Search Results for: Vegetables
Garden: White House Kitchen Garden
The 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: A Productive Garden
My husband and I wanted a garden that was beautiful and productive. We built 17 raised beds for fruit,vegetables,perennials and a touch of art.
Garden: Garden of Growing Love
Small 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: Posies and Pies
A tiny organic patio garden full of edible flowers, herbs and vegetables. The trailing ground veggies live in hanging baskets and I am training them to hang off the eves. The plants also provide shade for my apartment in the hot sun.
Garden: Posies and Pies
A tiny organic patio garden full of edible flowers, herbs and vegetables. The trailing ground veggies live in hanging baskets and I am training them to hang off the eves. The plants also provide shade for my apartment in the hot sun.
Garden: Edith Morley Park Community Garden
The Community Garden is located at Edith Morley Park, 615 Campbell Technology Parkway. The approximate ½ acre garden site has 39 - 10x20 garden plots. Community garden plots are available for Campbell residents who want to have a garden to plant vegetables, herbs or flowers, but don't have a suitable site where they live. Plots are issued on a year-to-year and first-come-first served basis, with a limit of one plot per family. There is a $30.00 annual fee. This covers watering costs and upkeep of the garden. Currently, there is a waiting list. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact Diana Johnson at (408) 866-2145 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 3:30 PM Monday thru Friday, or email gardens@cityofcampbell.com .
Garden: Parramore Community Garden
This community plot has rallied together a community and produced some romaine lettuce in the process. Located in Parramore, FL, this garden has vegetables of all varieties.
Garden: East Dallas Community Garden
The East Dallas Community, made up of Cambodian and Lao gardeners, grow vegetables, and then sell them to make up for the cost of tools, soil, and all the other expenses. Many times, its the money issues that can dissolve a community garden. These gardeners have put some thought into how a community garden works, and have divised a successful plan.
Garden: Brock's Mixed Vegetable Garden
We've got a backyard plot behind a small garage, exposed to full sun the majority of the day. It's about 20' x 13' and we're growing a decent variety of herbs and vegetables.
Garden: Fairview Christian Church Garden
Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.
Garden: Boxes and Pots
The 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: indigenous and exotic
smal, centered around pool. 3 small patches of lawn, backyard all vegetables and herbs
Garden: Bay Area Newspaper Group's "Our Garden"
"Our Garden" is a community and demonstration garden created by the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune newspapers and the Contra Costa Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. The goal is to educate both beginning and advanced gardeners on the best techniques for growing their own vegetables, and to help feed the hungry. Produce grown in the garden is being donated to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. (Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ourgarden/ci_12495833 )
Garden: Vegetable Garden
Since 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: Lisa's West Coast Canadian Garden
This garden is on a city lot located on the West Coast of southern British Columbia in Coquitlam~ It is a small urban garden with perennials for sun and shade, native plants, vegetables and herbs, and a large deck garden with funky pots, a water garden in a half whiskey barrel, and potted shrubs and trees.
The garden is is located on a plateau several hundred feet above sea level, although the ocean is only a few miles away, so it receives torrential down pourings of rain in the winter, AND spring, AND fall. And it also freezes for at least some of the winter. Snow and prolonged cold spells have become common in the past few winters. In the summer, the climate is hot and mostly dry for one to two months per year, and the heat can come on very fast, with no transition time which is hard on the plants, and the gardeners. Other garden threats here include children's feet, soccer balls, and my husband's four wheel drive wheels.
Garden: Vivian's Colony Farm Plot
1st year Community Plot - July 2009. Assorted vegetables, berries and a little lavender to attract the bees.
Garden: Roses and more
Small garden in Mississauga. It's like an english cottage garden with vegetables and roses peacefully coexisting
Garden: Praxis Permaculture
We 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: my backyard
herbs, vegetables, perennials, some things we don't want (nettles, dandelions, too much oregano)
Garden: GardenMom's Garden
A combination of many edible plants, vegetables, perennials, fruits, herbs, and beautiful textures and smells. This is the first year for this garden. Visit my garden at http://www.gardenmom29.blogspot.com/
Garden: just-sing-it gardens
I have been transforming a long neglected property into gardens over the last 3 years. I now have a small pond and very little grass left. Alot of perennials, some vegetables, and fruiting shrubs: raspberries, boysenberries, and a full size mulberry tree that is driving me crazy: what a mess! But the berries are delicious and the birds love it. Still needs refining, better fencing, etc. I use no chemicals: organic methods only.
Garden: Gardens on Dale Street
I grow herbs and vegetables. This year tomatoes were bit, beans, snow peas basil and strawberries were added.
Garden: Jan's Garden
I have planted a variety of vegetables. Primarily garlic, tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, cabbage, zucchini, cucumbers, brussel sprouts, beans, peas and sweet potatoes.
Garden: Franks Gardens
I enjoy growing many types of perennials such as lilies, roses and cut flowers and enjoy growing vegetables and fruits in our edible garden patch.
Garden: Little Patch o' Green
A little raised bed garden in the open sun. Has a little of everything growing from flowers to vegetables; annuals to perennials;common to rarities.
Garden: Bianey's garden
Mixed Vegetables, a few flowers,berries a little on the wild side. We manage to supply a lot of our own seasonal vegetable needs.There is always something new
Garden: Keyhole ornamental and vegetable garden
Summer vegetables mix with zinnias, cosmos, dahlias and marigolds in this backyard garden. The keyhole design is centered on an arbor covered with iceberg roses and a teak bench that looks into the garden. Not so formal when the chickens are loose!
Garden: Healthy Kidz Minnie St. Garden
The garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite)
In the summer of 2009 we started a small "Farmer's Market" on the church parking lot. We also harvest and sell to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away.
The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets.
