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<blockquote data-quote="basset" data-source="post: 2223180" data-attributes="member: 5113"><p>When we moved into our house on the Harpeth River in Nashville 21 years ago, I was all fired up to grow a garden down in the creek bottom at the foot of the yard. Dug out five 25x6-foot raised beds by hand, hauled barnyard manure in barrels in the back of my jeep, mixed everything with a digging fork, had it all ready for planting and the river came up and washed everything away.</p><p></p><p>Figured that had to be an aberration and did it again. Second year, did OK. Third year, river came up out of its banks and washed my work away so I said the hell with it, just started putting out some tomatoes and hot peppers around the house. Someone who was looking at buying the house next door saw the remains of my raised beds and asked if I'd gotten a truck stuck back there.</p><p></p><p>This spring the river came up one more time, no garden to ruin so it took out the plants around the house, Bradleys and German pinks and yellows and cherry tomatoes and a few jalapenos, and just for meanness got the house too. </p><p></p><p>I'm already looking at seed catalogs for next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="basset, post: 2223180, member: 5113"] When we moved into our house on the Harpeth River in Nashville 21 years ago, I was all fired up to grow a garden down in the creek bottom at the foot of the yard. Dug out five 25x6-foot raised beds by hand, hauled barnyard manure in barrels in the back of my jeep, mixed everything with a digging fork, had it all ready for planting and the river came up and washed everything away. Figured that had to be an aberration and did it again. Second year, did OK. Third year, river came up out of its banks and washed my work away so I said the hell with it, just started putting out some tomatoes and hot peppers around the house. Someone who was looking at buying the house next door saw the remains of my raised beds and asked if I'd gotten a truck stuck back there. This spring the river came up one more time, no garden to ruin so it took out the plants around the house, Bradleys and German pinks and yellows and cherry tomatoes and a few jalapenos, and just for meanness got the house too. I'm already looking at seed catalogs for next year. [/QUOTE]
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