How does your garden grow?

[prolesunited]

Who's planting a garden and what are you putting in it?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. From the houses of the holy.

;)

[Blue-Jay]

2. I just crapped in the backyard. Does that count?

[prolesunited]

3. You know the drill

Better get out there with the pooper scooper. :grr:

[Blue-Jay]

5. Just wait until you see how I labeled your flowers.

It started with "Morning Glory-Holes".

Then it got sort of weird.

[prolesunited]

6. You are a strange and disturbed individual

:loveya:

[Ptah]

4. .

[wildhorses]

22. !

found it:)

[KitchenWitch]

7. I have planted an herb garden in my bay window

My dill is looking like it needs something, my chives are thriving, my fennel is looking good, my basil is great, my thyme is looking rather anemic.

This is my first attempt at herb gardening.

[prolesunited]

11. I had basil and oregano I somehow

managed not to kill inside. I just put them in bigger pots and moved them outside and plan to add to the collection.

Have you ever dried your own or do you just use them fresh?

[stuntcat]

8. Busy, bordering on tacky

I'm waiting another week to put in new annuals but the old stuff's all growing again. Centaurea Montana spread out over the winter and now it's blooming like purple fireworks :O

[stuntcat]

9. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PIC WAS LIFE-SIZE

sorry y'all

[Blue-Jay]

10. The aphids jumped off my monitor and attacked me.

[prolesunited]

12. Those are pretty

I neglected my gardening for two years and the weeds choked out most of the perennials.

I do more vegetables than flowers, but put a lot of annuals in pots. We sadly lost the butterfly bush, which was quite popular with the butterflies in the neighborhood. Not sure what did that in.

[stuntcat]

19. weeds

I am filled with hate and rage the last few weeks.. And those mf'ing onions x(

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. Me too!

Just couldn't get out in the heat anymore. :cry:

But surprisingly, the drought didn't kill everything! I cleaned out my herb bed the other day, and I still have a healthy collection of oregano, rosemary, garlic and regular chives.

I have a huge thyme bed where I put hand-mosaicked garden stones, and after the honking rains the other night, the roses on my arbor are going completely nuts. They're GORGEOUS!

I have lots of work to do back there, but it's starting to heat up again. 5 minutes outside, and I'm toast, unfortunately. MS sucks.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. MIne is doing well....

Of course, it is all indoors.

No tomatoes or anything like that. But I have plants in every room except the kitchen and bathrooms.

:hi:

[Mendocino]

14. Tomatoes, peppers, beans, and carrots.

I don't have a lot of room, would like to plant more. It will be about 1 1/2 weeks or so before the peppers and tomatoes go in, still a chance of frost in these parts. As for flowers and ornamentals, I have all perennials and native plants. No worries.

[lost-in-nj]

15. I have tulips

and grape hyacinths and daffodils and mountain pinks, right now
My FAVORITE dogwood tree is blooming, god they are beautiful....
I lost 2 Azaleas because of the drought last year but I still have 3 that will bloom
My Lilac and bridal wreath are going strong and my Lilies of the valley are ready to explode!!!!
I will plant begonias, petunias, impactions and LOTS OF Alyssum.....
it smells so good...... oh yeah I buy some herbs so they are ready for Thanksgiving and I always buy some
eucalyptus and sage because they SMELL so good
I usually wander the nursery and buy what I will like..

going next week
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

we are supposed to wait until May 15 to plant here in NJ..... because of frost
but i cant wait :)



lost

[Reciprocity]

16. It resembles a swamp more than a garden right now but we have.....

Summer Garden 2007

Tomatoes

Early Girl
Better Boy
Homestead
Celebrity
Beefsteak
Grape
Lemon Boy
Big Beef
Porter
Gulf State
Mountain Pride
Marglobe
La Roma
Cuore de Toro
Golden Ponderosa
Pineapple
Watermelon Beefsteak
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom
Hugh's Yellow
Thai Pink
Manalucie

Peppers

Cubanelle
Golden Summer Bell
Red Bell
Gypsy
Cayenne
Serrano
Ancho


Other Veggies

Zucchini
and crookneck squash
Bush Type Cucumber
Black Beauty Eggplant
Anasazi Beans
Purple or Black (can't remember which) Pencil Pod Beans
Onions
Lemongrass
Lettuce
Collard Greens
Corn
Kohlrabi
Rutabaga
sugar snap peas

[Ptah]

17. It's doing better than I had hoped just a couple of weeks ago

Natural irrigation {00:29} :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOHE8t8xCA


:thumbsup:

[Xipe Totec]

18. Asiatic Lillies

Don't laugh, we're probably the only house for miles around that has asiatic lillies.

The secret?

