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I learned to love gardening from my grandfather, John Lenat. He introduced me to his garden and fed me tasty things right from it. He never made me weed – a sure way to discourage young gardeners. But in today's world, many children don't have a special person to teach them to garden, or a place to garden. Many have never planted a seed or eaten a carrot or tomato in the garden.
Maybe we need to look at our schools as venues for education about more than the core curriculum. I mean, which is more important? Knowing that 7 times 9 is 56? (Or 63!) Or teaching our children to garden and to appreciate fresh food that they have grown? In terms of health and longevity in this day of fast food and prepared junk food, should we not be teaching our children good eating habits as well as math? I recently visited a school where all the kids love veggies and fruits – food that they have grown there at the school.
The public elementary school in the town of Haiku on Maui, Hawaii has included gardening in their educational program. Each child gets twenty weeks of gardening instruction each year, one hour per week for 10 weeks in two different seasons. The school enrollment is about 440 students in grades K-5. The class I visited in the garden had about 25 children, and was taught by a half-time gardening teacher, Crystal Summers.
Ms. Summers was helped on the day I visited by the second grade teacher, Joan Junger, and a volunteer whom the kids called "Uncle Steve". A class of 25 needs extra adults if each child is going to do meaningful work in the garden. Parent and community participation has been key to success of the gardening program in Haiku, and, according to Ms. Summers, "You have to have a principal who is on board." Fortunately, in Haiku, they do.
On the day I visited, the children each participated in 3 activities. In one group they each planted a six-pack of marigolds with seeds saved from their garden. They had planted seeds before, and most knew just what to do. These marigolds will be sold in April when they have a flower festival at the school that will raise money for the garden.
The second activity was weeding. The kids were just back from vacation, and weeds had popped up in the walkways while they were away. The children used simple dandelion weeders and dug up shoots of new grass that had grown in their absence. Since they were all doing it together, and they only had to weed for about 10 minutes, the children did not seem to consider it drudgery.
The last activity was picking beans. They had a huge bush of "gondule beans", also called pigeon peas, that had both ripe and green pods. Each second grader was given a pair of scissors and asked to cut and sort the beans. Green pods went in one basket, dry in another. The fresh pods were cut up and eaten by the children at the end of class, along with tiny pieces of a fresh radish that had been harvested that day.
Eating the garden produce is an important part of each visit to the garden. The children are learning not just growing, but the enjoyment of fresh veggies – even if, like the radish, the food has a taste that is different from what they are accustomed to.
One of the things the children like best are the green smoothies they make with garden produce. The principal donated a blender to the program, and Ms. Summers uses it to make smoothies. In the blender goes kale and other greens from the garden, and fruit from the garden or donated by parents. They are lucky – they can grow papayas and bananas right there at the perimeter of the garden.
So how does all this translate for New England school gardens? Because of our climate, we have a much shorter growing season – but now is the time to think about it. First of all, get your principal and parent-teacher organization interested. For example, the garden in Haiku had wood-sided raised beds, which is a good idea, but an initial investment. Fund raisers to get materials for the program would be a big help as most school budgets are already tight.
Next, get the school board interested and committed to it. Getting a teacher or teacher aid assigned to the program would be a big help – but also a budget line item. Although a program could be initiated and run a volunteer or Master Gardener, it would best to have a paid gardening teacher who can work with the kids of all grades. That gardening teacher can also link what is happening in the garden with what is being taught in the classroom. Gardening has the potential to increase math and language arts skills if integrated into a comprehensive program.
There are plenty of fast-growing greens that can be planted in early spring and harvested before school lets out in June. I love the idea of green smoothies – blending lettuce or spinach with bananas and apples, for example. They are delicious and healthy. And yes, someone needs to buy the fruit here in New England, but if we can get our kids craving healthy foods instead of fat and sugar-loaded snacks, we can, perhaps, set a life-long habit that will make a difference.
I feel so lucky to have spent part of my vacation in Maui visiting a school that really is doing more than teaching the 3 R's. And I hope we can do more here – even if we can't raise our own bananas.
Henry Homeyer is a lifelong organic gardener and the author of 4 gardening books. His web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
When I packed my bags to go to Maui recently I thought about packing my CobraHead weeder. But in the rush of getting ready I neglected to do so. I wish I had. That's right, I like to garden even when I go on vacation. There are always opportunities to help out, and to learn. A winter vacation in a warm place can offer more than just a tan and some relaxation. A friend told me about an organic farm on Maui that serves developmentally disabled adults and sells organic fruits and vegetables to the community. I called the farm and offered a day of help; my three traveling companions accompanied me. It was a wonderful day – and helped me to feel a little less guilty about the carbon emissions of that big silver bird that brought me to Maui. Lokelani 'Ohana Farm is unlike any I have visited before. It is just over an acre in size and produces 10 kinds of bananas including thumb-sized bananas and "apple" bananas, my favorites. Apple bananas are half the size of bananas we know from the store with a rich flavor that makes ordinary bananas seem as bland as Wonder Bread. There had been a severe tropical storm just before we had arrived on Maui, and some of the banana plants had blown down. We helped by cutting up downed stalks and lugging them off to compost piles. And I got to do some weeding – while it was 20 below back home. Lokelani Farm is a "vibrant sustainable 'Ohana where "people with disabilities live, learn and work together with reverence for spirit, creativity and nature, supporting each other's potential and sharing a life of purpose.", according to the vision statement in their brochure. Christina Chang, the director of the farm and programs, told me that the programs have been in existence just since 2005 and are modeled on the Camp Hill initiative of Pennsylvania. Camp Hill has farms and programs that serve developmentally disabled adults in several locations in the northeast. Their farm programs are organic and biodynamic. At Lokelani adults participants learn not only how to garden, but also Saori weaving and other craft skills, and develop better social skills. So if you wish to help out for a day or more on your next vacation, how should you find a good place to do so? Before heading off to Florida or Nassau or France, do a little research on the internet. Twice before this experience I have worked on farms, once in France and once in the Hebrides off Scotland. Both allowed me to learn as well as to help. In my previous experiences I had joined the WWOOFer program: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. It matches up volunteers with organic farms for short term work experiences. I worked about a week on each of the farms where I "woofed"; some farms have restrictions about how long a worker must stay and help – a week or a month minimum, for example. In general, woofers get room and board provided and work 4 to 6 hours a day, five days a week. Lokelani had 3 woofers working on the farm the day we were there, but we were not a part of the official WWOOFer program. In general other woofers that I have met have been in their twenties and thirties, but there are no age restrictions. In order to see what is available, go to the website www.wwoof.net. The website will not give you farm locations or contact info – they want you to pay first to join – but you can see what sorts of jobs and farm placements are available before you join. In the United States the fee to become a WWOOFer is $40. In France it is 25 Euros. You need to join the WWOOF organization for the country you are interested in – you cannot join once for all of Europe, for example. The web site allows you to sort the farms according to your requirements for length of stay, accommodations, type of food provided. Thus you can select omnivore, vegetarian or vegan diet, and only farms that can provide that will show up on your search. I also found that there are other organic farms on Maui, some of which provide accommodations and the opportunity to learn and take classes. So you don't have to sign up to be a woofer if you want to spend some time gardening in winter. So what did I learn at Lokelani that day? I learned that bananas are incredibly resilient. Cut off the top of the plant, and the roots and base will generate a new stem. The leaves make a great mulch – they will block out sunshine and hold down weeds. I learned what a breadfruit tree (and the fruit) look like, and what macadamia nuts look like right from the tree. I met some very interesting people. I learned that Lokelani is a wonderful non-profit (www.lokelaniohana.org) that is trying to not only help adults with disabilities, but to help the broader community to accept and understand the special love and creativity of people with disabilities. So think about spending some time on a farm next time you vacation. I'm glad I did. Henry Homeyer is not answering gardening questions this week. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com. He is the author of 4 gardening books. |
This is the time of year when I find the time to read gardening books. I recently settled in by the woodstove with The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival by Katrina Blair (Chelsea Green, 2014, $29.95 in paper). I was intrigued when I read, in the Forward by Sandor Katz, that "Most of us can identify many more corporate logos than plants." Huh. That's not true for you and me – as gardeners we know many plants. But overall? It probably is true. Katrina Blair wants all of us to recognize and use a few common weeds in our daily life.