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Garden: Trina's Herbs and Vegetables
I grow many herbs and have a big vegetables garden. I've just started collecting roses a few years ago and have about 35 different ones. I also have a pond that I made bigger last year.
Garden: Bright's Grove Garden
I have a garden that is my retreat away from everything and everyone. It is mostly shade and it is continuous work in progress. My front garden recently lost a gorgeous blue spruce that went down in our Spring 2009 wind storm.I am having trouble deciding what to do in this huge space that the spruce left, so this site may be very helpful to me this fall as I try to create a new garden space.
Garden: Mother Earth's Community Garden
We are the first community garden in Fort Smith. We grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers, but most of all, we grow friendships. We plan on starting an orchard this fall. We have just about completed our children's garden and are getting ready to build our own greenhouse from recycled wooden windows. Our composting area will be completely reworked this fall.
We show movies in our garden and have all types of parties. We have our own firepit and kitchen area with a regular grill and a cooking pit. We showcase the arts and our artists. If you are in the region, come downtown to the garden. We're located at the corner of North 9th and D Streets and our gate is always open.
Garden: Pat's Garden
My yard is located on the Ridge overlooking the South Saskatchewan River. Full Sun in the backyard (South exposure) and for periods of time in the rest of the yard....perennial and shrub beds...no vegetables.
Garden: Gaia Grows
I've a small nursery runniing from my home, where I grow organic vegetables, Herbs and medicinal plants. Its my passion and my pleasure.
Garden: coco's garden
My garden is still evolving as i want more planting space. Right now I have two raised beds for vegetables that my husband and I built. We are planning on adding more next year because we love the taste of fresh food with no preservatives.
Garden: My little corner of peace.
My garden is a mixture. The vegetables are grown in raised beds throughout the backyard with full to partial sun. I also have edged the garden with fruit trees, grapes and arctic kiwi, and I have a shade perennial garden that is fairly natural woodland. I mix wild strawberries in amongst the perennials and try to make my garden bird friendly. It is a totally organic garden complete with waterfall, stream and pond. We plan to add the mediterranean feel with stone pizza/bread oven and deck surrounded by herbs. My latest addition is the start of a butterfly/hummingbird garden.
Garden: Mom's Garden
I Love to grow any kind of flower if it will survive in my yard. Very windy, and full sun to part shade, mixed soil conditions. Started a compost this year,( have tried before but not successful) The garden is always changing , mostly because I cannot make up my mind, that is always a good thing for my friends whom I give my extra plants to. I planted vegetables this year, and am loving the great taste of home grown veggies. yum.
Garden: Mary Veldman
Our garden consists of a mixture of perennials, shrubs, trees, annuals and vegetables. We love rocks and have retrieved the stones from many sources throughout Eastern Manitoba.
Garden: Sharon & Tony's Blood, Sweat & Tears
Fifteen raised beds for vegetables; patches of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, flower beds, fruit trees
Garden: 4000 Ft Ski Hill Veggies
For the past three years I've been attempting to re-establish a garden which my mother had over 10 years ago. The earth sat for about eight years and then weeds invaded with overgrowth (as the house and property were rented). I have been adding sand, peat and manure to the clay like soil and am starting to have success with growing vegetables. Which is great considering the house is just under 4000ft on the Kimberley Ski Hill. Next step is to landscape and re-establish a lawn.
Garden: Tracee's Sunshine Coast Garden
This gentle garden is a combination of flowers, herbs, vegetables and a patch of coastal rain forest. I believe in companion planting as an effective way to deter pests and hand weeding opposed to herbicides. Relaxed gardening is part of my method, you win some, you lose some. The important thing is that you have fun and enjoy the journey. Gardening is Life.
Garden: Midleton Community Gardening
This is a previously neglected area in front of a parade of shops which is being "renovated" by a volunteer group from the Midleton Transition Town Project. We are a group of like-minded people with an interest in global issues such as Climate Change, recycling and encouraging self-sufficiency by growing your own herbs and vegetables. The object of the gardening excercise is to increase awareness and interest in growing herbs and other beneficial plants in addition to providing colour and interest to an uncared for area.
The shoppers and other local people are free to help themselves to seeds and to take and use the herbs, flowers etc. in the hope that they will develop an interest in growing their own produce.
Garden: Angie & Terry's Garden
A large variety of perennials, annuals, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc in my front and back yard.
Garden: Lapaie's acreage.
This site was a former gravel pit when we started 9 years ago. The soil is very gravelly over a heavy clay base. The Southern Gulf Islands of BC are in a 'rain shadow' so water is limited. We think we have created a wonderful haven for birds and humans! Our garden includes a pond and stream, 18 fruit trees and raised boxes for vegetables.
Garden: Back Yard dream
pond,fountains,vegetables,annual and perennial flowers, fruit, paths and rock walls, Trellis and decks, firepit and benches....Beautiful!
Garden: Dark Creek Farm
Mix of vegetables, herbs, small orchard, garden pond, livestock, and wild areas on 1.67 acres. We're located on the Cordova Bay Ridge overlooking the Hunt Valley.
Garden: Zen and the Art of Garden Maintenance
With the purchase of our home 2 years ago, I inherited several raised weed and bramble infested beds in my southern exposed back yard. After much work I am learning to grow vegetables and currently have scarlet runner beans, swiss chard, ever-bearing strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, yellow bush beans, beets and a section of herbs. I love it!
Garden: Marge's Garden
Flowers and vegetables in my front yard; hated mowing grass. A work in progress.
Garden: Back to Basics
Vegetables, Fruit trees, grapes, blueberries, thornless blackberries, and garlc
Garden: Happy Garden Acres
Vegetables and fruits are grown here, along with sunflowers for the birds or squirrels.
Garden: an octopus' garden in the shade
a little of this and a little of that, area gardens wherever it looked balanced, alot of planting where ever the bulbs or seeds landed!
