WOW! we NE gardeners are a talkative bunch!

we made second place in postings this past week!!!!! do we talk too much???? acording to DG newsletter we made 1,100 posts this past week!!!!! that's a lot of talk!!!!

I know dh says I talk too much LOL

I don't think I am as yappy here as I am at home LOL

Well ya know Victor came back from vacation, I think that put us back up there. Hmmm #2 after games. Games shouldn't count, that's not gardening stuff. Let's face it the NE gardeners have the biggest mouths, no contest. Where else would you find a nonsense thread. What is going to happen when we all have cabin fever this winter?

I post a lot since I can't talk to hubby about any garden topic, he has no clue, gets that glazed over look.

I resemble that remark, ngam!! Not only the nonsense thread, but the 'backspace' thread attempt too!! Same here Jen - my wife has less than zero interest in gardening.

That's what I thought Victor. My DH tries to get it about gardening, he thinks it looks nice. :) Only other addicts reeeally get it.

Yes, only we would drink the Kool-Aid.

lol... my family is the same... my mom was telling me today that I should have LESS plants and only really strong roses etc... ah!!!!! I wanted to pull my hair !!!!! so I just ignored the comment and continued to take pictures!!!!!

we are a great group... no question about it!!!!

So do we all want to be cremated and returned to the ground as compost??!!! Not right away, I might add.

Well eventually it would happen......

lol!!!! I wish I could be burried just in the ground...just a pine box!!!

And come back as a rose, Kass??

lol!!! or just feed tons of roses.....

Ugh! What a morbid thought!!

Anna (DD) and I really get the gardening thing. Her DH thinks he does. Little Taelar knows that the most important thing about gardening is to find the worms and then give them to the flowers!

Pine box here also and pushing up daisy's

Cremation here. Undecided about the ashes. Just don't want any of the Rolling Stones snorting me.

That would be Greatful Dead High on cocaine, Cassiy Jones you better watch your speed.

Sounds like trouble ahead!

or trouble behind!

Compost me - please! Ashes to ashes, dust to tomatoes! Better by far than soylent green.

Don't want to feed the masses directly? Better than the pet food coming from a certain country these days.

People on NE forum do not talk too much - it's just that we are a highly creative, insightful, intelligent group (must be the water).

If anyone needs evidence of this, just read the preceeding postings (lol)

lol..... I like what you said Michaela.... we are a smart bunch!!!!!!

Forget the cremation - straight to the compost pile! I already told my DH that's where he's going, lol!

ngam is right - if we talk this much now, what will it be like in winter? It's so nice to have a place to talk gardening with people who appreciate it!

:)
Dee

exactly

I want one of those funerals and entombments they had in Chicago and New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Good for florists and stone masons. It is said the floral bill for Frankie Yale's funeral in 1928 was $37,000. Imagine that. Over $400,000 in 2006 dollars.

David_Paul, DG currently had 320,764 members...if we all send in $1 we could start a fund LOL. but it would have to be designated for your funeral. no spending it on plants.

grampapa....sounds like a plan to me. Be OK to buy plants however (perennials ONLY please!). Be more economical than getting flowers at the last minute.

Important also to get a wide variety of plants so no one will be disappointed if I die after their tulips or lilies are gone. Don't know if there are any stone masons around but maybe the hypertufa people could do the mausoleum. Check out this seven foot tall hypertufa planter Goldfinch4 made:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/754849/

Not as grandiose as I had in mind but its a start.

Of course the danger here for me is some might be a little too eager to see their flowers and artisanship on display.

When DD and I drove across the continent to get to Massachusetts we played my funeral music on the CD player. It is the happiest music I know (written by John Williams, from the film "Empire of the Sun")

I think of death as a butterfly finally emerging from the cocoon - hence the happy music. I will definitely be cremated. Why? To minimize the amount of land dedicated to cemeteries that could be used for gardens instead. Flowers are nicer than gravestones.

Besides, generally 3-4 generations after a person has died, no one knows anything about them anyway, so why pretend they will? I hope to immortalize myself not with a gravestone, but with a garden in the terrace, after I am gone, no one will remember me - but hopefully the gardens will remain. That seems like a good legacy. I figure I have the next 30 years to work on it (assuming I am not booted out of the country)

Butterfly

WHAT? I don't know where to put this. I thought these scum sucking tomato horn worms were just tomato lovers. Now they are on the green bell peppers !

A lot of old roses have been saved because of cemeteries. That having been said I think if the world population continues as it has been, there isn't going to be any space for such things. How long will gardens be tolerated as spaces for beauty and wildlife? I hope humans will always save space for such things and I hope the next generation of people on this earth will do a better job of caring for it than we have so far. Going back to compost sounds good to me.

wow... we are a talkative bunch... I can just imagine what this coming winter is going to be... we know each other better and I think we are going to win over the games forum... and it's right they are not talking about gardening!!!!!!

Well, to be honest, a lot of the NE threads are not about gardening too, Kassia. Like this one. And sometimes they start out about gardening, but get waaaaaaaaaay off topic.

Nancy, I just saw a pic of a green pepper plant, a butterfly, and a comment on roses in cemetaries in the last couple of posts...gardening talk!! we manage to squeeze it in.

would you believe I've been growing tomatoes for 20 years and never seen a tomato hornworn? would you also believe I haven't picked a ripe tomato yet? lots of grape tomatoes, but no big ones. I lost quite a few to blossom end rot and have some big ones on the vine now, but very green yet. agggh!

btw, it's nice to see you posting here in NE a little.

...just some roses ;0)

beautiful roses, grampapa
What's their name?

Face it we are all mostly obsessed with plants dirt and bugs, so it has to creep in from time to time. Pretty roses! :)

Ngam... lol.... I have never heard it that way before... but you are right!!!!

lol!!!

Is Kass still in bed with her laptop??

Everyone here has an obsession of some kind. Most probably more than just gardening. I know I do.

Kass you still multi tasking?