The Official Gardening Thread!! Spring is coming!!
Posted by _Dalida_ on Feb 15, 2009 · Member since Jan 2009 · 966 posts
Hey Fellow Vw'ers!
Spring is just around the corner, so I'm just starting to do my seedlings and pick out what I'm planning on growing for Spring... I've already got my herbs started.. I think I will do a mix of indoor windowsill/kitchen , container & outdoor (possibly raised bed) gardening. What do you guys have planned? I'm for sure not a gardening pro, but I'm trying to relearn what urban man has forgot and be able to grow *some* food or at least herbs & garlic... So, everybody feel free to contribute anything pertaining to indoor or outdoor gardening please!! ;)b
https://www.hotleathers.com/images/products/PAIAADHIPGIAGHGI.jpg
Double fun: there shouldn't be an apostrophe in "lot's" unless they're talking about Lot's wife.
https://www.hotleathers.com/images/products/PAIAADHIPGIAGHGI.jpg
Double fun: there shouldn't be an apostrophe in "lot's" unless they're talking about Lot's wife.
maybe that mistake is part of the joke.
One hopes!
I was going to try to link the image to something gardening-related ... but I fail.
One hopes!
I was going to try to link the image to something gardening-related ... but I fail.
<--- is dumb's?
Apostrophe! Argh!
oh noe's....
what the plural of hoe?
hoe's?
I need to get me one or a few's.
Hoses?
Is the study of that hosiery?
Yes, you learn how to foliage the hoses, and shelf them by leaf and width.
They are not coiled?
No, more aptly: coiled.
ok so my okra seedlings came up for a couple of days and then all died. *shrug* so i planted more seeds. try try again!!! i planted two types of southern peas and beets. i certainly enjoyed getting my hands muddy (it rained yesterday). i feel like i got my moneys worth with those seed packets. i like getting dirty.
my cucumbers and watermelon are going crazy!!!!
oh i also planted a sweet potato that i had in my kitchen. it started growing leaves. so. i put it in the ground. we'll see.
oh and heres a picture of my grandfathers garden. he uses old golf clubs to stake his plants. hes pretty awesome.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/hi_im_kelsi/grandadsgarden2.jpg
i cant wait to go home and eat some fresh organic beans from his garden!!
Storm, do you start you garden indoors? You are already harvesting!
I do start my seeds indoors, but blackrabbit is right, it is mostly the Florida thing. We basically have a year round growing season. The down side of Florida gardening for me is that my yard is basically sand so I have to grow everything in containers.
I wish spring was coming. Yesterday it snowed all day in the mountains around our home and then went down to a couple of degrees above freezing at night. My poor tomatoes are getting anxious to be planted. But the peas and potatoes, kale and radishes carrots and beets are all coming fine and the weather forecast is improving.
I planted some herb pots last weekend with my mom :D also, some peas, which I got from an organic seed/plant store...they have just sprouted in the past two days! woo!
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peas! when I first planted them
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AeroGarden what the....?
Top Left: juliette grape tomatoes, husky cherry tomatoes and red fig tomatoes.
Top Right: hot cherry peppers
Bottom Left: cow horn peppers
Bottom Center: German Queen tomatoes
Bottom Right: poblano pepper
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii85/Stormflakes/Garden/002.jpg
Orange Habanero Peppers
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii85/Stormflakes/Garden/orangehabs.jpg
The rains brought blight and took out most of my tomato plants, my cukes, zucchini, and yellow squash, but the peppers are doing great. I have one Portugal Hot, two Bhut Jolokias, three Red Savinas, four Dancing Spirits and five Vietnamese Black Dragons (hairy peppers) just up through the soil. Seems weird that I planted the same number of seeds for each variety (5) and got 1,2,3,4, and 5 in germination. :-\
I just got everything in the ground here in Connecticut. Zucchini plants, tomato, string beans, bell peppers and 1 jalapeno plant. Though the weather is so crappy that I doubt I shall get any product for a while at least. Hopefully by September, maybe. haha.
Photos of my gardening are all up on facebook!
My boyfriend and I have tomatoes, cayenne peppers and habanero peppers planted!! Hope to get some herb pots planted soon too!
my herbs and peas have all been growing lots, but I've noticed something is eating my basil :( there are 2 other plants in the same pot but only the basil has holes all in it! all i can see on the plant are tiny yellowy-orange bugs (only a couple on there though). I hope they go away soon. I might spray the plant w/diluted vinegar...in hopes that it will ward off the bugs but not harm the basil.
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