Garden: Gaïardin
Gaïardin is situated on a 3.5 acre with includes an old apple orchard, perennials, medicinal plants, herbs, vegetables and garlic.
Garden: Veggie - Flower garden mix
I am growing a variety of vegetables in what used to be a mainly flower garden. This is the first year, with beans, carrots, squash, parsley, swiss chard, lettuce, and now am putting in kale and collard for the winter months, which I hope will grow! It's an experimental garden at this point, mainly because I love gardening and have access to soil.
Garden: Gordon Young Garden
a mixed garden of 1.5 acres with a fruit garden, vegetables, flower beds, woodland garden. Very friendly for wildlfife
Garden: overgrown cottage garden
created gardenrooms, small kitchengarden, greenhouse, fragrant flowers/bushes. Some healing plants
Garden: veg and flower garden
Aflower,vegatable and fruit grden with a wood to the west.patially walled and fenced.child and animal friendly.nearly have something flowering all year round and a wide variety of vegetables.
Garden: Dorpsplaas - Karoo garden
An eclectic garden in the Great Karoo - mostly indigenous and waterwise; vegetables, fruit trees and an olive grove.
Garden: Garden on a Hill
Vegetable garden on a hill...Raised borders cut into the clay ...Square Foot Gardening method used with heirloom vegetables where possible
Garden: allotment
My allotment is on a slope, south facing, about 5oft long. i'm growing all kinds of vegetables and herbs, this is my first year there so i am an absolute beginner!
Garden: Heverin Garden
Vegetable Garden with raised beds containing organic material/soil, growing herbs, root and other vegetables from seed. Hoping to expand in size next year to introduce more varieties of vegetables and fruit plants/trees.
Garden: my wee bit of paradise
i have inherited this one, so a work in progress. Soon to build a new house in same area so can start from scratch. mostly perennials and roses, some natives, have a small vege garden in old baths
Garden: Green Urban Living
A edible, organic garden established following permaculture ideas. Round raised gardens are maintained by my chickens in their round chicken dome. I produce all our compost and fertiliser on site, not to mention all our vegetables and much of our fruit.
Garden: sils garden
a beginners garden, trying to grow as many plants from cuttings due to budget. beginning to put in fruiting trees, vegetables, so our garden is both pretty and practical...however it is difficult due to stage four water restrictions.
Garden: Food stop
Two allotment size plots for vegetables, 20ft polytunnel, orchard of 25 or more apple and pear trees, a soft fruit garden with black and red currants, raspberries. Coppiced wooded area, with willow plantings of various diffrent types and sculptured willow hedges.
Garden: The Parsley Patch
Home based garden business with a focus on permaculture. Includes chcikens raise dofr eggs and fruit trees plus worm farm and herb production along with seasonal vegetables. Tours of garden and Horticultural advice available bt arrangement.
Garden: BT's Busy Garden
My house is in County Clare, in a little spot called Doorus, next to Lough Graney. I have 5 acres of land but 3 of those are meadow. It is all very damp as I live next to a bog, with my husband. He has been associated with horticulture all his life and I have always been a gardener.
We have mostly mixed beds with a core of shrubs and perennials plus some annuals for colour. Cosmos do particularly well and dahlia. We have many bulbs, tulips and daffodils plus others. We have a large contorted willow in the front lawn.
A stream runs down the land when it rains, but soon dries up if it ever stops raining. My husband grows vegetables, gladioli and the annuals from seed. We love our fresh vegetables.
When we moved here, the front garden had been laid out with walls with plants in the tops of them. We have added several beds.
Garden: Villa Flores
combination, palms, heliconias, gingers, tropical fruit, sq ft vegetables, fruit trees
Garden: Quinta Quijotito
An organic garden, mostly raised beds, containing culinary herbs, medicinal herbs, flowers and vegetables.
Garden: church garden
it's a self sufficiency garden i've built up the soil from scratch, built a chookshed, am on rainwater from a tank and have espaliered a variety of fruits, and grow as many different types of heirloom vegetables and herbs as i can. there was a small grove of almonds when i got here and a few gums but the rest of my 500 metre squared patch that's not covered by my litlle brick church has been converted to garden beds.
Garden: MJ's Culebra garden
I garden about 30 feet from a salt water bay on the Caribbean Sea which makes for some interesting challenges. Vegetables, herbs, orchids and more can thrive and/or die with a rise in the salty wind. But it keeps me happy!
Garden: No Till Permaculture Garden
I have a few vegetables here and there, some berries, and 47 fruit trees!
Garden: Schoolgarden of Käpylä Comprehensive School
Schoolgarden for 600 children and youths from age 7-16 since 1999.
Pupils grow vegetables during biology lessons and prepare food of them on home economics lessons.
Our pupils with special needs (about 50 of them) do some of their training for different professions on our schoolgarden.
On this site there has been communal gardening for children since 1930´s.
Our mission with gardening is to enhance teaching of natural sciences and sustainable development. Also we wish our pupils to get real life experiences and understanding and respect to farming and food.
Garden: Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden
The Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden boasts nearly 100 individual garden sites that are tended by individual gardeners, who enjoy planting fresh flowers and garden vegetables. They also enjoy getting together once a month for informative monthly meetings and workshops on gardening.
The Garden is named after Winston Smoyer, a retired Alhambra High School teacher, who was one of the most arden Alhambra Community gardeners in its history. He loved his plot, and provided friends with a never-ending supply of fresh vegetables, including some of the largest zucchini known to Alhambra. He was also a community activist, serving as long-time President and Curator of the Alhambra Historical Society, member of the Board of the Alhambra Day Nursery, member of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce (where he won the Chamber's prestigious "Citizen of the Year" award), and other community organizations.
Garden: Potrero Hill Community Garden
Established in the early 1970s, the Potrero Hill Community Garden is one of 40 gardens operating under the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Membership is open to any resident of the city.
