garden poll....

Glitzyklm

Are you planting a garden this year?

Have you started your seedlings?  

What do you plan to grow?

Are you planting anything new and exciting?

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jd72878

Are you planting a garden this year? YES!!!

Have you started your seedlings?  I just planted my tomatoes and scallions today, my basil and a few others require a 2-3 start, the others will be sowed in on Memorial Day weekend

What do you plan to grow? Basil, Dill, Cilantro, Parsley, Tomatoes, scallions, peppers, watermelon, beans, jalopenos, carrots, cukes, lettuces, spinich, big A$$ sunflowers and morning glories around the mailbox.

Are you planting anything new and exciting?  Nothing new, but we are excited to see all the perennials that were planted prior to our ownership. 

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I used the Garner's Supply Website (garden planner) and Burpee website to figure out what are best started as seedlings or sowed in.  The last couple of years have been trying in such a small plot.  Now that we have a bit more space, it's going to be fun!

meganmarieCA

Are you planting a garden this year?  I'm going to try!!Have you started your seedlings?  Nope, not a thing.What do you plan to grow?  We have a challenged yard (lots of shade), so mostly low-light plants.  We're ripping out everything in the front yard (our small plot) and starting from scratch; and I want to put in window boxes.  We are also planning on sodding the back yard.Are you planting anything new and exciting?  I hope to!  We have a narrow area on the side of the house that is VERY rooty, so I'd like to put in raised beds and plant a vegetable garden of mostly root vegetables (since they only require half-sun).

kclouts

Blueberries and rhubarb, which were both here when we bought the house and don't require any work on our part.  They do make a tasty pie though!

meganmarieCA

I should add that I know absolutely NOTHING about gardening, so I don't expect great results.

oct13becca

i'm going to try, and i have great aspirations based on the previous owner of our house.  we have a really nice sunny plot, but I'm not going to hold my breath until i've done this one year and see what it takes. haven't started seedlings, I'll be doing anything I can sow directly outside and buying some plants. Hope to have plenty of basil, salad greens, tomatoes and the big question mark ... corn.

lauram730

I also know very little, but am hoping to plant a small garden soon...we moved here too late last season to plant, but I'm thinking early April I will start some greens, at least, just because I have heard they thrive no matter how awful you are at gardening...and we eat a ton of them anyway.  I'd love to get some tomatoes and cucumbers growing as well.  An herb garden of some kind would also be highly appreciated by my black thumb. 

SBTibbs

My husband is a landscaper and his family owns a produce farm, so even though I like the idea of gardening I don't have the opportunity to do much. We finished building our house 3 years ago but still have a lot of landscaping/gardening to do. Unfortunately, DH likes to do it all himself, yet doesn't have a much time or energy left after working 2 jobs, so it's a slow process. He put in a tiered garden in our front yard last year, and is working on the back yard this year. I'm excited to see it start to all come together.

We do always have a planter on our porch railing with herbs, which I love. I am usually the one who gets the hanging baskets and planters for the porches too. We planted some blueberry bushes last year and have wild raspberry and blackberry bushes too, so I am excited to see what those produce.

hikingnclimbing

I can give this one a resounding "NO!"

I pay the organic farm next door to grow everything for me since I have a moldy thumb. YAY for CSAs! 

shuga_23

Are you planting a garden this year? YES!! It will be smaller because of the dude but I'm still doing it.

Have you started your seedlings?  I don't usually do seedlings.

What do you plan to grow? Tons of tomatoes. A couple cukes and a couple zukes.

Are you planting anything new and exciting? I wish I could but I don't think I will have as much time to devote to the garden this year.

mjellison81

Aw, all the gardening talk makes me a bit sad panda face- no garden for me this year! Since we'll be moving back at the end of June, and then heading South in September (oh yeah, and being 1300 months pregnant, giving birth, etc.) I won't really have any time to play in the dirt. My Da has a great garden though, so I'm hoping to at least play a bit in his and maybe drop in a few tomato plants.

Glitzyklm

I started my tomatoes, peppers, jalapenos, mint, dill and basil seedlings last night.  I am going to start my watermelons and pumpkins inside at the end of the month.

 We are expanding our garden.  Last year  my cukes took over much of our space so my plan is to have two raised beds.

We are doing our entire garden organic this year too- which is exciting.

 

jl&jl

Wahoo for gardens!

We live in a full shade lot.  Although we more more trees every year, we still can't grow veggies.  Our neighbors kindly plowed a HUGE plot...so we have a community garden with them.  Last year was the first year and it was a whopping success.  All of Adrian's solids thus far have come from what we planted.  Plus we are still eating things we preserved from the garden.

I started 5 types of tomatoes (what was I thinking?), broccoli, eggplant, hot peppers, regular peppers, parsley, basil and I think there's more.

We'll also plant corn, beans, cukes, zuke, summer squash, a couple hard shelled squash, sweet pumpkin and many more herbs.  Eventually I'd like to be self sustaining for veggies through through the winter...like how I grew up.   Wow, that's a big goal.  May take years to accomplish, but I'm game.

indicanoe

Ohh gardening. I love gardening, but over the past few years my time and success has dwindled. First off our yard is quite shady. Blech. Last year my job had me traveling and doing overnights away from home, a lot, so gardening wasn't a thought in the spring. Then I found out I was pregnant and all those symptoms of early pregnancy kept me lounging outside, instead of working.  This year, with Delia, I will reclaim my entry area and make my canopy of Morning Glories over our porch. They grow from the ground, up over the porch railing and to the roof on strings, making a beautiful canopy that we have to walk under to get into our house. I can't wait to show Delia my favorite flower and to go out every morning to search for that days surprise bouquet. Maybe I'll do a few bucket tomatoes and cucumbers, some herbs too,  but nothing that takes a whole lot of maintenance....

We also have our land down the road, it's all cleared for a house and has a driveable driveway, but the house is on hold until next year?. So we have a lot of sunny space looking for use. DH and I have decided to plant some fruit trees, and maybe some bulbs along the old rock wall that is there. The driveway goes through it but the house won't be near enough to disturb anything that we plant. It will be nice to go over there next spring and show Delia a spring garden. She'll be 1 then and I can't wait to teach her all the names of the flowers that make spring beautiful. I also want DH to put up a swing for her at the land too....

An sweet story about our land. Last March, when my Dad and Brother came to help us clear, my dad was very careful to make sure there were no glass bottles left behind. When we asked him why, he said he wouldn't want his eventual grandchildren to cut there little toes. At that time, a baby wasn't part of our immediate plan, so we just laughed and shrugged it off...then at the end of May we found out I was expecting. : )