Re: in the garden

Here's somewhere everyone can grow a little something.  http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf 

Just click on the page, anywhere, or click and drag your mouse.  smile  Ahhh spring is in the air!

Ciao
Heather

That's All Non-Violence is
--- Organized Love---
        Joan Baez

Re: in the garden

KajiMa wrote:

It had to grow somewhere

http://www.dailypicture.co.uk/images/fu … jM83Sl.jpg

Send me some seeds for horse, they look good,   lol


great picture.... Badeye  cool

one caper after another

Re: in the garden

Hi badeye,

Yes i also love gardening. Its mainly flowers and shrubs now. I do grow lots of herbs . Strawberries in hanging baskets.
Also salad baskets. http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=h … tgeF3oziDw
I was recently sent the link by Marcalan for the hanging toms ideas. thats my next task.  Such a good idea.
I envy you all the good weather to grow such lovely stuff. The rains here the last few years ruined all. So the farmers market is usually my call. There set up seems to cope with the weather.
I use all kinds of ideas for my garden. Heres links to some ive used.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lena.odonov … directlink
This is a link to one of my tropical plants. I brought indoors last year to treat it.  I felt so sorry for it not having sunshine !
The weather was atrocious lol i won a prize with this madness. some gardening gifts, and a week in the home for the bewildered lol

http://picasaweb.google.com/lena.odonov … directlink
I have quite a big wood arbor, which is great to use. I usually hang quite a lot of  baskets  on there. Its also very pretty to look at
when everything blooms.

Hope your day blooms for you and yours Segosha.
Im away now to the beautiful mountains of Mourne for the weekend. Yipee.
Dont ya just love life. ?  Sunshine, music, and scenery to enjoy my journey.

Old Doll.

Why Blend in with the Crowd ? When you were made to stand out !

29 (edited by marcalan 2009-04-04 13:55:06)

Re: in the garden

Here's my garden [ in my mind] One of the best singers I've ever heard; Susan Tedeschi.
theres more for you too, to enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOmcat_6 … re=related

I thought ; If I had one idea,
and took it from beginning to end.
I would try another.

Re: in the garden

Old Doll wrote:

Hi badeye,

Yes i also love gardening. Its mainly flowers and shrubs now. I do grow lots of herbs . Strawberries in hanging baskets.
Also salad baskets. http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=h … tgeF3oziDw
I was recently sent the link by Marcalan for the hanging toms ideas. thats my next task.  Such a good idea.
I envy you all the good weather to grow such lovely stuff. The rains here the last few years ruined all. So the farmers market is usually my call. There set up seems to cope with the weather.
I use all kinds of ideas for my garden. Heres links to some ive used.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lena.odonov … directlink
This is a link to one of my tropical plants. I brought indoors last year to treat it.  I felt so sorry for it not having sunshine !
The weather was atrocious lol i won a prize with this madness. some gardening gifts, and a week in the home for the bewildered lol

http://picasaweb.google.com/lena.odonov … directlink
I have quite a big wood arbor, which is great to use. I usually hang quite a lot of  baskets  on there. Its also very pretty to look at
when everything blooms.

Hope your day blooms for you and yours Segosha.
Im away now to the beautiful mountains of Mourne for the weekend. Yipee.
Dont ya just love life. ?  Sunshine, music, and scenery to enjoy my journey.

Old Doll.

Your garden sculptures and other ideas are great Old Doll.  I usually grow some arugula, spinach and other lettuce in a container each year too.  I can even get a couple of crops by doing it that way too.  And your tropical plant is the coolest!  The flowers are gorgeous.  Great job.  wink  Hope you had a great weekend!

Cheers
Heather

That's All Non-Violence is
--- Organized Love---
        Joan Baez

Re: in the garden

Have any chordians come across this way of growing tatties?

Instead of planting lots of rows each plant of which will produce a few pounds, if you put a some earth in a tall container 2 - 3 feet across and put 4 seed potatoes in cover them and when the stalks come through put more earth on. keep doing this until the container is nearly full let the plants grow and die off as usual and your crop will be 200lbs and more!

Permaculture, one way to go!

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Re: in the garden

Hey Kajima,  I've tried that but in the ground, not in a container.  Just dig a hole and keep adding dirt as they grow instead of hilling them.  It's been so long that I can't remember if got more potatoes or not.  smile  But they sure were tasty.  My favorite part of growing potatoes is digging out a few baby ones as the plant grows.  Yum.

That's All Non-Violence is
--- Organized Love---
        Joan Baez

Re: in the garden

Well now, I'm gonna give that a go this year, two seasons ago we had potatoe bug real bad,
lost 80 % of spuds planted. Nothin like the small ones in a Hodge-Podge, so tasty. I've planted
radish already, they like the cool weather, cherry belle, be pickin in about 28 days. Had some real good sucess planting tomatoes in big planters, great to blanch em and freeze em to be used all years round.   Bring on the sun.

  cool   badeye.

one caper after another

Re: in the garden

Got 4 rows of G-90 sweet corn already in  the ground and I am waiting until Good Friday to plant the rest. As the old sayin' goes "if it thunders in Febuary there will be a cold snap around that date in April". Well it thundered on Febuary 10th and we are lookin' for a frost the next 2 nights. I already got my rows made up and when the weather gets right I'll get to planting. 4 more rows of Texas Cream Peas, 4 rows of speckled butter beans, about 12 hills of straight neck squash, 6 hills of straight 8 cukes, 36 tomato plants (plus 12 more planted in homemade buckets) a few pepper plants some okra and maybe a few other things. Then, up goes the "hot fence" to keep the deer out.

Nela