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Hi Everybody!
A big thank you to all the warm welcomes. This seems like such a friendly group; I'll fit right in
@ Denim Deb - I live in central CT, practically dead center of the state. Fairfield is 45 minutes southwest from me.
My neighbors had nicknamed me "gopher" because I was digging (and planting) so much LOL. Now that I'm disabled, my methods have changed drastically. No more digging holes and squatting down for me. I have a vegetable garden that is about..... 15' wide x 25' long.
Half of it is dedicated to both red and yellow raspberry bushes. The other half is veggies.
This past year I had tomatoes, various peppers, basil and oregano, and eggplant.
I also have a perennial flower bed up against the chain link fence that seperates my side yard from the back (hard to explain) and on that fence I planted a bunch of butternut squash and sugar baby melons. The squash did great; i'm still eating it, but watermelon did awful!
Hidden behind my fence I have 4 raised bed gardens (this is where my meat rabbits are kept). 2 of them to are used to vermicompost all my rabbit manure (poop + worms = black gold) and the other two are for planting. Last summer was my first year of raised bed gardening and I dont think I utilized the space as well as a could have/should have. One was dedicated mostly to herbs. I'm a totally bland and boring cook and I hoped that planting the herbs would motivate me to look up new recipes on how to use them, but that never happened and instead they were all fed to the rabbits (lucky rabbits). Hopefully, next year I'll actually use some! The other had sugar snap peas, pole beans, strawberries, lettuce and cucumbers. I planted scallions/bunching onions but they didn't come up??? I fed the snap peas and pole beans to my rabbits and my neighbor, let the lettuce grow too long - it bolted and became bitter and ate a couple cucumbers but gave most away. I'm BORING in the kitchen and could use some real inspiration (and a kick in the butt )
This state is horribly expensive. I want to move so badly but dont have a single dime to set aside each month toward every being able to do so.
Not to mention - when I became disabled I had a tremendous amount of medical bills (which I'm still *trying* to pay). Most are in collections which put my credit rating in the toilet. Trying to rent or buy a home anywhere would be nearly impossible because everything is based on credit, regardless of why things got that way..... Someday i'll move... Someday (hopefully).
I'd be happy to post some photos of my gardens and furry critters if someone could point me to the right direction.
Again, thank you for the kind welcome, it really made me happy. Oh, one more thing - I had no idea I had any replies to my initial post until I signed in today (I was sad thinking I had none ) I did click "subscribe to this topic" thinking I would get an email notification when someone replied, but i haven't gotten any. Help?
A big thank you to all the warm welcomes. This seems like such a friendly group; I'll fit right in
@ Denim Deb - I live in central CT, practically dead center of the state. Fairfield is 45 minutes southwest from me.
My neighbors had nicknamed me "gopher" because I was digging (and planting) so much LOL. Now that I'm disabled, my methods have changed drastically. No more digging holes and squatting down for me. I have a vegetable garden that is about..... 15' wide x 25' long.
Half of it is dedicated to both red and yellow raspberry bushes. The other half is veggies.
This past year I had tomatoes, various peppers, basil and oregano, and eggplant.
I also have a perennial flower bed up against the chain link fence that seperates my side yard from the back (hard to explain) and on that fence I planted a bunch of butternut squash and sugar baby melons. The squash did great; i'm still eating it, but watermelon did awful!
Hidden behind my fence I have 4 raised bed gardens (this is where my meat rabbits are kept). 2 of them to are used to vermicompost all my rabbit manure (poop + worms = black gold) and the other two are for planting. Last summer was my first year of raised bed gardening and I dont think I utilized the space as well as a could have/should have. One was dedicated mostly to herbs. I'm a totally bland and boring cook and I hoped that planting the herbs would motivate me to look up new recipes on how to use them, but that never happened and instead they were all fed to the rabbits (lucky rabbits). Hopefully, next year I'll actually use some! The other had sugar snap peas, pole beans, strawberries, lettuce and cucumbers. I planted scallions/bunching onions but they didn't come up??? I fed the snap peas and pole beans to my rabbits and my neighbor, let the lettuce grow too long - it bolted and became bitter and ate a couple cucumbers but gave most away. I'm BORING in the kitchen and could use some real inspiration (and a kick in the butt
)This state is horribly expensive. I want to move so badly but dont have a single dime to set aside each month toward every being able to do so.
Not to mention - when I became disabled I had a tremendous amount of medical bills (which I'm still *trying* to pay). Most are in collections which put my credit rating in the toilet. Trying to rent or buy a home anywhere would be nearly impossible because everything is based on credit, regardless of why things got that way..... Someday i'll move... Someday (hopefully).
I'd be happy to post some photos of my gardens and furry critters if someone could point me to the right direction.
Again, thank you for the kind welcome, it really made me happy. Oh, one more thing - I had no idea I had any replies to my initial post until I signed in today (I was sad thinking I had none
) I did click "subscribe to this topic" thinking I would get an email notification when someone replied, but i haven't gotten any. Help?
