Gardening, anyone?
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Wrenn44–. We just have 2 raised beds and some container garden plants. Garden is way smaller this year over years past after last year’s garden was so neglected while undergoing active treatments
We have more flowers this year than last. Our favorites as sun patiens. They just do so well in containers as seen below:
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Wow, DodgersGirl, your garden is looking good. Can I ask about the vertical cucumbers - do you have to support the cucumbers (fruit) in any way or are the vines strong enough to hold them as they grow? I had a yellow squash one year that was like your zucchini. Our rental house yard was a little too shady to get any kind of veggies - tomatoes sucked, corn got aphids, but we did get green beans and the yellow squash was like aliens taking over!
I gave up all my garden except containers a couple of years ago but every time I see someone else's veggie garden I wish I had one.
Loving all the beautiful flowers everyone has posted. Jazzy, Santa Fe is on my list of places to visit. Thanks for sharing the beautiful flowers. My yard is in a bit of a lull but the daylilies are just starting to bloom out, so more color on the way.
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dodgers- with all those cukes, do you do pickling?
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TwoHobbies—hubby built a verticals frame out of pvc pipe and then we attached a net across the frame. Then we train the cukes to climb up by attaching them to the net early on. They take over and climb up. We do not do anything to support the cucumbers themselves. The plant does just fine.
We have grown green beans, cantaloupe, and vine peaches vertically.
Cpeachymom—. I made icebox pickles with them but no canning. Also just eat them cold and sliced. There are 4 cucumber plants growing vertic
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Dodgersgirl, that’s only 4 plants!!!! Whoa!!
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Two Hobbie- Santa Fe is lovely in the summer. Canyon Road is the high end arts district so the landscaping with the flower beds are unbelievable. But the city square has a lot of nice flowers too. if you come in the summer, there is good music on the plaza and at St John's college too!
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Jazzy I'm definitely going to make a trip out there. My cousin made a trip out there a month or so ago and I seem to be very attracted to the landscape! So hopefully in the next year or two.
Dodgersgirl, you've got me thinking about the vertical gardening near my deck. I don't know if I've figured out how to keep the bunnies and chipmunks from eating it up though. This is why I grow in containers.
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Question gardening buddies- has anyone had luck treating powdery mildew naturally? I've heard milk can work. It's just starting on one pumpkin plant, but I know it can spread fast. Suggestions??
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Awesome vegetable gardens ladies.
This has been a hot humid summer for us. Most of our plants are growing out of control and it's too hot to get out and trim them. Dh does what he can and I wish I could do more.
Very disappointed in our grass though. We've lost too much of it to shade. When we have the funds we need to replace the front and back with zoysia. Then I can sculpt some new gardens at the same time.
Dreaming of the perfect garden.
Scottie
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Bucket list for my gardening friends as shared by a friend on FB today. I have been to #5, #7 and #14 to date and now have more things for my bucket list!
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/arboretums/14-garden...
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Update- milk seems to be holding the mildew in check. Yay!
On another note, after posting pics of large plants and full gardens, I wanted to post this pick-
This little pepper plant has been barely hanging on all season. Something ate through some of the leaves, it has refused to grow, it is 4 inches tall. But it has the Nerve to be growing a mini green pepper! Thankfully some of my other pepper plants have actual peppers on them almost ready.
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Go, little pepper, go!
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Too cute 😊😊😊
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Hi, may I join in? I've only just started chemo on Monday and hope my garden helps me to get over it. I'm glad I have chemo during the harvest months, there will always be something fresh to eat until October at least...
and something nice to look at too
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Welcome JaBoo
My garden was my safe place during all the surgeries and chemo. When friends visited I would ask them if they wanted to walk to the garden. Of course they said yes! We walked and I would ask them to help me gather whatever was ready. My garden was not so very neat and pretty during that time but still produced well. Today, I continue to find it that safe place where no matter what was happening to my body I could find peace away from all cancer-related things.
Coach Vicky
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Surprise sunflower in my border garden and blooming artichoke flower
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Wow Jazzy!! So pretty ❤️
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I’ve never seen an artichoke flower, those are some cute purple fuzz balls! Are they big?
I also have what I HOPE are rogue sunflowers, otherwise I’m tending some really tall weeds that I transplanted! They were coming up in one of my containers that I got from someone else, dirt included. Lots of surprises this year..
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Welcome Jaboo! Is that a plum tree? I found my gardens were rather untended last year, but they did ok. I had to have family come help with the major yard work. Feels good to be able to tend things this year.
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Peachy- the flowers are the size of a tennis ball so quite large!
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Jazzygirl— those flowers are so pretty. I’ve never seen artichoke flowers. Cool
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Cpeachymom - yes, that's a plum tree.. going to make a plum pie today
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Cpeachy, I have bell pepper in containers but they are not happy at all so far. i am also experimenting with cantaloupe in containers that flow onto the deck. Not sure how this will work but 4 cantaloupe plants were only 1.88, so not much lost.
Speaking of surprises, I found this growing between the porch and walkway. I also have a corn stalk growing in my flower bed from seed the birds must have spread or maybe raccoons?
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TwoHobbies- we have grown bell peppers in containers for about 10 years. My experience is that when the temperature climbs above 90 degrees, the bell peppers growth slows way down. Then once temps go below 90, they grow as expected. Also, in containers, if it is warm/hot, they like to be watered every day as the dirt gets really warm because they are in a container where the container heats up, heating the dirt even more
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We get a lot of bird gifts in our yard. I noticed an ash sapling yesterday. A sturdy privet was growing by the front walk but the flowers smell bad to me and give me a headache. An ornamental plum was a gift we moved to the front planting strip.
We had a bumper crop of raspberries this year. DH gave a container to each of the men working on getting our house ready to paint. Raspberry rhubarb pie is delicious.
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Ahh, from gardening to pies! I knew there was a reason I liked this thread!
I haven’t had plum or raspberry rhubarb pie before, but I’m always up to trying new food. In my house I’m the cook but my husband’s the baker, so he’d be the one making homemade pies. Mrs. Smith makes my pies!
This is my first year trying container gardening in addition to the big gardens. Mixed results so far. Lettuce seems to do well, peppers are ok with one notable exception, sugar peas were short lived, but it was my first year with them as well. The heirloom tomato looks pretty sad compared to the ones in the ground, but it is producing.
I’ve been getting creative with all the squash and zucchini we have! Zucchini salsa is pretty awesome.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
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We winter in S Tx and summer in SE Alaska, so garden year round! This is dinner-time and everything on plate we have harvested ourselves...including the salmon!
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Looks delicious! I enjoy knowing the food came from my own garden.
CPeachy, It's my DH who makes the pies. No fruit shall go uneaten.
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lmurphy- That’s fantastic! Looks yummy.
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Gardening? Bwahaha! It's been 110 for four days staight here...Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Our local gardening expert starts running articles on triaging what plants will be the least expensive to replace when you have to decide which ones you will concentrate on keeping alive.
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