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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:06 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:56 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:36 pm
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- Xena's Adventures in Gardening -
Round 1:
When I was little, my sister and I wanted to grow flowers. My dad went through the trouble of setting up this neat watering system for us under a tree and built two plots for us. Squirrels ate everything that sprouted no matter what we did.
Round 2:
I absolutely love the idea of vegetable gardens. When I was in high-school I decided to start my own veggy garden and I had everything all planned out: Location, layout, pest control, group growing, etc. . .
I picky a half sunny half shady spot next to my house, fenced the entire area in chicken wire and strung fishing line overhead to keep out crows and waited until planting season. Then I tilled the soil and replaced half the topsoil with Miracle Grow Gardening Top Soil. Finally I planted my stuff: Watermelons, cantaloupe, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, corn, broccoli, lettuce, onions, parsley, sunflowers, and carrots.
After a couple weeks everything sprouted and I did a happy dance. A few more weeks later, everything was still sprout tiny and had no growth of any kind except the strawberries and tomatoes. Seriously! I might as well have had a freaking bonsai garden with how much the plants grew! They had plenty of room, sunlight, fertilizer, and water but except for the tomatoes everything was miniaturized! I Ieft the plants alone for then entire season thinking maybe they just take a really long time to grow but they never did! They went from the end of February to October without getting much taller, the corn and sunflowers were barely a foot high! Then they all suddenly died one day as if there had been a frost but it's still pretty warm in FL in October! crying
Only the tomatoes thrived even long after I had abandoned my garden.
I know my yard is fertile because wild plants grow like crazy and got a boost from the goats I used to keep. Black berries and scuppernog grapes grow abundantly like nobodies business!
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:37 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:56 am
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Does no one else in this guild have some funny anecdotes?
I'll insert some Redneck tree removal gardening.
Remember this Law of Lulz: If you see a group of Rednecks gathered together with the purpose of accomplishing a major DIY and there is beer and/or heavy machinery involved, GRAB A CAMERA and stand a safe distance away.
Once upon a time, three pine trees, that were joined at the base, suddenly fell down behind my house. They were so close that had they fallen forward instead of to the side, they would have broken the house clean in half like tissue paper. There was a fourth pine tree next to them that had my mom worried would soon fall on the house right over my bedroom so she told my father to get rid of it. Rather than search for a tree removal specialist and pay big bucks, my dad called his Redneck buddy who brought along his obligatory pick-up, brother, father, chainsaw, and of course a six-pack of beer.
Their plan was to tie the tree to the truck with chains and have the truck pull it away from the house with two men controlling it on ropes and one person sawing the base. Sounds simple right? Well the tree decided to troll them and spun around like a ballerina before falling entirely in the opposite direction, pulling the truck and men with it for several feet and landing on the branch of an ancient oak tree.
Since the tree could still roll down the branch and damage the house, they decided it had to be cut down. So one idiot brave soul went up the oak tree to cut off the branch the pine was resting on. Instead of cutting it off at the trunk, he climbed out to the middle (with no safety gear) where the pine tree had landed, completely forgetting about the effects of gravity on long bendy objects and what happens to said bendy objects when their weight burdens are suddenly removed. The second he cut through the branch, he was instantly catapulted ten feet into the air (chainsaw still running) with his arms and legs flailing madly and then dropped straight down to the hard, hard ground (roughly 20-25 feet including the 10ft launch) with the chainsaw barely missing him.
It was a bit scary to watch when it happened but since no one was badly injured and nothing was damaged except for the oak tree, I can't stop laughing insanely every time I remember it. To save a hundred bucks on tree removal, they risked thousands of dollars in repairs and medical expenses.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:29 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:24 pm
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