Cultural influence

Sure, it’s cultural. But someone explain to me why I should be forbidden to grow vegetables somewhere on my frontlawn, if it is the sunny part?

Good Eats!

Seriously, I’ve always felt that for every few trees planted in landscapes, people really should plant one or two food bearing trees.

Because these scumbag politicans want to control every part of our lives. When I lived in Ohio, I heard a Democrat member of the Ohio house say “People need the government to take care of them”.

I agree! When we came home to the US after many years of living in other countries, one of the first things we did was to plant two peach trees, rhubarb, and put in blackberry and raspberry plants. Our lot is only 50 feet wide! I now have many other things too, as well as a yard. I think it helps that I love to can. Do you know how good a peach smoothie is? Not to mention peach jam, peach butter, pie, cobbler.......

My neighbor across the street did this(square foot gardening) in his front yard. He also planted very atttractive plants and roses “up front”, closer to the street. I thought it was just beautiful—and he always had a ton of veggies that he gave away.—I happen to have a black thumb. He moved away over the winter and I miss his attractive garden a lot. People who have a knack for growing things have my full respect.

How much vodka do you put in your smoothies? I’ve always had trouble with the proportion.

8-foot high corn is ok but 12 inch lawn grass might not be? Is there an ordinance about grass height? Lawn grass would never get that high and corn is part of the grass family. Do some bamboo and wheat as well while you’re at it, those are grasses, too.

Two to one ratio, you decide which is which. =-)

Eddie Albert of GREEN ACRES fame used to raise vegies on his front lawn in Beverly Hills..

***8-foot high corn is ok but 12 inch lawn grass might not be?***

That is because RATS love the grass to hide in.

Corn growing in the yard is a lot more attractive than a car on cinder blocks.

I have 19 beef steak tomatoe plants growing on the west side of my house. They get afternoon sun and I have easy access to the garden hose.

Mmmmm.......peach ice cream!!

I have had a lemon tree or two at every home I’ve ever lived. Can’t imagine buying lemons from a store. In fact, I now have a small orchard of 60 semi-dwarf Meyer’s lemons planted.

Wait until January when no one has cleaned up their beds.

Which is why I appreciate home owners’ associations (standing by for heavy seas)

Hey the corn stalks are great as Autumn decorations. Heck people in our neighborhood, pay farmers for them.

How much vodka do you put in your smoothies? I’ve always had trouble with the proportion.

One ounce to each peach &/or banana. For berries, one ounce to each 1/2 cup.

=8-p

Call me in December, I’ll have some dead tomato vines I’ll let you have cheap.

Lawns are a waste of time and money, and inhospitable to wildlife. A large percentage of them are also mowed by illegal aliens, and nearly all are mowed with mowers that guzzle gasoline which has been bought from the Arabs.

And a lot more attractive than an Astro-Turf type lawn with a crew of illegals mowing it with noisy gas-guzzling mowers.

LOL, I’ll have 19 beef steak tomatoes plants that will need to go into the compost heap too.

Absolutely correct on that at least you get something back.

Gardening PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry all for being AWOL of late.......been a hectic week.

"I think some people might consider different types of landscapes unsightly, just like different painting schemes or building additions - which may increase or decrease property values - but it is still permitted by our code," Mayor William F. Gardiner said.

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The fix was in! :)

Great catch!!!

Bump!

Nothing wrong with a well tended garden.

peaches grow in Illinois?

thanks gabz! ya know if just the right spot for veggies
was in my front yard, that’s where my garden patch would
be. turns out it’s way too shady out there and i’m still
working on finding the spot thats just right.

When I moved to Eureka Ca in 1954 the first thing I noticed was people growing potatoes in their front yards. I asked my BiL who was the head Gardner for Hammond Lumber Company in the town of Samoa and he said in two or three years they would plant a weed free lawn as the tators would loosen the soil and kill the weed seeds....

Welcome to Hyattsville, population 15,000, where the downtown looks more like New York City and the neighborhoods more like Iowa.

I went to high school in Hyattsville and have family there. Have no idea what this headline is referring to. There is no "downtown." It's a historic area surrounded by places I hate to drive through.

Get a load of this.

Thanks for the ping.

This has definitely got me going to plant a small garden in front of corn sunflowers and tomatoes beans -— next year. Or at least I’m thinking about it

What are corn sunflowers..?

Seriously, I’ve always felt that for every few trees planted in landscapes, people really should plant one or two food bearing trees.

Recently planted mango tangerine fig papaya lime -- 10 in all. And to make room a few non-food bearing trees will be coming down

I have two mango trees growing in big pots. They will go in the ground when I axe the non-fruit bearing trees

corn and sunflowers!

Sunflowers are great decoration plants! Really let you know it’s summer

The City Council this spring passed a law reaffirming residents' rights to grow vegetables on front lawns. Three months later, some residents have 8-foot-high corn patches in front of their homes, and neighbors say they don't mind.

ADM is outraged...and deeply saddened.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

I’m sure they’re useful until they become gangs of micro-managing busybodies.