Welcome to the Farming and Country life forum

[Horns Pure Honey]

Beth and I would like to say hello and thanks for coming to the forum. We both hope to get alot acomplished in here. As you read earlier you can  talk about anything that has to do with the country life or what you like to do in the country or wilderness. If you have any questions just ask and I am shure that either Beth or I can answer them. Some of are favorite things to talk about are farm animals, barns, hunting, and growing things. So have a great time and we hope to talk to you all soon, bye

[amymcg]

I saw this forum earlier, but didn't want to be the first to post. . .  

I grew up in a very rural area, and I remember when I was a kid, we had to play outside all the time  as long as it wasn't raining.  We ran around in the woods, helped mow the fields on the tractor and plant the gardens. I was the youngest so when I was really little, I always got "rock duty" when we were planting gardens.

[Jay]

It's amazing how fast those rocks grow isn't it Amy?!?  

[Horns Pure Honey]

It seems no matter how much you pick them they grow back, lol

[Beth Kirkley]

The rocks in my garden don't just grow...... I think they breed!

Beth

[Horns Pure Honey]

lol

[Archie]

rocks can be considered as your first crop of the year.....

[Horns Pure Honey]

That is very true.

[Lesli]

I usually think of my soil as clay, lightened by rocks.

[Horns Pure Honey]

lol, not the best place to grow much.

[Violacea]

Back in Missouri, I got so sick of rocks in my garden, I dug it out two feet deep, piled the dirt high, then sifted the rocks out while dumping the dirt back in.  Boy was is sweet to work in after that.  And then we moved.  

[Horns Pure Honey]

that sounds great till you moved, that sucks on ice, lol, bye

[Violacea]

The dirt here is actually really nice, you can dig down a foot without hitting any rocks.    Except, of course, where the garden was put in, 3/4 of it is that way, the last 1/4 is more gravel then dirt.    Time to get the sifter out again . . .

[Jerrymac]

I must be missing out on some fun. Here we can dig down about four feet before the color of the dirt starts changing and not hit a rock. Then you got a pinkish something I don't think it is clay and not quite dirt. Then you might start hitting cleetchy (How do you spell it?) and there are deep pits of that stuff all over the place they dig out for road construction. Then somewhere way down there you hit what we call bedrock. The first actual rock you will see.

[Horns Pure Honey]

That is how are dirt is too Jerry other than my garden. They where putting in the sewer for the town, they decided to put rock down so they dont sink while putting in a man hole right in my garden!!!