Gardening Brag Book
4legsRbetterthan2
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Did you get a new plant you are excited about? Do you have an excellent veggie crop this year? Maybe you just love a certain flower in your garden? Or do you get some neat visitors every now and then? Here is the place to brag about it!
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Yes,,,,great crop of onions ,,,Tomatoes are starting to be ready ,, they are looking really good,,Almost have enough cukes for the first batch of pickles,,:):),,I'm stil;l at battle with the squirrels and coons
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Oh ya and the beans the beans are everywhere
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My new addition this year, a hardy hibiscus. Some nice summer blooms since the peonies next to it peeter out so early in the year.14 -
It doesn't look like much.... but the roughage is unbeatable.
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Motorsheen wrote: »
It doesn't look like much.... but the roughage is unbeatable.
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I love a man who can do some gardening 🥰5 -
My eggplants are doing great this year, which is surprising because I have never had luck with them. I am planning to make moussaka and baba ghanoush.
On the other hand, my cherry tomatoes are struggling, and I usually have good luck with them. It is all backwards this year for me.3 -
My eggplants are doing great this year, which is surprising because I have never had luck with them. I am planning to make moussaka and baba ghanoush.
On the other hand, my cherry tomatoes are struggling, and I usually have good luck with them. It is all backwards this year for me.
Got hit with a hornworm this year, my first, little *kitten*
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Feel like this is the appropriate place to say "I love plants!"
I'm an apartment dweller, have a few outside plants, but super serious question about house plants.....
Anyone else have a purple shamrock indoors? Its my beauty, pride and joy - but lately some of the "shamrocks" are getting mushy and dying...I've read its supposed to go into a dormancy around this time of year - but not sure what to do because most of the plant looks good. Only got it last year. Should I stop watering it...as suggested by research 😢...I hate the thought.
Also, if anyone knows - should I let it go dormant and split the pips?
...And how to do so4 -
I love it more than anything. My little piece of heaven.
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The olive crop is awesome
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Feel like this is the appropriate place to say "I love plants!"
I'm an apartment dweller, have a few outside plants, but super serious question about house plants.....
Anyone else have a purple shamrock indoors? Its my beauty, pride and joy - but lately some of the "shamrocks" are getting mushy and dying...I've read its supposed to go into a dormancy around this time of year - but not sure what to do because most of the plant looks good. Only got it last year. Should I stop watering it...as suggested by research 😢...I hate the thought.
Also, if anyone knows - should I let it go dormant and split the pips?
...And how to do so
If most of a plant looks good except one part I usually trim off the dead stuff and leave the rest alone.
My experience with most indoor plants is they are pretty finicky about watering, too much can be just as detrimental as too little, so if you think you are over watering try cutting back and see how it does.
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I do not have a green thumb; so this flowerbed was a labor of love! It has grown quite a bit since- just not home to take a new pic.6 -
I am really loving petunias this year. They even thrive in our full afternoon sun blazing hot back garden.7 -
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We homestead. We planted 8 blueberry bushes as hedges along our front lawn and a dwarf cherry. The blueberries produced this year. They were delicious. 😋
Our concord grapes came in nice and full. We are still several weeks out before we can harvest them. I can't wait to make jam.
We also are making our own Chilean pinot noir. We did the 1st racking on Friday and a small sample of the unfiltered stuff. It was exquisite. I'm looking forward to bottling the final product here in 2-4 weeks.8 -
@GymGoddessGoals what are the spiky looking flowers on the left?0
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Loving this thread so much!
I've had my name on a list for an allotment for years and had an email today - I might have one on the 10th of August!
Here's the plant patch of my garden right now. A bit wild looking but I like it that way and it's better for the bees (I have a beehive)
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I love to garden! One of my main motivations to lose weight. Tonight I picked two zucchini and a couple of tomatoes. My most exciting find was the caterpillars on my dill! Not being sarcastic; I love knowing I'm helping the little guys out!4
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We have a pollen problem up in here
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This is from my garden
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4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »@GymGoddessGoals what are the spiky looking flowers on the left?
