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The penitent man shall pass, the penitent man shall pass …

by: Ross

The penitent man GOES UNDER HIS HOUSE ALL BY HIMSELF!?!

This weekend the wife and I decided to start a square foot garden — well it is actually four square feet, but you get the idea.

As you may know, plants necessitate water. To get them their needed water someone had to go under the house and cut the hose back on. For some reason, probably because I don’t do anything else around the house, I was tasked with either the job of actually going under the house or finding someone to do it for me.

I decided to man up.

Really I decided to get in there quick as can be while my wife shouted “you’re so brave” into the tiny spider cricket infested crawl space. But hey, I did it!

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  1. DUDE sqft gardening. sweet!!?

    i have the book if you want to borrow it. it has some good info.

    (http://www.amazon.com/Square-Foot-Gardening-Mel-Bartholomew/dp/0878573410)

    it has this awesome picture of the author cradling a gigantic cucumber which is just fantastic.

    — midas | @

  2. Yeah I’ll post some pics and some thoughts later.

    — MaxPower | @

  3. I suggest getting a rain barrel for water. Think self-sufficiency.

    That way, no crawlspace adventures- unless you want to get a treated crawlspace, which will save mucho bucks on heating and cooling your house.

    — Scott Burger | @

  4. I hate those spider crickets

    — Eric | @

  5. This is my worst nightmare.

    — Susan | @

  6. (I mean the crickets, not the gardening).

    — Susan | @

  7. hey, way to go on going under there. i’ve been there to either cut on or off your water before. someone was really thinking when they installed a valve inside my house for the outside hose bibb.

    the first time i went into my crawlspace i discovered a cat skeleton complete with whiskers. i want to say that it was being eaten by spider crickets but that would be a lie.

    hey, i can get you some mint plant for your garden if you still have room and would like some. you’d be so southern drinking your sweet tea with mint leaves from a jar!

    — Wolf | @

  8. wolf, I’ll take some mint!

    I had tried to grow some this year, but I think I must have had bad seeds.

    — nic | @

  9. This should already be growing and established. I can dig you up some and we’ll see how it does. I will check on the status (not sure if it dies back in winter or when it fully comes back) today/tomorrow and email you and anybody else interested…

    — Wolf | @

  10. i’d love some. i’ve got a small pot lying around too.

    — MaxPower | @

  11. alright, the mints have not come back up yet this year (it’s been there since i was a kid, so i assume it will be back when it warms up some). in doing a little research, it seems that it should be kept in a pot if you don’t want it to take over. i will keep an eye on it in the coming weeks/months and let you guys know when it’s ready…

    — Wolf | @

  12. yeah dude, it’ll take over your whole yard. It likes temps to be in the mid 70s for at least 2 weeks before it pops up. I was growing mine inside, so I’m pretty sure its not going to come up.

    — nic | @

  13. Could I use mint as grass? AKA THE BEST GRASS EVER?

    — MaxPower | @

  14. people use grass for ground cover because it grows thick, and when it is dormant it stays green, it just doesn’t grow. Mint would spread fast on its own, but might not be thick enough for ground cover, would grow tall, and in the winter would die. You would not want to eat the mint growing on your ground if your dogs were alowd in that same area. That said, it would smell awesome.

    — nic | @

  15. people sometimes use thyme as ground cover, which is less delicious than mint, but more delicious than grass. a compromise?

    — midas | @

  16. gardens? gentlemen, I am impressed. the only garden ill ever grow is a VICTORY garden, at least then it is somewhat related to a fighting effort.

    — vanimal3000 | @

  17. but think, you could make for real mint juleps! An awesome southern drink for the summer. Just say no to mojito!

    — RVAkid | @

  18. gardens reduce our dependency on foreign tomatoes.

    our country is beholden to the powerful nations with all the tomatoes, i.e., mexico and california. we can never really be free until we can throw off the yokes of these nefarious oppressors.

    — midas | @

  19. Don’t our tomatoes come from Hanover?

    — MaxPower | @

  20. Sometimes they try to pass off cheaper outsourced Chinese tomatoes. Make sure you check the bar code.

    — RMSzero | @

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