From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Boron Elgar wrote:   
   > songbird wrote:   
   ...   
   >>  always some new adventure...  :)   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I consider your last statement as something that should be printed on   
   > every gardener's t-shirt.   
      
     one reason i really enjoy gardening is that it puts you   
   in close contact with the world and if you're observant you   
   can really have a lot of fun figuring out how to get a crop   
   from various plants.   
      
     my own biggest things to enjoy planting and growing are   
   strawberries, beans, tomatoes, onions, garlic, squash,   
   melons and peas.  add in some greens and you've got a   
   pretty good chance of getting something to work out and   
   you can often pick varieties that will survive bug damage   
   and diseases and other things that happen.   
      
     i've been gardening most of my life and as of yet while   
   some issues are a challenge we've not had complete failures   
   because we do grow a variety of things and also because we   
   have fences.  if we didn't have fences the deer would do a   
   lot more damage to the vegetable crops.   
      
     i work mostly with growing and cross-breeding beans.  i   
   have a lot of different gardens and different soil conditions   
   so that makes me able to evaluate a lot of different varieties   
   and to try things out.  this past spring someone from Poland   
   adopted two of my cross-breeds so this has been fun to see   
   my babies blooming on another continent.  :)   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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