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That's what grandma called it when she went through her seed drawer to see what she had saved to plant and thumbed thru the seed catalogs to see what she wanted. Grandma meticulously planned her garden every year. She commonly had pa plow about 3 acres every fall and plant it in oats, she had 5 adult children and a dozen grand children to produce good healthy food for. Whatever she didn't use she told pa he could plant in pumpkins to feed the hogs or hickory cane corn if he wanted any. She preferred the old trucker's favorite white field corn. She always made a point to order a few seeds from the burpee catalog and the shumway catalog to insure they sent her a new picture catalog next year. She was always looking for something new to enter in the Putnam county fair, she always had entries in many categories and always placed or won on several. I remember the prize money was $1, $2 or $4 per category and she always paid for next years garden out of that prize money.
Today grandma would be beside herself with all the colorful seed catalogs that show up at the popcorn household, she would be perplexed at the different varieties of tomatoes and peppers!
Not to worry grandma, winter gardening has began, already have 3 seed catalogs and the shumway catalog is already marked. Just sent in my order for my replacement asparagus sets to make sure I get in early and get the best of the variety I want.

God I miss you Grandma, Thank you for giving me love where there was none, Thank you for making me the man I became…
One day soon I will be there to once again help you in your garden.
 
Good read....already studying on the next garden as well...hoping to add three more raised beds to complete our fenced in garden.area...added a 3 bay compost bin and another raised bed last year...looking forward to getting started.
 
Yep same I also want to build 2-3 more raised beds and compost bin this year. Looking forward to this garden season. Ordered blueberry bushes and raspberries to plant this year also.
 
both sets of my grandparents taught me to garden among other things. some things i miss, drink fresh milk and churning butter, rendering cracklings in a big cast iron kettle over a wood fire, the ham smell of a salt box and the smell of the smokehouse, the buzzing of the apiary in spring, pulling a ear of silver queen and eating it right there in the garden, the smell of indian peaches on the drying racks, etc.

some of us were lucky i guess.
 
Took advantage of the weather this weekend and topped up my raised beds with peat moss, compost, and hardwood mulch. Been adding my ashes from my wood stove and smoker charcoal and next will be bone meal and pelletized lime.
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Popcorn said:
Took advantage of the weather this weekend and topped up my raised beds with peat moss, compost, and hardwood mulch. Been adding my ashes from my wood stove and smoker charcoal and next will be bone meal and pelletized lime.
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Wow that is nice. Did you do all beds at once? Do those boxes have filtered/screened bottoms or is the bottom open?
 
Was just thinking the same thing. Need to top off our current raised beds and we are also planning to add three more beds this year so I need to get busy. We have two compost piles at the barn ready and a 3 bay compost bin near the garden area that has 2 bins ready...I collected the ashes from our fireplace clean out last year and divided them between the beds and plan to do the same this year...looking forward to getting started!
 
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Wow that is nice. Did you do all beds at once? Do those boxes have filtered/screened bottoms or is the bottom open?
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Thanks, no, I did this over about 6 years in thirds. Yes I put down heavy duty ag landscape fabric. It's a spun product rather than the woven. Extremely durable.
The metal wrap over the wood sides helps retain moisture I learned.
 

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