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09-20-2011, 11:13 AM | #1 | |||
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caught up with a friend last weekend - and her garden is awesome! her hubby has irrigation pipes set up ...
will be getting some GARLIC to plan now ... staked out my garden area yesterday ... 4ft x 8ft or so ... now for some top soil ... the newspaper idea, Lara, is good - plus, using it to work into my composting ... going to have lots of seeds left over after planting in spring - because I'm not going to USE the whole packet ... so, I can send them your way with the extra seed ... then you can plan your winter for your spring come next september!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Lara (09-21-2011) |
09-20-2011, 04:17 PM | #2 | |||
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Your 4x8 garden might not sound huge Vonn but that's about the size DH had at our last house for vegetables and with what he planted, he was able to produce enough to keep us in fresh veges the whole year around.
Seed exchange is such a lovely idea Vonn but sadly it could send you behind bars, or at least ensure that you get a sharp rap across the knuckles from the Customs Dept of our country, if not your own.
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09-21-2011, 10:02 PM | #3 | |||
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, Koala .. I did NOT know that ...
sure - go ahead .. scare the beejeebers outta me! can I grow plants in the big house, tho?? will have 3 squares a day, wear orange (for MS, tho) .. get 100% medical (no copays, no premiums and NO deductible) ... and get 100% school funding to be anything I want to be?? and a roof over my head ... and police that protect me 24/7 ... and only those that care will come and viz ... LOL have to get some top soil (for the garden part) and some black plastic bags to kill off the grass for the 'english' garden part - and I found some small little leaf vines in the woods when I dug out a tree the other day - so, I have them in water to start rooting them for my 'living' wall ... it's been cold and rainy ... but, I'm enjoying my little plot of ground ... and being a rebel planting all the trees and cutting back the lilac bush ... I was a bit sore today ... but, I'll get over it .. take pix of your garden - so I can dream of being there!!
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09-21-2011, 10:33 PM | #4 | ||
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Vonn, there is some type of matting that can be used instead of the black plastic and it breathes and lets in the water. I'll go look for the name of it.
OK I looked. lol I guess it's just called "weed matting". This is from a gardening show here. Burke's Backyard (I edited to take out the actual link because it was filled with ads for nasty chemicals and such. eeek) Quote:
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09-23-2011, 05:01 AM | #5 | |||
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OK....I got out in my garden with my trusty instant camera and tooks lots of photos of my flowers and shrubs. I did get a few done yesterday before strong winds sent me inside, and then today I took more between sun showers.
Looking back over the photos and seeing how many different types of blooms I have makes it look like I have a huge garden, but that's not true. Some are single plants and quite a few are trees or flowering bushes. I've started naming the flowers and have done all those on the second page, but I've yet not tackled todays download. Most of those I'll have to search the internet before I can even put names to them. Feel free to name any flower that doesn't yet have one. I've not deleted the awkward photos yet, but I will. I simply dowloaded all I took. The first 4 pictures are just for Vonn. 1 & 2 are from the Net, and 3 & 4 I copied from a magazine. I wanted to show different examples of how you can use your small garden space to advantage. Here's a link to my garden photos: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/album.php?albumid=495
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09-23-2011, 11:22 PM | #6 | |||
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Sorry Vonn.... I deleted the album. I'll send the 4 photos I mentioned via PM.
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09-24-2011, 11:40 AM | #7 | |||
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thanks, Lara & Koala ... it's raining out now ... so, I'm stuck inside - CLEANING!!
planning out my garden for spring ... the bulbs that I bought the other day (purple tulips and purple hydraengeas) ... I gave to my girlfriend yesterday for her garden! now, I need to get more for me!! finally turned my furnace on!! WOW .. what a difference!! LOL what can I buy in spring to start inside plants (I need to know this now - sorry .. so I can budget for March!) .. thanks!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Lara (09-30-2011) |
11-12-2011, 06:35 PM | #8 | ||
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Just a note about the weed matting that I mentioned...
I've just had a gate and a small area of bamboo screening put up and a retaining wall fixed that had fallen down from excessive flooding earlier in the year and to get to it all some of my plants had to be removed. I've just been out there now preparing the area for replanting. I've ripped up as much of the weed matting that I could. I've decided I don't like it at all! So I got into the earth and mulched it all out in preparation. I think the weed matting was stopping the water getting into the soil actually. hmmmnn |
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