Mowing, Mushrooms, Gardens,

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Mowing, Mushrooms, Gardens,

Mowing, Mushrooms, Gardens, and Watergun Fights!!!!!   I thought I would make a thread where you could talk about these topics, so here it is!!!!

submitted by Clair, age ~11~, Nebraska
(June 14, 2009 - 3:23 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

We have a garden this year for the first time, using the Square Foot Gardening method by Mel Bartholemew (I hope I spelled that right.) It's a cool method - grows as much as possible in small spaces. Things that normally grow out - like pumpkins and squash - you grow up on a trellis. The stems just grow thicker to support the weights. Pretty cool. We're getting radishes already, and our carrots are looking good. Our potatoes are growing like mad, and everything else - lettue, tomatoes, cilantro, pumpkins, beans, beats, etc. - is doing really well. :D

 

-EH

submitted by Emily H. :), age 13, Sparks, NV
(June 14, 2009 - 9:34 pm)

Wow. This is one of the most unusual threads I have seen on the Chatterbox.

submitted by CC
(June 14, 2009 - 10:38 pm)

Cool!CoolI created an unusual thread! Do I get an award??:D:D To the TOP OF THE WORLD!!!!! (or in this case,to the top of the first page)

submitted by Clair, age ~11~, Nebraska
(June 15, 2009 - 1:59 pm)

Um... I LOVE LOVE LOVE mushrooms.  Hardly any people I know like them, but I love them.  We even eat mushroom burgers sometimes, instead of regular burgers.  Just put one of those big  Portobello mushrooms on buns with cheese or whatever else you like.  YUM! (I am not a veggie though.)  

submitted by R~D~, age 13, in a little lan
(June 15, 2009 - 5:32 pm)

We had our first watergun fight on Memorial Day!!! AMAZING! :D It last 3 1/2 hours.  Talk about extreme Capture the Flag.  And nobuggy won!! :D:D

submitted by Paige
(June 15, 2009 - 4:50 pm)

There is a mushroom in my backyard!

submitted by Yuiop, age 789, Qwert
(June 15, 2009 - 6:07 pm)

Update: LOTS of mushrooms in my backyard

submitted by Yuiop, age 789, Qwert
(June 16, 2009 - 7:33 pm)

We have mushrooms - little ones - on the little bit of grass in our back yard, so when I let my hamster play out there (safely contained, of course) I have to watch and make sure she doesn't try to eat them. And we had a pool party at our house Friday, and some obnoxious little kid kept squirting my friends and me with water guns that shot really hard, so we dunked him. Hard. Then he came into the deep end (for revenge, I think) and got in trouble cause he was supposed to stay in the shallow end. Anyway, that was pleasantly random.

 

-EH

submitted by Emily H. :), age 13, Sparks, NV
(June 15, 2009 - 11:16 pm)

Lucky, you have a hamster. Doesn't anyone else MOW??????? I have to mow today or tomorrow because my mom wants to have it done before it rains. AGAIN. I just started mowing this year. On Sunday (the last time I mowed,) I mowed over some mushrooms. That's where I got the idea for this thread. The waterguns thing I just put in.

submitted by Clair, age ~11~, Nebraska
(June 17, 2009 - 9:06 am)

I LOVE THE TASTE OF MUSHROOMS! They're so delicious! R~D~, thanks for posting! I never thought I'd meet someone who liked them as much as I do. And Yuiop, it's always really cool to see those little inedible mushrooms growing. They're just beautiful!

submitted by Ima
(June 19, 2009 - 2:49 pm)

This is me sending a post called "WHY ARE YOU EATING MY MUSHROOMS!!!!!!!"It begins now.

WHY ARE YOU EATING MY MUSHROOMS!!!!!!! I'M THE ONE WHO CREATED THEM!!!!!! I MADE THE WORD!!!!! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EAT'N THEM!!!!! THEY'Re SUPPOSED TO BUG YOU!!!!! MY EVIL ALIGNMENT and I ARE MAKEING PLANTS TO ATTACK YOU AND YOUR GARDEN!!!!!!! AND WHEN I PRESS THIS BUTTON, ALL YOU MUSHROOM-EATERS WILL TURN HYPNOTIZED AND YOU WILL OBEY ME AND MY ARMY OF OVERSIZED-WORMS, MOLES, MYCONIDS AND VEGEPYGMYS!!!!!!! (GENERAL WORM, WHERE IS THE BUTTON THAT MAKES ME MY LATTE?) BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

submitted by Nathan C., age 9!!!!!!!, mushroom kingdo
(August 2, 2009 - 5:30 pm)

My family has a garden. A very non-organized garden. we've had a garden eversense we moved in to the house. We have like, eleven fruit tree's. Some tomato's, celantro, dill, cucumber, potato's, strawberry's, peppermint, clover (not planted), bee balm (for bees), mlkweed (for butterflies), rasberry's, blueberry's, lavender, lettuce and we also have some other stuff, *looks around* I don't remember what. We might have carrots. I don't mow yet. The backyard is big and the mower thingie is a little weird. Probably part of the reason I can't mow is because dad burned his hand on something on the mow thingie. We also have some maple tree's, we did not plant them. Well we planted one. Each winterwe make syrup.

submitted by Meadow, age 11, IL
(July 1, 2009 - 11:55 am)