Gardening

[nangiggles]

Do any of you tend to your own garden? Cutting grass, raking, mulching, planting flowers, growing seeds, etc?

I have successfully planted flowers and grown seeds in the past including some gorgeous black calla lilies and oriental lilies, but am not sure if I should just buy the flowers or buy seeds, I want to do a black and white themed garden but there are few attractive white flowers in stores and almost no black ones....

I bought some rose and tomato seeds I'll plant this weekend....

How do you take care of your garden?

 

[SPEKTOR-AAA]

Yes I tend my own yard. I enjoy it actually. My least favorite is dealing with yearly irrigation fixes (sprinklers, drippers, etc).

Black calla lilies are pretty. I would just buy the plant pregrown but Im all for instant gratification.

 

[nangiggles]

Yes I tend my own yard. I enjoy it actually. My least favorite is dealing with yearly irrigation fixes (sprinklers, drippers, etc).

Black calla lilies are pretty. I would just buy the plant pregrown but Im all for instant gratification.

I just love the satisfaction of watching that little green leaf sprout from the soil, then see stems and colors peaking out of them.... it's awesome

 

[cindylou]

I only do annuals in container gardens around my house...everything else is bushes. My lawn looks like thick plush carept..I spend most of my time on that...not really messing with flowers too much unless its on areas where I entertain outdoors. Johnny tried a garden last year in the field behind our house... it didn't do so well. I'm not into growing my own food even though Glenn says I should grow my own food...I need to buy my survival seeds.

 

[nangiggles]

these are some of my flowers in CR... http://i55.tinypic.com/bev8ns.jpg camera sucks but plants where very vibrant, even the berries

 

[shirlene29]

my whole yard is hill so I have tons of terraced gardens...everything from bog plants to wooded plants to rock gardens...shade, full sun...and vegetable gardens also all terraced
and I just was at my house this week sprucing the yard up a little replacing a couple blueberry bushes that bit it..spiking the fruit trees and trying to figure out if the magnolia tree was going to bloom this year
I was also tidying up the stone walls a little (fire dept destroyed one though that needs serious work that will have to wait)
and investigating my lack of daffodils


I love gardening
I spend obscene amounts f money on it pretty much every season but winter

 

[shirlene29]

oh and I just added to my strawberry patch...hoping to have a few different varieties this year
and I have a worm compost pile thats about 8'x8'x 5' high for the gardens...all my vegetable food scraps and weeding/grass clippings get thrown in it

Im planning on a different water feature this year...

its weird gardening the house your not living it, but also strangely soothing

 

[nangiggles]

I get you Shirlene, gardening is very soothing, I just got some white easter lillies and purple hyacinth, mini roses and some blue morning glory to put in the trellis in the dog's kennels as well as Callendula and marigold to plant near areas I want the dogs to stay away from...., and the very front of the property will be the home of the goth garden, I already bought a book called black magic purple passion so I can study the plants, flowers, etc in order to come up with a design, I'm SO excited

 

[shirlene29]

I have purple pink and white hyacinth....and my hardy primrose came in...really nice deep purple color, but yellow centers so wouldnt work for your black and white idea..

there are black roses ...most of the black flowers you find are really an incredibly deep purple/wine

 

[PICK3]

Do any of you tend to your own garden?

no

I have a penis

 

[nangiggles]

I have purple pink and white hyacinth....and my hardy primrose came in...really nice deep purple color, but yellow centers so wouldnt work for your black and white idea..

there are black roses ...most of the black flowers you find are really an incredibly deep purple/wine

Yes I'm on to the black roses, if you water them with black tinted water they grow even darker

I'm thinking black lilies , black calla lilies, black hollyhock, black iris, black poppy, voodoo lily, black pennies, black bachelor buttons and more....

 

[trex74]

I like gardening, and for me the secret is to fertilize the hell out of it.
My new backyard is north facing, shaded with a pine tree, so I am planning on having only a few plants in the soil, but a lot of pots out there. There is one corner that gets sun by the fence.
Ground:
Hostas, impatiens, astilbe.
Pots:
mint, parsley, chives, lemon balm, thyme
Fence with sun: scarlet runners and a clump of Golden Glow.

 

[musclemom]

I wouldn't plant morning glories by choice, anywhere, God I hate those damned flowers. Fuckers will totally rampage over everything if you don't watch them. Clematis makes a nice climber and has a flower similarly blue.

