Garden: Ms. I ParkerSmall veggie garden - peas, tomatoes,beets, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, turnip, melons, a variety that changes each year - 11 ft x 12 ft space only.
Garden: Garden of Growing LoveSmall square in our front yard filled with vegetables... and love. Currently we have corn, pole beans, kale, shallots, snow peas, zucchini, tomatoes, assorted lettuces and sunflowers.
Garden: Celia Thaxter GardenTen miles off the coast of New Hampshire, this garden is on a small plot of land on Appledore Island. It contains poppies, sweet peas, hollyhocks, niotiana, lavendar, larkspur, foxglove and white rose rugosa roses.
Garden: Jesse's GardensExcited for the coming Spring! Blooms of crocus, crunchy sweet peas and dirt under my fingernails!
Garden: Boxes and PotsThe yard is in an older area and had been let go for a few years. My garden consists of 3 square boxes and 3 long planters plus several pots of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Vegetables are peas, carrots, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce, radish, onions and tomatoes. I planted rhubarb in the yard as well. I also have 2 small flowerbeds. I also have most of a garden plot in one of the community gardens. I haven't been in it for about a week so I'm not sure what's going on with it. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. If I get much of a crop I'm going to have to buy another freezer! I'm quite excited to see how things do. I planted several things that I never have before.
Garden: Trouble TreeI have a 6' x 20' plot on a slightly sloping area in my yard. When the sun decides to give the rain a vacation, it will shine on the garden from late morning until late afternoon. The western side of the garden has a split rail fence with chicken wire against which about twelve vigorous tomato plants are quickly maturing. Beans and peas are also growing at the north end of the garden and are graciously supported by the fence. At the southern end a cantaloupe and a few watermelons plants are reaching outwards into an adjoining flower bed. Cucumbers, onions, peppers - sweet and hot, and zucchini contend for the limited space in the garden and seem to care little for the mossy bricks laid down for stepping stones. Lettuce, spinach, radishes, mint, and eggplant battle for the remaining space. The lettuce has already yielded many delicious salads and is promising much more throughout the season. At the northern end a mystery lilac tree grows, tightly knit with two other as yet unidentified flowering bushes, and provides shelter to a lone artichoke experiment.
The name 'Trouble Tree' is inspired by my father. When I was very young, my dad would come home from work each day and devote just a few moments to leaving his frustrations from work at his 'trouble tree.' Touching the leaves and appreciating this simple miracle allowed him to shed the stress that often followed him home. My garden functions in much the same way for me on a daily basis.
Garden: Vegetable GardenSince we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.
Garden: The PEAS farmThe Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society (PEAS)through the University of Montana set up this community farm in 2001. In its first year, the PEAS farm produced 52,000 pounds of produce, which was then delivered to low-income families. PEAS works closely with both the Missoula Food Bank and Garden City Harvest, two organization who share PEA's passion for growing produce.
Garden: Lots of Veggies in my garden!I'm trying to grow as many veggies as I can in Calgary's wierd climate. Cold weather crops do better. Tomatoes must be under glass or forget it. It's discouraging at times. I use rain water to water mostly everything. I like simple old fashioned plants like morning glories, nasturtiums, sweet peas, roses etc. I always get blossom end rot on my zucchini and don't know how to prevent it..
Garden: Heritage HeavenAn eclectic mix of perennials, herbs (my true love), annuals and veggies. Potager style. I have an herb garden too. I try to grow heritage varieties like peas and lettuce, as my small way to keep more variety on the planet.
Garden: Victoria's Secret GardenThis year I planted mostly veggies that I can use to make baby food for our 8 month old and meals for my husband and I. So far things are growing great. Tomatoes, Cucumber, Spinach, Herbs, Pumpkin, Squash, Beets, Peas, Green Peppers, Carrots and Strawberries.
Garden: Praxis PermacultureWe live in an 1940 log house on 4.5acres, originally built from trees on the property by homesteaders on Gabriola Island. Some of the trees and flowers are here from the 1st owners, some new.
The property is a mix of native species forest (fir, maple, garry oak, arbutus, yew, cedar, pin cherry, alder); meadow; fruit (apples, plum, apricot, peach, blue-, straw- and raspberries); specimen trees & shrubs (japanese maples, liquid amber, mock orange, forsythia, lilac); perennial flowers & vegetables.
We have a fenced (from the deer) area around the house with raised beds and lots of rock walls and stone paths. Water - or the lack of it - is our main issue. We have no lawn and I cut the meadow grasses with a scythe.
We see ourselves as stewards of this property in which we want to encourage as much of the native species as possible. We work with a forest gardener to manage the treed areas (thinning dying and dangerous trees, planting new ones). We have a naturally wet area on the low point on the property and want to restore the it as a wetland with native plants and trees.
