Are you a good gardener? Do you have a green thumb? What do you grow- flowers, fruit, veggies?
These are pics of Penny the plant who I still do not know what kind of plant she is despite asking here a while back
I’m not a particularly good gardener, but I’m attempting to start some peppers this year. Jalapeño, Pequin, Bell, Arbol. Not having luck sprouting the Arbol seeds.
Yes
All the above (organically)
I think our house is on an old nuclear waste site. Things that are supposed to grow 3 ft tall end up 12 ft tall and we have to either trim them back, cut them down, or move them! On the other hand veggies seem to do well and I don’t see them glowing in the dark.
@MrMikenIkes - did you try a plastic owl? We put the hot peppers in with the other things, sprinkled (cold) cinders around everything, and put up an owl, this year and last. No fencing, no problems, and lots of cucumbers.
I’m not a gifted grower, but much like the joke about it is better to know someone with a truck than actually own a truck, spouse is an unbelievable gardener. Our garden is currently 450 sq feet of anticipated produce.
@JnKL Same. I rototill the garden spot a couple times in the spring, then sit back and enjoy the fresh bounty that my wife grows and tends through out the summer. Can’t wait for fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes!
@chienfou@JnKL@macromeh If you are missing just cherry tomatoes and the animals didn’t do it, don’t look at me (grin). Umm, for a friend, whisper me your address. Oh and my friend wants to know when they will be ripe
Yes, and sometimes. Last year I learned that planting an entire pack of basil seed is a little overwhelming. This year, the squash and eggplant I bought at Lowe’s developed squash rot, so I pulled them up. I planted three different heirloom tomatoes, and things look promising. Green beans are producing heavily. Herbs are happy, and I use them a lot.
Yes.
We grow virtually everything that will grow in the NorthWest in this spot for 30+ yrs, starting/rooting most everything in our greenhouse
Garden, orchard, berries, hops, perennial and annual herbs, ornamentals of every type, forest land, a pasture, eggs, a little lawn and lots of weeds.
Every year some things do better than others do. This year I’m fighting root rot in my early cabbages.
I stayed in the Master Gardener course for 3 years in the 80’s.
@daveinwarsh oh that’s fantastic, I’m so jealous! What a wonderful variety you’ve grown too. My aunt Joy is a master gardener also, I believe. From Seattle.
I found the design for these planters via Amazon, but they were so spendy! In steps Pa-In-Law. He recreated (copied) the design but made them about another foot wider. He said time & labor he probably had no more than $50 into them. They work exceptionally well for veggies because they are raised off ground level…Keeps the voles & rabbits away! He made us 2. Top level has green beans in one & sweet peas in the other. The pic was taken about 2 weeks ago so that’s why they look empty.
We also do a full caged veggie garden. Again, pics are a couple weeks old. Everything is coming along quite nicely now…Rhubarb, asparagus, zucchini, tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers.
@chienfou I’m assuming it just gets too hot, too quick down there? Ours is awesome from mid-April to about the Fourth of July. We’ve been eating it every way imaginable…as Pies & Crisps, as BBQ Sauce, Ice Cream toppings, just to name a few things! Love It!!
@chienfou YIKES! Let’s not wish for that!! I will send you a cooler full of rhubarb if that will help!! Lord knows we have PLENTIFUL ABUNDANCE right now!!!
I like looking at gardens, eating what comes out of them, but I am not a fan of gardening myself.
No indoor garden - cats.
No outdoor garden - apartment.
No green thumb - me.
Many years ago I bought a window box and planted a lawn in it for my indoor only cats. Until it was well rooted, thick and needed mowed I kept it outside. I then set it on the kitchen table at the window. Both cats adored the thing, eating the grass and sitting in the window box. One of my cats was in such seventh heaven that he lay in the window box so many hours daily that the grass died due to lack of light.
Are you a good gardener? Do you have a green thumb? What do you grow- flowers, fruit, veggies?
These are pics of Penny the plant who I still do not know what kind of plant she is despite asking here a while back
@moonhat garlic mustard?
No, unfortunately.
I’m not a particularly good gardener, but I’m attempting to start some peppers this year. Jalapeño, Pequin, Bell, Arbol. Not having luck sprouting the Arbol seeds.
Yes
All the above (organically)
I think our house is on an old nuclear waste site. Things that are supposed to grow 3 ft tall end up 12 ft tall and we have to either trim them back, cut them down, or move them! On the other hand veggies seem to do well and I don’t see them glowing in the dark.
