Comments on: Sodbusters http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/ Ill-Advised Insomniac Incantations Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Carroll http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1565 Carroll Fri, 18 May 2007 16:26:45 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1565 Wow. My back hurts just looking at those pictures! Actually, my back hurts because we've been doing almost exactly the same thing -- only bigger! It's a continuation of the re-landscaping project started, and abruptly terminated, last year the weekend I broke my ankle. We are long-overdue for an overhaul of all the over-grown beds in and around the house. Not sure if there will be time or energy left for vegetables, and we're a little late for that down here now anyway. But I do have two potted tomatoes just waiting for the right spot. Keep posting pictures as that project progresses, Phil -- it's very inspirational! Wow. My back hurts just looking at those pictures!

Actually, my back hurts because we’ve been doing almost exactly the same thing — only bigger! It’s a continuation of the re-landscaping project started, and abruptly terminated, last year the weekend I broke my ankle. We are long-overdue for an overhaul of all the over-grown beds in and around the house. Not sure if there will be time or energy left for vegetables, and we’re a little late for that down here now anyway. But I do have two potted tomatoes just waiting for the right spot.

Keep posting pictures as that project progresses, Phil — it’s very inspirational!

]]> By: Roberta de Boer http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1563 Roberta de Boer Fri, 18 May 2007 12:10:01 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1563 What an ambitious project you've set for yourselves. My hat is off to you all! When my husband and I moved into our house 21 years ago, we felt the need for a wee bit more privacy from our neighbors, so we rimmed our property with white pines. In the subsequent decades, they have grown so mighty they now shade most the backyard: Oh, dear, not enough sunlight for gardening! Tsk. What a pity. Guess we'll have to buy veggies from the market and find something else to do with our "free" time... (This is what I call excellent planning by two people who, despite the guilt feelings, do not want in their heart of hearts to weed *anything*.... Now you perhaps see why I'm in particular awe of you!) What an ambitious project you’ve set for yourselves. My hat is off to you all! When my husband and I moved into our house 21 years ago, we felt the need for a wee bit more privacy from our neighbors, so we rimmed our property with white pines.

In the subsequent decades, they have grown so mighty they now shade most the backyard: Oh, dear, not enough sunlight for gardening! Tsk. What a pity. Guess we’ll have to buy veggies from the market and find something else to do with our “free” time…

(This is what I call excellent planning by two people who, despite the guilt feelings, do not want in their heart of hearts to weed *anything*…. Now you perhaps see why I’m in particular awe of you!)

]]> By: janet http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1557 janet Fri, 18 May 2007 00:01:29 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1557 I'm impressed. We try every now and then but because I love tomatoes and peppers, we never have much luck around here because of the sun (or lack thereof). So in our garden plot, we have strawberries and herbs and in pots on our deck go tomatoes and peppers where they get more sun. I’m impressed. We try every now and then but because I love tomatoes and peppers, we never have much luck around here because of the sun (or lack thereof). So in our garden plot, we have strawberries and herbs and in pots on our deck go tomatoes and peppers where they get more sun.

]]> By: robin andrea http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1555 robin andrea Thu, 17 May 2007 23:33:40 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1555 I like all the hard work you put into your garden space. I hope you'll update us with pictures of many wonderful green things, tendrils and shoots everywhere. Good luck, and happy gardening! I like all the hard work you put into your garden space. I hope you’ll update us with pictures of many wonderful green things, tendrils and shoots everywhere. Good luck, and happy gardening!

]]> By: Molly http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1554 Molly Thu, 17 May 2007 17:12:49 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1554 Nice garden! Now all you need are some city chickens! I'll be following your blog now to see if St. Fiacre has as much mojo as our garden deity of choice, the goddess Bhride. SPIN farming was a new one for me. "It is the first method to adapt commercial growing techniques to sub-acre land masses." Great. Are those the same non-sustainable techniques (monocultural, intensive usage without any recovery time for the land) that got us into this mess in the first place? Nice garden! Now all you need are some city chickens! I’ll be following your blog now to see if St. Fiacre has as much mojo as our garden deity of choice, the goddess Bhride.

