Do you have a vegetable garden also? I love going to Home Depot and looking at all the plants. So much to pick from!
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Yes I used to love it.I bought all garden books and watched tv programmes to improve my knowledge I grew up in a tenement and was lost at first when I got a garden.but I soon transformed my garden into this beautiful creation battling against Bindweed Ground elder I built a rockery required a lot of digging, with only books to help me. Made the bottom of the garden into a vegetable plot. Took a lot of trial and error to get it right. Like carrots don’t require a rich soil. Cauliflowers used to stamp on the ground round them to firm them in. I would go to work immediately I came in it was change and out into the garden. It doesn’t apply nowadays I no longer have that garden,but the memories are great ones. I still walk round garden centres but now it is house plants I buy, but they look quite nice too. Not so much digging lol
I only plant veg,
No,I shudder at the thought of another year digging and turning the soil in preparation for planting/sowing,but when I dig my spuds,or pop the peas later in the year,then it all seems worthwhile.
There is a lot of choice these days,I get marshalls seed catalogue and some of the flowers on offer are beautiful.
The gaffer has some flowers out front,this year though,there was none of my favourite,the humble ‘snapdragon’
although I share your love of gardening and flowers and watching things grow, and enjoy looking out on a well kept yard with flowers blooming and being able to bring in the tomatoes, the only thing I was able to grow after I moved from the house were petunias, sweet potato, pineapple, avacado, fuscias, amarillis, geraniums, some tropical plants, cacti and lots of lemon, orange and grapefruit plants (until they started irradiating the fruit, can’t get them to grow anymore) on my patio. I’d love to have some of those upside down planters to see how growing food in that works out. And I’d like to try using that stuff that isn’t soil and try to grow something in that. I have a bunch of garden seeds (like lettuce and corn and such) that I’ll probably never use.
I got a little discouraged by the red ants because the blisters lasted two weeks and I couldn’t close my hands for a while.
Yes but I don’t really enjoy it. I like to cut and split firewood more.
I haven’t recently; and I am now facing a jungle of weeds and faded blooms!
I have pumpkin and other seeds to plant; I just need to prepare the bed. I have had so many other things going on that I’m behind, and may have to skip planting the seeds. (I live in Florida, we can grow winter veggies).
I do love playing in the dirt, strolling through nurseries, garden centers, and going to festivals and flower/plant shows.
My garden is about half an acre, and there are many vegetables and fruits out there, and a few wild flowers. It is inspiring to watch the miracle of nature perform. We feed ourselves and a few neighbors also. Potatoes, corn, peas, chard, brockley, brussel sprouts, cabbage, grapes, many kinds of melons, squash, lettuce, cucumbers, sun chokes, apricots, plums, chives, and a few beautiful perennial flowering bushes.
Did that last night and will finish today. Some of my plants were overgrown, and I pulled the excess out and will replant the bulbs.Cutting and shaping some of them today and pulling weeds. I love it. Great therapy and it gives me pride to look at a beautiful garden.
Have never grown vegetables but was thinking of planting a small area next year. We have a beautiful nursery were I live. It is more expensive. If I want something special, I will go there as the staff is so knowledgeable. For many plants though, I do go to Home Depot.
I love to garden, but I do it the lazy way…veggies in containers around my screened pool. It is a new hobby and it is going very well. I don’t have a green thumb but my grandmother did. She could almost write the word seed on a piece of paper and make it grow.
One tip I have learned is to use water drained from minced garlic, a few drops of dish soap in a quart of water, put in a spray bottle and spray the plants to get rid of bugs. It does not kill them but it does drive them away. I use this and it works well, somehow the caterpillars find their way inside the screen enclosure.
don’t have a garden and don’t want one. It’s not my bag for enjoyment.
Yes, I work in my flower garden almost every day when it is cool, moving flowers, planting more flowers, mixing them up so they are pretty. We used to have a vegetable garden and grew everything in it, but the trees behind and around us have grown up, so we do not get enough sunlight on a garden now to grow much of anything. I think I may try it again next year, though, to see if I can at least grow some green beans, lettuce, and tomatoes. I love digging in the dirt. I have never planted anything that died.
Those hanging tomato things are bad because the birds peck them to death when they see them hanging up like that.
I love my garden. I grow a few flowers but my main interest is herbs and veggies.
It’s warm enough here that I can have something growing all year long. Next week I’ll start planting some of the fall crops.
This year I had a volunteer butternut squash plant come up. It was taking over the whole garden so I had to prune it. I counted 13 large squash when I started making decisions about where to prune it. I figured there had to be another squash vine in that jungle. There wasn’t. It was all one very prolific plant. Surprises like that are what make gardening interesting.
Yes, I love to visit the garden centers and look at all the plants. It’s hard to come away empty handed. But, I need to be sensible. I’m running out of room.
Yes, it feels so good to have a reason to be outdoors in the spring after being indoors all winter. And the big pay-off is watching the plants thrive and bloom. I love a pretty yard!