Question Of The Day. Saturday 16th Of March.

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Good morning!

It's almost spring time. A few more weeks and it will be warm enough to start gardening again.

Do you plant a garden? What do you grow? Just flowers or vegetables too?

As much as I'd like to be able to grow vegetables living in a cold, shady pine forest makes that impossible. I let the yard go wild and grow flowers in planters on the deck. I always plant petunias, pansies, forget-me-nots and morning glories. I'm thinking of trying a few other things this year, maybe some goya or a few herbs?

How about you, how does your garden grow?
 

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Rick has sworn that we will have a garden this year. We haven't had a garden the past two years because of the weather; last year, we never really dried out enough to even be able to rototill the garden, let alone plant anything. But he's retiring and says he wants a garden. We'll see.

The last time we had a garden, we planted broccoli, corn, green and wax beans, green peppers, mariachis, zucchini, tomatoes, butternut squash, lettuces, strawberries, asparagus, red onions, carrots, etc. I think I'd rather plant tomatoes in planters and place them on our back deck. We usually plant the butternuts close to the fence, then let them rest in slings tied to the fence. They tend to grow better in their slings.

We have a couple larger flowerbeds around the house. One is in front, the other is out in the back yard.
 

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I'm going to try to grow Heirloom tomatoes. The last time I tried to grow Early Girl they were delicious but the groundhog who lives under my deck helped himself to most of them and the other plant broke before they were ripe. I'm also going to plant something in a planter to attract hummingbirds.
 

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Grow extensively! We have an acre in the middle of town, have wildflowers, flowers everywhere! At least twelve large flower beds, some in berms. Absolutely beautiful in the summer, people stop all the time. Most likely because I am so OCD about keeping everything weeded and looking nice. Huge expanses of beautiful green grass, and three large garden areas. Everything comes up by seed or is perennial now, just plant the garden and a few bright red petunias and other annuals to keep the blooming going. But coming up by seed makes weeding harder, I spend a LOT of time outdoors. I grow twenty four tomatoes, jalepenos, green peppers, onions, canteloupe, strawberries, radishes, carrots, green beans, and a few potatoes. Gourds in odd shapes for decorations. Sell them too at the Farmer's Market along with Banana and wheat bread every Saturday. Helps pay for the water bills!
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Purple Cone flowers, I have several in different colors too, they ALL come back purple from their seed. Really easy to grow once established, have a long bloom time, tolerate dry conditions, and I have hundreds of babies every year from the seed! I let everything come up and then just weed out what I don't want.
 

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We try to grow vegetables but it seems like every year something else decides it wants them more than we do. If it's not bugs it's Woodchucks, if it's not Woodchucks it's Rabbits, if it's not Rabbits it's Raccoons, if it's not Raccoons it's Deer. This year Mice chewed the bark off the bottoms of our young fruit trees so they're all probably going to die. At least nothing bothers my Asparagus or Cilantro.

I'm thinking of trying a few other things this year, maybe some goya or a few herbs?
If you want to get into growing herbs I'd highly recommend starting with a variety of Mint and/or Catnip which is in the same family, they're easy to get started and can grow in shade just fine. The only thing to watch out for is they tend to take over whatever area they're planted in and can choke out other plants, so once a patch gets established it may be worth your while to set a boundary area and dig up any new growth that pops up outside of it.
 

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We had a garden for several years after we moved here. The problem was we live on acreage in the middle of a large farm. When I was sitting on a bucket with my back to cornfields, I was nervous as in thinking about bears. They are plentiful here. When bears step out of a cornfield, they would be in my yard. So I buy my stuff at the store, farmers market or local farmers.
 

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Hubby is the gardener in the family and has flowers, shrubs, fruit and vegetables. We have an orchard - 15 ares = 16,146 sq. ft - right outside the next town over, and a raised bed and (unheated) greenhouse in our backyard. It's surprising how much a small - 12 sq. meter = 129 sq. ft. - greenhouse yields.
 

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I don't have a garden, unfortunately, but I can post some gardening smilies.
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My city does have a community gardening program, though, and several gardens are within walking distance from me. :) Maybe I'll get on a wait list for a plot sometime.
 

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Grow extensively! We have an acre in the middle of town, have wildflowers, flowers everywhere! At least twelve large flower beds, some in berms. Absolutely beautiful in the summer, people stop all the time. Most likely because I am so OCD about keeping everything weeded and looking nice. Huge expanses of beautiful green grass, and three large garden areas. Everything comes up by seed or is perennial now, just plant the garden and a few bright red petunias and other annuals to keep the blooming going. But coming up by seed makes weeding harder, I spend a LOT of time outdoors. I grow twenty four tomatoes, jalepenos, green peppers, onions, canteloupe, strawberries, radishes, carrots, green beans, and a few potatoes. Gourds in odd shapes for decorations. Sell them too at the Farmer's Market along with Banana and wheat bread every Saturday. Helps pay for the water bills!
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Your home and gardens are amazing!!
 

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The soil in our last house was great for my vegetable garden. I had everything from pumpkins, to peppers, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, etc. But this house has too much clay in the soil so I gave up. I have tried perennials instead and some of have taken nicely, others not so well.
 
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