SPIN farming was a new one for me. “It is the first method to adapt commercial growing techniques to sub-acre land masses.” Great. Are those the same non-sustainable techniques (monocultural, intensive usage without any recovery time for the land) that got us into this mess in the first place?

]]> By: roger http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1553 roger Thu, 17 May 2007 14:03:19 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1553 no starting small for you folks. go for the big time. you certainly have worked up an appetite by now. we look forward to pics of the growing stuff. i recommend mulch. highly! gardening must have some counterpart to the old saw about firewood warming twice. (once when cutting and splitting, once when burning). no starting small for you folks. go for the big time. you certainly have worked up an appetite by now. we look forward to pics of the growing stuff. i recommend mulch. highly!

gardening must have some counterpart to the old saw about firewood warming twice. (once when cutting and splitting, once when burning).

]]> By: larry http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1550 larry Thu, 17 May 2007 01:47:17 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1550 well i have and maintain seven acres in carbon sequestering Loblolly pine trees and the only way to go is with mechanization. but i planted every one of those thousand some trees by hand just because i wanted to. great for the lower back muscles. opened up the shop door the other day to go out and weed around my beloved trees and a copperhead snake raised it's head ready to strike only twelve inches away from my naked leg. ever seen a fiddler crab backpeddle? that was me... heart rate up to max Scotty! i have over three acres available (free) for you gardeners to work so i don't have to maintain it. well i have and maintain seven acres in carbon sequestering Loblolly pine trees and the only way to go is with mechanization. but i planted every one of those thousand some trees by hand just because i wanted to. great for the lower back muscles. opened up the shop door the other day to go out and weed around my beloved trees and a copperhead snake raised it’s head ready to strike only twelve inches away from my naked leg. ever seen a fiddler crab backpeddle? that was me… heart rate up to max Scotty!

i have over three acres available (free) for you gardeners to work so i don’t have to maintain it.

]]> By: Marcia http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1546 Marcia Wed, 16 May 2007 15:57:20 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1546 Much more attractive than the area right behind my house where it looks like a bomb went off. New septic tank and the removal of two mammoth 75-year-old box elders. I wonder if there's a patron saint of septic tanks... In case St. Fiacre is oversubscribed, one gardening tip I'm passing along this year to every gardener I know: Haxnick's Easy Fleece and Easy Net tunnels available from Garden Talk here in the East and Seeds of Change out west. I'm using the first to reduce insect damage and the second to deter deer, rabbits, etc. Leave it to the Brits to come up with such nifty garden stuff. Much more attractive than the area right behind my house where it looks like a bomb went off. New septic tank and the removal of two mammoth 75-year-old box elders. I wonder if there’s a patron saint of septic tanks…

In case St. Fiacre is oversubscribed, one gardening tip I’m passing along this year to every gardener I know: Haxnick’s Easy Fleece and Easy Net tunnels available from Garden Talk here in the East and Seeds of Change out west. I’m using the first to reduce insect damage and the second to deter deer, rabbits, etc. Leave it to the Brits to come up with such nifty garden stuff.

]]> By: Phil http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1535 Phil Tue, 15 May 2007 16:40:30 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1535 If your pronunciation is the least bit imprecise, "St. Fiacre" can easily come out "St. Viagra". Go with what suits you! If your pronunciation is the least bit imprecise, “St. Fiacre” can easily come out “St. Viagra”. Go with what suits you!

]]> By: babette http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1534 babette Tue, 15 May 2007 15:41:05 +0000 http://perilsofcaffeineintheevening.com/2007/05/14/sodbusters/#comment-1534 I'm a Lutheran, so I think you and yours are all saints, with or without your good work(s). May your garden be fertile! I’m a Lutheran, so I think you and yours are all saints, with or without your good work(s).

May your garden be fertile!

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