Our property is home to many species of insects inc. butterflies and bees, birds, snakes, tree frogs, deer - and we have planted species of flowers especially with them in mind. We try to grow heirloom varieties and have had heritage chickens in the past.
This year, for the first time, I am attempting to grow mushrooms by inoculating alder logs with white oyster and shiitake mushroom spawn.
Garden: Vegetable gardenSunflowers, early corn, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, zuchini, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, acorn squash, all in rows going east to west
Garden: Mark's Roof GardenThis is the 6th year for my roof garden. It is a work in progress as I experiment every year with different plants. This year I have tomatoes, peas, herbs, flowers, grasses and 4 small trees.
Garden: Jan's GardenI have planted a variety of vegetables. Primarily garlic, tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, cabbage, zucchini, cucumbers, brussel sprouts, beans, peas and sweet potatoes.
Garden: Julies veggie gardenWe have a small flower bed in the front yard, and a medium sized vegetable garden in the backyard. This year we have sunflowers, yellow/green beans, tomatoes, green onion, radish, lettuce(3)varieties, carrots, beets, zuchinni, cucumbers, turnips, pumpkin, and peas.
Garden: My Retirement ProjectI have built 4 4' x 12' no till raised beds 22" deep for vegetable growing. I started with a layer of well rotted manure, a layer of composted material, then a layer of leaves, grass clippings, etc from spring clean up. Plants were started by pulling back the mulch, then moving the mulch around the plants as they got bigger. Potatoes just came up through the leaves and have grown roots into the composting material. I seldom have to water even though it has been a very dry year as the mulch prevents drying of the soil. There have been minimal weeds and good plant growth. I planted roughly based on the square foot gardening method, but I do not have permanent grids. One planter holds 48 hills of potatoes. We have eaten some and they are doing well. This fall I will cover each bed with a new layer of leaves and plant into the previous layer of mulch next spring. Trellises help use less space for things like cucumbers, peas and pumpkins and you do not have to bend over to pick peas!
Garden: First Time GardenerBeans, peas, tomatoes, cucumber, turnips, beets, carrots, radishes, onions, potatoes, lettuce, pumpkins, green peppers, zucchini, cantaloupe
Garden: Renfrew GardenWe are renting this place from a friend of ours who grew up at this house - his parents, and especially his Father, were awesome Italian gardeners. When we moved in, Tony, our landlord, told us with tears in his eyes how beautiful the garden was (it had been left for 3 years and was now covered in packed dirt and dandelions!!) and we vowed to bring it back to what it once was. We also have a greenhouse. You name it - we planted it and as it's our first time as gardeners; we've learned a great deal about soil, spacing, water/sun and patience!! We have the tallest sunflowers in the neighborhood because Tony's dad had them - now we do too - over ten feet tall!! We grow tomatoes, peas, onions(green&red), lettuce, cabbage, beets, swiss chard, strawberries, potatoes, radishes, carrots, green and yellow beans, many types of zucchini and squash and peppers, green, red and various hot ones. It's a very rewarding adventure !
Garden: Jane's GardenI have had raised beds for quite some years, but two years ago I decided to go to square foot gardening. I plant peas, carrots, various lettuces, several different herbs, peppers (jalapeno and chili), garlic, onions, cucumbers, spinach, potatoes and beans. I built a spiral herb garden this summer to plant next year.
Garden: Charlie's GardenFor my ten years on this boggy bit of mountain land, my gardening has been driven by being an artist/sculptor, with just a small amount of food growing.
I have a polytunnel with tomatoes,peas,beans,
salads,some fruit and lots of propagation of perennials....and growing eucalyptus trees from seed.
In these Peak Oil, Climate Change times, I'm now learning about Permaculture and Edible Forests, and am planning to turn my remaining acre over to broadleaf trees, fruit trees and bushes, nut trees, and bio-mass crops.
A Huge learning curve!
My info says full sun....this year it's been full-on rain like never before!
Garden: 201 Charlesland Wood, GreystonesI have a long narrow garden, with wooden panelled fencing on both sides so they cast shadows on the garden in the morning and evening if we are lucky to have sunlight. Its a work in progress as a friend has designed a series of garden rooms which I am very slowly implementing. Another friend constructed a living willow fence for me this year so that forms one of the 'room' boundaries. I have a raised bed for vegetable growing - all in modest amounts given the restriction on space. I have successfully grown beans, peas, lettuces, rocket, strawberries, cucumbers, spuds (potatoes), herbs and so on in the productive garden.
Garden: Backyard perenial and vegetable gardenI have created a raised vegetable garden in order to allow me to work from my wheelchair. I have planted and cultivated radishes, beats, yellow-green-purple beans, peas, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, salads, onions, strawberries and rhubarb.
