I give up, I'm not a gardener.
#11
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
Over the years I have planted plants that are suppose to be idiot proof, used Miracle Grow by the bags full and still have a lousy flower beds with no flowers. DH is having the front lawn re sodded so I gave in and told the guy to landscape my flower beds with shrubs. I'll buy flowers in pots from now on. My grandmother could grow beautiful flowers and had a big vegetable garden. All you gardeners out there, you have my admiration!
#12
The landscape guy suggested mature hydrangea bushes and having pot hangers above the bushes all behind a nice layered edging. No work for me, just buy the pots of flowers when I want a change.
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quilting, crocheting, sewing and crafting in my Sewing Room...Peaceful and wonderful !!
Posts: 5,317
I agree it could be the soil.. I have what they call river soil and am told anything can grow here. Well after 3 years of living here-I can believe it. Have your soil tested-maybe its not you and your black thumb after all ..LOL
We have wonderful vegetable gardens every year as well as the lovely flowers that grow profusely.
So don't give up, have your soil tested or get a test kit and test it yourself ..
We have wonderful vegetable gardens every year as well as the lovely flowers that grow profusely.
So don't give up, have your soil tested or get a test kit and test it yourself ..
#14
I am so glad to hear I am not alone in this. I have tried so many house plants. My sister has given me several house plants that she had started and were doing great. Gave them to me. Dead in couple months. When I bought my home , she had Iris, Rose bushes and a couple more outside . They do find. I don't touch them. I did manage to kill one Rose bush. I love flowers. I don't know what is wrong with me. lol
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Missouri
Posts: 4,061
My neighbor tells me I have a green thumb. I tell her my thumb isn't any greener than hers, I'm just lazier. I plant, water once a week and watch the plants grow as I sit in my porch swing reading a book or relaxing. If it doesn't grow, something else gets planted in its place a month later. She waters, feeds and weeds daily.
#17
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: San Marcos, California
Posts: 62
Compost, compost, compost!!!! If you don't have space or do not want to make your own there a good ones at Home Depot, garden centers, etc. Mulch, mulch, mulch!!! Anything that will decompose will work. I started out with heavy clay soil and doing this I now have rich black soil that drains well and will grow anything. Hope this helps you.
#18
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
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My DH grows container gardens. We have so many birds in the area though we can't get to the tomatoes and strawberries fast enough. We quit since we ate less than they did. The best we ever grew was during a really good crisp cold winter that lasted longer than usual. Not going to waste the money and labor on it anymore. Our male dog Brutus would bite into the biggest and best strawberry then spit it out. I got so frustrated. he always found it before we did. :{
#19
hhaha so glad to hear i'm not the only brown thumb. the one thing i did grow was a violet. then my son dump it out and picked it apart when he was little. my mom had a green thumb though and could grow anything EXCEPT violets so that drove her nuts.I replanted it and it was doing fine but she wanted to take it home with her to take care of it and be sure it survived-- it died, it was always a giggle between the family.
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Grants Pass, OR
Posts: 2,071
My DH and now my DD have green thumbs. I have a quilters thumb. It works for us. They provide our family with wonderful fresh veggies and I provide them with wonderful warm quilts for the time when they are huddled in the kitchen on cold February mornings planning the garden and ordering seeds.
I do help with the putting up of the vegetables, but it is their garden.
I do help with the putting up of the vegetables, but it is their garden.
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