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Hey-this is good-start to plan things out-I keep thinking and thinking but not writing anything down-I need to start planning-anyway-I have a border dug from last year, about 20 feet long, not too wide-maybe 5 feet at the widest spot-it's pretty much empty except for a few bulbs and misc. stuff. Between there & the back of the house, where I'm going to dig a border, about 15-20ft long, 4 feet wide-I'm going to purchase a "garden" from bluestoneperennials.com. It's something like 60 plants, 25 varieties, for $85. I'm also trying to choose a couple of shrubs for those areas too. I would like to find some interesting stuff for the front near the fence. The front of the house is just a nightmare and we need to rip out several shrubs that are just too old and mishaped. Then for the vegies: tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, eggplants, lettuce, carrots-that might be it-oh ya-and pumpkins-I have a real sunny spot along my front fence that I plan to fill with pumpkins and gourds-I may even try to do one of those GIGANTIC pumpkins just for fun. Do any of these vegies need to be started from seeds indoors? If so, I'd better get moving. I've got a lot of work cut out for me. We bought the house almost 5 years ago and haven't really addressed the landscaping very much. Planted a nice little Japanese maple in the very front corner, plus some peonies and scabiosa nearby. My 3yr old loves to dig, so I'm hoping to start putting lots of hours in out there-so much digging-yikes! Anyway, I'm done rambling-that's what I plan to do-I have to try to wade through the snow and get some pics-we'll see how it goes-wish me luck!
Plants: 236 | From: Coastal CT | Registered: Oct 2004
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morning, whast am I gonna plant........well I will plant carrots, kentucky blue bush green beans. I tasted calalloo when we were in Jamacia this Feb so I am going to grow that stuff,lol. I will do the usual green onions and radishes, tomatoes both beefsteak and roma so when I can my salsa I'll have that stuff, jalepenos. red peppers I just love red peppers. Lettuce, and the rest of the salad stuff I grow. Am going to make a new kitchen herb bed this year. so I will be planting oregano, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil, dill, parsley, french tarragon so far. the right side of my yard I am going to transplant the climbing rose for the focal point then put in some peonies ont he sides of that, going down the fence at the corner I all ready have lilys. the front section is the shed and I am thinkin to put morning glories on the posts for the roof. The left side of my yard will be a flower bed. It also holds my dwarf apple tree. an azaelea in fornt of that, and grapes down in the corner, I will fill it in with all kinds of flowers both by seed and by started plants. Between the apple tree and the azalea is the spot for Bandit, she needs her cool spot for when she is supervising my work,lol. the deck is going to be redone this year so Iwill wait til that is done before I even put anything in there. the crew tends to , oh shall we say, not see my plants. I lost 15 mums in front cuz of that. so that si what I am gonna do for a start. Elfie/ Elfinone
Plants: 129 | From: Illinois, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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Hi all! I also ordered a few plants from Bluestone Perennials ( butterfly bushes, a honeysuckle vine, and some wegelia). On top of those there's plenty for me to do. Here goes: hibiscus (about 20) oleanders golden dewdrops allamanda elephant ear philos snow-on-the-mountain bushes red sister cordylines four o' clocks gardenias ( ) miniature roses shrimp plants Turnera buttercups holly bush tibouchinas butterfly bushes Confederate jasmine devil's backbone Mexican sunflowers Mexican petunias Mexican heather crotons periwinkles flamingo flower pentas ferns impatiens more coleus polka dot plants poinsettias black & blue salvia copperleaf red/green caladiums Stargazer lily phlox nasturtiums
If I'm forgetting anything, too bad! lol
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strawberries, sugar baby watermelon, cantiloupe, black diamond watermelon, potatoes white red onions white onions green onions carrots 2 types peas 2types green beans tomatoes beef steak cherry tomatoes broccoli cabbage lettuce bell peppers squash zuchini (spelling?) pumpkin corn 2 types cucumbers
i just can't remember everything i'm not at home i am in town right now but i live out in the country with the old old counrty style of living: cuting and spliting wood for heat and cooking oil lamps for light hauling water you know like in the early early years canning food washing done in a tub with a scrub board the thing is i it so much that i don't mind the work.
