Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for May 07, 2012
May 06, 2012
May 08, 2012
Transcript:
Rose: I took your advice mom...I made my garden a manageable size this year!
Meemaw: It was the right decision, Rosie... It takes a few seasons to know your limits!
My Mothers house garden was over half an acre. (What’s 80 m x 50 m?)I used to have to water it after school before I started homework.Would not have minded the effort (it was ok, kinda Zen and contemplative), but she was always giving it away to impress her friends. A quarter that size would have been too much, even with her copious and wonderful bottlings. Having said all that, I would love to spend an afternoon holding the hose in that garden now.
I had on the size of Meemaw’s last year and this year, it’s smaller than Rose’s. It was TOO much work. I still have frozen and canned veggies from last year’s garden.
The hoe is not touching the ground, if so it would cast a shadow from where it seems to touch the plants. It’s not casting a shadow there, it’s shadow is lost in her own shadow.
We have a veggie garden, too. Not sure if it really saves us money, but my veggie taste better. Why? ‘Cause my veggie’s aren’t picked green to ripe for later sale. Yummy…our tomatoes actually taste like tomatoes!
We had a garden while I was growing up. I hated weeding the thing, but oh! The food tasted so yummy every summer and fall, and then eating what was put up during the winter and spring. Now I grow veggies, fruits & herbs in a “container garden” because I don’t have a place of my own to grow a regular garden. Hardest thing about container gardening is keeping the neighbor kids out of the strawberries.
dkendraf over 12 years ago
You mean Meemaw has limits? Nah, she can do EVERYTHING!
Ottodesu over 12 years ago
My Mothers house garden was over half an acre. (What’s 80 m x 50 m?)I used to have to water it after school before I started homework.Would not have minded the effort (it was ok, kinda Zen and contemplative), but she was always giving it away to impress her friends. A quarter that size would have been too much, even with her copious and wonderful bottlings. Having said all that, I would love to spend an afternoon holding the hose in that garden now.
Doctor11 over 12 years ago
That’s one thing that I love about the summer, my mom planting her garden in the front yard for everyone in the neighborhood to see and enjoy.
Sharon Hayes over 12 years ago
I had on the size of Meemaw’s last year and this year, it’s smaller than Rose’s. It was TOO much work. I still have frozen and canned veggies from last year’s garden.
dfowensby over 12 years ago
don’t buy burpees. 6 plants came up out of 12 packs of seeds.
tarheelnil over 12 years ago
she rested the blade of the hoe directly on some plants? She must still be learning her limits
Ron Cavin over 12 years ago
The hoe is not touching the ground, if so it would cast a shadow from where it seems to touch the plants. It’s not casting a shadow there, it’s shadow is lost in her own shadow.
The Life I Draw Upon over 12 years ago
A quarter acre of food beats a quarter acre of inedible grass any day of the year.
hippogriff over 12 years ago
Rone2: And unless they are in the tropics, the sun is never going to be directly overhead. Cartoon physics, again?
VirginiaCityLady over 12 years ago
We have a veggie garden, too. Not sure if it really saves us money, but my veggie taste better. Why? ‘Cause my veggie’s aren’t picked green to ripe for later sale. Yummy…our tomatoes actually taste like tomatoes!
dkendraf over 12 years ago
We had a garden while I was growing up. I hated weeding the thing, but oh! The food tasted so yummy every summer and fall, and then eating what was put up during the winter and spring. Now I grow veggies, fruits & herbs in a “container garden” because I don’t have a place of my own to grow a regular garden. Hardest thing about container gardening is keeping the neighbor kids out of the strawberries.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Mom has limits but her garden doesn’t!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
@Penny Robinson Fan Club,Mom is outstanding in every way!
Zaristerex over 12 years ago
Rose is taking care of a manageable-sized garden this year. That must mean her garden last year was way too big!