You have to go out there, morning, noon and evening, and pick asiatic lilly beetles off the plants and crush them by hand.

No poison will do the trick, and nobody else bothers; too much trouble.

The reward?....

[lost-in-nj]

21. I don't know why

but I do not like lilies...
never have... I DO NOT LIKE marigolds in any shape or color.... YUCH
I hope yours do OK for you though!!!

lost

[Xipe Totec]

23. Do you like orchids?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2330329

[lost-in-nj]

24. Oh my

They are beautiful!!!!
yes I do like Orchids.... I envy anyone who can grow them....
I think they are so exotic
I know it takes discipline....


lost

[Xipe Totec]

25. And here is another rarity: Violet Gordon

It is a fragrant azalea, named after her creator, Violet Gordon:



The smell from these blossoms is almost like jasmin. I am the guardian that has to catch the caterpillars that eat this beauty. If you look closely, you'll see one of the critters munching on a leaf on the bottom left side of the picture above.


And here is another picture of the plant from further away:

[Reciprocity]

33. Wow I've never seen azalea like yours. Beautiful!

[Nevernose]

29. Wow! I was just thinking about that thread TODAY!

The one in which someone ranted about what to put on the card, how I'm supposed to write on it, et cetera?

Honestly, if I receive a Christmas card from some who isn't my parents, I'm thrilled. Whoever it was who posted that original thread got it wrong, at least for most of us.

Nice orchids, by the way.

The only time I've ever seen one was A) on vacation in Hawaii, and B) hiking in Arkansas. A beautiful plant.

[Xipe Totec]

31. The trick is to keep them guessing

Sometimes we send Christmas cards, which is fine.

Sometimes, we send New Years cards (With first night pictures of ice sculptures in Boston)

Sometimes, it is a 4th of July card, with pics of the fireworks taken from the bridges over the Charles River.

Sometimes, it is Valentines cards.

The whole point is to catch them, when they least expect it, and say...








I love you.

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

20. Me me!

I've got zucchini, cucumbers, peas, spinach, lettuce, peppers, and tomatoes. I also have some flowers (violas) growing and need more to plant around the outside of my garden fence.

[VenusRising]

26. We need to clear out the garden.

Maybe this weekend when it's nice.

We plan on planting basil, thyme, oregano, roma tomatoes, and probably some kind of bean. We don't have a lot of room, so a few things go in pots or runners. I am very excited to see how our grape vine does this year. :bounce:

[Xipe Totec]

27. Good fortune with your vines

We have concord grapes, which gave a great crop two years ago, but last year was very disappointing.

My wife says it is an evey other year thing.

I hope so, because I love the grape jelly she makes from our vines.

[VenusRising]

28. Thank you.

Grape jelly sounds so good.

We just got ours last year, and it had about 3 teeny bunches on it. Hopefully, we will get a few more this year.

I'm also excited to see how our blueberry bush did over the winter. Blueberries...mmmmm. :9

[saged52]

30. Noelle's Pumpkin Patch -

a special garden I plant for my granddaughter so she has jack-o-lanterns from her grammie. She just turned two so she doesn't quite get it yet - but she will dig it when she gets older.
We have 2 large veggie gardens, perennials everywhere (artemisia is my favorite), a couple of herb gardens, and a dozen ornamental grasses that surround the pool that we are taking down this year. I plan to build a hut w/the leftover deck wood. With the nice rains we had the past few days everything doubled in size.

[TOhioLiberal]

32. A poem for you:

Mary, Mary,
Quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silverbells and cockle shells,
and one damn petunia.

:rofl:

[havocmom]

34. Snow peas, cilantro, lettuces, spinach...

Cukes (Asian variety for a lark) up as are pumpkins and squash. Burgundy okra (which is a beautiful plant) goes in this weekend. Beets are showing their tiny red stems from their niche in the garden. Rainbow Swiss Chard is joining the chorus of color.

More lettuces & spinach in successive plantings until it gets too hot, then again as summer ebbs, in hopes of a pleasant fall with a second harvest of greens

Tomatoes are seedlings here this time of year, but will go into the ground in a couple weeks of so.

Chamomile is up and there is more to plant.

The early-risers of the flower world are dancing center stage. The other flowers are just tiny specks of green or seeds just getting legs. Apple trees are teasing us with buds but the honeysuckle bushes are about to put out.

havocmom on conditions outdoors in her 'hood

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. central park is pretty well maintained. my staff takes good care of it!

:rofl:

i am pretty sure i would kill a garden in seconds

[Lil Missy]

37. Just tomato plants this year, and hope for better results than last year.

Last summer it rained for 40 days and 40 nights after we planted them, and then it turned to drought and excessive heat. We ended up with tomatoes with split personalities.