Katrina Blair has selected 13 weeds that are found pretty much everywhere in the world, including some that grow in Antarctica. These weeds follow humans, growing in disturbed areas and surviving even where our domesticated plants will not. She selected these weeds because they can be used as food and medicine. She notes that "The wild greens outside are still vibrating with the life force and are at their peak nutritional potency."
Of the thirteen, everyone knows dandelions, clover, thistle and grass. Others like chickweed, lambsquarter and mustard you have certainly seen, but may not know by name. A few of the others are common, but less well recognized. Most of us do not think of weeds as food or medicine. Maybe it's time to expand our view of them.
Why eat weeds? Blair states that weeds are very nutrient-rich. She points out that they require no fertilizer or pesticides to thrive. Weeds are available locally and are very good at picking up a wide range of minerals from out soil – whereas crops that are grown year after year in commercial agriculture plots may lack trace minerals.
Blair states that grasses can pick up 92 minerals out of the 102 available in healthy soils. Getting as many vitamins and minerals from fresh plants as possible makes sense to me. Weeds can provide a good source of minerals.
Where to harvest, when to harvest and how to use weeds are important questions that Blair answers in her book. She explains that picking wild greens from areas where chemicals have been applied is not a good policy. That includes commercial agriculture fields. But your own gardens? No problem. And she noted that picking in spring and early summer is best, when leaves and stems are less tough and bitter. She dries fresh weeds to use later in powders she uses in green drinks.
How to use these weeds is a major focus of the book, which supplies recipes such as dock mustard pretzels, spouted lambsquarter tabouli and mallow milk shakes. Many of the recipes take considerable time to prepare (and to harvest). Blair is a fanatic about eating weeds, so she doesn't mind spending the time to collect seeds from wild plants, and then grinding them, and finally away winnowing the chaff before using.
The wild ingredients, the weeds, are just one component of most of the recipes provided. So, for example, she will eat a healthy breakfast cereal (presumably from her local health food store) that she supplements with weed seeds she harvested. Or she will make bread using wheat flower but add some ground weed seeds.
Katrina Blair is also happy to sit on the ground and pick and eat wild grasses and clover flowers. She notes that our digestive system cannot breakdown cellulose. But grass stalks, when young, are edible. Just chew the stems for a long time to break the cell walls and then savor the fresh juices and chlorophyll. She spits out the indigestible fibers.
I recently became a fan of "green smoothies" and often prepare one for my breakfast. In a good high-speed blender I mix leafy greens, fruit, ginger, freshly squeezed lime juice and water or green tea. I like the idea of adding some wild weed leaves to the blender (in season). Dandelion leaves, for example, are pretty bitter unless picked before the plants have blossomed in the early spring. But mixed into a smoothie with a banana and some apple probably would enrich my diet without offending my tender tongue.
It is important to note that not all weeds are edible. Before ingesting weeds in quantity, she recommends eating a little bit, and listening to your body's response. She says her body will tell her not to eat many leaves from even her favorite weeds if they are too high in oxalic acid, for example. She notes that juicers can concentrate and extract things like oxalic acid, giving you too high a dose if you drink too much, particularly late in the season when levels are high in leaves.
I recommend only eating weeds that you have positively identified. Her book has plenty of photographs, but nothing beats a good plant book with a botanic key for identifying them. There may be a forager in your neighborhood, too. Many emigrants have learned to identify and use wild plants in their native lands, and find them here, too. If you see someone foraging, introduce yourself and start learning.
Although Kristina Blair feels confident to set off on a 3-day hike without food, I am not. Foraging can be a nice supplement to my diet, but I will never depend on weeds as a major component of my diet. But if you need weeds for your diet, my garden usually has plenty!
Henry Homeyer's web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com. He lives in Cornish Flat, NH and is the author or 4 gardening books.
Each year after the winter solstice I take some time to think about my garden of the past year and to make plans for the upcoming garden season. What worked? What didn't? It's good to think about such. I won't say I'm making any gardening resolutions this year, but I'll share with you my aspirations. But I won't feel bad if I don't accomplish exactly what I hope to do. Each year life has a way of getting in the way of best made plans.
The past year was a good one for me. In past years my vegetable garden has been getting shadier – trees have a way of getting bigger, and even relatively distant trees have been cutting down on the hours of sunshine in the garden. This past year I was lent a nice plot in full sun, a plot with good soil that belongs to a friend and that had been farmed organically. It was bigger than I needed, but a farmer agreed to till it and get it ready for planting. So my partner Cindy Heath and I planted all kinds of veggies including sweet corn and dry beans – crops I hadn't had room for in past years. And we planted extra food to give away.
Our vegetables did well. There was sufficient rain and perhaps because the land had been fallow for a year or more, pests and disease problems were minimal. Even the potato bugs were few. We fenced off the beans (both dry and green, both loved by deer), and the raccoons didn't do much damage to the corn. We had plenty for us, our friends, and the coons. (Maybe the coyote urine I put out in little Airwick containers helped keep the coons away).
So will I plant the "farmette" (as we called it) again this year? You betcha. It was a lot of work, but I really enjoyed having as much space as I wanted in full sun. I love having excess vegetables to share, and my little farmette allows me to do that.
My grandfather, John Lenat (1885-1967), had a regular vegetable route in his later years. He drove around his town (Spencer, Massachusetts) in his bright red Nash Rambler giving tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers to his friends. He'd never accept a nickel for his produce. I remember being amused that he even brought tomatoes to give the checkout clerk at the A&P Grocery store. In those days there were no soup kitchens or homeless shelters, but there are now, and they are happy to accept what any of us can contribute.
This year I'll also plant some flowers at the farmette. A dear friend gave me a gallon Ziploc bag of dried zinnia seed heads from her garden. She tills a patch of soil that is about 4 feet wide and 50 feet long each year just for zinnias. Big, tall, brightly colored zinnias. And each year she harvests enough seeds in the fall to plant it again – and to give away plenty, too. So I shall try the same.
I looked in my Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog to see what zinnias might cost in bulk, for those of you who want to try a similar effort. A thousand seeds of the 'Benary's Giant Series', costs $29.30, but the 'Giant Dahlia Flowered Series' costs just $12.15 for an ounce that has 3,200 seeds. Since I have never tried a mass planting like that before, I can't advise you as to how many seeds you might need for a mass planting. I plan to scatter seeds on tilled soil, rake them in, and hope for the best.
