Gardening

In Skypeland one can hear a lot of comments about gardens and gardening. People swap stories about huge zucchinis the size of zeppelins and monsterous Sasquatch-sized squashes. Skypelanders give each other gardening tips. People show pictures of their gardens.

The moderator S has a large garden with a rustic fence around it. His tomato plants were already over 6 feet in height at the start of July. S gets so many vegetables from his garden he cannot eat it all and he has to give most of them away. He is constantly on the lookout for various critters from the surrounding woods who try to sneak in and raid his garden.

Many of the Brits mock S for his gardening efforts. Mucus has asserted that leaves are not good composting material since Mucus claims there is no material in leaves that are nutritious for plants. Mucus also flew into a rage when S said he was putting lime on his garden, since Mucus said one should only put manure on a garden. Mucus cursed and insulted S for being so stupid that he would think lime was beneficial for a garden.

The international mercenary and bathroom contractor R claims he has a massive garden. To prove this, R passed around a picture supposedly showing him riding a small lawn tractor. The man in the photo is wearing a pair of rubber boots and giving the photographer the finger.

However, several Skypelanders raised the question of whether this was even R at all (the face looks a bit different from his other pictures, and the figure in the photo is wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap). Some wondered if this picture did show R on a tractor, was he just making a few extra quid mowing lawns in the neighborhood?.

G in Texas is quite proud of his garden and gives tours of his garden by webcam. G is also interested in inventing and flying novel kinds of kites, which he flies near his garden.

Roxy the "foxy" likes to spend time in the garden, digging and sniffing around. I had friends with a chihuahua that used to raid the garden for peas and carrots. He pulled up the carrots and onions and ate them. I don't know if Roxy does anything similar. Roxy smells so bad that I think no one gets close enough to her for long enough to see what she does in the garden.

K had a garden that was often visited by foxes in the UK. She fed them pizza and dog food and they ate from her hand. However, she found that the foxes danced in her garden and trod down the plants. Also they pooped on the potato plants, crapped on the cabbages, peed on the peas, dropped turds on the turnips and shit on the shallots. K remarked that the foxes had very pungent poos and they did a lot of damage to the plants.

Here are a few of K's comments on the matter:

[8:46:06 AM] K says: yeah not here....yes they ewere rather ''not going to eat those'' i made a veg patch for my upstairs neighbours kid...she liked the foxes more

[9:19:53 AM] K says: they do do (do do hahhah) rather pungent poos

I asked the lovely T if she gardened. T told me that she had some issues with a garden:

[9:40:30 AM] P says: did you ever garden?

[9:41:18 AM] T says: oh yes i just wrecked my friends vegetable garden, didnt water it enough, i take care of their house and garden for one month ooooooooooops. im taking care of the turkish family ( my friends ) house and garden

[9:47:25 AM] T says: and in their traditional they have lots of spinach

[9:47:41 AM] T says: i have to cut it and clean it and put it to the freezer

[9:48:10 AM] T says: there is so much weed that i cant tell the difference of weed of spinach

[9:48:26 AM] T says: so whats the reason for putting weed in the freezer you see

Not everyone in Skypeland thinks that gardening is interesting to talk about however:

[9:57:10 AM] Q says: i do not garden.

[9:57:12 AM] Q says: plants hate me.

[9:57:26 AM] Q says: but, most of the men on here seem to do some type of gardening.

[9:57:28 AM] Q says: how gay.

Well I guess you can't please everyone. And in the case of some of the Brits, talking about gardening just seems to lead to anger and insults and death threats.