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Just can't help it.

20 years ago

There are times when all you can say is that you feel happy. HAPPY!!! My ideas work. I cant help but laugh at Julbelie watermelons growing out of a 2 liter bottle. ThatÂs right 2 liter. IÂve got cantaloupes growing on the fence out of 3 liter bottles. A WHOLE STRING OF THEM!! The potatoÂs are lifting the media right out of the 10 quart buckets. IÂve got plans on how to make mushroom shaped pumpkins and heart shaped watermelons. ThereÂs so much going on in my garden. This time IÂm growing Sweet corn from the market. Dried the corn myself. Got a 50% germination rate. Have a 164 growing now. I have 2 walls of tomatoÂs, beefsteak, roma, brandywine. IÂm growing every pepper in the market. Every melon, every orange, tangerine, lemon, grapefruit all in 2 & 3 liter bottles. ItÂs called Dark Gardening. And IÂm standing in the sunlight smiling. Also I have a method of growing that will extend my growing season into Dec. from zone 6

Comments (6)

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Wow, do you have pictures?

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Yeah! Gotta see, too! How do you grow 164 stalks of corn in containers?! Your growing all sorts of things I simply assumed I couldn't grow using containers. There are a lot of free web sites and Photo Albums you can use on the web to upload pictures! We just gotta see -- and learn! Please! Please! Pretty please! LOL

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Hello
    Allow me to introduce myself. My Parental given name is George Davis. My Earth given name is Christian Warlock.. Im an Artist, Photographer, Capricorn, Humanist, Computer nerd, Metamorph and Plant person. And because you touched my Artist spirit I thought Id answer. Im not a Terry bear but I liked the idea of using a teddy bear to explain this process. A Magical Teddy bear . That space behind that picture of your Teddy picnic. On the gate. Moon flowers. Just hang it from the gate. In the same space that you use to fill that space from the gate to the corner with those large containers I could put 100 plants. Thats right Mrs. Teddy 100 of what ever you want. Flowers, medical plants, herbs, Tropical plants, palm trees, potatos am I missing something. Tomatos, corn, egg plant, peppers, cabbage, collards, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, citrus, pumpkins. Little Teddy bears I can make you a magical garden right out of your own imagination. You can chase the big people under leaf and down paths with gentle flower scented breezes. The big people can pick cantaloupes for breakfast. You can thump the watermelons to tell them when their ready. And as you carry the things you grew yourself back to the picnic, you pick a tomato and feel good.

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  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I see the nice pictures but I dont see how you feed and water anything or any corn on those stalks, when do we get to see that.

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Interesting. I guess depth and food can yeild as much as area. Nice, thanks.
    Amy

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    We can tell! We can tell! Thank you, so much for writing to us! Most the time when we go on forums, Mommy types for us, and everyone usually thinks they're typing back just to her! We're so pleased you know we are here too! The whole Teddy Bear family thanks you! (We work so hard!) Thank you for the pretty pictures! Can't wait to show everyone tomorrow! (It is late, and most are asleep!)

    As for Dangsr2's questions -- we can tell! The bottom of two liter bottles is like a funnel, downward, when the bottle is upside down! Makes it easy to water into the soil! And, since the bottles are sitting upside down in their carrying cases, the tops just need to be unscrewed a little (I'm guessing you don't take the tops completely off) to let the water drain through! Brilliant! And Mommy and Daddy drink lots and lots of soda! All we have to do is convince them to go back to drinking out of 2 litter bottles this winter!

    ::::::::::The Garden Gals run over to the calculator, figuring out 1.5 bottles per day for the winter....ummm, do I stop typing now?::::::::::

    Ummm, sorry about that. They were here a minute ago, telling me what to type, but you got them so excited... well, they just left me here. LOL

    I can tell how you did the corn, (did you pollenate manually, or did you really have enough for them to pollenate naturally? I've wanted to grow popcorn ever since my brother did it when we were young! LOL) and can see there is enough soil to grow each stalk, but does it work for tomatoes too? Is there really enough soil in a single 2 liter container to grow a melon vine? Cukes? Potatoes? (How do you get the potatoes out?!) The Garden Gals grew a huge sunflower last year. (It's on the same page of the original web site mentioned in my profile with the two youngest "Garden Gals" climbing on it. They're 5" tall, to give you an idea how big it was.) It was so big that the root still hasn't even started to decay yet. I took it out of the compost pile because it was like having a large branch in there. It wouldn't even fit out of the top of a soda bottle. You actually had enough soil and room to grow it out the bottom of one?

    The Garden Gals are so excited they're bouncing! (Not a good thing, since Valentine T. Bear is a rabbit, is prone to bouncy naturally, so gets quite hyper when she gets this excited. LOL) I'm quite excited too, and, even seeing it, I'm still not sure how it can be enough soil for so many big plants! LOL

    I'm aware that many reading this don't really understand our references to Teddy Bears, but, to clarify, check out my info on my member's page, and click onto my website too. It makes more sense. Also, Really loving to garden (even if I'm terrible at it), I had to start another site just about my garden, but, since I am a bit "imaginative" about my stuffed animals too, the theme continues on to both web sites (and a blog too, but that's a different story...sorta. LOL) Below, I'll include the link to the latest web site devoted to gardening and "Garden Gals," but please be patient. It's still gardening season, so I'm having trouble getting it all set up. Some pages are still blank, and I have to explain the page names on the first page when I'm finally finished setting it all up. Hope you enjoy, and, please, do take this good naturedly. I might well be a few cards short of a full deck, but I promise I have kept the jokers. LOL If I'm crazy (and crazy people never think they are, so I'm not sure LOL) at least, I'm harmless -- well, unless you're a plant, apparently. LOL

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