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Hi Rachel, I would love to do all that you are doing in the country, *although I have often joked I probably would not have made a very good pioneer* I can do all the work involved, but the first time I get sick and down with the flu bug, I'd be a goner, my seeds would die, the plants wouldn't of made seed and I'd be in the middle of nowhere's with an empty root cellar~
Have you ever read books by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch? Four Season Farm.com He has a couple of books out, The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest, Winter Harvest Manual, Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes. I haven't read any of his books, *too poor* but he's got alot good, organic gardening ideas.. and he does the root cellar thing and I would just love to be their neighbor!! I watched them on the TV series, Gardening Naturally, on The Learning Channel.
Weezie
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
quote: I may even try to do one of those GIGANTIC pumpkins just for fun.
I had gotten some of those seeds last year.. 2 pks, they said they had 5 seeds each, wellll, they had 10 seeds each and only 3 didn't sprout. And I didn't get them into the ground until late (I'm slow) it was actually July *I should back it up a bit, I had started them in 6 packs in my greenhouse in May/June, so, they were started, just not in the ground..
Any how, I did end up with 8 pumpkins, one was the biggest one I had ever grown, my husband had to lift it, now, it was by no means a prize winner but it was in my eyes and my kids... IT WAS BIG, I kept saying I can't imagine what size it would have been if I'd of gotten those plants in earlier...
Lot's of Compost, loose dirt, sunshine and a good fertilizer and some epsom salts.. and you're good to go and have lot's of fun!!!
Weezie
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I've got lots of types of seeds to put out. Most I harvested last year and a lot I've received from my garden friends. Some annuals, some perennials. I also plant a few vegetables, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, okra. If it dries out enough I want to plant sunflowers and wild flowers in my field.
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Gosh, I'm not organized at all.. I can't even remember what I'll I've bought to get in the ground..lol. I have started some seeds indoors.. BROCCOLI Roma Tomatoes Bell Peppers Chile Peppers Jalapeno Peppers Cayenne Peppers Lavender Tiny Tim Tomatoes Wonder Egg Hollyhock Angel Trumpet Jimsonweed
I also still have to plant.. 2 kinds of corn 2 kinds of green beans carrots
bulbs.. can't remember what all now.. few different kinds... daylily, peacock orchid, glads, freezia.. a few others.
seeds from collecting.. 4 o'clocks mexican hat purple coneflower red poppy baby's breath
and gosh, I'm so tired, I can't think of the other ones. Must be the sinus medicine I took earlier.. it's doing me in for the night.
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I have a huge garden, and many plans for it this year..it is snow outside, so there isn't much i can do there for the moment, but in grandpa's basement I have a lot of pots. The first plants have started to show themselves, mostly poppys and some one year plants. Last year I started on my kitchen garden. I will have to finish it this year..give it some compost and divide it into different sections. I have planted some herbs indoors. Some of them are: allium schoenoprasum origanum majorana melissa officinalis lavandula spica hyssopus officinalis monarda didyma ocimum basilicum ++ other basilicums borago officinalis petroselinum crispum I will get some more herbs when the snow dissapears. Can't wait have also planted some vegetables: tomato, corn, pumpkin, salad ++ I tried to sow some citrus plants, and they are growing fast
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quote:Originally posted by weezie13: Meg, You better get roto~tilling that 4' x 300' garden!!! Weezie
Hmm.. I could probably think of a few more of those if ya give me time..lol. Umm.. I'm not gonna plant the whole packet.. just a wee bit of each? Only because, I don't even have a 300' yard! I'm thinking 2 10' squares for the veggies, at most. And if it weren't for the corn.. I'd likely only be doing one square. Hubby just shakes his head at me.. like I'm crazy. I'll figure it out.. one way or another. LOL.
Oh yea, I forgot.. daughter had me save cantelope seeds from the one we just ate.. she wants me to plant them. And now, I'm thinking, I love strawberries & grapes so much, why should I keep paying top dollar for them at the store, if I could possibly grow my own?
quote: Meg, You better get roto~tilling that 4' x 300' garden!!!
You better scratch that Meg, make it 10' x 600' I penciled it out!!! you are gonna need alot of room...
The kids won't mind playin' on the street will they?
quote: Hubby just shakes his head at me.. like I'm crazy.
Mine does the same thing, only it's a little more intense
Weezie
P.S. My raised beds are; 2 of them are 4' x 20' and 3 beds are 4' x 10'.... And I am cryin' for 2 more 4' x 20'......... if I cry just a little bit more, I might be getting them...
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
quote: Meg, You better get roto~tilling that 4' x 300' garden!!!
You better scratch that Meg, make it 10' x 600' I penciled it out!!! you are gonna need alot of room...
The kids won't mind playin' on the street will they?
NOOOO!! I don't have that much room! Ok, so what if I take my garden up, instead of out? I was reading (I bought a couple books recently) that you can do this stuff in small spaces, just go UP with it. I hope I can make it work. I was only going to put in like 1/2 or 1/3 row of each of the peppers & tomatoes.. don't plan on using them a whoooooole lot. But want a whole row or 2 of the broccoli, a row of carrots, and the space hog.. the corn.. at least 3 or 4 rows (and remember, I have 2 kinds of corn.. this is why I'm needing 2 beds.) Then, there's the green beans.. I have both bush & pole beans.. the pole beans, easy, will climb up whatever.. but the bush beans.. well, I may have to limit how much of that I plant as well. I hope they turn out good, and I get a decent amount.. but I have NO IDEA how to can/freeze/store/whatever.
I am not sure how the frilly heck I'm supposed to do the cantelope.. that's the one that is stumping me. It was completely unplanned.. and it takes room for that. I am thinking of getting a hanging basket for strawberries, just to try it out.. but I really want a trellis or something that I can do grapes on.
Flowers, seeds/bulbs/whatnot are just going whereever, all around the yard. Lavender, I am using as a flower.. just for it's looks & smell. I have 2 varieties.. Lady Lavender that is a quick to bloom in the first year, and True Lavender that can take 2 years to bloom. I was thinking of putting lavender in different spots in the yard. The only other thing is trying to figure out where to place all these bulbs I'm getting! I think I went overboard..lol. But don't tell that to Steve!
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Meg, Do you have a carpentar in your family?? You could make something along these lines, for growing "upwards" with your strawberries??? strawberry tower
Then for your corn, you can plant your pole beans up them.. Just make sure the corn has a bunch of weeks head start, because the corn needs to be strong to hold up the bean.. but inturn, the bean will "feed" your heavy feeding corn... Stagger the plantings of corn and you will get succession crops of corn.. the next set of corn, plant your peas on the sunny side of your corn. That'll also help... *will be semi~hard to see your "product" so search for them daily once they start producing.
And in the meantime, when your corn and beans are just starting, in between you can plant carrots and raddish's, the raddish's produce fast enough before the corn and beans/peas fill in to shade them.. and also, the carrots go down and don't compete with other roots...
I'd say you could do your cantalope up your chain link fence... maybe find Njoynit and see if she can shed some light on those, I think she's grown them up fences' or up a tree or something "up" before, I don't have a long enough season here for me to grow them..
I would personally hold on your grapes until you become a seasoned gardener....they need to be trained, and certain acidy soil and a place they can stay....
Maybe later you can think of having a pergola seating area, and put it under the arbor type thing for your grapes, so you've got two things in one.. picture of a grape arbor type. My grampy had one, 4 solid timbers for footings, and 4 in a square at the top, and then used a heavy gauged fencing at the base of one side, up the top, over the top and down to the bottom on the other side..That's it.. the plants wher planted on the out side of one side and trained and allowed to grow up to the top. Great pickin', I can taste them now... Here's another style grape arbor Yet another idea for a grape arbor
For your flowers, I went to the $1.oo store last year and got alot of pots for flowers... Tried to find a good bargoon on dirt though.. that's the only problem, when you have alot of pots/containers and have to plant in them, is DIRT!
Weezie
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Yea, you may be right about the grapes.. but you've given me a good idea what I want to do now for my patio. I wanted to put something growing, all around the patio that I plan to put in on the far end of the house.. by my basement door. Hubby wanted a screened in/covered/extra room kinda thing, but I wanted it open, with planting stuff all around. A small concrete/something patch, and a glider swing w/canopy, maybe a small table.. and some little lights for accent.. and plants, just surrounding it on the 2 sides & back & maybe even over the top. (We are getting a refinance loan & hoping that we have the cash available to do all these "upgrades".) Garage w/dining room over it- sliding door from that to deck & hot tub below. Patio, storm door for the front door, and privacy fencing.
So, perhaps the grapes will wait another year. And I still don't know about the cantelope..lol.
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Woman overboard? I can go with that statement.
I got way to many seeds I think. But none of the packets tell me how much space I need to plant them.
And I'm not familiar with the plants for the most part so I don't really know how large they will get when they grow up.
I mean they tell me how far apart to plant them but without knowing how many seeds are in a packet that doesn't help much.
