calling all gardeners!

[TklDuo-Ann]

OK, it's that time again! How are your gardens coming along?

My bulb gardens out front have fizzled for the season. All that remains are the hosta, sedum and roses. Once we get a cooler spell, I'll likely divide those again and spread them out a bit.

The veggie garden is coming along nicely. I'm starting to get zucchini and tomatoes coming in. We should be able to start harvesting them bit by bit in another week or two. The sweet peppers are coming along more slowly, but are okay. The hot peppers, I'm not sure about. The critters have really been at things this year. So, it may be a dry season for those. I've got an area that I'd set aside for my neighbor to use. But, she only used half of it. So, I may transplant the basil and sage once it cools down a bit.

Ann

 

[TicklishLurker]

My veggie garden keeps getting over taken by weeds no matter how hard I try to keep them out. Somehow some idiot introduced a non-native plant to California that, as far as we can tell, is called Austrailan Sheep-weed and it's next to impossible to get rid of it. Pull it up, it keeps growing. The only poison that works on it is Round-up for ivy and brush, anything weaker doesn't even touch it. When the garden's gone I want to do what Jerry Baker talks about - pour a bunch of stuff together that's good for the soil, bad for bugs, and mix in a whole crap load of that Round-up, pour it all over the garden, then spread out black plastic for a few months. But as soon as I mention it the idea is dismissed. *sighs*

 

[kered]

I'm already pulling onions, green beans, a few cucumbers. Peppers seem a little slow this year and the big boy and cheery tomatoe lines are right where they should be. Juicy Indiana tomatoes will be ready in about twenty-five days.

 

[lk70]

I have a dirt garden in my front yard. It's thriving. It used to have that annoying green grass in it, but now it's nice and dusty like it's supposed to be. It was hard work, but well worth it.

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

I have a dirt garden in my front yard. It's thriving. It used to have that annoying green grass in it, but now it's nice and dusty like it's supposed to be. It was hard work, but well worth it.

Lynn, you could always do like my dad did several years back and just pave the entire thing. (No. I'm not joking! lol)

Ann

 

[lk70]

Lynn, you could always do like my dad did several years back and just pave the entire thing. (No. I'm not joking! lol)

Ann

Pave Paradise, put up a parking lot.....

If you can call central Jersey Paradise, that is. 😛

 

[TicklishLurker]

I have a dirt garden in my front yard. It's thriving. It used to have that annoying green grass in it, but now it's nice and dusty like it's supposed to be. It was hard work, but well worth it.

See, if I had my way, we wouldn't have any lawns at all. Grass is SO boring. I'd kill it all off, put up a picket fence, and put a cement path connected to the driveway so when we need to wheel stuff out of the backyard like the trailer we could ride on that - but everything else would be just one huge flower garden. I'd scatter seeds all over, poppies, bachlor buttons, shasta dasies, cosmos, etc, and let them grow wild and free. Much more attractive then boring old grass.

The backyard I'd get rid of the grass but put in a nice size pool. Plus keep the veggie garden. The rest would all be cement.

 

[lk70]

See, if I had my way, we wouldn't have any lawns at all. Grass is SO boring. I'd kill it all off, put up a picket fence, and put a cement path connected to the driveway so when we need to wheel stuff out of the backyard like the trailer we could ride on that - but everything else would be just one huge flower garden. I'd scatter seeds all over, poppies, bachlor buttons, shasta dasies, cosmos, etc, and let them grow wild and free. Much more attractive then boring old grass.

The backyard I'd get rid of the grass but put in a nice size pool. Plus keep the veggie garden. The rest would all be cement.

Oh I SO agree with you on that. What I wouldn't give to get out of suburbia and into the woods.

 

[Feathery]

Wild roses, tiger lilies, hollyhocks, ferns, foxgloves and poppies to name a few... in upstate New York.

 

[gigglegal76]

My roses, butterfly bush and buttercup bushes are all doing well. The butterfly bush has grown so much over the past few years. I can't wait for the butterflies to start comin round.

My pumpkins and cantaloup did not take this year for some reason. My tomatoe plants are starting to get small tomatoes on them. I sure can't wait till I can pick 'em!!!

 

[Saeria]

I have somewhat of a garden.. kinda. Texas is mean to gardens without automatic sprinker systems and negligent masters but my Glads finally bloomed this year (I planted them 3 years ago). My lillies all washed away with the last good rain we had but the rain really did my Philendendron some good; that's exciting simply because i've been waiting all year for that silly plant to resemble something other that giant wilting cilantro.

 

[TicklishLurker]

Oh I SO agree with you on that. What I wouldn't give to get out of suburbia and into the woods.

See, I don't mind living in the city - I couldn't stand being away from it, I think. I just want to break the monotomy of the lawns - lawns lawns lawns - it's just grass, people! In fact, I actually enjoy dandilions because they add a bit of color to that boring sea of green.