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Gardening

shraby

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7. We're just hoping the well point will give enough water this year..we had a pretty dry winter with

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:32 PM

Apr 2012

not much snow..maybe we'll get a bunch of rain soon..we got 2 inches the other day. Without the point, we'll be hardpressed to water that much garden space. City water would be too expensive.

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We let 4 ladies each have a large plot for gardens each year. Here is what theirs looked like [View all] shraby Apr 2012 OP

that looks like a very productive garden zeemike Apr 2012 #1

They like to plant early, so the area is already tilled up for them (and also on our side) shraby Apr 2012 #2

Woah! Way cool! kr OffWithTheirHeads Apr 2012 #3

It is very kind of you to share land for gardens Curmudgeoness Apr 2012 #4

They know enough English and they sometimes bring a daughter with them and the shraby Apr 2012 #5

Good people always find a way to pay you back. Curmudgeoness Apr 2012 #6

We're just hoping the well point will give enough water this year..we had a pretty dry winter with shraby Apr 2012 #7

drip irrigation and mulching. n/t tru Apr 2012 #8

Hard to do when they broadcast most of their seeds, then tend to plant in between what comes up. shraby Apr 2012 #9

Soil looks like S.E. coastal area. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #10

It's Manitowoc Wisconsin area right about a block from Lake Michigan. shraby Apr 2012 #11

Oh yeah. I got a rental car stuck in that kind of sand. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #12

Sand is a bad thing to get stuck in. Easy to dig your way in deeper instead of out. shraby Apr 2012 #13

Yeah and it was a LOOONNNGGG walk back to civilization to look for a tow truck. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #14