Gardeners

[Iceprincess12]

Planted bulbs in my 2 front yard pots and it's been raining a lot this week. I get to blame mother nature if they are overwatered

 

[ryan_hills]

Gardening is awesome.

As for sweet potato, you can leave it on your vegetable shelf and let it grow roots there. No water needed, maybe a little sunlight everyday and it just starts growing roots. When it gets a few stubs, you can put it the ground, where there is soft compost soil, and give it a few days with some water. You will find sweet potato. From that 1 sweet potato I put on top of the soil in a massive pot, I got 30 sweet potatoes

 

[SMNaughtywife]

I'm going to be brave and plant my garden this weekend. Tomatoes, peppers, onions and some herbs. Rule of thumb is to wait until the first week in May, but it's been unseasonably warm here. Already mowed the yard so I banking on being good to go.

 

[Imaverycuriousguy]

Houston

I already have many large tomatoes, the harvest for green beans is well underway, the strawberries are slowing down a little, peppers are looking good and the bananas are getting very tall......Sometimes living in the heat and humidity is good for the garden.

 

[Iceprincess12]

I have about 1/5 of my front yard plants trimmed and weeded. It's raining today so no yard work. This year I listened to a gardener who said, there is one rule for pruning in the fall...

DON'T DO IT!

There is an older couple that has a beautiful garden every year and he prunes in the Spring too. This will be a good test year to see how much difference it makes for my roses.

I think my tomatoes will be a pipe dream this year

 

[thør]

Still, over a foot of snow on the lawn between the house and the greenhouse. That's a win!

 

[Jennifer]

I miss my flower beds. My soil sucks and everything has gone to shit due to neglect last year.

I'm getting back into this year. I was reading about how cardboard makes an excellent weed control prior to putting down top soil and compost. I'm excited-I have tons of cardboard that I thought I would have to burn. it.

 

[susan_s98]

bunnies Grrrr

I have a family of baby bunnies that have taken up residence in my garden- I'd be fine with that but they have destroyed my crop of daylily seedlings planted last year. I fox has been hanging around trying to catch them- right now I'm rooting for the fox.....

 

[trysail]

You can lead a whore to culture.

-Name withheld for privacy reasons
R.I.P. (1952-2006)
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[chillywilly2]

Snow is about gone here, still cold though.
Freaking mice chewed the crap out of my perrenials.

40 year old tiller needed a new motor so I got that done anyway...can't wait to start planting...nother month anyway

 

[raindancer]

I have tiny peaches, nectarines and mangoes on the trees.
I put the tomatoes in the garden. And I sowed the pepper, cucumber, squash, and sweet potato seedlings.

The flowers and fruit are happy!

 

[Iceprincess12]

In Costco today and they have racks of plants, including tomato plants! My red, ripe, juicy fruit fantasies are about to be fulfilled. Right before I start to browse, a woman next to me mentions to her husband

"It's much too early for tomatoes"

He agrees and I keep walking. This must be what gardeners mean by edging...

 

[TheOldWidow]

Yes edging! That breathless hesitation between wishing and reality.

I have rain, standing water everywhere type of rain.

 

[Iceprincess12]

The bulbs are growing! Green stuff is sprouting! Now I need to figure out how much water they need.

I miss the rain already.

 

[spanky5147]

you can have some of ours, we have at least 3 or 4 days of rain a week. it rained today in the middle of me cutting the grass

 

[Iceprincess12]

If it's New York rain, I'll make pizza instead

 

[butters]

I have about 1/5 of my front yard plants trimmed and weeded. It's raining today so no yard work. This year I listened to a gardener who said, there is one rule for pruning in the fall...

DON'T DO IT!

There is an older couple that has a beautiful garden every year and he prunes in the Spring too. This will be a good test year to see how much difference it makes for my roses.

I think my tomatoes will be a pipe dream this year

in the UK, roses get pruned early spring, maybe around the middle of February to beginning of march. take out all dead wood and shorten stems quite harshly. climbers are probably different, though. the municipal bush roses got cut back to maybe 3-5 stems and about a foot high around where I lived and were always heavy producers of blooms.

I have tiny peaches, nectarines and mangoes on the trees.
I put the tomatoes in the garden. And I sowed the pepper, cucumber, squash, and sweet potato seedlings.

The flowers and fruit are happy!

pretty!

we've begun gathering pattypans, had some beautiful irish red potatoes from the garden, too, broccoli and turnip greens, a few tomatoes and borage and bok choi. the cukes are growing, the leeks are doing well, the watermelon plant is doubling in size every day it seems, and the huge yellow flowers on the squas plants are just gorgeous.

 

[Iceprincess12]

in the UK, roses get pruned early spring, maybe around the middle of February to beginning of march. take out all dead wood and shorten stems quite harshly. climbers are probably different, though. the municipal bush roses got cut back to maybe 3-5 stems and about a foot high around where I lived and were always heavy producers of blooms.

pretty!

we've begun gathering pattypans, had some beautiful irish red potatoes from the garden, too, broccoli and turnip greens, a few tomatoes and borage and bok choi. the cukes are growing, the leeks are doing well, the watermelon plant is doubling in size every day it seems, and the huge yellow flowers on the squas plants are just gorgeous.

Spring was on and off this year, but I think it's here to stay now. I pruned some of my roses and they are going to be beautiful. I like to prune them really short too, some of my rose bushes get close to 6 feet and it's overwhelming. I usually need to cut them back at least once during summer, but they are strong and I haven't managed to kill them yet.

 

[thør]

We neglected the greenhouse and wen for a long weekend at the cabin. No gardening was performed. I did kill a birch tree and it's all cut up and split. A nice pallet load of firewood for next year.

 

[Bidin~Time]

We neglected the greenhouse and wen for a long weekend at the cabin. No gardening was performed. I did kill a birch tree and it's all cut up and split. A nice pallet load of firewood for next year.

Between rains, we got the planting completed in the larger garden plot. The smaller plot is half done, but should be mostly complete by the end of this week

 

[Iceprincess12]

My pink roses that I cut back to stubs are now overtaking my walkway with their prickly fingers. I feel bad about cutting all the little blooms that haven't opened but they are growing too fast.

I blame the rain.

 

[thør]

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The wild rose blooms are starting to pop around the yard.

 

[spacekowboy]

I live it a pretty arid enviornment so on a whim i just bought a few seeds from Rite Aid of all places to see if anything would grow.... now i have corn stalks, bell pepper, zucchini, tomato, and yellow squash plants.

I planted them all too close together so I've got some work to do if I want them all to survive.

 

[thør]

I live it a pretty arid enviornment so on a whim i just bought a few seeds from Rite Aid of all places to see if anything would grow.... now i have corn stalks, bell pepper, zucchini, tomato, and yellow squash plants.

I planted them all too close together so I've got some work to do if I want them all to survive.

You bought the salad mix?

 

[spacekowboy]

No, just some individual seed packets. I figured they probably wouldn't grow, but low and behold...

I decided to start a small compost heap as well. Hopefully by next year I'll have better soil to work with.