I'm considering taking up gardening full time....
 

there's more money in it and it's much more enjoyable.


thoughts?

Something like Homers Tomatoes and nicotine plants? Tomanic?

any example pics?
its easier to comment on a visual

i heard it can be relaxing. maybe when i get old i'll start doing that type of stuff.

nope..... just gardening. Keeping things trimmed and green. :)

you got a portfolio? i might need some sites done soon.

Most of the time, turning an enjoyable hobby into a profession, takes all the joy out of it. Thats why I dont build bikes for other people even though i've had some nice offers. :2 cents:

"full time gardening" as in becoming rose fertilizer?

I actually have a vegatable garden.you get great non pesticide vegatables.Tomatoes,cucumbers,zuccini.carrots.lima beans :thumbsup

that's a good point..... something to consider I guess.


btw, I don't mean gardening like, vegetable gardens and shit..... I'm talking about landscape gardening.

I used to do that with my grandfather when I was younger very relaxing

Wasn't it Tomatoes and Tabacco making it Tomacco?

Do it up, Amp. It sure as hell pays well!

I stand corrected..I thought it was worth 150 billion

and yet, i still love my job.

I knew some guys back in the early 80's that made a ton of money gardening in Hawaii.

but for me, porn was never a hobby.... not even an interest. I hate this business. It makes me sick. I don't watch porn, I don't buy porn, I don't like porn people, I don't like anything about it.

It pays the bills. That's about all I can say for it.


so what's so wrong about doing something you actually enjoy and making a living doing it?

gardening is more on your level of sophistication than anything on the interweb.

not sure I'd bring 'sophistication' into this..... take a look around.... there's a deep lack of that going on here. (including you).

It's about a major chunk of your life... your work... and enjoying what you do at the beginning and end of the day.

I like landscape gardening.... you like getting fucked in the ass by men with tits.
We're not that different you and I.

tons of bling in gardening??

well.... I started running some numbers here today. And I estimated that my gardener makes 5 times what I make.

and I do pretty well.

what does me getting fucked in the ass have to do with your lack of sophistication?

i don't get it.

If you can garden like you do sites you will do great. I know you don't care and will blast me. But you are a hell of a designer :thumbsup

From working with filth, to working with dirt!

and you likely never will.



stick with what you know Kman... some things are just beyond your simpleton mindset.

amp dude, i am with you

we just bought our first house at the beginning of the year, and once spring hit, i realized how much the former owners didn't keep care of the yard

i didn't realize it at the time, but I know see, it was a blessing in disguise...while it has been long and hard, i am finally starting to see results that I am love with and make me work so much harder getting my yard just perfect

my favorite thing, which is just starting to show up, is I took an area in the yard that used to have a tree with bricks surrounding it (now just a stump with dirt), and am in the process of removing the stump...but I filled it completely with hummingbird attracting flowers...i can't wait to see how it looks when in full bloom, which will hopefully be towards the middle of summer..but I have a feeling it is going to be awesome

i also took the entire upper level of the backyard where no one had touched it in years, and cleared away 2-3 years worth of pine needles and vine growth and outlined it all in red bricks slanted a little....and the planted grass and cut a circle with bricks for a fire pit

i am having a blast, and it is nice to see someone else on gfy that enjoys it as much as I do

i am out there every day, i can't wait til I get it perfect, i will post pics as soon as that happens

wow, dude, you are scaring me....after everything I have heard about you, it seems we are very much alike

love to see some pics when you're ready... sounds awesome

I'm holding off on pics too.... I have some, but not that I wanna display. More for the 'Before & After' effect. I'm shooting for end of summer to be ready for the 'After' pics. :)

i know that i like men with tits, but from the pics i've seen of your wife, she looks more like a man with gorilla hands and mustache... so since im being attracted to men with tits that look hotter than supermodels, and you are apparently attracted to men with gorilla hands and mustaches, does that make us both gay and you just with the worse taste of us?