Our farmette is about 6 miles from my house. I'll plant most of our veggies for canning, freezing and dehydrating over there. But I'll also continue to grow some veggies at my home garden, focusing on things that do well with less than full sun: lettuce, kale, herbs, leeks, carrots, and Brussels sprouts. I'll also plant a few tomatoes and summer squash at my home garden for the convenience of being able to pick them for dinner.
This year I'll try to slow down a little, too. By the time planting season comes I'll be 69 years young. And although I've been gardening for others for a long time, I think I'll try to minimize the time I spend in other people's gardens this coming year. Become more of an advisor, and less of a digger, weeder and wheelbarrow pusher. I'll try to focus on my own gardens, given that I have expanded them.
What else will I do in 2015? I'll work hard at controlling the invasive plants that are always trying to get a foothold. Just cutting back purple loosestrife 3 times in the summer will do much to keep it from expanding its territory. And I'll keep an eye out for garlic mustard, which so far has not made it on to my property, but is within a mile of my house.
The list could go on and on. Re-build the garden arbor that has started to fall apart. Dig out some of the biggest goldenrod that I (foolishly) have allowed to get too rambunctious. Try new kinds of flowers. Plant some early-season raspberries that will be done by the time that new kind of fruit fly arrives in late summer. And so on.
So take some time in your easy chair and make your own plans. And feel free to share them with me if you like, I'm always happy to get mail or e-mail. Maybe you'll inspire me to try something new. My best to you all for 2015.
Contact Henry by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or write the old fashioned way to P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you have a question you want answered.
Here it is, officially winter, and I'm still eating from my garden. I recently made what I call a winter salad: grated carrot and celery root (also known as celeriac) with a vinaigrette sauce. Sometimes my winter salad also gets grated or chopped apple, or some dried cherry tomatoes. Only the ingredients for dressing are bought – vinegar and oil – though I have been known to even make my own vinegar some years. Of course dried currants or raisins are also nice in that salad, but I don't grow those. I could put in dried blueberries, as I do dry a few each year, but haven't tried them in the salad yet.
Celeriac is an unsung hero. Most gardeners don't grow it. Most gardeners should. It's a root crop related to celery, has a similar flavor, and the leaves are nearly identical. Unlike most root crops, the bulk of this root sits up above the ground level. The meat of this vegetable has the consistency of a carrot, but it is white and round. Mine grow to be 3 to 6 inches in diameter.
Celeriac stores well and stays tasty for months. In the fall I cut off the tops, cut back most of the roots, and wash out the dirt from the thick mass of roots. Then it will store for 3 to 4 months in a cool place with high humidity. You could do this by putting the celeriac in a plastic bin or bucket and storing it a cool place that stays in the 33 to 50 degree range. To keep the humidity high you can put an inch of moist sand in the bottom of the bucket.
Another way to store celeriac, carrots, potatoes, kohlrabi and rutabagas is to get an old fridge. Often older model fridges are available free from on-line list serves – or even in your daily newspaper. That's how I got a 1946 GE model that still works fine, and it does not have the undesirable "frost free" feature. Modern refrigerators remove the humidity from all but the vegetable drawers. But many older ones do not, and thus are great for filling up with storage vegetables. Or, one can store veggies in modern fridges in plastic bags that have been punched with many holes using a paper punch.
Unfortunately, many garden centers do not sell celeriac seedlings in the spring. So if you want to grow celeriac, you may want to order seeds this winter when you put together you seed order. I start them indoors, starting in early- to mid- March. They are a bit slow to germinate, and need consistent moisture from planting to harvest. They don't like cold weather or soil in the spring, so I transplant them into the ground in June.
Celeriac needs soil that doesn't dry out. Sandy soils do not hold moisture well, while heavier, clay-based soils do. If you have a light, sandy soil, do not grow celeriac in raised beds, as raised beds tend to drain off and dry out more quickly. And add lots of compost to the soil before planting, as compost tends to act a bit like a sponge, holding water.
In addition to using celeriac in my winter salad, I use celeriac in stir fries, soups and stews. It adds a celery flavor – and a richness – that I like. And I haven't had much luck growing celery. When I've tried in the past, I had trouble with slugs, the stems have been spindly, and celery in general does not store as well as celeriac.
My friend Ed Smith of Cabot, Vermont, is the author of a number of excellent gardening books, including The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible. I called him recently to see how he grows celery, as I recalled that he does well with it. He told me that new no longer grows celery in the ground. He only grows it in self-watering containers.
Ed told me that he gets containers from Gardeners Supply (www.gardeners.com) that are roughly 3-feet square and 12 inches deep. At the bottom of each container is a reservoir that holds a couple of inches of water separated from the soil mix by a plastic barrier; it has a wicking system that keeps the soil consistently moist, but not soggy. In his big container he plants 18 to 20 plants, and puts it in full sun.
For a soil mix Ed uses a 50-50 mix of compost and peat moss, and he adds a cup of organic fertilizer and usually some Azomite. Azomite is a rock powder sold in 50-lb bags that has trace minerals not found in fertilizers.
The key to success with celery, according to Ed, is to keep it consistently moist and pick it small. Don't wait until your celery looks like the stuff from the grocery store, pick it when the stalks are small, say half an inch in diameter. He doesn't usually start his own plants as they take a long time to grow, but buys plants from a greenhouse. Ed told me that he chops up his celery and freezes it in pint zipper bags. Then he uses is all year in soups and stews. He does not blanch it before freezing.
It is winter now, but not too early to start planning your garden for 2015. Read the seed catalogs, dream, and before you know it, it will be time to start next year's seedlings.
Henry Homeyer is the author of 4 gardening books. His web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
I like poinsettias and buy one every year. And every year the poinsettia industry produces new colors and shapes for the "flowers". Standard red has given way to pink, maroon, white and red, pink and red; simple bracts are now double, double with ruffles. There is always a call for the new and different. Me? I'm a simple gardening guy who likes the simple old fashioned kind.
Botanically speaking, those red parts of a poinsettia are actually called bracts. The flowers are the tiny yellow center of each "flower", and the red bracts are leaves purely for decoration – and an advertisement to any stray pollinator (or shopper) that might be around.
Poinsettias are native to Mexico, and were first introduced to the United States in 1828 by President Andrew Jackson's ambassador to Mexico, Joel Poinsett. But they have traveled the world. When I was working in Bamako, Mali, West Africa, in the early 1980's, I had hedges of poinsettias that were five feet tall. But it took a long time for poinsettias to become popular.
In 1923 a grower named Paul Ecke started growing them in quantity in California, selling plants wholesale and shipping them by rail all over the country. He worked on growing good, durable plants that he sent to growers so that they could start cuttings and make more plants. He was a trained horticulturist, but also a good marketer. He gave free plants to TV hosts like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope for his Christmas Special every year. Through the magic of TV he got Americans to associate the idea of Christmas with poinsettias.
One reason that poinsettias are so popular is that they are easy to keep looking nice – even those folks with "brown thumbs" can keep them going for a couple of weeks or more. They are almost like plastic plants. And most of us feel no guilt about throwing them out when they start to look ratty.
