The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for July 27, 2014

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 10 years ago

    That’s enough room to grow a salad. One. Salad. You notice their neighbors on either side have high hedges. It’s to block the view of them in the pool. Can you imagine living next door to these idiots?

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    mikie2  over 10 years ago

    Yeah, right. They’re going to eat veggies. Joy is going to freeze and can. From that garden. Has the Rapture come and I not notice?

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    Laura Gildwarg  over 10 years ago

    I remember this one from a couple years back. It’s still just as funny now as then. What’s so sad is that I’ve known people like that. What really gets me giggling, though, is the idea of Joy doing anything like canning! Bwahahaha! Up until my arthritis crippled me we had a huge garden, done in the ‘square foot gardening’, raised-bed method, and we DID have enough for me to ‘put by’ — and my pressure canner was one of the best investments we ever made. I still use it to make jams, jellies, pickles and the like. The only thing that didn’t last until the following year was the tomato sauce — that got gobbled up within about two to three months. But the beans, peas, peppers, zucchini and beets lasted until the following spring. We had root crops (turnips, rutabagas, carrots, etc.) that we’d keep overwinter, too. Having said all that, if Burl and Joy applied themselves to that small patch, did companion planting and put in successive, rotated crops, they COULD actually get a good bit out of it. But since when have the Pennys applied themselves to anything — other than stuffing their gobs full of Twinkies, Hohos, DingDongs and Stouffer’s?

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Plant a few zucchini plants and they will be able to feed the neighborhood. (as if)

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    loveslife  over 10 years ago

    Wait till the pool water spills over when all 6 get in, there goes the garden. The birds are going to starve in this one. I bet he planted 1 seed of each veg.? Anyway they won’t tend it, it’s too much work. So is weeding,,and watering.

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    loveslife  over 10 years ago

    Wait till the pool water spills over when all 6 get in, there goes the garden. The birds are going to starve in this one. I bet he planted 1 seed of each veg.? Anyway they won’t tend it, it’s too much work. So is weeding,,and watering.

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    Peam Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I think the 15 mins Rototiller rental is up – when will they take it back?

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    shamest Premium Member over 10 years ago

    The lazy jerk . He went and bought a rototiller for six by six plot.

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 10 years ago

    A little late in the summer to be starting a garden now.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago

    A “Victory” garden?No one has said anything….I’d thought Burl and Joy were younger than me….but what baby boomer plants a Victory garden?

    Dry…. as for Stouffer’s … yeah, nothing wrong with it now and then.Not too healthy as a main diet.Problem is the Pennys consider Stouffer’s lasagne ’home made from scratch."Hate to see what they eat the rest of the time!

    And Dani…. one tomato plant feeds several families?Love to live where they’re that magical!

    I have to put mine in pots (5 gal) and they don’t get enough hours of sun…so I know I have to plant 3 times as many as I would elsewhere to get the same yield….

    But still… I have dozens of tomato plants to get enough for me!

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