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In reply to the discussion: Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)forget to water, gotta make it a schedule. I read organic gardening books from the 40s and 50s and just planted stuff I wanted to cook with. But the real secret to all the gardening is to never quit, and put enough in the ground that the successes out do the failures, because you will have both. And when you kill something off, just start again and go a little further next time. You will have your crop successes and failures, and you will learn as much by the ones that grew from the plants you threw away in your compost bin as the ones that did well in the garden
Some of the best plants in my garden right now in early spring are garlic bulbs that I forgot were there what are outpacing some of the certified ones I planted, and some kale that kind of died back in the winter and is now putting off seed heads (which are great sauteed with some young garlic shoots and mixed with scrambled eggs) like mad - neither one planted for that. It's amazing how much early free stuff there is in your garden if you don't clean it all out at the end of the season.
I didn't start doing it to garden. I started it as a place to think, but it got a little out of hand. Myles Horton, union organizer and civil rights activist in the 40-60's ran the Highlander School in North Carolina, one of the places that Rosa Parks studied.
When he wasn't working he was often in the garden. He saw what it took to disrupt what was there, seed something new and grow it, and I think he used that as a thinking laboratory for what he did with real people, so I thought it would be a good thing to learn how to do.
And it has been.