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 Spring is here and it's time for me to talk gardening!!
For many years, Ralph and I have tried hard to cultivate a garden in back of our trailer. Since it is quite hard
to grow vegetables in rock, we had to come up with a better plan.
One of Ralph's part time jobs is road cleanup. He travels around our town and picks up roadkill and then he is
supposed to bring the broken bodies to the town incinerator.
With our gardening woes, Ralph came upon a much better idea. Instead of burning the dead creatures, he brought
them home because the lifeless bodies are still chock full of nourishment!!
We went to a local garden shop and bought a couple of bucket loads of dirt. Not the high tech dirt, but regular
old dirt. This was basically a money saving measure and, to us, dirt is dirt.
We took the dirt home and dumped it in the backyard. Ralph drank beer until his bladder was completely full and
then urinated on the pile of dirt because pee is filled with many minerals that help stimulate growth.
We buried some of the roadkill in the dirt and planted our tomato and cucumber plants. Some of the animals were
not buried because the fur was pretty much intact and I figured that it would be pretty neat if I stripped the
fur from the bodies in order to make a new costume for work!!
After stripping the fur, I had a bunch of naked dead animals lying around the kitchen. Instead of burying them
in the garden, we decided that we would throw the remains in the blender so that we could turn them into a liquid
mush to dump on the plants!!
This worked quite well until I saw one of the dead animals staring at me as it rested in the blender. This brought
tears to my eyes and I ran from the kitchen, so Ralph had to finish pureeing the remaining bodies.
Now I am quite happy to tell you that the dead animal mush is working quite well!! Our plants are thriving, but
we do have a slight problem with flies and there is also a very nasty smell coming from the garden. I think it
might be due to Ralph peeing back there, but since the vegetables are starting to look quite tasty, I'm not too
worried about it!!!
Maybe we'll open our own vegetable stand and invite you, so stay tuned!!!
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