With luck my garden will include; Celosia (red velvet), Carnation (super giants mix chabaud) Honest, Baby's Breath, Chinese Lantern ( pot placed in ground so it can't bully the other plants) Torch Lily, Ipomopsis, Zinnia, Dianthus, Amaranth, Moss Rose, Chives, Mint, Bells of Ireland, Roma Tomatoes, Butterfly flowers, Ranunculus, Curled Parsley, Thyme, Cilantro, Marjoram, Cannas, Nasturtium ( i didn't know that was a form of watercress), marigold, green onions, hosta, peonies, tulips, caneldula, lettuce, bell peppers. See what I mean I'm sure I bought way to much. Way way to much. But how could I resist?
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hi Wezzie no i have not read any of the books but i just might for the fun and the info in them. i have been out to the homestead planting and i till the land by hand no gas power roto tiller here just old fashion work, good for the body i have about 2 acers to plant, gonna make some jam this year too. the apple tree that is in my back yard is getting buds on it now and the apples are so good and juicy and make great apple pies. i need to go look for some recipes see ya laters
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Rachel, Have you ever heard of a Broadfork from Johnny's Seeds Those are very to use and break up soil very deep into the ground.. With out distrubing too much of the root system..
Weezie
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unfortunatly, I am scaling down this year...I am exhausted and don't have the energy to fight the whiteflies (they won last year) I am sticking to my 3 raised beds for tomatoes, peppers, bell peppers, squash & eggplant. I am planning to try to start the landscaping project in the front of the house..just don't know how much I will get to do. My flowers are on the porch ready to be put in the beds but it is storming right now..so that will have to wait. I am extending the herb garden this year...that is what everyone gets for Christmas every year (and they love it!)So am going to add some new herbs. My strawberry bed is already lookin really good...I am excited about it.
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I will if they don't get blown away Weezie...we are under a tornado watch...I need to go rescue them before it gets really bad, but I have been making bread all day and haven't had a chance to stop and run out there yet.
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I'm also adding roses to the agenda this year...the "old man" wants to start "his" rose collection now (of course, ya know who's going to be the one taking care of "his" roses, lol). What varieties are you planting, Sue? So far, we've got the Chrysler Imperial, Tiffany, Joseph's Coat (climber), which are already in the ground. We just picked up the Oklahoma, Redgold, White Lightning, and Sunbright. I've had my eyes on the Don Juan climber, the Mr. Lincoln, and a bunch more, too. See, when I get roses, I can bring them home and tell the other half, "Look what I brought home for you!!"
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Sue Z, WAVE PATUNIA'S????? Wanna see a realllllly neat picture I came acrossed a couple of days ago???
Ride The Wave Petunia Tree ***Find where in the second paragraph it says those words, and right after it, it will say HERE, click on that and it will show you HOW THEY MADE IT...
Seemed kinda easy and realllllllllllly neat!!!
Weezie
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Now you have done it, Weezie. I have just got to have one of those! Wonder if I can get Jim to make me one after he finishes up his present "honey-do" list?
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Sheritoots, There's a bunch of those Miniature Rose's on QVC, I think there was something like 10 of them for $26.35 plus shipping, they end up coming out to be around $3.50/$4.00 a plant.. Not tooooo bad of a deal... I got them a couple of years ago.. And they are so pretty!!! There's some tree rose's too!!!
Weezie
(if you go to the QVC page, find Program Guide, click on the yellow program guide in the middle... And there will be a calendar, click on the 21st. *(you will only be able to do that today, the 22nd) find Cottage Farms Made Easy... (3rd one down.) The tree rose's are second one down.
Weezie
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Dianna, I showed it to my husband too, and said, My mother would absolutely LOVE one of these........ I always get one of these looks back!!!! I said, but it's for my mother!!!!
I saw that and I was oooooooooh, LOOK AT THAT!!!
Weezie
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hummmmI just dig in my seed bag everynite and pull out a hand full to plant the next day,
I've got strawberrys planted, marigolds (around my front porch) hollyhocks, daisys, I moved a wagon full of bulbs one day this week. (Ashley helped, she told me the ones I was planting were no good because they didn't have blooms --she only want to plant the ones with blooms til a bee got after her then she stopped helping.
I still want to plant some tomatoes, but I'll get a plant from wally world. I'll cheat and get a big one
I have alot of stuff that will come back from last year. oh yeah got 2 new rose bushes out too. and those rosemary bushes hubby got. got those out of the house finally.
guess that's all. I've got my patch ready for my gourds but haven't planted them yet.