If you've never offered a home to a poinsettia, here's what you need to do: Water it once a week, give it some indirect light, and avoid placing it in a cold or drafty place. Temperatures of 68 to 72 are recommended, but my house is rarely that warm, and they do fine for me. And don't put it on top of a radiator or anywhere where it will get too hot and dry out too quickly.
The worst thing you can do for a poinsettia is to overwater it. Too much water will rot the roots, and your holiday plant will go into a decline and die. I lift the pot and can tell by its weight whether it needs water or not. But you can stick your finger in the soil, too. If it is wrapped in foil, make a hole in the bottom so that excess water can drain into the saucer.
Getting poinsettias to bloom in their second year is complicated, and not worth the effort for most of us. One must give them bright light during the day, and no light at all for 12 hours or more – which means moving them into a closet or basement, and remembering not to turn on the light. I have read figures citing 5 days of dark treatment as adequate, but also up to 10 weeks of dark from 5pm to 8am. Who knows? I once read read that a big grower had trouble getting his plants to develop their red leaves simply because he had a night watchman who liked plants and shined his flashlight around the greenhouse on his nightly rounds.
My mother, may she rest in peace, never had poinsettias because she believed, mistakenly, that they were poisonous. She feared that her cat would eat a leaf and die. I told her that was not the case, but she was a worrier, and wouldn't take a chance with her dear cat, Bella (may she, too, rest in peace).
Ohio State University in cooperation with the Society of American Florists did a study that proved that poinsettias are not the threat my mom believed they were. Yes, they are in the genus Euphorbia, a group of plants that have alkaloids in their white sap. But the sap is not very toxic. According to the Mayo Clinic web site, poinsettias are not good to eat, and might cause a tummy ache or a rash, but unless you are allergic to them, nothing serious is likely to happen if you make them part of your lunch. Or your cat's lunch.
From a Darwinian point of view, it might make sense for a plant to make itself poisonous, or at least unpleasant to eat. After all, plants want to reach maturity and produce seeds, allowing their genetic material to be passed on to the next generation. They don't want all their leaves to be eaten before maturity. But the bottom line is, feed your cat well, and she probably won't even get a tummy ache from nibbling your poinsettia.
So get yourself a poinsettia. They will provide some nice color on your table for the holidays. Just don't water it too much.
Henry Homeyer is the author of 4 gardening books. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
At this time of year I need all the help I can get. Cloudy gray days do not make me cheerful. Days that end at 4pm do not please me. I counteract the dark with lights, flowers on the table, greenery (and maybe a little chocolate). This year I decided to make a kissing ball to hang from my chandelier in the living/dining area.
Kissing balls have a long history. During the Middle Ages villagers would hang balls of evergreens with a clay figure representing the Baby Jesus inside. Later, during the Victorian era, people would poke greens, particularly sweet-smelling greens, into apples or a potatoes and them and hang them in the house.
But they fell into disfavor, and mistletoe remained as the primary green hung in the house during much of the 1900's. Mistletoe, of course allowed high-spirited youth to steal a kiss if a maiden was "accidentally" standing under the mistletoe. In this day of lawyers, no one wants to sell mistletoe because the berries are quite poisonous. But now decorated evergreen balls are back, being sold as kissing balls. I recently made one.
When I made my plans I didn't think of an apple or a potato as the center of the ball. I bought a grapefruit and a large orange. But ultimately I decided I needed something longer lasting, and went to my local garden center to see if I could buy a ball of "Oasis". Florists use Oasis to hold flowers and greens in place in arrangements while allowing them to absorb water. No one had balls of Oasis for sale, so I bought a 3 by 9-inch block.
I started the project by getting a variety of greens. I bought a small bundle of boxwood and cut branches of balsam fir, white pine, evergreen azalea and rhododendron.
Boxwood is loved by many gardeners: it is well behaved, slow-growing and has very small evergreen leaves that are a shiny green all year. They make great miniature hedges. I have avoided it because in the old days it was marginally hardy here. Now we have varieties that sneer at temperatures of 25 below and colder. Korean boxwood varieties such as Green Gem, Green Velvet and Green Mountain shouldn't suffer winter burn or winter kill.
Oasis is very easy to cut. I used a long serrated bread knife, but you could use any knife. I soaked the sphere in water for 15 minutes or so, rotating it a few times and holding it under water so the entire thing would be well soaked. Then I took an old fashioned wire coat hanger and cut out a section. I kept the top hook portion, one angled side and the bottom wire. I straightened it out with a pair of needle nose pliers, and pushed it through the globe. I then twisted the bottom inch of wire to a right angle, and slipped a big fender washer on it to help support the sphere once I hung it, and to keep the delicate Oasis from being damaged by the wire.
I hung the ball from my chandelier and began the easy part: decorating it. I cut pieces of greenery into roughly 6-inch pieces, and gently poked them into the Oasis. I started at the top, creating concentric circles of white pine, then boxwood, balsam fir, another layer of boxwood, then azalea and rhododendron, and finally finishing up with more boxwood. Once I passed the "equator" I turned the leaves so that the shiny side would be facing down.
I used my pocket knife to shave off needles of the fir (which did not pull off easily), and to remove any lumps in the stems. On thicker branches, I shaved of a little wood to make a thinner branch to poke into the Oasis.
At the very bottom I attached a bow made of red ribbon, wiring it onto the hook at bottom after removing the washer. That insured that the wire would not pull though the Oasis, which is very delicate.
It was gorgeous. A globe of green with a nice variety of textures and colors of green. All it needed was some red berries. So my dog Daphne and I jumped in the car and drove to the nearest swamp. I had put on my tall boots, just in case some wading was required. Little did I know.
Our native holly, which loses its leaves, is called winterberry (Ilex verticillata). In the wild it lives in swamps, but is also a good landscape plant with loads of bright red berries. It is dioecious, meaning it has male and female plants; if you want berries, buy a male to go with your females (one male can service several females).
I cut some branches for my kissing ball and was leaving the swamp when, with a crack, I fell through the ice and water filled my boots. If I'd been captured on camera I might have started a new trend –icy water in boots instead of a bucket of ice water on the head. I laughed. Later, I poked stems of red berries into the kissing ball. It certainly brightens up the room, and I grin when I remember getting those red berries.
Henry Homeyer lives in Cornish Flat, NH. His books are available from his web site, www.Gardening-Guy.com. Contact him at email@example.com or P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746.
I know people who say we shouldn't be cutting down trees just to brighten our houses for the holidays. Trees are, after all, sequestering carbon and making our environment cleaner, greener, and all that. I say "Bah Humbug!" and will cut a fresh tree from my neighborhood tree farmer. But if you want to be a Greenie, here is what you need to know about using a live tree with the idea of then planting it outside after the holidays.
First know that chances of survival are only 50-50 or thereabouts. Planting a tree in New England in January is not easy. For starters, the ground may be frozen. And keeping a tree hydrated and happy in the house is a challenge, even for an attentive tree steward. But let's see how you can improve your odds. I've never had a live tree in the house, so I spoke with Norm Longacre, of Longacre's Nursery in Lebanon, NH for some helpful hints.
Norm said that you should think small. A six-foot tree will have a big, heavy rootball, and will be harder to move and harder to plant. Think three to four feet tall, maximum, and even smaller if you can. The best? A tabletop tree.
