March 25 -- Have you started...
8To prepare for gardening season? If so, what are you going to grow this year? It is a little early for us, too many frosts on the horizon still.
Our backyard is such a sad sight…filled with snow, and are gardens have scraggly stuff from fall sticking out of it. We will probably go seed shopping in the next few weeks. Our kids still get a kick out of bringing the neighbors/family produce they grew.
Have a fantastic day!
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If by gardening, you mean weeding … for the past two months already.
I don’t blame you for that, BTW.
@narfcake you are my favorite btw…
And yes, the never ending fight with weeds…that seems to be my job…
If I manage to get out before it rains today I’ll be seeding the lawn. But I doubt I’ll have a chance to buy the seed before it does.
@ACraigL lawn doesn’t grow at our house…we have 2 huge maple trees that shade our front yard…backyard is garden and playscape…
No
@cranky1950 nothing? Not even tomatoes on the patio?
@mikibell no with working 250mi away from the garden, I’ll be lucky to keep the lawn mowed on the weekend. I’m just pulling all the dead stuff and covering it with black plastic until I either retire or get someone to haul it all away.
@cranky1950 that is a long drive for container tomatoes
@mikibell well there is also the corn and other stuff, but it’s all square foot and a lot of work, and once it gets hot and steamy I have trouble keeping up when I’ve got the time. Now that just isn’t going to happen. Still nothing like corn from the stalk to the pot in 10 minutes. Bummer. maybe I’ll plant the whole thing in peanuts and sweet potatoes
@cranky1950 yummmyyy fresh corn…yes it is a LOT of work… We don’t have the yardage for corn. We barely have enough room for vine plants…as you can see, the pumpkin plant took over the year we planted those.
Hmmm never thought of sweet potatoes…hunny likes those. Not sure how peanuts would do here…
@mikibell I may do it only because both plants crowd out the sun and keep down any weeds, And once you plant you can ignore them for 4 or 5 months
@mikibell trellis your vine plants I grow green beans peas and cukes that way. With pumpkins and watermelons you have to use a sling to hang them on the trellis. I made my trellises from pvc conduit and stock wire.
@cranky1950 hunny nodded when I read him your suggestions…hopefully we get our act together this year, no catastrophes!
I’ve had the same chives growing for about a year now. I have a half of a wine barrel that I’m thinking of planting some more herbs in, or tomatoes, but it doesn’t have a bottom. Can’t decide whether it’s worth adding wood to it, or just a plastic liner with holes to keep the dirt from washing away.
I also found some other planters made to hang on the wall or fence that I’m not sure what I want to do with yet. I don’t really want to put holes in the side of the house since I rent, and it’s lovely concrete siding.
I’m not much of a gardener, even though I’d like to be. It means I have to go out in the sun though.
@RiotDemon I garden in the early morning to avoid the sun…but I have to get it juuusst right to avoid mosquitos…
We get too much sun for herbs…they end up frying… I asked my hubby to make me a shelving unit out of pallets so I can have a herb garden out of the direct sunlight…love cooking with fresh herbs.
Townhouse so no garden, just a few pots we’re allowed to have. Raining all day and tomorrow, so the only thing we’re allowed to do (maintain the lawn except for mowing) isn’t feasible. Its a soaky mudpit out there due to the crappy way the lawns were originally set up.
@duodec I remember those days… My husband danced when we moved out of the condo. He could not survive there long. He is too tooo white trash
He likes to work on cars and build things and such and the condo association was not happy about it at all.
Your kids are so cute!
@KDemo if you like kids! Thank you, kindly…
This is more recent…all my babies…(big one included…)
@mikibell Your kids look about the same age as my kids!
@sammydog01 I think they are…we discussed scouts a while ago, I think…and close in age…
@mikibell - You’re doing something right!
@KDemo thank you! They are good kids most days…
@mikibell
Nooice family!
Even if some days you may doubt … : )
@f00l I think I will keep them…they have kinda grown on me…like a fungus among us…
I started cleaning out my garden today. I also planted the milkweed seeds I saved from last year. When I looked it up they said I have to stick them in dirt and place it in the refrigerator for six weeks. WTF? I guess I should have left them outside. Well its for the butterflies.
(This is the beer fridge. We need beer.)
@sammydog01 outside is still fridge temps for us ;)…sooonnn though…
Live in an apt. Have cats. Have one aloe plant hanging from the curtain rod as that is the only place I have where it won’t be tortured by the cats, and goat cat tried - have dirt on the floor from her batting at the flower pot. No garden. Actually I had bought a window box some years back and planted green grass. When it was grown enough I put it on the back of the kitchen table - by a window. Cats killed the grass by sitting on it all day.
Gardening is way above my pay grade. I am pathetic and I kill things and feel bad about it.
My Mom had hundreds of gorgeous houseplants, and the outdoor garden was her true love. I did not inherit/learn this.
@f00l my husband is the impetus for gardening…he likes all this fresh vegetable stuff and teaching the kids to eat what they grow etc…
My primary job is to make good food out of it all! They “let” me do that…
@mikibell
I would “let” them do that.
@f00l they are learning… the kid and her father make jalapeno rolls a “thing” that they do… I have taught her how to make fresh salsa… the other one has no interest in eating anything that grows outside…
He likes growing the stuff and giving it away…
It was a comment on my usefulness in the garden – like I know the difference between an eggplant plant and a weed
My preparation is to look at the backyard and think, “Gardening is a shit-ton of work and it ain’t happening.”
@huja hahhaa I wish I had known that before we start this tradition
All husband’s doing so far is cleaning out the flower beds. The only vegetable he grows anymore is tomatoes, lots and lots of tomatoes. He went through all the stages of potatoes, onions, peppers, pumpkins, green beans. (I am soooooo glad I no longer have to can green beans.) I don’t “do” gardening.