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I have a pile of bulbs by driveway at gate to plant tomorrow. varieous daffs agapanthus iris some white others will know when blooms cannas ferns lillys paper whites alluims some shrub with yellow flowers kinda like the bridal wreth spiera a hawthorn tree variegated vinca & is no telling what else.we dug a whole pick up bed full with tail gate down and was full to the top of bed.we dug for 1 hour 40 minutes.Then I grabed some waterlillys out of lake.I transplanted 6 hibiscus seedlings,some catnip,some shrub with red flower& some EE& red petunias. And the kids are out of school for the next 10 days.....THEN they go back for 38 days till out for summer..We are NOT counting days out for summer.
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I shoveled cow manure ALL day! Do you think it is possible that hubby PLANNED his back surgery to get out of doing this FUN gardening stuff? (just kidding) Got it home and am ready to roll. Tomorrow....
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I raid rabbit manure from my neighbor.they haven't had rabbits in 5 yrs so is already useable.I get 55 gallon trash can at a time.actually time to finish emptying mine so can go re fill.They have a hog so will have different manure soon.I been moveing the hog-poo to sunny spot in yard and will work on that stuff this winter.in 2 more weeks we'll kill the last hog.His name is bacon,his sister ham met the pan& oven in january.& another neighbor has volenteered his horse manure(good on cannas)I'll also be getting some chicken eggs from my sis in TN soon& will produce chicken manure(suppose to be good on citris)
Hey being he had surgery....he has to bring you drinks& rub your back..ha HA dr orders
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My shipment of yellow dawn tulips arrived from Brecks. Part of the coupon stuff I bought. I really liked the way they packaged it. Anyway out to the garden beside the red velvet celosia it went. Then I attacked the clay/burmuda grass conglomerate on the shady side of the tree. I will get a place for the hosta and peonies even if it is one inch at a time.
I don't know if this will work but I'm thinking about stakes and plastic bags to reinforce the slope of my weed patch so I can start a second level above the first? There is enough clay in the soil that it stays in place pretty well. And although I would love to use rocks/bricks/fencing I don't have any money to spend. Am I cookoo?
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gourds and zinnias planted today. I heard somewhere that the zinnias would help to keep bugs off the gourds. So the gourds went on one side of my trellis wire and the zinnias on the other side.
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Oh Suzydaze...I hadn't heard that about zinnias, I have heard that marigolds are good bug flowers. I was shooting to get my zinnias out today but ended up cleaning out the strawberry bed (has a ton of blooms) and digging 2 lawn bags of cannas! Had to go to my friend's house and bag 4 bags of cedar shavings (my mulch)and had to seperate my lamb's ear, then re-worked my front yard bed...til dark. Still have lantenna to put out tomorrow if it doesn't storm like they are saying it will and have to till a new spot for the million cannas I dug up! I'm whooped!
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After the clay/burmuda grass/weed war this morning I noticed something about the incline. It has a knoll sticking out of it. So I wondered over that way and dug around a bit. It looked pretty good so I planted the peonies on it. While I was out there doing that a lady came by and asked if I was planting marajuna. Strange people in this here world there certainly are. I told her no hoping she wouldn't be back tonight trying to smoke the dirt. Next a guy and his dog came by. He was very interested in the tulips since he over wintered his and they weren't as big as mine. Hope the tulips are still there tomorrow. I'm beginning to wonder if this garden was a good idea. If I work my tail off and just as it starts to bloom someone comes by and destroys it I'm going to be horrible hurt.
I sound paranoid, but who takes their dog out in the car to come to a parking lot to let it do it's business.
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Yep, I heard from one of those gardening shows that the zinnias would help keep the bugs off. I've got pleanty of zinnnia seeds. I plucked off all my dead heads last fall and tossed in some shoe boxes and set on shelves in my storage room, so ashley and I popped them all open and got the seeds ready. I planted chaf and all. I know the marigolds help with the bugs too, I live so far out I need all the help with the bugs I can get.
are you getting rained on yet? Looks like the rain is almost here. all I need for easter, more rain.
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yep Suzydaze...the rain hit yesterday and hasn't stopped yet! I was sure hoping to have another good day to get the garden in line...but, no such luck...we are flooded now...wont be able to get in the garden for a while now...unless I dog paddle!
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Knee deep in water here all over the place, now where did I want that swap garden?? I moved blubs today they pulled right up out of the dirt, never let a little thing like water stand in the way of my gardening .
