Garden thread

mtaratoot

I kind of missed my chance to make it into a "giant bonsai," but I might actually still try that. Yes, they are brittle. In the southeast they are weed trees. I guess they CAN propagate here since this one is a volunteer. Super-easy to rake leaves, plenty of shade, and yeah - stand back because it grows super fast. That also means short-lived. I probably should prune it down to a half-inch tall....

LoveyChar

@mtaratoot You have a lot going on. I'm in the southern hemisphere and I only have a sliver of a garden left at this point due to mice destroying my tomato plants. Jalapeno peppers and Bell Peppers are thriving and appears my sweet potatoes are doing well. I have a raised garden and I'm buying myself pots and more soil and I'm going to be working on growing my garden this week, a birthday present to myself.

I'll post pictures soon but I'm going to get some rosemary, mint, lavender, more Bell Peppers and sweet potatoes going (I grew the slips and now I just need to plant them). I think I'm going to order a variety of peppers off of Etsy since it really seems to be the only thing I'm having luck with.

WildColonialGirl

We just had a container garden this year with herbs and salad greens. We’re planning raised beds for next year with tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, green beans, salad greens and herbs. Going to keep the catnip separate haha.

LoveyChar

WildColonialGirl wrote: »

We just had a container garden this year with herbs and salad greens. We’re planning raised beds for next year with tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, green beans, salad greens and herbs. Going to keep the catnip separate haha.

I'm going the container garden route. I can move and protect from rhodent's favorites that way.

carakirkey

We went from gardens and flowers growing to a big and very early snow fall. I had a fall garden planted of peas, greens and carrots and parsnips were still in. I'll see what I can recover once this snow melts!

lemurcat2

We've had snow the past couple of days, but nothing has stuck yet, and my chard and carrots still seem okay. Last year we had a bunch of snow on Halloween, so interested to see if that happens this year -- it's not normal.

mgalsf12

Our tomatoes are almost done for the season, still have lettuce, chard, beets, carrots, herbs, beans..getting ready to plant my winter crop, dark greens, broccoli, and probably brussel sprouts.

mtaratoot

carakirkey wrote: »

We went from gardens and flowers growing to a big and very early snow fall. I had a fall garden planted of peas, greens and carrots and parsnips were still in. I'll see what I can recover once this snow melts!

That snow could be a good thing if it gets cold - it's a natural insulator.

We had more cold weather last night - colder than expected. The one remaining chile plant sustained some damage, but I think it made it. No more freezing temperatures in the immediate future. Some damp and some sun; maybe I'll still get some to ripen.

Leaves are frost damaged on the fig trees, but they didn't all fall off like the Paulonia. They will soon. The figs will also start falling, rotten, onto the ground.

earlnabby

lemurcat2 wrote: »

We've had snow the past couple of days, but nothing has stuck yet, and my chard and carrots still seem okay. Last year we had a bunch of snow on Halloween, so interested to see if that happens this year -- it's not normal.

You mean this snow? That is what finally did my pansies in.



I pulled carrots this week but the snap peas are still blooming. That is the end of it. I just have to cook up the tomatoes that are finishing ripening and in the freezer and my gardening is done. I pulled the Boston Fern out of the planter and the thing was so huge I didn't realize it had pupped. I need to find a pot for the pup since mom is frozen and going to the ward waste recycling center.

sandypoint1267

My husband and I started a garden a few years ago. It has been a learn by experience adventure but I love it. Not only do I get excercise but I love eating fresh veg that I have grown with love and sweat !

kshama2001

We in Massachusetts are going to get the cold and snow from you Mid Westerners on Friday. Nevertheless, I am still working on my Fall Garden Project.

I'm digging up a 14' x 2' strip of lawn and moving the low Dragon's Blood sedum from the lower right to the new bed. I'm dividing the creeping phlox from the lower left and putting it where the sedum was. I was making a lot of progress until I decided I wanted to plant some bulbs while I was at it and to wait for today's rain to soften the soil. I'm going to push away from the computer now and go hunt & gather bulbs - they are usually on sale this time of year.

This garden was new this spring and overall I am very happy with it. I had no idea the August Joy sedum would get so big and will remove three of the four next year. (My OH calls them "Broccoli Plants" lol.)



Here it was in May:

MikePfirrman

Am I allowed to say if AZ passes the marijuana initiative that I might take up some gardening next year?

AmeliaHartL6V

lol, such gardening is totally worthy

spinnerdell

Growing your own will save you a ton of money! Marijuana, while legal and readily available here in Nevada, is prohibitively expensive.

LoveyChar

My ONLY success right here, but my oh my I'm excited to see these change to a variety of colors!

LoveyChar

Three sweet potato slips in the ground today and going to pot another. I have so much room left in my garden now that the tomato plants are gone. My dog killed a mouse today. She's an indoor dog but I let her out and she was on it.

LoveyChar

Remember me? The ridiculously proud woman showing off her lovely "lavender" that actually turned out to be a maple tree? I'm special. Well I used a plant identier app to determine plants or weeds coming up in my garden so I can decide whether to nurture it or to pull it. Definitely helps someone who knows very little about gardening! I have a bunch of garden lettuce coming up, just pulled it.

LoveyChar

70's today and high 70's after tomorrow, sweet potatoes will be happy!

lemurcat2

We had a long spell of 70s (broke a record for November) that ended Tuesday night, followed by rain storm and then much more seasonal weather, but somehow it was good for my garden. I got some little bunches of cauliflower (there's at least one more bunch that I'm hoping might grow a bit more, but probably not), a couple of cabbages (again, might get one or two more if lucky), pulled my last carrots, and then picked some of my rainbow chard. The chard is still growing strong -- curious to see how long it will keep growing.

MsCzar

This year's garden added 5 lbs. of wild black raspberries and 6 lb.s of green beans to my freezer. I have 70 green tomatoes wrapped in the cool cellar - so I expect to be eating garden tomatoes well into December. Lots of dried chives, lemon balm, mint, rosemary and basil stocked in the spice cabinet for winter.

Next year, I want to add butternut squash, chard and zucchini. In the past, critters usually get anything in the squash family well before I do, but I'll give it a go.