Re: Garden

From: Dave Smith <adavid.smith_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:40:23 -0400

Cindy Fuller wrote:

> Many years ago I brought home seeds and plants for my grandfather's
> vegetable garden. I introduced him to snow peas, snap peas, and
> eggplant. He always had bell peppers, squash, sweet corn, bush beans,
> pumpkins, and tomatoes.
>
> Cindy, whose yard is too shady for much of a garden

When I first moved here I have a good sized vegetable garden. I grew carrots, peas, snow peas, beans, tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, yellow beans, rhubarb, raspberries and asparagus. There were some trees along the north side, but they were not yet big enough to block the sun. It was bad enough that I had an eternal battle with weed, but over the years the garden got worse and worse. The problem turned out to be a couple of the trees being black walnuts. It seems that they emit some sort of toxin.

My brother had a nice little garden. A small black walnut tree established itself just on the other side of the fence in his neighbour's yard. As the walnut tree got bigger his garden started dying off, even the rhubarb. Two years ago the neighbour cut the tree down and my brother's garden is starting to produce again. The rhubarb finally produced enough last week for him to make a pie. Now he is having a pool installed and has to move the rhubarb, so it will take another year or two to re-establish itself. Received on Sun Jun 01 2008 - 07:40:23 PDT