This is what I've been up to. It started out as a few feet on the fence line for a couple of tomato plants (nice view of the machine shed out there.) And then........I got the bug. How about a melon patch? A few onions couldn't hurt. Some peppers and beans and radishes .....yeah. It's been rough going, but, rich black soil underneath. I'm thinking about making a separate blog for the garden, since it's a work in progress, and this is the beginning. Anyone else like to grow stuff? I'd be very interested in seeing your gardens.
This is what I've been up to. It started out as a few feet on the fence line for a couple of tomato plants (nice view of the machine shed out there.) And then........I got the bug. How about a melon patch? A few onions couldn't hurt. Some peppers and beans and radishes .....yeah. It's been rough going, but, rich black soil underneath. I'm thinking about making a separate blog for the garden, since it's a work in progress, and this is the beginning. Anyone else like to grow stuff? I'd be very interested in seeing your gardens.
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Excellent idea. Are you gonna stay organic?. Do you like hot peppers?. I plant several types of peppers that Iuse for rubs and seasonings on meat and poultry. I especially like growing cilantro, basil and rosemary though. What a difference in taste when you cook with fresh food.
I bought a home with a beautiful garden last year. It's time to replant, and I'm not savvy enough to duplicate what was here. It will be interesting to hear how your garden progresses!
Has anyone ever tried those upside down hanging tomato and strawberry plant (and maybe other stuff) gardens? I've seen them on TV for a couple of years and I guess they'd work okay. Around here the deer and rabbits would eat anything we plant on the ground. They eat my tulips.
Fresh basil and cilantro? Now you've got my attention. I love to cook with fresh ingrediants. It makes even my cooking taste good -- and the aroma -- love it.
i have golden raspberry bushes that have started to spread rapidly...i planted 50 strawberry plants a couple years ago and now must have about a hundred---those suckers spread! hardy har har....
i usually plant peppers, carrots, radishes...
this year i am planting lettuce greens...
i can't really start gardening though til school is done in 3 weeks!
oh i have herbs too...my bronze fennel is coming up (taste like licrorice)...i have mint...sage, wormwood, horseradish, lemon balm, and i believe a few others...
as a city dweller, i must content myself with a few container plants and that's it. Nevertheless- 3 tomato plants,a big basil bush, rosemary, oregano, thyme, lemon thyme, and parsley is not too shabby for a balcony garden :)Oh, and I have some spearmint and chocolate mint downstairs...and if i knew we were sticking aruond i'd get a few strawberries....
Good luck DD! Weeds meet Dishy, Dishy meet weeds! No thanks! I am going to grow those upside down tomatoes this summer. No garden to weed. I grow flowers and have a fountain garden. That I don't mind keeping weeded. Growing food is hard ass work. I don't eat that much, it's ok!! LOL..someone else in my house always grows the food each summer. I am not crazy about that job. It's hard. I will help but thats about it. I love green beans & red potatoes tho!! Good luck.
I love gardening, but my bad shoulder has kept me from doing as much as I would like in the last year or so (that and a puppy who is just approaching the less curious and chewy phase in his life.) The most interesting thing he brought into the front yard was our chainsaw and he loves to swing shovels around!
You are so lucky to have rich soil! Ours is sort-of okay, but needs various amendments.
We currently have two raised beds, and I asked my husband to till up a larger area where I can plant directly in the ground.
My mom is the real gardener in the family, though. She will be 81 tomorrow, and still has two large plots at the community college. She is full of the old wisdom, too. (such as "when the first dandelions bloom, the first planting of potatoes goes in the ground".)
I would love to see a gardening blog from you, DD.
I'll be planting soon enough. It's the first time in this yard. I'll send you some photos soon, DD, I promise. Photos of the garden & my lovely family :-)
After a few years of barren wastelands living in rentals, I've finally bought again and I can't wait to get started. Flowers and veggies and something interesting around every corner. I'm in a completely different growing zone so it will be a challenge because everything I knew is mostly irrelevant. I love growing salsa gardens and things I can make into stuff with my kid. Like grapes for grape jelly.
