Rural Gardening: Welcome Newbie's introduce yourselves , 1 by texasrockgarden

texasrockgarden wrote:
Good Morning - I just did the one year thing here on Dave's Garden after a 2 month trial subscription. I have been active on some of the other forums and just recently started reading threads on this forum. It looks like a fun place to hang out.

Will 8 cats entitle me to membership to this forum? LOL

My parents were both farm kids coming off truck farms and grew up during the depression. As we all know farmers didn't suffer too badly, food wise, during the Great Depression. I can't remember any time that my folks didn't have a beautiful vegetable garden. Of course my Mom always worked her magic on flowers and all sorts of other plants outside the V garden.

Growing up with dirt (and some other stuff) between my toes instilled in me the desire to always want to get back to the natural way of life. At different times over the years my wife and I, along with two boys, have had some great gardens, sheep, goats (the most fun), rabbits (best eating and great fertilizer), chickens, turkeys, guineas, dogs, and cats.

Now, after about 10-12 years of not having a garden and having recently retired (2006), I have decided to get back into it again. I am currently expanding my old garden and enclosing it with a new deer proof fence. The idea is to complete the fencing within the next 12 weeks and get the old part of the garden planted this Spring. The plan is to have the new section ready for Spring planting in 2010.

I look forward to spending time on this forum.

SEYA

Jerry