayed with cold water. Aim it to the ground.

Nor does a potted tomato like dry feet. Avoid using terra cotta pots for them. (I learned the hard way.)

I've trellised them on a chain-link fence. Sharing them with my neighbor.

It's alright they weren't even my tomato plants.

I'm actually not sure who they belong to but I have to be in court on Monday per this officer currently speaking to me...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94462 05-04-2012 03:43 AM

Malu Wrote:

Enaid nli Wrote:
Once I get the soil ready for the season - I easily take care of the weeds with a stirrup (sp?) hoe.

I also let the ready soil - sit a few weeks. I water it - if needed to encourage weed seeds to sprout. Then I knock em back with my hoe.

nuthin like knocking around a hoe

those do work pretty slick, i've had every type a hoe you could imagine

The famous MALU! Ever get that fifty?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94459 05-04-2012 03:43 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

SSSSHHHHUUUUUSSSHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OP don't you know you're a slave to the MAN if you work?

Everything is supposed to be provided and free WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!

Damn, that how it works?

I sort of figured if the nazi commie pricks hadn't of spoiled the world, everyone would have something to do.

Guess the politicos aren't any worse than the lying thieving pos on the inet tho, now are they.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94457 05-04-2012 03:43 AM

Umm , no you dont. The hardest part of my gardening is picking all the vegetables and thats not hard, its fun.

72 plants - red tomatos - brown tomatos - peppers- pole beans- swisschard - collards - asparagus . No weeding and it only takes me 25 seconds to water all 72 plants right to their root system.

I feel sorry for those who garden the old way.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93274 05-04-2012 03:55 AM

Here's some better tips than OP's:

Setup up a keyhole Garden, minimal maintenance:

http://www.raw-food-health.net/RaisedVeg...arden.html

Do not buy pesticides.... merely get an ashtray of cigarette butts and pour water over them and let them sit for approximately 2-3 days... then put in pray gun and spray over plants... (nicotine is a pesticide)

Do not kill the biota (bugs) in your soil, the health of your soil determines the health of your plants.

And just a friendly reminder, Roundup destroy's DNA so you shouldn't be using it, and be passing the word around.

Hugs

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93274 05-04-2012 03:56 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Here's some better tips than OP's:

Setup up a keyhole Garden, minimal maintenance:

http://www.raw-food-health.net/RaisedVeg...arden.html

Do not buy pesticides.... merely get an ashtray of cigarette butts and pour water over them and let them sit for approximately 2-3 days... then put in pray gun and spray over plants... (nicotine is a pesticide)

Do not kill the biota (bugs) in your soil, the health of your soil determines the health of your plants.

And just a friendly reminder, Roundup destroy's DNA so you shouldn't be using it, and be passing the word around.

pray gun = spray gun.... chuckle