Located on a once-vacant lot above the slopes where the "Goat Lady" of Potrero Hill used to graze her herd, the garden now consists of 50 plots and common areas maintained by local residents using only organic methods.
The garden boasts of panoramic views of the Mission, Twin Peaks, and beyond. Its sunny, Mediterranean climate permits cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals, including dahlias -- the official flower of San Francisco. (Source: http://www.potrerogarden.org )
Garden: Vegetable Garden
I enjoy the making of Japanese vegetables by organic farming in the backyard of the house.
Garden: Paxton Garden
Laura and John are growing vegetables and herbs this summer! Paxton Garden is a container garden on an east-facing balcony in the suburbs of Chicago. We have planted tomatoes, green beans, spinach, arugula, Swiss chard, broccoli, lettuce, strawberries, green garlic, basil, cilantro, oregano, parsley, and lavender.
For more visit: http://paxtongarden.blogspot.com/
Garden: Solace Corner
A very small garden, but well-kept for my amateur gardening standards. There are 5 palm trees, 3 on the outside of my fence and 2 inside. Mixture of sorts: 3 different coloured bougainvilleas, basil, savila, passionflower and "copa de oro" vines cover the front fence for extra privacy, banana, chaya, papaya, various others of which I dont know the proper name (despeinadas?), bird of paradise,etc.
I would like to put more colour into the garden, and maybe some vegetables in conatiners. Any suggestions for the area? Tulum's soil is not very fertile, due to the fact that the Yucatan Peninsula is a huge shelf of limestone. I usually bring back more fertile earth from inland areas. Digging can sometimes be hard because of the huge quantity of rocks that can get quite big.
Garden: Lorelle's Landscape
Various Bulb type plants, fruit trees, many trees and a big lawn. A few vegetables.
Garden: Lorelle's Landscape
Various Bulb type plants, fruit trees, many trees and a big lawn. A few vegetables.
Garden: Oasis on Bay
Frontyard is mostly flowers and some berries.Deer can access this area (for now). Backyard is vegetables, greenhouse, flowers and berries.Deer cannot access unless someone leaves the gate open.
Garden: Seaside garden
I have raised gardens at the back with vegetables. the front is in mostly flowers trees and bushy plants.
Garden: vegetables, pot plants and orchids
Most of my garden is made up of pot plants, I live in Australia and there is a big push for gardeners living in Australia to grow Australian Natives, but I have to say I'm not a great fan, I love to grow Orchids, Rhodedendrons, ferns, gardeniars, I like plants that have lovely flowers, but I also like the weird and the wonderful plants, unfortunantly we are in the middle of a very long drought and that makes gardening here a bit difficult, especially for me as most of my plants are very water hungry, I also have a very productive vegetable garden that my friends are all happy about as I grow so many vegies that I could'nt possibly eat them all myself.
Garden: Jen's garden
Mostly exotic shrubs with a couple of australian natives and some vegetables and herbs
Garden: The Sanctuary
I plan to make a garden composed of roses,daisies and vegetables such as lettuce,tomatoes and other veggies suited for cultivating here in Anderlues,Belgium.I also intend to have waterfalls in a Japanese-inspired Zen type corner garden.
Garden: East Geelong garden
My garden was established by my grandfather, though I have changed it substantially since he was alive, planting more native plants, cottage type plants, and now lots of vegetables.
Garden: VASIE'S PARADISE
PLANT VEGETABLES AND PLANT CUTTINGS AND ALSO FROM SEEDS. STILL A LOT TO LEARN
Garden: My Little Piece of Mind
It's a mix of flowers, herbs, some vegetables and roses in the cloud forest of Central Guatemala.
Garden: My Little Garden
My garden is a little bit of everything. Although there is a lot of space to work with, I've tried to bring some of home (Minnesota) to my garden for my children. It has western grass in the middle, edged by small planting spaces that I've created with brick borders. There are two lilac trees, to remind me of the smells of spring when I was a boy. I grow seasonal berries, like strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries in some of the individual plots, and vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, broccoli, garlic, cucumbers, cabbage, etc. In others I grow flowers, such as roses, tulips, daffodils, and so on. And I also raise herbs, lavender, marjoram, thyme, basil, rosemary and mint. All together, I average about 150 different plants, either potted or planted in the soil.
Garden: phokea
lemon tree, fig tree, plum tree, cherry tree, peanut tree, almond tree, olive tree, gardenias, hybiskus, hortance, avocado tree, roses, basil, mint, tulips and other flowers, and vegetables and herbs depending the season
Garden: Kapiti Coast Miracle in the Making
A sandy backyard under conversion to a productive home orchard and vegie patch through mulch, manure and love. Learning what grows, what dies and what thrives in Kapiti. Putting in a rainwater tank, a hothouse and much more in year to come. Looking to help with local Raumati community garden and learn from local gardeners with more experience with coastal gardening.
Garden: Rollandet Community Garden
The Idaho Falls Community Garden is about growing - growing flowers, growing vegetables and fruits, and growing a community of people who can share their love of gardening while taking good care of our small part of the earth. The Rollandet Community Garden is one of the IFCG's three gardens. It offers wheelchair accessible raised beds.
Source: http://www.srv.net/%7Eklack/Garden/about.htm
Garden: Tizer Botanic Garden and Arboretum
The best raspberry and strawberry patches in the county are right here in the gardens and if you are lucky enough you might even get to taste them. Vegetables of every kind can be found growing even in this harsh environment that usually gets less than 60 consecutive frost free days.
The Rose Garden was developed in 2003 for the purpose of testing roses for Weeks Roses of California. Today, the Rose Garden is home to mostly Canadian roses.
Perennial as well as annual herbs are abundant in herb garden. Medicinal, edible and tea herbs happily intermingle.