He said to buy a fir or spruce that has been grown in a plastic container, not one that is recently dug up or wrapped in burlap. Place the tree in the coolest part of the house – and never near a radiator or woodstove.
I suggest that you think where the tree will be planted after the holidays before you buy one. Too many times I've seen a huge blue spruce towering over a nice little ranch house, blocking out the sun from the big picture window. Why? Because the tree was small and cute when the owner of the house bought it, and he never thought about its ultimate size.
Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) is one of the classic Christmas trees. In the wild it will grow to be 45 to 75 feet tall with a spread of 20 to 25 feet. This is not the tree to place close to the house. There are a few cultivars that are supposed to stay small, but mostly such trees just grow slower than the standard varieties. In 40 years, a dwarf may no longer be a dwarf.
Blue spruce (Picea pungens) is another good-sized tree in the wild, 30 to 60 feet tall with a spread of 20 to 30 feet. There are spruce that stay small, I have read. 'Blue Kiss' is one that, after 40 years growing in Ohio, is reported to be only 8 feet tall and 10 feet wide. But that's still enough to block most windows. So choose the location well.
I would buy a bale of hay or straw now and spread a thick layer of it over the soil at the site where you will plant your tree to serve as insulation. Between now and January it is likely we will have some very cold days. And unless we have a thick layer of snow, the top few inches of soil can be frozen solid by the time you want to plant your tree outdoors. Yes, you can break up frozen soil with a pick ax, but do you want to?
I would also buy a few bags of topsoil now and store them in a warm basement. Then if the soil is frozen when it's time to plant, and you hack it out, you can backfill the hole with soil that is not in frozen chunks. You will want some bark mulch or wood chips to spread over the soil once the tree is planted, too.
Instead of keeping a live tree in the house for a month, the way many of us do with cut trees, think about having it indoors for just a week or 10 days. That will reduce the stress on the tree considerably. Keep the soil lightly moist, but not soggy.
When the time comes to plant your tree, be sure that you dig the hole the appropriate depth. Never plant a tree in a hole that is deeper than necessary. Look for the trunk flare, that part of the tree that would be above ground if growing in the wild. Keep that flare above ground and do not cover it with bark mulch. To do so is to consign your tree to an early death. The bark will rot if covered with soil or mulch, and the tree will decline in 6 to 10 years. Many trees come in the pot with the trunk flare covered with soil, so you may have to expose it when you plant. And don't forget to water your tree after you plant it!
And what about all those cut trees we see for sale on empty lots, selling to people like me? They are a crop, like corn or beans. They provide a livelihood for tree farmers and are great for boon to our environment. I buy one every year and feel not an iota of guilt.
One nice thing about buying a cut tree that reaches the 10-foot ceiling in my house is this: after the holidays I will cut off all the branches and use them to provide some protection for less hardy plants that might be harmed by cold winter winds. I will layer them over perennials that are "iffy" in my climate, or use them to protect roses or other shrubs that might be damaged by the cold.
So go ahead and buy a live tree for the house if you wish, but please remember the words of Norm Longacre. "Don't hold your nurseryman responsible if your tree doesn't survive."
Henry Homeyer is a UNH Master Gardener and the author of 4 gardening books. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
It's that time of year again: time to find the perfect present for Aunt Edna, Uncle Bob and everyone else we love. Gardeners on my list are pretty easy to buy for because there are so many wonderful gifts to choose from, including selections under $10 (Atlas nitrile gardening gloves, packets of my favorite seeds) to expensive coffee table books and wheelbarrows that cost $300 or more. Let me offer a few suggestions.
Let's start at the high end. One of my coaching clients this summer wanted some raised beds that were actually tall enough so that she wouldn't have to bend over. She ordered some 'VegTrugs' from Gardener's Supply (www.gardeners.com or 802-660-3500). These are wood growing containers made of fir that are about 6 feet long, 30 inches wide and 32 inches tall – about the same height as your kitchen table.
The VegTrug is V-shaped in cross-section and lined with a fabric that keeps soil from washing through between the slats. This container is deep and hold 380 quarts of soil mix – about 10 bags. We filled it with a 50-50 mix of compost and topsoil bought in bulk, and added some perlite and peat moss to keep the soil fluffy. It performed very well, growing tomatoes and eggplants in the middle, and shallow rooted things like lettuce and basil along the edges. At $249, it's an investment, but well designed and it should last for years. Gardener's Supply has a number of other kinds of raised beds. My client assembled her VegTrug in about an hour, and some of the others are even simpler.
Weeding is the least fun part of gardening for many, and anything that helps to reduce weed numbers is a good gift. A few years ago I got some rolls of weed mat that came with pre-punched holes spaced appropriately for growing tomatoes, or lettuce – or you name it. This is a woven polypropylene mat that the maker claims will last 10 years.
The mats come in 4-foot wide strips with evenly spaced holes in 8 different sizes and spacings. They block out light, keeping weeds from growing, while also moderating temperature and water loss. From 10.99 for a 6-foot piece to $30.99 for an 18-foot length. Made in Vermont, available from www.GardenMats.com or by calling 802-498-3314.
Each year I remind readers that in my opinion the best weeding tool made is the CobraHead weeder (www.CobraHead.com or 866-962-6272). This is a single steel finger, curved and sharp, that will get under weeds and lift them out, tease out grass roots or prepare the soil for planting. It is $24.95, including shipping. Made in America, too.
Watering well is important in dry times. Plants need gentle streams of water that can best be delivered by a watering wand. These devices have long metal handles with a rose (water sprayer) on the end. The best wands are made by Dramm, but many knock-offs are sold, too. Go for the best. Why? They have figured out how to aerate the water so that lots of water can come out, fast, but gently. My wand allows me to walk along and get water where I want it: on the ground, near the plants, but not on the foliage. Available at good garden centers everywhere. About $20.
Books are loved by gardeners. Designing flower gardens? An excellent book is by Julie Moir Messervy, Landscaping Ideas that Work (Taunton Press, $21.95). This is a good overview and introduction to the basics of landscape design, starting with a checklist of the atmosphere, activities and features you would like. It is simple and straightforward with lots of color pictures. Granted, the pictures are mostly of expensive houses and projects, but she gives readers an idea of relative cost of various options (brick walkways, or stone, or packed earth) by using 1 to 4 dollar signs next to each.
The New Vegetable Growers Handbook: A users manual for the organic vegetable garden by Frank Tozer (distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, $27.95) is an excellent reference text for anyone who grows veggies. It has detailed growing information on nearly 100 different veggies and has great tips on practical matters such as how to avoid getting bitter-tasting cucumbers or how day length affects the size of your onions, and why you should plant them early in spring. Want to try new greens? Tozer tells you how to grow Komatsuna and Mizuna and Mibuna and more. By the way, Chelsea Green Publishing (www.chelseagreen.com) has lots of other good gardening and permaculture books worth looking at.
Record keeping is important if you want to improve your gardening skills and to learn from past years. The Moleskine Company (www.moleskine.com) makes many journals, including a gardening journal that offers 240 pages, including space to record your efforts and useful information such as hardiness zones. It has design grids for planning and adhesive labels for personalizing sections. It's $19.95 and found at many bookstores.
Santa Claus, if you're listening, what I really want this year is another load of manure. Just have your reindeer drop a load of black garden gold anywhere near my vegetable garden. A pick-up truck load would be great or, if you think I've been a very good boy a dump-truck load!
