Re: [gardeners] Where I garden
Rockymrw@aol.com (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:52:27 EST
Hello Gardeners,
I *try* to garden in Upstate South Carolina. We live 25 miles south of
Greenville S.C, about 15 miles from the I 85 corridor(interstate).
My husband has been retired 6 years from the Retail business. I don't know if
I have retired or not since we moved here 25 years ago and I am still doing
the same stuff I did before I moved and since.
We have 22 acres. A 20x40 greenhouse. We grow bedding plants and sell them at
the local Flea Mkt's in the spring to help pay for the heating of the
greenhouse in the Winter. We have a lot of plants each Spring..those we don't
sell , and those I grow for my own garden. Those I don't sell are like when
you are painting a room etc. and have paint left over..you try to find
something else to paint...so it is with the plants I have left. Some years I
have a lot of Marigolds, Salvia , and then again I sell all of the plants I
wanted to keep for myself and end up with something I didn't plan to have
just because I have it on hand and can't bring myself to throw it away!
We have a regular row vegetable garden. Grow all the vegetables, beans,
peas, tomatoes corn, Okra, Lima Beans and Cantalopes and Watermelons. Mostly
we have more sucess
with Cantalopes and sweet potaotes. Fair with tomatoes, never grow very
large Watermelons and are fairly sucessful with the beans. Never have been
able to grow Pumpkins and peanuts with any sucess. We also grow squash, and
peppers,
I grow Salvia, marigolds, Geraniums, Begonias, and petunias, Last year grew
Burgmanise(sp?) from seed, not to sucessfully, also expermint with various
other plants I often hear mentioned on this and the other Garden list.
Also have a lot of ferns, and container plants. So I must Garden on a fairly
large scale...now that I look at what I have written!!:-)
Don't know how it will be this year. Husband is having very serious health
problems, so we may not get to do very much gardening.
The *TRY* to Garden I mentioned at the top of the list means we have a lot
of red clay, rocky soil. We would really like to try the raised beds. Just
never have gotten around to it.
Enjoy this list. Especially Geroge's post. All other's as well, but I do
lurk most of the time.
Happy Gardening to all,
Marie (Upstate S.C.)