Source: http://www.tizergardens.com/index.html
Garden: Choko's Vegies and flower garden
Colourful flowers growing at the front yard and variety of vegetables growing at back yard. Pleasant atmosphere watching bees, butterflies, squirrels and all buzzing, flying, etc etc. hmmmmmmmmm relaxing:)
Garden: Edible
We have a number of pots with various plants, fruit tree garden as well as a raised garden for growing vegetables. I wanted to be able to have flowers so have a few planters that I grow flowers in. I have been growing from seed as well which has been interesting.
Garden: Anne's Garden.
My garden is a mixed garden, with flowers, shrubs, trees, - ornamental, forest and fruit trees - vegetables and other interesting plants. It is in an acre of land that had been plantes with larches, oaks and sycamores mostly. Besides being a multy featured garden it also has a wild side to its nature. It is quite varied in plane as it is slopy but also flat on some areas.
Garden: Pia's summerplace
1 ha allotment in northern Helsinki. I grow berries (currants, strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries) and some summer vegetables...
Garden: Garden of Love
Full grown garden with plenty of trees and shrubs. I started a veggie garden in Oct 2009 with a huge variety of vegetables and herbs. Apricot, Mulberry, Avocado, Red plum, Black plum and a Fig tree, already harvesting off.
Greywater system and rainwater harvesting system in Garden. Painted our roof White to help curb global warming. Planning to go solar this year!
Garden: Vierula
Old fashioned cottage type garden. Traditional finnish perennials and roses. A small kitchen garden with herbs and vegetables.
Garden: Greenheart
Country village house garden, around 700 sq.mtrs., with established single walnut, quince, plum, fig and peach trees, with new small cherry and plum. Strawberry patch, small side lawn area, row of raspberries, various vegetables and fruit grown in rest of garden from spring to winter, including garlic, potatoes, sprouts, sweet-corn, onions, carrots, courgettes, pumpkin, plus some herbs (more planned), melons, grapes and blackcurrants. Flower and bulb plot immediately in front of house - the main side of which faces South, plus other bulb and flower area against wall facing quiet road. Small drive inside traditional gate. Very sunny aspect, village nestling beside Stara Planina mountains in Bourgas region of Bulgaria.
Garden: Kotikari
Flowers: from shadow to moderate daylight
Kitchen garden: all easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs
Soil: Muddy, keeps water
Problem: keeping the growth alive during the winter
Garden: Ben's lovely garden of flowers
in my garden, I did plant lots of flowers, some vegetables...I plan to do re-organise my garden or make it looks tidy, plant more vegetables this summer (2010), hope to get more ideas from friends here...thanks!
Garden: Elizabeth & Alan's sub tropical garden
Our garden is a mixture of sub-tropical, roses, vegetables and traditional with mostly flowering shrubs.It is divided into two with mostly sub-tropical round a swimming pool and other more traditional plants in the other half. The garden has all day sun.
Garden: My little garden next to the river
A small garden with the shady stuff alongside the house, the sunny stuff against the far wall, a small pool and a huge palm at the back. No space for vegetables, although I want to get my sons interested in growing them!
Garden: my tiny garden
i grow different kinds of plants in my garden like flowers,cocktus some herbs etc. during summer i plant vegetables like eggplant,okra,green pepper and tomato.i really enjoy harvesting them when they're ripe..
Garden: My Garden
A steep, Welsh woodland garden on the side of a mountain (my lawn is higher than the roof of my house).The soil is acidic and the area damp and I have problems with rhododendrons, ferns, foxgloves and ground elder. I grow flowers, fruit and vegetables. The garden is bordered by 4 other overgrown, uncared for gardens which makes life very hard as I seem to spend most of my time cutting back other people's overgrowth!
Garden: John Ducie's Garden
Robinsonian style garden with mature trees shrubs and herbaceous plants, fruit trees, rock garden,vegetables and greenhouse
Garden: Sue & Tom's Garden
We grow a wide variety of vegetables, flowers and fruit trees. We pretty much feed ourselves vegetables and fruits from the garden (organic and spray-free) most of the year. Looking to do more. Involved with seed saving and loving it!
Garden: Traditional cottage garden
I grow heirloom vegetables as well as flowers, herbs and fruit trees.
Garden: le jardin de popilé
annuals, perenials, vegetables and whatevers grows in an alitude of 1000 meters
Garden: maria´s plot
trying to grow organic vegetables but the soil is poor and would like a much prettier garden full of flowers but I get too much sun and too much wind.
at the moment i´m growing broad beans, lettuce, onions, leeks, artichoke, trying to grow spinach and fennels but these last two are not doing very good.
Garden: City Country Garden
100 ft long 30 ft wide large city garden. Yard with brick herb garden 10ftx10ft approx. Surrounded by evergreen hedging. Two 10ftx4ft brick built raised beds for vegetables in main part which gets the sun from dawn to 7pm in the summer. End one third of garden largly shaded by neighbours trees. Delapidated green house at end of plot. Planning to put in mobile hen house this spring with 3 hens. Garden slopes down and is mainly lawn with plenty of moss. It is beautiful and I love it more then life it's self.
Garden: moments of joy and quietness
Roses, rosemary and camelias...geraniums, passion fruit and lavender... aples, oranges and pears... a variety of tasty vegetables and herbs...cactus and aloes... a never ending fantasy...
Garden: Perennial Loves
My Westsyde garden along the North Thompson River in Kamloops is a mixture of shrubs, perennials, and vegetables.
Garden: Japanese Garden
Garden is located in the corner of two streets, surounded by a tall hedge of cedars, but sonny enough and nicely done in terms of architecture. When I got there in July 2009 it was full of weeds and Pampas Gras. Spend a lot of time, digging out the roots. One part should be a Zen-like garden, one part I will grow some vegetables and herbs. There is an old japanese Apricot-tree. Did bloom, now I'm waiting for the leafes.
