hahabogus wrote:

> Kate Connally > wrote in news:f6dlke$kko$1
> @usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:
>
>
>>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>>On Jul 2, 4:38 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The black raspberries are in so I drove out to Schramm's
>>>>Farm Market and got a pint. (If I could have afforded it I
>>>>would have bought all they had!) Anyway, I got some heavy
>>>>cream on the way home and for dessert last night I had a
>>>>giant bowl of berries with sugar and cream. Yum!
>>>
>>>
>>>I picked a couple of quarts out of my raspberry patch yesterday.
>>>Probably will get a couple more quarts Wednesday. They're
>>>dead easy to grow--do you have any space?
>>>
>>>Cindy Hamilton
>>
>>Not really. And, anyway, for me "dead easy to grow" would
>>be something on the order of hiring a gardener to do it. ;-)
>>I'm not much into plants - I mean, I like them and all, but
>>I hate gardening. I did a tiny bit of it when I first moved
>>into my house and didn't have my arthritis yet. You know how
>>people plant maybe 2-3 tomato plants and then end up with
>>bushels of tomatoes that they can't even give away? Well,
>>I did that and got one tiny ripe tomato and about 3 unripe
>>ones that I picked just before the first frost, figuring
>>they were never going to get ripe! ;-)
>>
>>I did have some luck for a few years with some red currants
>>but they got some disease and died. I like plants that you
>>can plant and ignore and they will bloom or produce fruit
>>forever after without any attention from me. House plants -
>>forget it. If they don't meow when they're thirsty I'm not
>>going to notice and they're going to shrivel up and die.
>>It's pretty pathetic.
>>
>>Kate
>>
>
>
> Look if I can grow raspberries and mint anybody can....my thumb isn't
> green it's black...raspberries rate up there with rhubarb as one of the
> easiest plants to ignore and will flourish.

Uh, I tried to grow rhubarb and it didn't make it. I did
get some the first couple of years but the slugs always got
to it. I even managed to buy some slug bait but always forgot
to put it out until it was way too late. And if I grew black
raspberries the plants would take over my yard and infest the
township property next to me and I would be fined for not cutting
it back. Pruning is not one of my things. Along with weeding
and watering and fertilizing (feeding). I have these mutant
daffodils that I planted when I first moved in. They need to
be fed but I can't be bothered. Now they are quite deformed,
the ones that still come up, that is. The tulips aren't
quite so bad, but they don't really look like they did the
first year. The only thing that grows well with no attention
so far is the rose mallow, however it has escaped the bed I
originally planted it in and is now volunteering everywhere
else. I don't mind. It's better than no flowers. ;-)

Kate
--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?