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Old Oct 16, 2007, 09:42 PM
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Perna, I wanted to tell you how interesting the idea of using a child's wagon to put a garden. One time when I first moved here, my friend had a old trailer with high sides, that the bottom had partially rotted away. I covered the holes with pieces of tin, added a layer of small gravel, and then soil. I put it in the sun and grew a fine crop of tomatoes and cucumbers, onions and squash. Of course letting the squash vines grow down the sides of the trailer. But the tires went flat and so the trailer could not be moved as easy and is now used for storeage. I also attempted to grow strawberry plants. I build a three tiered tower from a length of rubber curbing and built up the layers dirt and planted 25 plants. I did everything right, but lost them over the summer due to to much rain. So for every five plants that grow there are always going to be some you lose. Some you try to grow are ones that are not suitable for the area of the country in which you live. Like I was determined I was going to grow a fruit tree that the nursery told me would not grow in southern FL., they grow in Georgia. But I bought them anyways and they grew all winter long and come summer with our humid weather and constant rain and they died. So of course always listen when you are told something won't grow in your area, but don't always believe them when they say it will. The best chart is by following the growing zone numbers when in doubt. For me it is a 10 or 11. Going north of me is a 9, and so forth. The charts can be found on most any seed catalog. Oh, and that is my favorite thing, receiving those seed catalogs every Spring. Of course I cannot grow most of whats in the catalogs, but I can look page by page and I can dream.
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