Planting an assortment of bulbs in the fall that will flower continuously through the spring and summer is going to be a joy to plan again too.
I'd love to see a gardening blog from you!
I would love to plant but I live in the country and hate bugs..I get a gardener to do it. I don't plant any food just flowers and bushes.
Great work DD...it's so cool! Keep us up to date.
Eliza
I too was just going to plant one tomato plant, but 2 seemed better, then a cherry tomato plant and hell, who can't use a few strawberry plants, and if I'm going to have all those 'maters I needed cilantro for salsa, (may go back for some jalapenos) plus planted parsley, basil, and said I'm through. But then when I went to the nursery, saw some butter beans (YUM) and said, why not, my dtr. put in butt loads of corn, then I can make succotash. And, for good measure, I threw in some mesclun lettuce.
I have 3-4 blooms already on my tomato plants!
I know how you love flowers and gardening DD, so this would be right up your alley. It is always nice to watch the flowers blossom or the fruit/vegetables get ripe - it all all very therapeutic.
I never liked gardening till I got my own house and now I love it, although it is hard work.
Once I plant my annuals, I'll send you pictures. We have a yellow plum tree, a peach tree, blueberries and raspberry bushes in our back yard and they all produce nicely. It seems the more we just leave then alone, the better they do lol.
Good luck and enjoy yours DD.
crystal
If you do the squash or watermelon, beware, the leaf vines take up A LOT of space. I do lettuce in a planter and pluck off the outside leaves, it lasts for months. I had a wonderful garden here, but deer and bunnies killed everything. I now only do container plants. They didn't get my carrots, and mmm, they were sweet and actually a few come up and its been two years since I planted them. I want to plant lavender bushes this year but money is really tight and I know how I get when I start. WATCH the strawberries, they take over and require slug watch. I can't wait to see your progress. It would actually be cheaper for me to buy from Amish stands around my area.
That was so fun to read. Let's see..I am growin' a few herbs, like rosemary and parsely in the flower garden. Gotta work on that too, it's a foundation for an old greenhouse/shed. I couldn't sledgehammer the fucker out after I tore it down and cleared the junk so I made it a garden for purdy. My goal is to knock out the whole back yard, never mow again and have lots of food and pretty things. Not in traditional square plots either, that's just how I'm starting. It will take a few years. Send me your garden pics....I'm so excited to see 'em.
Oh, I got my hands on some heirloom 'maters this year..all the "real" gardners shit their pants over those Brandywines. Let's see if they really are that tasty. They sure don't look anything like the regular ones.
Oh, and I am going to try and stay organic as much as I can, but, I do have some Roundup on the fenceline. I am not going to chop burrs and nettles all summer. Yuk.
Before you pay $$$ for those upside-down tomato planters, consider making your own. My husband brought home a bunch of empty cat litter buckets from someone at work. I cut 1.5 inch holes in the bottom of each one, lined the bottom with layers of newspaper, especially around the holes to keep the plants from taking a dive, fed the little tomato plants through the holes, added really good soil to the buckets, and hung those babies up. Total cost: The cost of the soil and the seeds. Since it's a little chilly here in the NW I took processing caps (the disposable plastic ones from beauty supply - like cheap motel shower caps) and snapped them over the bottom of the buckets on the outside to mimic a greenhouse. They're still alive!
Great idea, I'll see if I can find a vid.
I've started some tomato plants this year, my blackberries will be ripe next month, peaches will be ripe in late June, then the pear tree looks like it'll be loaded this fall. Next door neighbor has a pond he lets me fish from, and deer season should net me some venison this fall. Life is good :-)
I would send you photos of my garden but it looks just like yours at the moment. When will those seeds sprout into something! How long does it take anyway?
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