Garden: Sheila's Garden
I grow flowers and vegetables...
I look for things that will survive the hot summer with sometimes drought conditions and severe winters!
Garden: Torre Amat. Sarrià
Torre Amat (www.torreamat.com) is an Art Noveau Palace prepared to celebrate all kind of private events. Little weddings, dinners, working lunch and Showrooms.
We also have a lemmon tree for the Gin Tonics and a little growing land where we grow our own vegetables.
Garden: Debbies tub city
I am doing my best to grow vegetables in containers as cannot get down to dig and plant in ground. Also back garden on a slope which not helpful but not big enough to terrace. Hve massive side garden which I hope to Landshire for help with the heavy work in it. Front garden is mainly just flowers and shrubs
Garden: Pixie garden
My garden is a mixture of vegetables,herbs, perennials and annuals. I am trying to encourage butterflies and birds to my garden.
Garden: R-Garden
Started in 2005 as a 10X10 plot, I now garden 200 square feet with my partner. In Spring 2010, we completed major structural renovations to merge the various expansion barriers, solve some drainage issues and create a cold composting wall. A wall of native plants will line the composting wall. Our plot is a combination of ornamentals, herbs and vegetables. Our space is spiritual as well as functional and features Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy as a central feature. Stone paths provide access to the entire plot.
Garden: Lake Forest Park sun/shade mix
Flowers, fruit trees, vegetables, and shrubs coexist with a few large trees.
Garden: Rose Circle Community Garden
In Atlanta, residents around the Rose Circle area have a place to grow their own produce: the Rose Circle community garden. In 2007, squash blossom, pumpkin, zucchini, tomatoes, cabbage, bean and cabbage plants, fennel, herbs and flowers, tall vines growing on trellises, and various garden beds were grown in their little piece of earth.
Garden: Cindy Dyer's Garden
Three years after we moved into our townhouse, we discovered we had green thumbs! Who knew? So, out went the grass in the back and front yards. In went every conceivable plant, herb, vegetable and flower we could squeeze in! Gardening has changed my life!
Garden: Tyre Gardens
I grow fruit in veges in my front yard, and have goats and chickens out the back. I used to have my garden out the back, but gardens and goats and chickens aren't a good mix lol so starting from scratch. I use tyres for my raised beds, I'm trying to demonstrate how to garden cheaply, with minimum effort and maximum results. I'm just starting to put my first veges in again now, and would like to grow enough to be able to take fresh produce to the local farmers markets....we'll see. I also love flowers, I'm a rough and ready gardener so nothing looks too pretty or perfect, but I hope to create an abundance of fruit veges and flowers in my little space,
I'm really into recycling, I think nature sets a perfect example there and I just try to follow it.
Garden: Canadian City Townhouse Edibles
Since we moved into our townhouse, we have experimented with growing fruits & veggies in our south-facing, full-sun garden. There is not a lot of space to work with but we have been pleased with our yields, from swiss chard to strawberries.
Garden: The People's Portable Garden
The Wasatch Community Garden in Salt Lake City is responsible for creating the People's Community Garden. As a portable garden, this community plot has been set up in a way that it can be easily moved. Once the community has gotten together, learned how to grow delicious organic produce, the People's Community garden can be moved to another neighborhood where they might still be in the dark about the art of gardening.
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: Jenn's Gardening Spot
All sorts of Veggies and Herbs! Tomatoes to pumpkins! Lots of recycling going on in my Garden! Visit my garden here!http://jennsgardeningspot.blogspot.com/ & http://recyclinggardenmom.blogspot.com Im also on Twitter @4bratz2luv
Garden: patricias backyard butterfly hummingbird para
I have a variety of gardens front and back. Some shady some sunny. I have a butterfly and hummingbird garden and a hosta garden and vegetable garden and perennial garden. The perennial garden has a small pond with a squirrel fountain that I call Merlot.
Out front I have some morning glories and some cup and saucer vines growing along with a rose bush and other perennials. I love my time in my gardens.
Garden: 1st attempt in a community garden
This is my first attempt this year, with a veggie garden. So far so good, almost everything has grown, except celery and leeks, but I planted them too late. I should have started them indoors, too.
Hopefully, weather permits (so far July has been colder and rainier than usual), I'll get some good veggies out of it.
I'll repeat the experience in my private yard next year, as I have just bought my first home.
Garden: Geno's Garden
I have several areas, a perennial shrub border in the front which is gradually taking over the lawn, a vegetable garden, a shade garden and an area "in transition"
Garden: Heritage Heaven
An 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: Tilthy Rich
A San Francisco backyard changing into an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden. With a compost pile and worm compost bins to boot!
Garden: farm garden
I grow Veggies, Flowers and Fruits. Right now my hollyhocks are about 8 feet tall, if I don't get out soon my weeds will catch up.
Garden: Schoolhouse Rocks
We have inherited a former schoolhouse and the garden is the playground. We are near the Escarpment, which means rocks, and lots of them. Luckily, some former owners did most of the donkeywork, and it is my job to bring it back to life after many years of neglect.
Garden: Rabbit salad bar
Raised beds on sandy soil. It started with three raised beds and I added anohter larger bed at the back for my corn or sprawling veggies. Only real cow or sheep poop used to continually amend the soil.I grow a variety of stuff each year. Last year I planted my "Franken-garden" which included purple carrots , rainbow Chard,black Krim tomatoes,and red and white striped beets. I was really hoping the kids would be more into veggies..but , alas...it was not to be.The looked at these special veggies on their plate with the same disdain that they give more ordinary fare. So this year...I'm just using up seeds left over from the past couple of years and the rabbits and ground hog is loving it. The only new thing is the peanuts which is just not heard of here in Ontario,Canada. The ground hog has ripped all but two out.