Henry Homeyer has his own gardening books, signed, available from his web site, www.Gardening-Guy.com.
I love to ski and snowshoe. I don't mind shoveling snow and lugging in firewood for the woodstove the chugs along day and night now. But there are limits to my patience, and by March I'll ready for green growing things and some fresh flowers. So I start lots of veggies and flowers by seed, starting in March and April. But I also force bulbs to bloom indoors in March. Now is the time to do so.
Most bulbs are described on their packages as early, mid-season or late. Go to your local garden center and ask for bulbs that are early bloomers because they are the best for forcing. Buy daffodils, some tulips and maybe some small bulbs like crocus or snowdrops. You can plant these bulbs in large pots or even in your window box that is, by now, cleaned out and stored in the garage or barn.
You will also need some potting soil and compost. I make a mix that is half compost, half potting soil for forcing bulbs. I don't use garden soil because it can be heavy and often stays wet. Bulbs can rot if they are left in wet soil for too long.
I recently planted 25 daffodils in a window box that is about 30 inches long, 6 inches wide and deep. It was a mix of different kinds of daffodils. I prefer to get all of one kind so that they all bloom at once, but the mixed bag was what was available (and on sale).
I filled the window box a little more than half full with my mixture of compost and potting soil and placed the bulbs, pointy end up, in the soil. Once I had them all in place I pushed them down more and filled up the box with more potting soil-compost mixture. Bulbs for forcing can be planted shoulder to shoulder, or nearly so.
In order to prepare bulbs for early blooming indoors, you will need a place to store them that is cold, but not as cold as the outdoors. Despite global warming, I still see minus 20 every winter, even if for only a few days. Bulbs planted in the ground have some protection against the cold, but if you were to plant bulbs in pots and leave them outside, the extreme temperatures would kill most. Bulbs left in a cool basement or garage will do just fine. Inside the bulkhead to your cellar might be the right temperature, too.
Ideally temperatures for bulbs used for forcing will be between 25 and 50 degrees, though colder temperatures should not be a problem (my basement often goes below freezing). Left in a warm location, the bulbs will grow green tops – but not blossoms.
You need to be aware that rodents like eating bulbs (indoors or out) – especially tulips. My basement has, most years, harbored mice and even sometimes red squirrels. In fact, I have learned the hard way that indoor rodents can – and will – dig up and eat tulips. So now I keep my pots of tulips covered with hardware cloth (a fine-mesh metal screening available at hardware stores). But wear gloves if you cut hardware cloth to size – the edges are as sharp as razor wire. Daffodils, on the other hand are not of interest to rodents as they are mildly poisonous.
You can double your production of blooms by planting two layers of bulbs in a container. Plant big bulbs deep in the pots, add soil, and then plant a layer of crocus or other small bulbs above them. To avoid planting the little guys right over the big boys, you can mark the location of the deeper bulbs with straw from a broom. That way they won't get pushed over as the daffodils come up. Or you can just take your chances.
Don't wait until mid-December to start your bulbs, get on this project now. Daffodils take about 12 weeks of dormancy before they should be brought into the warmth of the house, and tulips do better with 4 full months. Planted now, they would be ready in mid-March. Little things like crocus can be forced in 8 to 10 weeks.
It is important to check on the bulbs you are forcing at least once a month, particularly if you have put wire rodent-proofing over the containers. I've had shoots get damaged by trying to grow through the hardware cloth. If the bulbs are sending up shoots, remove the wire mesh. I also don't want the soil mix to get bone dry, so I check it and water a little if it is too dry. The bulbs will grow roots when first planted, and then go dormant if kept in a dark, cold location.
When it is time to bring up your potted bulbs into a warm place, let them wake up gently. My mudroom is good for starting them: there is some sunshine but it is cool. Then, once the shoots are up and green, I place the containers on my sunniest window sills – either east or west facing.
I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, West Africa many years ago. There I could have flowers blooming outside every day of the year. It spoiled me, perhaps, because I still want flowers every day. Forcing bulbs is one way to have lots of blossoms when there is still snow on the ground.
Henry Homeyer is the author of 4 gardening books. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com. You may also reach him by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Metal Amp Room from Softube is a native based plug-in that was designed to deliver the most aggressively distorted guitar sound possible from a DAW environment. The continuous microphone placement using twin microphones and adjustable stereo panning makes it possible to generate a huge stereo sound with complex adjustable phasing effects, a plain old "one microphone right against the cone" effect, or anything in between.
The plug-in does not to include multiple amplifiers, effects racks, or patch cords, simply two channels, two cabinets, two microphones per cabinet, and a fast program-dependent, one-knob gate for achieving great palm mute effects. The gate automatically analyzes the playing style, with fast playing delivering an extremely fast gate while slow playing will yield a slower closing gate. The gate will always react instantaneously without adding any latency to the signal.
The Balancing Stereo Preamp will always keep the guitar signal focused. While keeping the guitar signal centered, monitoring each microphone is easy, as is changing the stereo width of the signal. It is also possible to bypass either the amplifier simulation or the cabinet simulation. The most straight-forward use of this feature is to use the amplifier simulation together with a favorite real-life guitar cabinet, or to use the cabinet simulations together with the line-out signal from an amplifier.
- "Brutal "metal amplifier with a raw and authentic sound
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- Fully automatable parameters
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Lightchip Inc. added 200 GHz spacing and flat passband capabilities to its Versalight optical wavelength router. The diffraction-grating-based product provides 20 200 GHz ITU-spaced channels.
The addition allows service providers to route wavelengths where and when they are most needed, the company says.
Lightchip is backed by $85 million in funding and $25 million in customer contracts, a spokeswoman says.
The OWR provides bi-directional wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing of disparate network traffic flows on a single fiber. Lightchip says the technology creates a massively parallel mux/demux approach with fewer elements, no moving parts, less complexity and ultra-low insertion loss. The product is thermally stable, it adds.


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Certain entertainment properties are so much more enjoyable when they exist outside of the mainstream. They can be sinfully entertaining; quirky; secretly hilarious. But put them into the spotlight, and that novelty wears off. They go from being a guilty pleasure, and not really a big deal, to something almost to be ashamed of. Scott Pilgrim falls into that catagory. When it was less well know, this comic's fans raved about its virtues. Pilgrim is a likeable jerk, the everyman that most of u...
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Let me say this before I say anything else. I struggled to read this book the first time it was presented to me. I was reading it online and I just wasn't getting that pulled into it. However, I stuck with it and finished, eventually working to book 2, which I didn't finish. Then I reread this. Suddenly it was better. Eventually I went out and bought the physical copy of it and my God, it's beautiful. So I'm going to try and approach this with the first time in mind, but the second, third, fourt...
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By now you must of heard of the Cult sensation which is Scott Pilgrim, written and illustrated by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Set in the real world. Scott Pilgrim is the people's champion and a series which is a must read for anyone who has grown up in 80s pop-culture. From Nintendo to the X-Men Scott Pilgrim lived it just like you. I won't waste time by saying pros and cons. It is a great series. These comics may look like mangas, but they are Archie Digests 6.9 of awesomeness. This is a g...