@4legsRbetterthan2 I wish I could tell you. The tags are long gone. They attract dragonflies and butterflies like crazy though. I'm thinking it was either heather or astilbe. They don't do well in the heat here and didn't last very long. I'm in the process of replacing them with succulents. All of the large rocks came from a local Lapidary. I got some nice petrified wood, agate and various matrix like quartz and opal. The grasses bloomed about two or three weeks ago and are really nice.1 -
Feel like this is the appropriate place to say "I love plants!"
I'm an apartment dweller, have a few outside plants, but super serious question about house plants.....
Anyone else have a purple shamrock indoors? Its my beauty, pride and joy - but lately some of the "shamrocks" are getting mushy and dying...I've read its supposed to go into a dormancy around this time of year - but not sure what to do because most of the plant looks good. Only got it last year. Should I stop watering it...as suggested by research 😢...I hate the thought.
Also, if anyone knows - should I let it go dormant and split the pips?
...And how to do so
Here's no. 1, after my mother's best efforts to 'kill it' (her words!) before giving it to me.
...and here it is a little over a month later.
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Feel like this is the appropriate place to say "I love plants!"
I'm an apartment dweller, have a few outside plants, but super serious question about house plants.....
Anyone else have a purple shamrock indoors? Its my beauty, pride and joy - but lately some of the "shamrocks" are getting mushy and dying...I've read its supposed to go into a dormancy around this time of year - but not sure what to do because most of the plant looks good. Only got it last year. Should I stop watering it...as suggested by research 😢...I hate the thought.
Also, if anyone knows - should I let it go dormant and split the pips?
...And how to do so
Mine were the same way until my cat decided to play with them and distroy them all completely 😭
They are coming back tho. So I have baby ones. I tried to placed them outside but that didn't work for me. They didn't like the change and wilted. Also, just water it once a week.3 -
Motorsheen wrote: »
It doesn't look like much.... but the roughage is unbeatable.
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This sums up my gardening ability. I kill cacti even, which I've been told is quite a feat as well as those little succulents you mist. So... yeah. Plants are pretty, but we don't get along.0 -
KosmosKitten wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »
It doesn't look like much.... but the roughage is unbeatable.
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This sums up my gardening ability. I kill cacti even, which I've been told is quite a feat as well as those little succulents you mist. So... yeah. Plants are pretty, but we don't get along.
I read misting them is wrong. They are desert plants, you are supposed to do a good water every few months.1 -
4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »KosmosKitten wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »
It doesn't look like much.... but the roughage is unbeatable.
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This sums up my gardening ability. I kill cacti even, which I've been told is quite a feat as well as those little succulents you mist. So... yeah. Plants are pretty, but we don't get along.
I read misting them is wrong. They are desert plants, you are supposed to do a good water every few months.
Every few months? 😬 Good thing I found that out now or I’d have some dead plants. 😂0 -
It's been very humid and wet for about 48 hours, guess that's perfect mushroom weather? All these little guys popped up. I really need to learn about mushrooms, it's not the first time I have had them in the yard, and I never know if they are ok or not.
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The field near my house yesterday morning.
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Feel like this is the appropriate place to say "I love plants!"
I'm an apartment dweller, have a few outside plants, but super serious question about house plants.....
Anyone else have a purple shamrock indoors? Its my beauty, pride and joy - but lately some of the "shamrocks" are getting mushy and dying...I've read its supposed to go into a dormancy around this time of year - but not sure what to do because most of the plant looks good. Only got it last year. Should I stop watering it...as suggested by research 😢...I hate the thought.
Also, if anyone knows - should I let it go dormant and split the pips?
...And how to do so
Here's no. 1, after my mother's best efforts to 'kill it' (her words!) before giving it to me.
...and here it is a little over a month later.
wow, you are making me jealous, I may have to track one of these down!2
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