Garden: Carrigkilter Farm
We are trying to grow veg in a very wet climate! Most of the pumpkin/squash have rotted! Shared veg area with neighbour and we hope to plant wildflowers around the basic lawns.
Garden: Backyard perenial and vegetable garden
I 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: Kellys' Country Aire Garden
My Garden has raised beds and a greenhouse. I have herbs, veggies, seeds, friuts and berries, flowers, grass and hedges. Full sun and Full Shade. A bit of everything. We use NO chemicals or commercial fertilizers. We compost. My kids and pets play everywhere. It's not always at its prettiest, and I neglect it sometimes, but it's mine and I love it. I get to share my bounty with family and neighbors, and growing my own food makes me feel good. I also have a greenhouse and started trying a technique to smother weeds with newspapers and cardboard this year...liking the results! When my kids are bigger I expect there will be even more to offer.
Garden: Family fun
I've just moved into a place where I can grow some produce at home. I've got a 2 year old and one on the way and I want them to learn the joy of getting their food the good old fashioned way. I'm planning plenty of Veggies, corn, and pumpkins for sure.
Garden: Carols Heirloom Garden
My garden is full of heirloom vegetable varieties, culinary and medicinal herbs, including Stevia, and I grow Chia grain as well. I save seeds of unusual heirloom varieties to ensure their lasting existance on Earth.
Garden: Pamela's garden
My garden is in Days Bay, Eastbourne. In the front it is mostly a cottage style garden with roses and lawn. Amongst my roses are fox gloves, granny bonnets, pentstemons and much more. In the back I have rhododendrons and camelias underplanted with hostas, and renga lilies.A small herb and vegetable garden features in the back also. The total size of our land is 1/4 acre.
Garden: My Gentle Garden of Peace
This is where my heart is and my place of peace and sanity. I love to come and work in the soil and look at the colors and the changing shapes and sizes of the plants and to keep changing things year after years, adding this and removing that. I love to taste the produce from my tiny vegetable garden and complete with the weather and the creatures for the produce to see who will win this year.
It is always different and always challenging and always a feast to the eyes and the heart.
Garden: Casa de Orzales
I have an enclosed garden surrounded by stone walls. It consists of two parts, one is lawned with three central flower beds, a further flower bed running next to the wall and three trees, The lower garden is again lawned with a separate vegetable plot and one flower bed, There is a small herb garden and I also have several balcony plants and container plants.
Garden: Buhrdery
Part English country garden, water wise garden, vegetable garden, park, trees for Africa, wilderness, shade garden
Garden: Onze tuun
Have lots in my garden. Many trees. Many plants. A greenhouse. A vegetable garden. A big meadow. A meditterenean plot in the making. Herbs and fruits. Also keep chickens. Always something to do in my garden!
Garden: maggi's basque/english garden
I have a large, south-facing garden, with a large area of grass (lawn would be a misnoma),a hen run, fruit trees and bushes,a small pond,a vegetable plot and 2 large raised beds for veg, a patio with lots of container plants, some cottage garden beds, a loose hedge with old roses, hazel,loquat,japanese quince and witch hazel, and a sun room which doubles as a greenhouse.Also a trellis with honeysuckle, jasmine, clematis and trachelospermum.I have planted as many fragrant plants as possible, as this aspect of the garden is very important to me.
Maryanne
Convinced the landlady to let us dig up her yard and then got to work. Growing vegetables for food, spiritual and bodily wholeness, and general happiness.
Debbie Shepheard
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
Jessica
I am a young mother of twins, about to move to a new home with a large garden space (and a weird microclimate that I have yet to figure out). I am planning to plant a kitchen garden, and well as maintain many beautiful rose bushes. I am interested in getting my kids involved in gardening.
Lisa B-B
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".
Victoria Julien
I am 20 years old and love to garden. I grow mostly vegetables with a few flowers for colour. I also enjoy growing herbs to use in my many recepies. I hope you enjoy looking at my garden photos. They will be updated frequently throughout the summer. And anyone who would like herbs or Strawberry plants please come by and pick your own or dig up some strawberries as they have been trying to take over the garden in which they grow.
Claire
I grew up in a big city (Toronto) and always enjoyed gardens but didn't do much gardening. In 2000 I moved to a gulf island off the west coast (BC) to a 1/2 acre property and started gardening in earnest. In 2004, moved to 4 1/2 acres of an old homestead and worked to restore the original owners' garden and much of the surrounding forested area. I see myself as a steward, recognizing that I live in a rural area that has water issues. I don't plant things that need lots of water and I never use pesticides.
Jessica
I am a mother of three, wife of one, dog owner of one, fish owner of seven, and providing a pond for four frogs who don't pay rent. The big excitement this summer was finding the garter snakes in the compost bin, and doesn't that explain the lack of slugs in the salad greens! When I'm not gardening, doing laundry, cleaning the house or planning meals, I write. Today, I wrote about my garden!
William
I am an avid gardener. I am always looking for more specific planting times for all kinds of S. California edible garden vegetables. I am also going to plant citrus trees and pomegranate trees this fall.
julie bennett
I am a mother of 5, and have 2 grandchildren. My oldest is 21 and my oldest set of twins are 17 and my youngest set of twins are 2, both sets are boy/girl. My grandchildren are 3 and 1. We have been growing vegetables for 4 years in a row now. We have had pretty good success over the years. We are renters right now, so makes it difficult to find landlords who will let you tear up their yards. We grow vegetables for our own personal consumption. I have only recently started jarring, and had success with pickled beets last year. I am hoping to continue learning how to grow and preserve food for my family. It helps to save a few dollars, and you know exactly where it came from, and what was put into it. I have a small flower bed out front with daisies, marigolds, and an assortment of wildflowers.
