My Story Part II

Here is the rest of my story;

Like I had said before, I had just taken over the garden across the street and was just starting to call it home, when out of the blue, the cute, adorable, little chipmunks that I use pretend I was when I was younger, had turned ravenous and mean. First they struck at my cucumbers, eventually taking down every cucumber that I had planted except 2 of them. I believe that year I had gotten 2 cucumbers of the eight that I had planted, and at that they were not the best either. I viciously went to war with them, not being sure of what I could do, and a little bit sad that they had to be so cute! Although I fought the fight, I didn't know anything on how to stop them from eating all of my cucumbers and without hurting them. Eventually my only option was to leave them alone and to live with them, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't sprinkle some HOT CAYENNE PEPPER around my plants...*evil side is coming out*!

Alas, chipmunks were not the only critter that has come to menace my garden! Along with the little chipmunks there were the HUGE slugs...ewe! These slugs were the largest slugs that I had ever seen, They were at least 4 or 5 inches long and they were ferocious! These were easy to solve though since my neighbor had bought a book for me that talked non stop about ways to get rid of slugs! One of the way that they said to get rid of slugs was to put copper wire around the base of the victimized plants, the copper wire causes a electrical shock when the soft bodied slugs come across it! They dislike it enough that they stayed away form my plants and all went to the person across form me!

With all stories there seems to be a tragic ending somewhere; about 2 years ago my neighbor had put her house up for sale, so I had to plow down my garden and sow grass seed down. On the flip side, there is a happy ending, I was able to convert my back yard to a garden wonder land of my own!

So now you all know my story and how I started on my journey in gardening. I would love to hear your story as well. Can't wait to see how all of you started you gardening journey!

~Zach~

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My First Post

Welcome all,

To the unveiling of the 'Green Gardener' blog! I really am excited about this and cannot wait to see all the great information that will be here. I suppose that I should start out first by introducing myself to all you wonderful people. My name is Zachary, I am 17, and my greatest joy and hobbies are my family, painting, and GARDENING. I first really started gardening when I was 8 or 9 years old, I started out doing the vegetable garden; you know, planting tomatoes, peppers, green beens, and lettuce, all the great things that every gardener plants! It is no secret that I did basically take over the back yard as my own secret sanctum. Even though I have left the front alone and just do to it as my mom wishes(Sometimes :) I can honestly say that I have started to creep into the front also.
When I was 11 or 12 I mowed the grass for a woman who lived across the street from me. This neighbor had a huge stick pile in the corner of her yard, that was filled with leaves, weeds, sticks, and stones...basically not the ideal spot. One day I got up enough courage to go to her and ask if I was able to claim that spot as my own (even though I had my own yard to deal with.) She of course said yes, besides who could say no to my big, brown, adorable eyes. (Yes, I was adorable when I was younger, like all of my siblings say, 'you get ugly when you get old.')
At once I went to work, clearing out the sticks and weeds (there were allot of weeds!) After which I started to hoe the soil making it loose and workable. It was great, I started to plant all sorts of things in this garden, things that I had never planted before, like carrots, and cucumber, broccoli, kale, and kohlrabi.
There was never a dull moment in that garden, from making my cucumber tepees to making war with the neighboring chipmunks, I was kept busy!
I will tell you all the rest later, but I have got to go to bed!

Night All!
~Zach

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