 

[RottenWillow]

I just love the satisfaction of watching that little green leaf sprout from the soil, then see stems and colors peaking out of them.... it's awesome

Just the last couple of years I've discovered that same satisfaction, Nan.

I think it was three summers ago I first planted some impatiens and some begonias in our first yard. I also planted a gardenia shrub in a less than ideal spot (not really enough sun), which started to die and I've had to really work to nurse it back. Last year she busted out with flowers twice annually just as she should, so yaaah....success.

Spring last year I transplanted a little oak and a little maple, both of which survived and appear to be really flourishing this Spring. It's really deeply gratifying.

 

[nangiggles]

Just the last couple of years I've discovered that same satisfaction, Nan.

I think it was three summers ago I first planted some impatiens and some begonias in our first yard. I also planted a gardenia shrub in a less than ideal spot (not really enough sun), which started to die and I've had to really work to nurse it back. Last year she busted out with flowers twice annually just as she should, so yaaah....success.

Spring last year I transplanted a little oak and a little maple, both of which survived and appear to be really flourishing this Spring. It's really deeply gratifying.

I had oak growing even in my gutters when I moved in!!!

 

[chris302001]

Anybody do any container gardening?

 

[SouthernLord]

I've been known to dabble in a little gorilla farming

 

[shirlene29]

Anybody do any container gardening?

I do container gardening for tomatoes and peppers...along with some of the more delicate flowers
I found a really amazing link for tomatoes containers that involves a rubbermaid container (30 gal) black poly and a piece of perforated pvc. and two terracotta pots as wicks
it holds a cpl gallons of water in the bottom then wicks up water as needed to the roots
works amazing....really amazing juicy fruit without running into typical probs with tomatoes

technically my terraced gardens for my vegetables are like raised bed container gardens but the containers are stone, so not true container gardens

I had planned to do dwarf oranges and lemons in my indoor planter this year to have year round but...then well..the house burned down..so the grow lights and indoor planter are obviously gone
I was hoping my sunroom was oing to be able to be rebuilt different to go nuts with container gardening but this isn't going to happen so thats a bummer

 

[Mr. dB]

I've been known to dabble in a little gorilla farming

You have a banana plantation?

 

[nangiggles]

I wonder if I can grow bananas here in FL... would be awesome...

 

[trex74]

Come mr. tally man, tally me bananas...

 

[cryptosporidium]

i have a garden on my property as well as a greenhouse. ill have somewhere between 50 and 100 varieties of veggies, herbs, flowers etc. this season.

so far im slacking though

 

[RottenWillow]

i have a garden on my property as well as a greenhouse. ill have somewhere between 50 and 100 varieties of veggies, herbs, flowers etc. this season.

so far im slacking though

goddamn. I got tired even thinking about all that.


I did grow some tomatoes last year though. The plants started growing up from around our septic tank. poopmatoes!
I transplanted two plants to other parts of our backyard and grew some very nice tomatoes.

 

[cryptosporidium]

hah, they're not all annuals, otherwise i would be tired as shit

 

[nangiggles]

goddamn. I got tired even thinking about all that.


I did grow some tomatoes last year though. The plants started growing up from around our septic tank. poopmatoes!
I transplanted two plants to other parts of our backyard and grew some very nice tomatoes.

LOL

 

[calveless wonder]

I have a lot of experience with Hoes

 

[SouthernLord]

You have a banana plantation?

Fogijuana

 

[Mr. dB]

Fogijuana

Gorillas eat that?

 

[*ebony*]

Anybody do any container gardening?

I used to have bunch of plants and some flowers indoors. The air inside my home was soooo good, but then i noticed a bit of mold growing. Thought it was because of the oxygen/moisture in the air and took a few plants outside and sure enough no more mold.

They still filter the air very efficiently and just feels really good to take nice deep breaths of cool o2 and relax at home. just gotta find the right balance for space and pants.

 

[RottenWillow]

I used to have bunch of plants and some flowers indoors. The air inside my home was soooo good, but then i noticed a bit of mold growing. Thought it was because of the oxygen/moisture in the air and took a few plants outside and sure enough no more mold.

They still filter the air very efficiently and just feels really good to take nice deep breaths of cool o2 and relax at home. just gotta find the right balance for space and pants.

wow....your home was morphing into a rain forest, ebony. Pretty freaking cool. If you'd kept adding big leafy plants it would've gotten so humid in there you'd eventually have started noticing visible moisture on everything.