For a 1st year garden attempt it has been great... the kids eat right off the plant as they run by.
My wife has wonderful perennial gardens flanking the yard; irises, lilies, roses, lilacs and much much more.
Garden: pen avewe are trying to grow as many edibles as our family of 5 will eat. two big veggie patches filled with strawberries, cukes, leeks brocolli, cauliflower, beans, corn,tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, salad greens, ppotaoes, peas etc
Garden: Torita PatchCarrots, Sugar snap peas, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, one little pepper, beets, some really tiny parsnips and a row of beans.
Garden: Garden my 14yr old son and I planted.Small plot about 25ft wide and 50 or more long, double last years size and hoping add about another 30 x 25 more for next year.Planted 4 types squash, pumpkin, cukes,sunflowers,3 types tomatoes,row of potatoes,kidney beans,snow peas,yellow beans,zuchinni,and corn.
Garden: Our kitchen gardenThis was dug over and seaweed added in the autumn, along with well rotted manure. We managed to grow peas, beans, squash, leeks,carrots (in tubs),radishes and onions.
Garden: The NestVeges- carrots, pumpkins, tomatoes, peas, courgettes, silverbeet, beetroot, spring onions, cauli, lettuce, chillis, ruhbarb.
Flowers- calendula, peony poppies, hollyhocks, portulacas,
Herbs- basil, parsley, chamomile, wild thyme, mint, chocolate mint, sage,
Garden: JulkulaKitchen garden, vegetables like potatoes, carrots, peas, squash, flowers etc.
Garden: A Puglia GardenIn the vegetable garden we currently have lettuce, onions, garlic, cauliflower, cabbage, peas, artichokes, asparagus, rape, strawberries and potatos. Tomatoes, peppers and courgettes to be added later.
The family garden is being redesigned now, with new lawns and shrubs around our seating area.
Garden: Vickis Slice of ParadiseNew to gardening and just completed building 7 raised beds from scratch on our 1/4 acre flat section! 4 planned for veges, and herbs and soft fruit in the other 3. The majority of my gardening know-how has come from books/internet and as a child, watching my mother slaving in her garden every weekend (I thought it has to be more enjoyable than that looked!).
Just planted out peas and corn seedlings with broccoli, cauli and lettuce germinating. Planted out parsley, oregano, thyme (vulgaris and lemon), chives and rosemary with others germinating. Young blackberry plant is the first in the soft fruit bed with others to come. Also have an existing hand dug plot with tomatoes and celery growing and the last of my broccoli and lettuce going to seed.
Potatoes and onions growing in tyres at the moment but will grow potatoes in bags from now on and onions in the new beds.
We also have an enormous walnut tree, plum, pear, peach, 3 apples and 2 lemons.
Garden: White House Kitchen GardenThe 1,100-square-foot garden includes 55 kinds of vegetables, including peppers, spinach and arugula. The selection is a wish list put together by White House chefs.
Garden: Nic's GardenMy first large garden in-ground (not pots), a few various sized beds in the backyard.
Garden: The HideAway3/4 acre corner lot. Lived here 14 years and finally looking good. Multi shrub border and 14' high cedar hedge borders a tiered garden in the back and perennial border in the front.
Garden: My Life is a GardenMy Garden is very eclectic. It is an English garden with garden trinkets hidden among flowers and foilage.. there is rocks and creeping jenny, creeping thyme and sweet woodruff. My garden dazzles the senses!
Garden: AuroraI am an avid gardener although I can't say I'm good at it yet as I am still experimenting with everything in my garden. I like planting flowering plants at the front garden and combination of flowering and vegetable garden at the back.
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A garden newbie. Enjoy reading and learning about all the proper ways to garden, then have a "let's see what this does" attitude in my own gardens. Started gardening in 2008 and have tried very hard just to patiently wait to see what returned this year. I have hardscaping to do before I add the new gardens that I have planned. Patience, patience, patience :)
Grandpa was a gardener. I remeber stealing his fresh peas and tiny baby carrots straight out of the garden :)
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I grew up with a lot of family gardens.Bought a house and decided it was my turn to eat better and use the yard for more than a place to grow grass! Some years are better than others and this year, challenged by a mole who has moved in, I have re-thought my design - garden is definitely a work in progress! I'll share photos of past years, present and future as my little yard takes on BIG ideas :)
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This is our first year (2009) on the acreage. I have gardened previously on an acreage but my last property was in the city and VERY tiny, so no big vegetable garden. This property was vacant for all of the last growing season so had a LOT of weeds to tend to. I'm still fighting them, but I think I'm winning! :D
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I am a stay at home mommy. I love crafting and creating. I love great music. I like to garden, and practice my photography. I live in Quesnel, BC, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, CA.