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Having heard about the upcoming movie, and some praise for this series, I decided to pick it up upon finding a copy of the first Scott Pilgrim volume in my school library. And am I glad that I did! Reading this series, I was immediately drawn to the character of Scott after about ten pages in, despite that I had nothing (or very little) to relate myself to Scott. The dialogue of the characters was just so realistic and funny that I couldn't put the book down without finding out what happens. T...
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Intro: So a bunch of my friends are Scott Pilgrim fans and kept telling me how good it is. So finally I asked one of my friends if I could borrow Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1, I wasn't expecting how good this would be. Art: It's really cool manga-style art and works great for the story. Writing: The characters are pretty funny some times. Each character is showcased and we really get a good feel for each and everyone. The video game references are fun, and the characters are interesting. ...
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The island's only beachfront Italian restaurant features a dual (or dueling) serenade of Andrea Bocelli on the sound system and gently lapping waves a few feet away. Chef Valter Belli artfully adapts recipes from his home in Emilia-Romagna. Try the delicate lobster ravioli in truffle-cream sauce. For dessert, don't miss the tiramisu. Though you might wander in here for lunch after a swim, when casual dress is OK, you'll still be treated to the same impressive menu. You
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Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But a complex web of factors has reduced those forests so that longleaf is now found only on 3 million acres. Fortunately, longleaf forests are once again spreading across the South. This book invites readers to experience the astounding beauty and significance of the majestic longleaf ecosystem.
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Swing low, sweet chariot. (imgur.com)
9933 ups - 7959 downs = 1974 votes
259 comments submitted at 16:20:24 on Jun 10, 2013 by Lpup
Swing low, sweet chariot. (imgur.com)
9933 ups - 7959 downs = 1974 votes
259 comments submitted at 16:20:24 on Jun 10, 2013 by Lpup
Thats ok, Everytime i fuck a black girl, i pretend im Thomas Jefferson.
Thats gross. Doesn't that make your dick dirty?
Nope. Thomas Jefferson washes his cock with the finest of Ivory soaps.
Just curious, when you're in T.J. mode do you cum liberty and freedom? (I feel like this subject could be an entire thread of it's own)
I think it's 100% murica, could be wrong.
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and wipe your cock with a Union Jack
you mean hemp soap
Thomas jefferson would not wash his asshole with hemp soap, only the finest of indian export can touch such a beautiful phallic symbol of our nation.
Does the brown comes off? I mean, I've heard some parents threaten to slap the black off their kids.
Isn't that a form of beastiality?
Only in The Union States.
Every time I fuck a black girl, I pretend I'm poor.
Just some trivia here, I'm British and found it hilarious when I found out watching Scrubs that Swing Low Sweet Chariot has such racial connotations over in America.
Over here it's practically the England Rugby team's unofficial anthem, when they won the World Cup in 2003 (?) you couldn't go into a pub on the weekend without hearing it sung.
Damn crack whores making us look bad. wtf
She's called a Strawberry, and everyone knows Strawberry. Strawberry is the neighborhood hoe. Do anything for a hit or two, give the bitch a rock she'll fuck the whole damn crew.
Hahahaha I know a bitch named Blueberry that does the same shit! You in the Seattle area? Let's get all these berries together!
You know what they say, the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
There was nothing sweet about this bitch. She was crazy.
Dopeman - N.W.A
We called the girl Vanilla Coke.
Ours in my home town was know as Shovel. Because she looked like she'd been hit by one, and would dig on anything with a penis.
>Damn fat, desperate crack whores making us look bad.
Not all of us would sink that low.
My bad, I forgot to mention, its almost 100% women the white man doesn't want anyways.
you spelled cheerleaders wrong
Found a pic of your favorite type.
yisss to the bottom right
I was expecting the girl from Dodgeball who said "I'm not wearing any panties today" :\
Every time I get my dick sucked by a black girl, I open my eyes and realize it was just a bad dream.
Cheering sounds like: UGUAHAHGUAUGHGUAGHUAHG
When they hop on black cock it usually means we were done with the skank anyways.
They get the fat, washed out left overs
Id like to thank the black guys for taking care of all the overweight blond bitches.
Except they don't take care of anything. The people who pay taxes do.
He musta just meant sexually
I wonder if he realizes it's kind of like a fetish for those girls. The same as zoophilia.
The fact that it is taboo is part of the turn on for coal burners.
They're being used by the white women. Kinda like how Malcom X wanted his black brothers to not have sex with white women. He saw it as the white women still exerting power over them, using the black men for some kinky thrill while never engaging in real intimacy. They were/are sexual mandingos of sorts.
every time i beat a black girl, i can hear my plantation owner ancestors cheering for me.
They're stooping to your level. Not the other way around. They can do better. You can't.
He misspelled rape.
As a Jewish guy this was the only I could thinking of while on a vacation in Germany
Fuck those Nazis Hitler will be weeping.
At least he wrote White
I guess its the karmatic balance for Jefferson banging your great great great great grandmother.
I thought Jefferson was bangin his wife Weezy in his de-luxe apartment in the sky?
Yeah, he was really moving on up.
How dare you say that Bill Cosby! That is Bill Cosby, right?
i think so. they all look alike.
The envy is strong in this thread. Looks like I got a double cringe out of this post.
Yep, I thought what he wrote was funny as hell. This is only in this sub because everyone here is fucking racist as fuck and just came to light some crosses with like-minded company. How dare a black guy have sex with a white girl!!! Get your torches and pichforks boys! We got us a lynchin!
*fucking secret racists
Your ancestors aren't cheering they are screaming from my ancestors hanging them.
He spelled filthy whore wrong.
he spelled outdated farm equipment wrong too...
300 pounders with Daddy issues don't count, Jamal.
Not one mention of a repost. This sub has gone to shit (implying it already wasn't). Just stupid nigger jokes. All you faggots can go hang yourselves you dumb fucks.
what about the sound of siren
Let's hear a real nigger work song!
Every time I fuck a black chick I make her pick the cotton and make the sheets before we fuck on them.
That would take way too long and you know it.
That's why I buy a team of them.
You must be rich.
Well you only have to buy a few then you breed them.
Eventually they pay for themselves.
Shit got serious
Never thought of oppression while having my dick sucked.
What about when it's your turn to suck?
I think "Follow the Drinking Gourd" would be more appropriate in this situation.
This might seem random but were you in academic decathlon
You know what they say once you go black... we don't want you back
Damn, this thread went racist quick. Can't y'all just sneer and move on?
First comment: "Haha. A joke about black people to turn the joke around." Second comment: "Hmm... Another one." Third: "Wow. This is getting repetitive." Fourth: "Wait. Are they serious?" Fifth-Twelfth: "Wow. I never knew igthft was so racist."
Have you never been here before?
I.. I thought it was joke racism. We don't.. actually hate minorities and stuff do we? I just like jokes!
I'm pretty sure it is about 75% actual racists, 25% who just like to laugh at inappropriate things.
Maybe everyone's confused and no one knows if we're joking in here or not.
Oh, so like r/murica. Gotcha.
So, any idea about r/shitredditsays? Are they serious?
Sure are. I love SRS, they're like the living embodiment of Poe's Law.
Well, there's a saying that every joke has a grain of truth to it, else how did the joke come to exist if it were otherwise?
That saying is wrong. Often, especially in this sub, they're just based on stereotypes and prejudice. Those things are funny (though usually kind of lazy), but they are also obviously not based in truth.
Where do stereotypes and prejudice come from? Why do they exist?