*** disclaimer: all posts are in jest and are not to be considered personal attacks. this is simply for entertainment purposes.

yeah, end of summer is my goal too...as much work as I have done it still looks like shit in my eyes

the grass is just killing me though...the former owners didn't do SHIT to the grass...so I have had to go over it all with new seed...big pain in the ass waiting game...i plant some new seed and have to wait 4-5 days to see any results....and then sometimes the seeds don't sprout, so I have to go back and do it again...

nice try Kman.

Go fuck with someone else. I'm not biting. However, I would like to say that, I take great pleasure in knowing, every night, when I go to sleep.... that I am where I'm at in my life..... and you are where you are at in yours.
And I wouldn't trade you for 10 million bucks.

Enjoy your fucked up life dude.

Now fuck off. :)

Youre sure in a good state for it. I say go for it!

I think landscape gardening is a great job. I'm reading a book now about Edna Walling - famous in Australia for doing that sort of work. We've spent the last 3 years having 5 acres made into a garden and I know first hand that designers make big bucks.

that's what I'm talkin' about..... :winkwink:

this is something I could really apply some passion to. Design, layout, bringing it all together. I love this shit.

this is a pond in my own backyard that I designed and physically garden & maintain daily...

http://devsh0p.com/koipond.jpg

and it's not perfect.... but it ain't bad either for my first steps in landscaping. I think this is something I wanna pursue further.

hahaha a 2" waterfall... you're quite the landscaper lol!!

it's 3 feet high (above the waterline) ... twin falls.... 12' x 15' x 2' deep with a 12" plant shelf all the way around, 4 submerged lights, and a 3200 gph pump that turns that entire pond over 4 times an hour. Perfectly balanced pH at 7.9, buffered, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 40 ppm nitrate, .07 salt, and 18 very happy koi.


what the fuck have YOU ever done Kman.....


anything? Anything at all? Seriously..... anything?


shut the fuck up you worthless piece of homo shit.

i've done more than you will ever know kid.

it might dishearten you to know that your wife may have been the one who turned me on to wanting to bang femininish things that are really men... what do u think about that?





disclaimer: this is meant in jest and for entertainment purposes only

you've done nothing and we both know it.

Keep telling yourself you're an important special person.... I'm sure you believe every word.

goodnight idiot.

lol 0wn3d again....

and STILL the only person on GFY to 0wn amp with a 100% success rate.

Actually Amp that is a pretty damn nice little hardscape you did. Was it your first one?
My fiance just got into the landscape and yard care business at the start of the year (for herself at least). Before that she did a couple years doing misc. handyman shit so she could have the experience to get her contractors license this year. She loves the job and is litterally making some serious cash and that is just with the yard care. She currently has a few bids in for some hardscapes and a couple other full landscape design jobs. Most of them are in the 8,000 to 16,000 range and are actually pretty small 4-6 day jobs.
She already is hiring help due to her picking up so many yearly yard care contracts. Then what really surprised me was that she has already covered the cost of all of the equipment and it is still only May.
She has no regrets getting into it since it was something she loved anyways.

that is pretty nice dude...now I want a fountain

time to go to home depot in the morning

Shit dude, if you like it who cares? That's why most of us are here. Me I'm like you, it's all about the money. There are about 20 places I'd rather be at the moment and I'm considering selling out and getting there.

lol, funny little world ya got going on in that head of yours.

I think that's a lovely design! You know it's good when you can imagine yourself sitting there and feeling really peaceful with the water noises. You probably have naked nymphs lying around on the grass, but at my house we just have the noise and the dogs.

Anytime you want to come to Australia and design a piece of the garden, let me know!

that was tomacco :thumbsup

amp...want me to send ya some xanax, i got some left from my last nervous breakdown :1orglaugh

Go for it. Sounds like hard work with an amazing reward once you see the finished design.

still crazy.. after all these years

Gardening seems to relaxed people. Good on ya.