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I am retired so I should have more time to play in my garden but that is not necessarily so. I don't let the garden dominate my time. When it's time to go visit my kids in Ottawa, the garden will have to fend for itself.
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I am a working mother with two children at home. We have a friendly few cats and a large red dog named Casey that we share our home with, and two older kids that drop by on week-ends.
I have been interested in plants and animals since I was a kid on a large and remote cattle ranch. We now live in an urban setting on a smallish lot near Vancouver, B.C. My husband is getting very interested in growing leafy fall and winter vegetables recently, so we have created a large, new raised garden bed in our back yard to accompany the two older ones next to our garage. This helps to create delicious and nutritious salads and we are hoping to grow winter vegetables. Last year's attempt was a failure when they got buried in snow! (I would love to create a green-house next year. Fingers crossed.) We have raspberries & rhubarb growing in the older beds and we need more room for them. . .
I am interested in heritage pant & animal strains, and in plants and animals native to this area. I am also interested in Horticultural Therapy, as I think that working in a garden and spending time closer to the natural world is inherently therapeutic. I have a passion for connecting kids to nature and gardening, and am very interested in doing research and work in this area as a counsellor. Currently working as a social worker in B.C. and working on a teaching degree part time so that I can get a Master's in Counselling. Love this site as a way to connect with other like minded people & to "travel".
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Im a wife and mom of 4 kids! I love to garden and grow food for my family! Im grow my garden organicly and use lots of recycled items in my garden! My family calls me the Recycled Gardner! I love to cook all that I grow and share my food with Family and Friends! So join me for a little Recycled Gardening and great cooking!
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We have apple trees, raspberry bushes, Saskatoon bushes, corn, pototoes, tomatoes, carrots, peas, onions, zucchini, rhubarb, cucumbers, lettuce, different types of herbs and a few others. We wanted our yard to be productive not just pretty.
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i love it when i come home from work at night and can smell my garden before i open the gate!
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Hmmm.... I have been gardening for as long as I can remember. It all started with my Mother's Eden. My current garden which I inherited 6mths ago has Apple and Lemon trees and many, many roses. I have already added to that my herb collection (54 varieties and growing) and commenced a nice big veggie garden. The veggie garden currently has potatoes,onions, peas,lettuce, tomatoe, beetroot, spinach, silverbeet, carrot, cauli's, broccoli,brussel sprouts and corn. Oh,and Celery.....think that's all. Also,have a growing collection of berry fruits.....
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I have been gardening at a very early age. When I was about 7, I had a small corner of my Mom's garden that she showed me how to grow peas and radishes. Then when I was older I was part of a children's gardening group for a few summers. We were given a garden plot and the seeds and much direction. I even got my picture in the paper holding some of my harvest. Now with my own home I have been activly growing vegetables amonst my flowers and about four years about became passionate about exotic orchids.
I have about 35 of them, mostly babies.
Garden Photo:My big bed garden, lots of sand and ants, they don't like to share this soil. and 3 tree stumps that I need to work around! For my first year I've got onions, potatoes, cucumber, broccoli, beans, peas, and spinach. No idea how the broccoli will grow but it's loving it so far!
Garden Photo:Cucumber, broccoli (in back) Beans and peas, spinach
Garden Photo:Tripods I made from birch branches for my peas to climb.
Garden Photo:A lively mix of lettuce, peas, dill, tomatoes, nasturtium and cilantro
Garden Photo:My brassica's: Broccoli, Cabbage and Brussels! Peas were climbing on the right side but its too hot for them now!
Garden Photo:The peas are in full blossom with a few pods ripe today
Garden Photo:zuchinnis, cucs, pumpkins, and perhaps some tops of turnips. Too bad seems the peas have run their course for the year, as has the radish and lettuce.
Garden Photo:View of the garden doing really well - July 2009 Lettuce, Beets, Carrots, Potatos, Beans, Peas, Strawberries, Onions
Garden Photo:Long blues.. a newfie favorite here!One of 3 varieties i grew this year, along with green onions, mixed lettuces, cabbage, and turnip. I just extended the garden, with plans of growing broccoli, cauliflour, peas,leek, and asparagus within 3 years.
Garden Photo:Here's the Winter planting: pansies, shirley poppies, parsley, onions, oriental poppies, anenomes, delphiniums, foxgloves, chard and sweet peas--not all pictured here.
Garden Photo:Even though the veggie garden is small, I am growing in it: beans, corn, pumpkin, tomatoes, snow peas, lettuce and Swiss Chard. There are some large parsely plants going to seed. The seed will be used for the next generation.
Garden Photo:Vegetable bed 1 - artichokes, broad beans (not germinated yet), two rows of peas