Lorna
I began gardening about 16 years ago when I bought my small home at this address. It had a very large backyard with half of it previously used as a vegetable garden. the previous owner grew corn and potatoes which took up a large amount of space. I tried to garden that space for a couple of years but had so much produce that I could not begin to keep up with the work. I leveled the land and seeded most of it to grass and put in some beds for flowers and bushes around the edges and one in the middle. I left one side for my vegetable garden. Over the years I have added arches and built boxes for my vegetables and graveled walkways and changed things many times. It has been a learning process. But always it has been rewarding and stress reducing. I have found peace here in this small piece of earth. I don't think I have become an expert in anything floral. I just keep blundering away planting this and that and if it works, it stays. If it doesn't I try something else. But I always love when something grows and looks wonderful. It brings such a sense of wonder when a plant gives you its beauty and opens its petals to the sun and to you . I love it.
charlie
I'm a (woman) artist, sculptor and gardener,middle-aged, and totally home-based now.Up until this year my gardening has been directed by form, colour and scent...and although I have grown veg over the years, I haven't been so drawn to it, more of a science than an art. I now have a polytunnel and a freezer, for the first time, which may change things....but the big change is coming about because of Peak Oil and Climate Change. We won't always be able to run cars, or get vegetables and fruit that have travelled thousands of 'food miles'. So now I'm exploring permaculture methods, (which they say is "lazy man's gardening"...the idea of not digging appeals!)It's a lot of work to begin with...watch this space!
luvleahday
i'm working fulltime but like gardening in my spare time, me& my husband just moved into this area last july and we just started cultivating our backyard last month as it was so bare and boring...
Carol Raethel
I am a single parent of a wonderful boy, and live on the sunny East Coast of the North Island New Zealand. I have a diploma in Herbal Medicine, certificate of Horticulture and a Diploma in Occupational Therapy, all of which are valuable tools to my current work and passion. I am interested in helping people return to the soil and begin a garden, for the health benefits of fresh, nutrient filled produce for their families, for the physical and spiritual health involved in gardening, and to help heal the planet. the more we grow, the less produce needs to be carted around the world by carbon emitting trucks. I focus on heirloom (non hybrid) varieties of vegetables, Herbs, medicinal and culinary, and a couple of plants that are important. Stevia, for the healthy alternative to sugar, and Chia, a highly nutritious grain with many life giving and healing properties. For more information, visit chiahowto.com. I sell my seeds through trade me, a New Zealand online store. I am an author and have 2 ebooks which I sell worldwide. Chia the Super Grain which can be found on chiahowto.com and How to Start a Vegetable Garden and Master the Art of Year Round Harvest. I don;t have a website to make this available yet, but anyone interested can email me at broomstik@callsouth.net.nz I am very happy to be here, connecting with other gardeners around the world. Thanks to the creators of this wonderful space. Blessings to everyone Carol
Gina Tucker
I love Tropicals,veggie gardening, would love to learn how to do toperary, Im new at this, did some canning for the first time, bought my first Hibiscus,
Bev Rampf
I'm a born gardener and love to be in the fresh air tending to everything green. We inherited our garden 19 years ago and have not really had the opportunity to make too many structural changes BUT have revamped beds and plant material over & over again in the 19 years. Each day in the garden is different & this makes for much variety in the life of the garden and gardener. Veggies & herbs are my latest favorite, being able to put on the table fresh from the garden is just so rewarding & even more so is being able to supply friends with home grown produce!!! May we become self sufficient soon, soon. One of my loves is being able to nurture & grow something unusual and this I have found in Clematis and Peonie which have been rewarding +++ and relatively easy without much fuss. I just wish I could find the winning formula for my orchids??? They won't flower. Anybody with a winning tip - please pass on.
Zoe Forbes
I just moved to Baha California Sur and I would like information on the types of plants that will thrive in a desert area on the Pacific coast.
Clark Lawrence
I am renting a section of the 14th Century Castle of Galeazza, near Bologna. I don't get paid for gardening, but spend most hours of most days working outside. When I arrived here in the spring of 2003 I found an overgrown jungle. Nothing had been cared for, planted, or pruned in over 20 years. For me gardening here was first just a necessity - I had to cut back bushes and vines just to get in through the gates and doors which were literally "grown shut". Then it became a pleasure as I saw improvements and ate my first home-grown herbs and vegetables. Now it is a passion as I learn more about the soil and climate here and try to grow species from around the world. By visiting and studying gardens in other countries and by working continously on the castle grounds, I hope to make up for my lack of academic knowledge of botany. I also hope to develop my own style and tastes. I would love to create a garden reflecting my interests - a collection of plants that is varied but still harmonious. Many friends who come to the castle for holidays help in the garden. People from many countries have donated seeds, bulbs, and plants. Some neighbours are supportive and full of encouragement; they share their experiences, ideas, and memories of the place as it used to be. Working in a 600 year-old garden is humbling as it reminds me that I'm just a short page in the long history of the Castle of Galeazza. Please come visit one day if you find yourself near Bologna! Clark
Susumu Sano
I live near Lake Biwa-ko (The biggest lake in Japan) of Shiga,Japan where left Kyoto by car for 30 minutes. There are a lot of Japanese gardens ( Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines) and botanical garden in and around Kyoto. And here is the area where nature is left. The climate is warm, and we have the four seasons. I enjoy the making of Japanese vegetables in the backyard that is not so large. The compost (organic fertilizer) is made from garbage and dead leaf at home. From this year, I came to perform gardening to see a TV program of the vegetables gardening even during the winter. I enjoy fishing at sea, trip, the breeding of the dog, the tropical fish and the bell cricket other than gardening. I hope to make friends abroad and want to share information about gardening and the culture. Please contact me if you like.
Denise Mac
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.
This was vegetable harvest for the day: Zucchinis, lemon cucumbers, white queen tomatoes, pear tomatoes, yellow cherry tomatoes and more...I started these heritage vegetables from seed