"Grain of truth", not "based on truth". Very different things.
Ignorance, hatred and just general bitterness.
People sometimes make things up, for whatever reason. You're essentially saying if something was thought of, it must have been true at some point...Or someone has a large (bitter) imagination.
This sub might as well be renamed: internet KKK lynch mob extrodinaire!
Every time I stumble here on r/all I feel bad for humanity. Its not clever jokes as this sub was intended. Its just fucking low hanging racism.
Dude we make the KKK look good by comparison
Do you realize what subreddit you're in? It may as well be /r/Dixieland
Racist jokes are fine but this stuff is ridiculous... I mean this shit is at the same level as r/n*ggers. Is this a SRS false flag?
Disgusting people sucking a filthy animal's dick. I've heard of people fucking horses, but this is just wrong.
How's eighth grade going, buddy?
Are you hitting on him?
Eighth grade is never good for anybody.
Yeah, spaghetti everywhere, and then your friend ruins your chance that you never really had to get with the cute Pakistani girl, and then you go home and masturbate with your tears as lube.
Or maybe that was just me...
It was about a dozen juice boxes, her sister who ruined my chances, and she was Vietnamese, but other than that, I'm right here with you.
I actually am kind of worried that someone told you about me.
Please tell me more about your eight grade exploits.
Not much to tell. Spent way too much time trying to get a proper peek at a real breast.
Pakistani breast?
It's going good. Still not loving niggers but at least I have pubic hairs!
go back to /r/niggers dude. You're not going to hell for being stupid.
go back to /r/GaybrosGoneWild no one wants to hear about your eight grader dick sucking fantasies.
That link is now no longer blue.
Meh, a girl that would blow a black guy loses all value anyway. I'm not offended.
Does he mean the same ancestors who kept his people as slaves in Africa then sold his people to the white man in the first place?
Bad reasoning. If Europeans didn't create the demand then they would not have been selling other Africans into slavery. ALSO, Africa doesn't constitute an ethnicity. It was warfare between different ethnicities that allowed one group to sell another into slavery.
Slavery in Africa also didn't mean the industrial scale chattel slavery we had over here, because obviously they didn't have the plantations and whatnot not to fill.
Some areas, particularly sugar growing ones, you'd just work a slave as hard as you could for the 3 or 4 years he'd manage to cling to life and then get a new one. It's why they would threaten the slaves in Huck Finn with being "sold down the river", because that's where the really bad plantations were.
Slavery is slavery, no matter the ethnicity. The demand was in Africa long before there was such a thing in Europe.
Edit- But America is to blame.
> The demand was in Africa long before there was such a thing in Europe.
False. Slavery existed worldwide and long before "colonialism slavery" and functioned almost the same way, with prisoners of war or captured foreigners being sold as slaves. They were spoils of war just like gold and women.
damn mudshark
Gorillas getting sucked off by whales. A wild life show can be made out of that.
Holy shit, this thread is racist.
This is so dumb.. because the female slaves wanted to have sex with the their white owners... They would be living in the house and be treated a lot better than the farm workers... the more you know.....
Nothing has changed.
Hoes is hoes is hoes mayne.
Dude, its a victory because it isn't consensual. Duh.
Cumming for to carry me homeeeee!!!
Don't know, dude. I gotta go with the big lips. Some white chicks have the tiny thin ones.
A white girl fuck a nigger, she can't feel inferior, you can't get any lower than a nigger. She's always on a pedestal when she fucks a nigger.
I do not approve of ape on crackhead relationships.
And if he listens even closer he can hear the sound of whips cracking and voices telling those niggers to get back to work.
You know your a 1790's kid when niggers worked.
yep, cos if there's one thing they wanted loads more of it's subjugation and differences in skin colour pointed out
I respectfully disagree. Judging by the comments, you think I'd posted a video of a white baby being raped by a gorilla.
Seriously, whelp now I know how to offend this subreddit. Just turn the racism around.
keep on posting Its fun to watch the reactions
I concur. My post is funny, but god damn the reactions (the funny as well as the butthurt ones) are fucking comedy gold. I would like to take this moment to mention My great grandfather was a klegal in the Klu Klux Klan (not a joke BTW)
If we cant laugh about ourselves . . . i guess we are going to get angry all the time
Its kinda nuts how so many people in this subreddit seem to usually have the "Lol, its just a joke, don't be so offended, minorities" attitude, but as soon as white people are the butt of the joke.... holy shit, THEY MAD.
Funny thing is, that's the greatest thing he'll accomplish in his whole life.
funny for us, because we're white. Sad for him, because hes nigger
Fucking Jiggaboo.
He probably wouldn't be able to hear his ancestors knowing they are in the back of the Underworld.
I don't understand why people who are clearly of mixed race like this guy ignore the fact that they had white ancestors too and that they are not really "black".
You don't understand how this works. If you have any "black" in you, any other race that is mixed in there disappears.
I mean, look at Tiger Woods or President Obama.
he forgot "Desperate and Obese" before the words "White Girl" and the cheering is actually laughter. Please take our fat chicks, consider them reparations.
Haha, omg you are fucking horrible.
Fat chicks don't count.
They give blow jobs because they're hungry, not because they like you.
lol....insecure white boys mad
whats new right ?
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I can hear "Pancho Villa"...
x-post this to /r/funny with nsfw tags please.
Best title.
Maybe instead he should think of the old southern song, "Run, n*****, Run, The Pater-rolla (Patrol) Get You!" There are a lot of variations.
These rape jokes just keep getting funnier and funnier.
i feel the same way when i'm in a black chick
ITT: people against interracial couples.
We're not against interracial couples just bestiality.
Great isn't it?
The thing is that once a white girl has sex with a black guy, we no longer see her as one of us. Only the worst of the worst would degrade themselves with a low-IQed nigger. I think that subconsciously, white women who date black men know that no matter what they do they will always be superior to their nigger mate. Fat white women need the self-esteem boost that comes from a nigger swooning over their fat, unshapely ass.
Once you go black, you don't come back. Nor will your credit score. You white coalburning whores are doing our gene pool a favor by taking yourselves out of it.
Note: this doesn't apply to all blacks.
For example: Obama is not an "African American". The term was invented to refer to the descendants of slaves, where part of America, nationally, due to slavery, but were still largely ethnically African.
Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he just had a Kenyan father.
The only thing Obama has in common with African-Americans is being abandoned by a black father.
Upvote for the title.
but all you can hear is her blubber rippling? hell you can have all them fat bitches!!!
typical niggers. dont you have an innocent old lady to kill?
Its sad to know that my tax dollars go to the welfare check that his single mother uses to pay for internet connection.
Everytime I fuck a black girl... ha HaHA HAHAHA, I'm sorry. I just can't lie like that. Too much disgrace to my ancestors in one sentence.
Nice to have a chip that's not yours on your shoulder , dumb ass
"My ancestors are smiling on me, White Girl. Can you say the same?!"
I hope they are. Losers.
Holy shit, look at all the butthurt redneck dickslaps in here. You guys prolly got more rustled jimmies than teeth between you.
is it just me or does this look shopped?
This has to be the most irrelevant title, unless someone can explain otherwise.
A trifecta of three meanings, A black spiritual, the U.K sings it to signify "victory" and a pun on going for Low Hanging fruit.
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