I went to wally world today they are hiring here, I put in for the summer, running my test right now to see if I pass everything
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I am soooo intimidated and impressed by these lists of things everyone is planting!!!! I am the newest of new "gardeners" (if thats what you call what it is I am doing ), I will be very impressed with myself if I get 2 or 3 things in the ground this year!!! If any of you have any advice, I have a tiny (2' by 6') bed out front that is acidic due to the pine tree in front of it and partially shady. I need something easy, others have suggested a couple of things including Zinneas which sound great to me. I am in a 5b zone.
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Nurse Kate, Everybody's got to start out slow... When I did my first garden, when I was probably 10??? My mom had gotten me the seeds that were in the those roll out mats... I scratched the dirt, put some rocks around in a circle, found some really good dirt from the bunny~poop pile, forrest finds *like dead tree and decomposing leaves* and rolled the mat out, and watered... Mine was full of zinnia's, big~tall ones'.. I was so proud of my self.. That was UMPTEEN years ago, and have advanced my gardening skills 10 fold since then.
And even though I have been gardening for a bunch of years now, I just did seeds for the FIRST TIME last year, and quite proud of my self for my success rate..
So, don't be so down on your self, you'll be a gardener on a grand scale in no time flat.. Just takes a wee~bit of patients, alot of experimenting, a bunch of failures, a bunch of hours reading and learning and enjoying a wonderful time..
Don't give up, even if you have a set back or two, *or three* that's bound to happen... You'll find your niche of gardening and then go on to be one of those gardener's posting allllll those things to garden with and then be able to help another new gardener into Spring planting...
Weezie
P/S Welcome to The Garden Helper's Forum by the way, we are very glad you found us!!!!
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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They have the zinnia that are shorter if you want to do those rather than the big ones but I think they like sun. Peonies are a personal favorite of mine and I planted some for the first time this year. They like partial shade and 6.5 to 7.0 ph which is alittle acidic. And they come in some lovely colors. I had hoped to intersperse them with some hosta but it didn't work out that way for me. The hosta are more leaf than flower although they do bloom. but the leaves are varigated and very pretty. They also like shade. I had some lily of the valley up in Washington state when I lived there and they did well planted underneath a quince bush, but they don't bloom for very long. Primroses love shady spots but they are an annual would that be a problem? They come in a variety of colors.
* * * * Plants: 8557 | From: triangle, virginia | Registered: Mar 2005
| Seeded: 4.249.81.189
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Well heck, shoulda put my tomato and pepper list in here instead of the seed exchange section. Major faux pas. Ok campers, just to be clear, unfortunately because I wanted to grow out a ton of new varieties this year and lacked the funds to get tons of seed for each, I don't have enough seed to share with all of you for this year. That's the bad news. The not perfect but better news is that I'm planning on bagging blossoms from these plants so I can grow them close together and still save true seed for next year. The reason why it's not perfect news is that this is the first time I'll be trying this so I can't guarantee that all/most/some of that experimental seed will indeed be true. If some of you would like to try some untried newbie seed, I'll post what I've got at the end of the summer and we'll go from there. Sooo to make a long story longer, if you want to know what I'm growing this season, check out the seed exchange area (for the tomatoes and peppers). I can post the rest of our garden plans (in here now that I know where to put it properly, lol) if there's interest.
and spent the last two weekends planting (ouch, my aching back) in between rain showers (and a couple of torrential downpours).
Lowe's had some very nice Boston fern hanging baskets that I couldn't pass up, so four of them are now hanging on the porch. It didn't take long for the wrens to find them, it's neat to watch them zipping back and forth and hopping about on the porch railings.
Everything is in the ground now except for the azaleas and fountain grass. I have to start my next big project of building a raised bed for the azaleas this weekend because the ground is way to rooty to dig (underneath a huge sweetgum tree). Still trying to decide what type of raised bed to build.
A couple of weeks ago I cut back all the monkey grass and liriope, they are now growing back furiously and are nice and green.
Is this the best season of the year, or what? Plants: 15 | From: Vernon, Florida | Registered: Nov 2004
| Seeded: 208.138.161.90
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(I'm slow) it was actually July 
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Hmm.. I could probably think of a few more of those if ya give me time..lol. Umm.. I'm not gonna plant the whole packet.. just a wee bit of each? Only because, I don't even have a 300' yard! ![[lala]](graemlins/lala.gif)
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til a bee got after her then she stopped helping. 
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