I envy your ingenuity and can't wait to start my garden this spring.

...than mine. If I'm lucky I get to borrow a bicycle pump - now, a backhoe, that I could get into some serious projects with!

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

...I truly covet his wife's greenhouse. She starts all my seedlings for me but it costs me a lot to have her do it. I wish I had my own.

The boom truck that brought the shipping container to the house was cool, too. The container was on the back. He hooked the chains from the boom to the corners of the container and stood to one side with a remote control box hanging from around his neck. When it wouldn't lift the container, he jumped up onto the truck and put two quarters over the sensors with a piece of tape. The sensors were telling him it was too heavy, so he just took the sensors out of action. Then he jumped down again and hit the "up" button. I was waiting for the thing to crash. The truck leaned way over, but set the container down absolutely perfectly into the leveled hole.

Then he smiled and drove away.

from a shipping container ... brilliant idea! Add that to the list of uses for shipping containers from instant server black boxes to bars to art galleries to houses and more. Here's a pic of a cafe.

_{Tolerating prostitution is tolerating abuse and torture of women and children.}

There are other women out there like the one you describe. I know two here in town. I've done many of these things (except cheese-making) and will do so again, but right now my PhD is bulking up our cash reserves for the time I can leave it all and stay home. As Dimitri Orlov said, "Ride it all the way down and then step off."

I find nothing so satisfying as growing food.

I may have to modify a bit for the city, as we don't have too many eagles to take care of the potential rats. did I say potential? lol.
all hail the worm queen! I had to say it, because the worms can't speak so good , although their proliferation speaks volumes :-)

you must have some highly caffeinated worms! no wonder they're so busy

I'll take that on! I've also wondered what effect caffeine has on wormies. No information seems to be available.

Say, who's planting what this spring? Anything new for your garden this year? I'll go first.

I'm trying sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I can get slips from a company in Nova Scotia, but in January I bought a sweet potato from the store and put it in a glass of water with one end sticking out. Now I have a bunch of shoots coming out of it. I will cut them off and root each one in a pot and then put the pots out when it's warm. I'm told that we can grow sweet potatoes here, but it will be my big experiment.

How about others?

last week after all the garden talk. at the Home Depot. I couldn't help it. I was there, they were there, our eyes met across the aisle from the light bulbs...:) and way more than I can probably plant. just regular old beefsteak and roma tomatoes, and some new bred hybrid big boy, probably w/ fish genes. Burpee wouldn't do that, would they? Anyhow I hope to get them started on the sunporch in the next few weeks. I've never attempted tomatoes and peppers from seed before, but seedlings have been getting expensive the last few years. how hard can it be? can't plant outside until May 15th anyways.

the rest will be the usual pole beans, and bush beans, and beets, and peas, maybe a little corn fungus,lol. it would seem that attention is the key, eh?

I know several people who plant into large boxes in greenhouses. The boxes are actually vermicomposting bins and planters. Kitchen scraps get turned (lightly) into the box even while they're being used for growing.