Gardening isn't for me

[lovemachine]

Well I pay the same folks to hunt and fish for me.

I will admit that's a skill I wish I had learned.

 

[churchmouse]

I will admit that's a skill I wish I had learned.

Those are a skill that takes a lot of time/effort.
If you love it you will make the time and take the effort.
If not you will cruise the local butcher shops.

Did a lot of hunting/fishing as a kid. We had a place to do it. Not so much anymore.

 

[bwframe]

This is the time of year where a lot of us get reminded that we have spent too much time on the couch.
Tilled for two hours today also. Run the dumb end of the shovel and wheel barrel for a couple/three hours more later.
Pace yourself.

First real picking this morning. This is why we do it:

 

[thunderchicken]

My tiller is a 1968 Front tine that Dad bought new. It has had the engine replaced with a Harbor freight 6.5 HP Honda knock off.
If you stay in one place, let it dig in deep with the drag bar down it will eat anything in front of it.
If you try and run the top you are in for a really rough time.

Dad has some old tiller that was my grandads but it leaks fuel like crazy. This thing I rented didn't even have any kind of reverse on it so whenever I had to back up and make another run over an area it was manual drag back up. It was full on fight the machine the whole time

 

[churchmouse]

This is the time of year where a lot of us get reminded that we have spent too much time on the couch.

First real picking this morning. This is why we do it:

 

[bacon#1]

And when complete......bacon!!!!!

https://youtu.be/-zAkabmbeIw


I don't know why but I just like this guy.

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

This is the time of year where a lot of us get reminded that we have spent too much time on the couch.
Tilled for two hours today also. Run the dumb end of the shovel and wheel barrel for a couple/three hours more later.
Pace yourself.

I did the first turn on my garden yesterday and I hurt all day today...need to hit it again to get the soil where I want it...

 

[Spear Dane]

I once got the bright idea to get a tiller like that and be all green and crap. Never. Again. Ever. Veggies magically appear in the Kroger produce section in my current worldview.

 

[CindyE]

A "no till" garden is better for you and the soil. Check out the thousands of references on how to do it on google. I tilled my garden in 28 years ago and have not touched it with a tiller since then. My worms and bio-infrastructure are very happy.

I do something similar to this: https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-make-a-lasagna-garden-2539877
Sometimes it looks kinda ugly, mostly in the winter/early spring when not much is growing. It does make good soil, and I am over any desire to buy/rent a tiller.

 

[Expat]

This is the time of year where a lot of us get reminded that we have spent too much time on the couch.
Tilled for two hours today also. Run the dumb end of the shovel and wheel barrel for a couple/three hours more later.
Pace yourself.

First real picking this morning. This is why we do it:

I am a week or two away still. I love fresh strawberry season...

 

[bwframe]

I am a week or two away still. I love fresh strawberry season...

Strawberry/rhubarb preserves made yesterday. Wonderful on toast this morning.

 

[churchmouse]

Strawberry/rhubarb preserves made yesterday. Wonderful on toast this morning.

One of my all time favorites.....

I would use this on pancakes/waffles over syrup any day.

 

[Expat]

Never was a big fan of rhubarb... the wife likes it though.

 

[CindyE]

Mmmmm... rhubarb/strawberry pie...

 

[churchmouse]

Never was a big fan of rhubarb... the wife likes it though.

Done properly with Strawberry's or cherry's it is great.

 

[femurphy77]

T/C, My tiller is about 6' wide and had a 44 hp Kubota on the front end. Rear tine really IS the way to go.

Winner, winner!!! The GF tills her own garden now

 

[myhightechsec]

Y'all are crazy. I buy my produce from Kroger...

There is something magical about biting into a Russian Krim or Cherokee Purple tomato that tastes like nothing you'll ever get from the supermarket. It's as if every good possible thing about a tomato was distilled and put into that bite.

 

[edporch]

Reminds me of a funny thing that happened several years ago when a friend of mine's brother attempted to til their mom's garden.
He'd never used a tiller before.
It was a front tine tiller, and he was a little skinny guy.

When he attempted to lower the blades into the dirt, they just grabbed the ground and pulled him running across the garden.

He kept turning around and trying it again, and every time it dragged him running across the garden, and with every try, we were all laughing more.

By this time, after trying it several times he was exhausted, and WE were all laughing so hard we could hardly stand up!

So his brother (my friend) took over and did it.

We laugh about that story every year about this time.