@chienfou You’ll be fine.
Tomatoes are supposed to make that noise.
No!
No!
See previous two answers!
I thought Question 11 was going to be “What happened to Question 10?”
@mehcuda67 But then that raises the question of which question would the responses apply to?
I can grow hot peppers pretty well, but any other vegetable tends to get eaten by rabbits, squirrels and raccoons.
@MrMikenIkes - did you try a plastic owl? We put the hot peppers in with the other things, sprinkled (cold) cinders around everything, and put up an owl, this year and last. No fencing, no problems, and lots of cucumbers.
@MrMikenIkes Are you saying that your livestock is organically raised?
@macromeh @MrMikenIkes … reminds me of my youth, when we ate corn-fed squirrels. F@#*ers got into our corn, so Mom shot 'em.
Nothing grows well here. Not even weeds.
Gardening here requires complete soil replacement and constant watering. I don’t bother here.
Used to maintain a quite nice garden at my last place. Here I don’t bother.
I’m not a gifted grower, but much like the joke about it is better to know someone with a truck than actually own a truck, spouse is an unbelievable gardener. Our garden is currently 450 sq feet of anticipated produce.
@JnKL Same. I rototill the garden spot a couple times in the spring, then sit back and enjoy the fresh bounty that my wife grows and tends through out the summer. Can’t wait for fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes!
@JnKL @macromeh Yes fresh from the garden tomatoes that someone else grows are the best!
@JnKL @Kidsandliz @macromeh
Mine have just started to come in… both cherry tomatoes and regular ones.
@chienfou @JnKL @macromeh If you are missing just cherry tomatoes and the animals didn’t do it, don’t look at me (grin). Umm, for a friend, whisper me your address. Oh and my friend wants to know when they will be ripe
Yes, and sometimes. Last year I learned that planting an entire pack of basil seed is a little overwhelming. This year, the squash and eggplant I bought at Lowe’s developed squash rot, so I pulled them up. I planted three different heirloom tomatoes, and things look promising. Green beans are producing heavily. Herbs are happy, and I use them a lot.
Yes.
We grow virtually everything that will grow in the NorthWest in this spot for 30+ yrs, starting/rooting most everything in our greenhouse
Garden, orchard, berries, hops, perennial and annual herbs, ornamentals of every type, forest land, a pasture, eggs, a little lawn and lots of weeds.
Every year some things do better than others do. This year I’m fighting root rot in my early cabbages.
I stayed in the Master Gardener course for 3 years in the 80’s.
@daveinwarsh oh that’s fantastic, I’m so jealous! What a wonderful variety you’ve grown too. My aunt Joy is a master gardener also, I believe. From Seattle.
I found the design for these planters via Amazon, but they were so spendy! In steps Pa-In-Law. He recreated (copied) the design but made them about another foot wider. He said time & labor he probably had no more than $50 into them. They work exceptionally well for veggies because they are raised off ground level…Keeps the voles & rabbits away! He made us 2. Top level has green beans in one & sweet peas in the other. The pic was taken about 2 weeks ago so that’s why they look empty.
@tohar1 wow!! That is very cool!
We also do a full caged veggie garden. Again, pics are a couple weeks old. Everything is coming along quite nicely now…Rhubarb, asparagus, zucchini, tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers.
@tohar1
… sigh… rhubarb… sure do miss growing that… It’s one of the drawbacks to living in central Alabama.
@chienfou I’m assuming it just gets too hot, too quick down there? Ours is awesome from mid-April to about the Fourth of July. We’ve been eating it every way imaginable…as Pies & Crisps, as BBQ Sauce, Ice Cream toppings, just to name a few things! Love It!!
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
@tohar1
yeah, and I think it needs a certain amount of cold over the winter to do well also. Maybe if we have a nuclear winter or something
@chienfou YIKES! Let’s not wish for that!! I will send you a cooler full of rhubarb if that will help!! Lord knows we have PLENTIFUL ABUNDANCE right now!!!
I like looking at gardens, eating what comes out of them, but I am not a fan of gardening myself.
No indoor garden - cats.
No outdoor garden - apartment.
No green thumb - me.
Many years ago I bought a window box and planted a lawn in it for my indoor only cats. Until it was well rooted, thick and needed mowed I kept it outside. I then set it on the kitchen table at the window. Both cats adored the thing, eating the grass and sitting in the window box. One of my cats was in such seventh heaven that he lay in the window box so many hours daily that the grass died due to lack of light.