How Does Your Garden Grow?

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

I never thought I'd get interested in gardening but I am so happy with my yard and garden. My grass is a gorgeous green. I have 4 beautiful hanging baskets, pansies & geraniums mixed in 2 and impatients & some weird thing in the other two. I've made a hens & chicks pot & a cactus pot. My side garden that my neighbor & Kelli built is planted with all sorts of weird things that haven't come up yet. I forgot to label it so I will call it the mystery garden. My azales are in full bloom. I hate it when they die, they look like wadded up toilet paper. My hostas have gone crazy. I think I probably have the world's largest hosta. My neighbor Betty will show me how to divide and conquer when the time comes.

So how does your garden grow?

Shaggy

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Shaggy, can you post a picture of your lovely garden? I wouldn't dare to post ours.

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

I had to dig yesterday to see where my hostas are. I think with the warm weather and rain in this weeks forcast, they may finally pop up.

I think I did loose a mum, an apple tree that was in poor shape and maybe a peach tree over the winter, but I think everything else looks good.

[Elan Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Elan]

Flower gardens look awesome. Daffodils and Hyacinths have done their thing, but Tulips and Irises are in bloom here now. Vegetable garden is not in yet. I was going to rototill this weekend to plant next weekend, but it rained too much. Yet another thing I seem to be falling behind on...........

[dmbrand Member Find all posts View Profile Close dmbrand]

I was just out yesterday taking pics of my flowers. This year has been one of the best for my spring bulbs and perennials. Must have been all that snow we got!

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

I think this year I am going to put in more tulips and lillies. I am making a special location for the dahlias so I am not digging up between the tulp bulbs. I hope to put in some roses and even though I will try to over winter, I will treat them like annuals and replace next spring.

Peas went in the bed Saturday, but haven't watered yet. May risk putting in the tomatoes tonight. Good rains forcast for the next few days. That should help them get established.

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

I also enjoy being outside and growing things.

I have a ton of hostas that are larger than expected at this time of year, but the downpours have made that possible!

our challenge is always to get ahead of the weeds and try to get things under control but we've almost lost the battle already!!!!

I've done nothing with the veggie garden yet (what a mess) since I'm trying to get the front gardens to not be white trash wild kingdom. It's a ton of work, for sure. Results end up being worth it, but it's a big yard with big gardens. I think I will divide more hostas (FAST, before they get EVEN BIGGER) since they are so lovely, hardy and seem to choke out weeds pretty well. Get more hostas into either barren or weedy spots and just Hope for the best.

not enuf hours in the day, not enuf strength in the body!! But, will keep on fighting the good fight!

[JoAnn Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoAnn]

I'm not a Gardener (it will die for sure) but DH & DD have a great veggie garden that has tomatoes, onions, carrots, beans, Brussels sprouts, white egg plant, beets, cucumbers, and what ever else they want in there. DD has done wonders with a big (and I do mean big) rock pile that is in our 'other' lot. It came from when they were digging out the lake/pond. She has flowers in all the little nicks and crannies, and has made spots for Mandavillas, Amanda plants, Gerbera daises, spider plants, climbing plants, Geraniums, and some I don't know. They lost a lot with the two heavy frosts we had in January, but many are coming back, or have been replanted.

[Kay H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kay H]

I don't plant my annuals until after Mother's Day so that means I'll be very busy next week. My perennial greens are up but no flowers yet. Daffodils, tulips and grape hyacinth are finished.My 1 azalea gets prettier evey year and is in full bloom right now.

[RESORT2ME Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RESORT2ME]

Have a small plot.
Had Leaf Lettuce salad last evening.
Beans are up 9”.
Tomato and pepper just put in. 6 to 8”
Kolrobi, broccoli not doing so good.
Radish are all leaves

Been busy this year:
Building block walls
Widening drive apron and walk with brick.
Pruning and fertilizing shubs and trees.
Planting more lawn.
Installing split rail fencing.

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[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Flowers galore, some of the bamboo is greening. Onions and peas are on the way and the asparagus has been overwhelming. Spotted a dead white birch out front, so I'll have to take that down as well as the dead apricot tree in the back. Still a bit early to plant everthing else here.

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

I have never planted onions. Do you plant onions with another item to save space? Will plant potatoes for my first and likely last time. Thinking I can put those between bean rows. The beans can be supported by the potato plants.

Someone told me that you can plant asparagus and strawberries since one is below ground and the other above ground. Doesn't work. At the end of the asparagus harvest, I let them grow which shades the strawberry plants and they don't produce. I am working on a frame for the strawberry bed to move them out of that bed.

[JoAnn Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoAnn]

Robert, what a beautiful yard you have created! But then you live in a beautiful area You have spent a lot of time creating that setting.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I have never planted onions. Do you plant onions with another item to save space? Will plant potatoes for my first and likely last time. Thinking I can put those between bean rows. The beans can be supported by the potato plants.

Someone told me that you can plant asparagus and strawberries since one is below ground and the other above ground. Doesn't work. At the end of the asparagus harvest, I let them grow which shades the strawberry plants and they don't produce. I am working on a frame for the strawberry bed to move them out of that bed.

I plant onions alone in their own rows. There are many plants that do not grow well together and a few that do. So far I haven't tried any together, but as the garden continues to shrink in size, I may have to start. I've not had great luck growing potatoes(soil tends to be a bit alkaline), so I haven't planted them in decades. After 2 or 3 years of pathetic pepper crops, last year I did some soil additives and got a bumper crop of peppers from about 20 plants. Half of my big freezer is now full of last year's peppers and blueberries (picked in the wild a few miles away).

The asparagus is grown separately in it's owns beds-2 small and one large, outside the veggie garden.

[RESORT2ME Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RESORT2ME]

Robert, what a beautiful yard you have created! But then you live in a beautiful area You have spent a lot of time creating that setting.

Thanks
I know you realize everyhing doesn't jump into picture puuurfect without effort. Not that ALL is perfect.
There's much to be done...Alway irons in the fire.