The Wall Of Shame!! or..Hey! We Ain't Perfect!

Just-Moxie

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Nyboy said:
wow once I had a small snake in my kitchen. I was so upset I ate a handfull of valuim, then got the bright idea to call the bronx zoo looking for mongoose breeders. I wanted Kipling"s Rikki Tikki Tavi. Can't own mongooses in NY.
but you CAN have as mnay rats as you want :gig
 

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Okay, I've got a picture and a sad story . . .

Idaho and Washington are the #1 & #2 potato producing states in the US. You'd think I could grow spuds with some success!!!

Two years ago, I had plants that averaged over 4#/plant. That was pretty good. Last year, it was about 1⅔#/plant and I was in deep depression! This year, I started out with 1#/plant and got worse!!!

Two plants:

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That's 1# total! Or, #/plant! What went wrong?! I just don't know . . .

By the way that is round-leaf mallow growing there with a dandelion neighbor, probably chickweed over on the edge (beside the chicken coop). This is in a sunny part of my "lawn," otherwise known as Lawn Violet Meadow :rolleyes:.

Steve :(
who has lost another 2#, hitting the halfway point in the weight loss goal so . . . there's less of me to disdain :/.
 

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Ohhh, that is sad Steve.... I'm keeping my fingers crossed for my potato harvest. I pulled an early one a few weeks ago and it was somewhere south of spectacular. Like Tierra Del Fuego south.... But maybe it was just a bit too early?

Good job on the weight loss Steve, but I wish you wouldn't just leave them laying around. I think I found them. :rolleyes:
 

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Perhaps I've gotten all of digit'S spuds this year. Most years I plant potato eyes and end up with gobs of aggies, taws, immies, peewees, and alleys. This year most of the Yukon Golds are a good handful of potato - more baseball-size than marble. I suspect the Pontiacs will do as well or better.

Less than perfect? That would be my tiny kohlrabi plants with 'bulbs' that didn't grow as large as a golfball before getting tough and stringy.

No, wait, it would be my broccoli and cauliflower that never developed heads - of course some idiot (no names, please) over-planted the cauliflower with ornamental corn before it had a chance to germinate properly.

Then again perhaps it was my OOPS -- planting the extra onions right on top of already planted shallots. They both came up, but neither had the room to grow properly.

Scratch that, my less than perfect veggie would be the only two spinach plants that grew and bolted before I got any leaves.

Maybe it was the peas. I planted a few Amish and a few sugar-pods with a lot of little marvels. I harvested a few Amish and a few sugar-pods, but not one little marvel! I know the chickens got to the pea bed when I left the garden gate open and they made a mess with their scratching, but I couldn't imagine they would eat only the little marvels and leave the other peas to alone to grow.

No, bad as all those were, my place on the Wall of Shame is earned with my tomatoes. I didn't get them started until Memorial Day and the tiny plants striving to survive in the garden are just beginning to flower. No ripe red (or any other colored) tomatoes for me. Nope! Mine will be ready for harvest and I'll be canning some time in September by latest projections. I plead distress and depression after last year's drought as the reason for not anticipating a 'normal' growing season and getting everything started 8 weeks prior to our last frost. Head hung in shame!
 

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my true shame is the waste. I have all these intentions, but don't get it done. crops come and go & I've got 7 jars of tomato sauce. my head is seriously hung in shame. I read of all the canning/preserving & it inspires me & leaves me in awe - do I follow through? nope. it's just disgraceful
 

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I think this is the time of year that we say "Why do I bother? I could take up a cheaper hobby, like skydiving!" But then right after Christmas we all will be itching to get at the new seed catalogues, and planning yet another gardening year. Next year the garden will be perfect, weedfree, with all heirloom varieties that I get canned and preserved and feed my family all winter. Hope springs eternal in the gardener's heart.:tools
 

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so lucky said:
I think this is the time of year that we say "Why do I bother? I could take up a cheaper hobby, like skydiving!" But then right after Christmas we all will be itching to get at the new seed catalogues, and planning yet another gardening year. Next year the garden will be perfect, weedfree, with all heirloom varieties that I get canned and preserved and feed my family all winter. Hope springs eternal in the gardener's heart.:tools
:lol: Very well said!!!!
 

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Maybe pictures really aren't a good idea, that may be all anyone remembers of me... and there really is more to me than a disheveled garden and undone tasks. No, really! :p

But anyway, what you're looking at here is my version of the Florida weave method. it's probably not going to catch on anytime soon.
The plants are scrawny and not as green as they should be and I have obviously not been keeping up with the weaving. But it was sort of an experiment and since I'm accustomed to losing my plants early from unprotected freezes I really didn't put a lot into it.

I'll be tending to it tomorrow (she says...) as well as pulling all that wheat that sprouted from the straw I mulched with, and the, er, other weeds.

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shameful!
 

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