Gardening anyone?

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Spring seems to be coming fast this year,
Any of you have plans on what your going to be planting (if anything) this year?
flowers?, yummy veggies?, teas?, etc?, etc?.
whats your favorite flowers? teas? medical herbs? veggies?

Heh, I have 'brown fingers' - everything I plant seems to die

We did manage to grow some small (but tasty) carrots one year though...

Dunc

i'm going to try to plant something this year..i might even get a cement birdbath for the yard..right now i'm trying to save an aloevera plant

second year of my garden - spent the first summer ripping out all the ghastly manicured shrubs and raised beds (depression + a sldgehammer is bloody marvellous), so this year should see a good show, especially as last year showed where my plans were slightly awry. oh yes - i planned the wretched thing to bits. i still refer to the accurately-scaled blueprint i drew up. i grew the biggest sunflower in the know universe last year - neighbours used to take visiting kids out into their garden to see it. over 7' and the head was about a foot and a half across. everything i grow tends to turn into a triffid... as for the nasturtiums...

i have always had herb/wildflower gardens (including a fabulous "Evil Bed" - belladonna, aconite...etc) which is in the wood and stone sculpture bit - there so there's always something to look at in the winter. it's the bit i see when i'm on the computer. this one includes smelly stuff as well, although i cannot get the honeysuckle to perform. lots of roses, and managed potatoes and runner beans last year, as well as aubergines, capsicums, tomatoes and chillies in my greenhouse. in fact, there are still chillies growing in my greenhouse - bizarre. and my marigolds are trying to grow even though they're last year's - i forgot to tell them they're annuals and flower in the summer, so they don't know are so are still growing quite happily. first snowdrops and croculi are popping through - yay!.

oh dear - did i forget to say that gardening is one of my obsessions? whoops...

I like taking old mini TV dish's and converting them into birdbaths
Right now me and Rebekah (Chamoisee) live in a rental and plan on moving soon, so i don't know what she has in mind for a garden if anything at this time, I cant wait till we get our own place so we can grow our own gardens, I want to start growing all kinds of teas and herbs and flowers, but I am not making plans yet till I can see what the place looks like that we choose so We will know what we want to plant that will look good, and what herbs and veggies to plant because I am not sure how long it will be before we can afford to move.

I love garderning but we don't have a garden anymore But we keep saying we are going to find out getting an allotment, we even looked at one last year but it was terrible (right next to an electricity sub-station).

I will be sorting out my many pots this spring- last year I didn't have the mental energy to sort out any of that at all. But I like to grow my own herbs, etc.

I don't know yet if I'll do any gardening this year yet. Tempted but not sure if I'll have the energy to do it.

Last spring was the first time I had an area I could garden and I really enjoyed it - I planted zinnas and begonias and impatiens - then for the winter I put in pansies . . .

It's getting into winter here, But I would like to buy some more indoor plants. I like having them around.

I like eryngeums ~ I used to collect them but they don't do well in my clay soil ~ they like well-drained sandy soil.

I still have a few in pots ~ eryngeum alpinum is one of my favourites ~ it's like a big blue feathery thistle.

A common eryngeum is the sea holly.

They also have a large taproot (ideal for root cuttings) which in medieval europe used to be eaten as a carrot-like vegetable.

Albrecht Durer (my favourite artist) did a self portrait of himself holding and eryngeum.

If I lived somewhere with a lighter soil I could see myself getting quite obsessive about eryngeums.

I have been obsessed with gardening an plants for many years, but where I have moved now there is no garden, not even a balcony. But it's ok, so I'm not going to use so much energy on planning and less money on seeds and plants. But I have some seeds left over, and will probably plant a few of them in pots in my window. A sense plant that curls its leaves when it's touched, is one that i'm looking forward to watch grow, and hopefully the kids will like them too.

I don't garden. It seems like a waste of my valuable time, which is much better spent playing Quake.

have a break from quake, get out the rake!



My garden.



An eryngeum.

Those are lovely pictures (and plants..)

Don't feel bad, Duncvis, I'm the same way. Though I don't even have to plant it, it just has to be something green in my care, and it eventually loses life!

I am very good with animals, but plants can't remind you when you should water and care for them, unfortunately.

Yes, those are some great pictures of Asparval's garden. I'm thinking of those balmy summer days already, yet it's snowing outside.

I like to spend time in my garden, though I wouldn't say I'm much of a gardener. Most of it is planted with trees, shrubs and lawn, but I usually play around with different things in the borders each year. Currently, there are snowdrops, crocus, daffodils and primroses flowering. Also, and taking pride of place, a cherry tree with beautiful pink blossom. Outside my patio doors I have pots with yellow pansies.

As for stuff to eat, I have three large pots (about 2' dia) which I plant with runner beans each year. I keep these fed with tomato feed during the summer which provides a good crop to freeze down for use during the winter. I've grown tomatoes in the greenhouse, but I'm not a great tomato fan so this year I've a slightly different plan. I'm thinking about trying sweetcorn in there... yeah, I know they're wind pollinated but I reckon if I keep a flow of air through there and give them a good shake now and then it might work.

One other thing I like about having a garden are the 'infrastructure' projects... you know: paths, fences, ponds. A few years ago a large ash tree came down in a storm; now, there's a nice spot for a pond, but that'll be another story.