gardening

Anyone into gardening? What have you planted? What came up and what didn't and why? What do you like to grow? What don't you like to grow? What do you want to grow in the future?

I've just started, and it's exciting. I've gotten my first bits of green emerging from the ground, from I think pumpkin seeds, yay! There's a Chinese quote that says "He who plants a garden plants happiness", so it's probably a good activity for a lot of us to be doing.

I live in an apartment and have 2 planters outside my front door. Last year I did tomato plants and only got 2 tomatoes off of them so this year did pretty flowers but we got a lot of rain and they were pretty and then it got really hot and even though I faithfully watered them the heat got 'em and they died.

Jbug

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jbug said:
I live in an apartment and have 2 planters outside my front door. Last year I did tomato plants and only got 2 tomatoes off of them so this year did pretty flowers but we got a lot of rain and they were pretty and then it got really hot and even though I faithfully watered them the heat got 'em and they died.

Jbug

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I've got some planters too. I'm sorry about the tomatos and heat getting to the flowers. Gah, speaking of which, I need to go water my plants!

violet

ps - i have some plants in containers too. some herbs and flowers, and a little pot with grass for my cats to nibble, to help with their hairballs and give them some extra nutrients too.

I have 6 window boxes with petunias in them. A huge rosemary bush. A big pot of impatients and a big box of begonias. I'm trying tomatoes for the first time, but don't expect much. My chili peppers are producing a bumper crop. And I havve 2 geraniums.

For herbs, I have sage,, oregano, basil., garlic chives, regular chives, thyme, and lavendar.

We started a garden 1 yr ago. Last year we planted sweet corn, onions, potatoes, green string beans, green peppers, and tomatoes. We also planted a few strawberry plants, asparagus, blueberry bush, and concord grape vine. 2 yrs ago we planted rhubarb.

Ok....the majority of the veggie plants did quit well....especially the tomatoes..man did we have tomatoes . The sweet corn was a disaster.

This year we planted tomatoes (only a few), green peppers, pickles, potatoes, and squash. I killed the squash and a few tomatoe plants because I did[n't cover them up from a frost warning.

I find that our plants seem to do pretty good growth wise but when it comes to producing the veggie....its not so good. I think the soil lacks some nutrients. It is mostly sand. And we do water so not quite sure.

There is also sunflower plants there that we planted last year and this year and they do very very well.

I made a flower bed last year and put a few more plants in it this year. I wish I could name them but I can't . If I see it and think it will make a nice addition color wise and size wise and if the plant can take the full sun...then I plant it despite the name.

On my porch I have to flower pots that I have a few dahlias in and some green filler plants. Usually I have four hanging baskets on my porch but because of the rising cost of things I decided not to do those.

I do enjoy gardening though and plan on making a couple other flower beds in the yard.

Happy Gardening!!
Snow

I think i have a light green thumb.

My tomatoes and peppers are doing well. But out of two packages of carrot seeds i got 3 yes three carrots. Our garden is fenced in and nothing seems to have gotten to them, they just didn't come up this year. I share the garden with the upstairs apartment.

This is my second year to garden. I am trying watermelon and winter squash for the first time. Cucumbers are my favorite and i have them trained to go up the fence. saves space and easy to pick

Does anyone ever experienced crabgrass in a garden. My garden just erupted with so much tall grass weeds in a verrrrrrrry short time! Ugh!

I have herbs: rosemary, oregano, summer savory, garlic chives, and chives. I bought chive plants and put them in a pot so i can bring them in for the winter. but the chives seem to not be thriving either i water too much or not enough. they have sun all day long. My grandfather grew a huge patch of chives in his garden when i was growing up so i hoped i would get the chives gene but those blades keep dying on me.

help for this anyone??

I read something in a gardening book that said the key to a successful garden was the soil. If it's sandy or lacking something, then going to a local garden center and asking what to do might do the trick.

My garden is in containers. I've tried tomatoes almost every year with bad results, but this year I heard cherry tomatoes were good in containers and I'm having plenty from one plant. I have herbs as well.

I also have an Angel Trumpet that has amazed me by doing so well in a pot. It flowers every time I fertilize it.

It's hot here, so I move my pots to shadier places in summer. I'm trying Morning Glory from seeds and they seem to be doing really well.

I'm a frustrated farmer, but I figure anything that will grow will help the environment.

gardening well weather isnt great but i did grow my own petunias this year and growing tomatoes in a small shelved oplastic greenhouse outside on the steps to our appartment, they are now starting to ripen

all other things that have been planted are doing good garden is looking good

only thing that wasnt sucesfull was poppys from seed

I have a friend who container gardens and she grows patio tomatoes. Patio is the kind of tomato it is, not it's name.

Can tomatoes be grown inside in winter???

not sure i grow mine in grow bags they just need lots of water

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I have a friend who container gardens and she grows patio tomatoes. Patio is the kind of tomato it is, not it's name.

Can tomatoes be grown inside in winter???

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I think so. I've seen an ad to that effect, but maybe someone here has actually done it and can tell you how it went.