On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:18:54 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:53:07 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:44:05 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:51:39 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:38:12 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:01:12 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:42:40 -0800 (PST), Roy >
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 2:59:15 PM UTC-7, Jeßus wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:40:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> >Tonight's dinner: leftover grilled, skinless, boneless chicken breast,
>>>>>>>> >probably sliced and served on a salad of some sort. Or, if I'm
>>>>>>>> >feeling really low-energy, sliced and dropped into a bowl of
>>>>>>>> >hot, buttered, nuked, previously frozen green beans.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nice. Tonight we're having a small pork rolled roast, probably with
>>>>>>>> mashed potato, garlic and some fresh chives, baby broad beans (fava
>>>>>>>> beans) and rainbow chard from the garden.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Sounds great...I haven't had Swiss Chard for ages. I miss gardening but my health problems kind of interfered.
>>>>>>>====
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks. Shame that health issues have stopped any gardening for you,
>>>>>>chard is very easy to grow (but I'm sure you know that).
>>>>>
>>>>>Chard is easy to grow but a lot of physical labor to harvest because
>>>>>it's on the ground... however chard grows well in large pots. Many of
>>>>>my neighbors are elderly and/or not in good health however they garden
>>>>>with raised beds. Chard will grow well in window boxes on a
>>>>>deck/patio. Container gardening is very popular. It's easy to grow
>>>>>tomatoes, peppers, etc, in a bale hay in a plastic trash bag.
>>>>
>>>>I've decided to convert most of my vegetable garden to raised beds
>>>>sometime next year. My lower back isn't great (digging definitely
>>>>aggravates it) plus raised beds will reduce the amount of weeding
>>>>significantly.
>>>>
>>>>As you say, Roy could possibly grow chard in pots.
>>>
>>>Not knowing the nature of Roy's health limitations I would suggest he
>>>start small. perhaps a couple of five gallon contractor's buckets...
>>>and those can be set on dollies.. easy to fabricate ones own with some
>>>scrap lumber and some casters/wheels from a hardware store or on line,
>>>I've bought from:
>>>http://www.servicecaster.com/
>>>http://shepherdcasters.com/
>>>Also from Amazon:
>>>https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&pag...rd%20ca sters
>>>I've changed the casters on our computer chairs to a wider and larger
>>>diameter, the casters that come with computer chairs are too teeny and
>>>ruin the chair pads.
>>
>>Deck gardening is simple and rewarding. I started my deck garden when
>>I was very ill. You can sit for everything you need to do. Very,
>>very little weeding is needed. My source of pots was my local
>>nursery/garden center. They always have pots they are discarding.
>>Lots of the pots had trees in them and therefore are fairly large. But
>>all size pots are available. The springy, coiled hoses to carry water
>>are a blessing for a deck garden. You can add a water turnoff right
>>at your feet on the deck. All you really need is someone to carry
>>those initial bags of potting soil to you from your vehicle.
>>http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4knee7zu.jpg
>>There are more pots out of the photo on left and right. Everything is
>>mixed together. I'm going to cut back in 2017. It has grown much,
>>much bigger than seen here. I've got to exercise some restraint.
>>Janet US
>
>Looks very nice but a lot more than someone with health issues can
>handle. I clicked through all your photos, if that's you in Haiti
>you're hot!@ 
You can do a whole lot better than that ancient
>looking Bubba Clinton. hehe
>http://s1171.photobucket.com/user/ge...4bc12.jpg.html
I had serious health issues "when" I started 10 years ago. I started
with a pot of petunias, parsley and a geranium. initially it was to
attract hummingbirds to watch. Time passed, garden grew. I thank you
for the compliment. That's my daughter. She started a program in
Haiti right after the big earthquake. She is working with villagers
in the hills to establish from seed, shade coffee groves to bolster
their income. (currently, her high school senior son is putting
together a DNA profile of some ancient coffee trees that are there
with a view to locating more of the same) She makes many trips a
year and annually takes a group of her university students along. Her
2 sons go along as well. Everyone works for 2 weeks. It's a good
way, a better way, to demonstrate the issues of poor countries and
poor people.
Janet US