Well we got everything from a-z here and thought I'd ask about gardening; do you take the time to plant any flowers or veggies? What do you plant or what are you going to plant, do you do container gardening or just put them in the ground? Or both?

Or you aren't interested in gardening? thats ok too.

Love to cook and thought fresh herbs would be a way to go, Planted some Cumin, oregano, thyme, just a start anyway, OH! and planted a sprig (limb) of a Rosemary bush!
I planted 3 tomato plants, and hot peppers. Want to plant some more, but my yard is so full of rocks and mainly clay. So I also am trying to do container gardening as well, going to plant some marigold seeds and some other things .
anyway ladies you have a great day!!

We live in am apartment so we are not allowed to plant and my back porch is too small for container planting. I would love to have a garden.

Gardening oh i have tomato plants, bell peppers,okra,squash 3rd year grapes, blue berry 3rd year asperigres 2nd and 3rd year. Flowers lots of them

Al righty then! thats great. I am just starting out on mine!

It has been so cold here that I have barely started. I want to plant tomaotes, green pepers, hot peppers, cukes, squash, and some pumpkins for my daughter. I love living out in the country and dont think I would be happy in the city again... oh yeah and my husband planted a azalia bush and two bleeding heart plants for me on mothers day.

I love to garden! When I moved into this house, my huge yard was a blank slate! The only plant was one lonely tulip. The previous owner had ripped out everything (including the kitchen sink!)
I am slowly adding more plants and flowers. I have a small vegetable garden, but still have my seedlings inside as we are advised not to start our gardens outside until mid-May. So, next week I'll be putting my plants out if I can get my garden weed-free by then.
I mostly plant varieties of squash and eggplant, but I do have tomatoes, fennel and leek started this year. My herbs are not doing much yet. If my fruit trees start baring, I'll be set!

Like to garden, I planted Jumping Johnny's. They come back every year, and really hard to get rid of. Almost like a weed.

But this means I don't have to buy many flowers and don't worry about planting next year. To me they are so beautiful, they look like the smaller version of pansies.

Should you plant herbs, some of them are better kept in a container, so they don't overtake your yard. They are good for pest control too. Peppermint is wonderful for a fresh tea, but will creep everywhere if not contained.
Enjoy your planting,

I love my gardens, both vegie and multiple flower gardens. About a month ago in my vegie garden I have planted broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, Swiss chard, beets, and parsnips. These are cool weather crops and can stand some frost. In a couple weeks, I will plant out tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, green beans, etc. I have flowers all over the place, many perennials and some annuals to fill in spaces.

Gardening is getting harder and harder each year as my body gets older and older. But I keep thinking that gardening is keeping me younger though!

I love gardening and just spent my morning outside working on plants and shrubs. Our weather has been rainy and cool this spring so I haven't planted anything yet but will do some container gardening and my son is going to help me make two square foot gardening areas. I too have had a blank slate to work with for the past eight years and it has been so much fun. I've had to deal with alot of rocks and clay but I've managed to add some soil in areas to make it more garden-friendly.

Oh Lovingmama,so were would i find the plant Jumping Johnny's at? I would love to put some of those out Thanks in advance(:)

I'm with you there CJO! I am looking forward to maybe being able to move out of the apartment we have been in for 8 yrs to a house with at least room for a garden!
CJO Do you have a railing that you could hang "window boxes" from? (We don't even have a balcony *sigh*) Maybe at least a few radishes or lettuce?

Everyone have fun with their gardens!

We have been down-sizing our garden as we get older...just put in ONLY 44 tomato plants!!! LOL...no matter how hard we try just can't seem to not play in the dirt. We have a full orchard...apples, pears, figs, grapes, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries and then we vegetable garden...tomatoes, hot pepper, sweet peppers, bell peppers, squash, cukes, onions, okra, peas, butterbeans, greenbeans...finally talked DH into not planting corn...then close to the end of the season we plant turnip greens, kale, spinach and mustard. I have my herbs in containers on the patio along with all the plants. In the winter it takes 10 gallons of water just for my inside plants...really need to let some of them die, but just can't bring myself to letting them go.

Our soil is good, but it is wa-a-a-y up the hill in back [condo building]. I feel that it is much needed exercise to get there, though. Last year, with a very late start, I managed to put in asparagus, daffodils, iris, lilies of the valley. Someone had previously planted chocolate mint in the space I'm using and I have to dig it all out. This morning, I moved a rhubarb plant out of the way of the regular veggies. I'm keeping the peppers and tomatoes on my balcony so the deer, rabbits, and bugs do not ruin them. For my birthday in April, my DD and SIL gave me some garden fencing to help with the deer in part of the area. However, I just love butternut squash and will have to plant that outside the fencing, along with the pumpkins for the kids. This is an excellent project to share with the DGKs.

[quote=LadyJrhi]I'm with you there CJO! I am looking forward to maybe being able to move out of the apartment we have been in for 8 yrs to a house with at least room for a garden!
CJO Do you have a railing that you could hang "window boxes" from? (We don't even have a balcony *sigh*) Maybe at least a few radishes or lettuce?

Everyone have fun with their gardens![/

They don't allow us to hang anything from the balcony's. We live in low income apartments so you would think they would welcome a garden so we could save a little money. It drives me crazy. I hate apartment life.

We are in a similar situation, CJ. I wish the people that run this "moderate income housing" would get on board with the Community Garden movement. It would help a lot of people out...however I don't necessarily trust the neighborhood children to not destroy any garden that could be done. *sigh* But sure would like to try!
Do you have a Community Garden area in your town?

Hi Kherrin!
*Whistful sigh* I am so jealous! :) Your garden sounds WONDERFUL! Enjoy!

Thats why I am doing some container gardening, soil isn't as good as it should be, and the children They love to play around my yard.
I don't live in the low housing, a mobile home park, really isn't low housing. Would like to try the community gardening, I have a big back yard that would be ideal for it. But don't think(or not sure) others would be interested here. I would need help in taking care of it. so my container gardening is good for now.
Also like you said, does keep me active and young.

Kherrin, why don't you do some trades for ,I don't know, fabric, other plants, just stuff?

If you have a balcony, can you place pots on it? flowers or veggies? even the long flower pots? they shouldn't say something about that!

I plan to plant some green beans, okra, maybe some butter beans. enough for my consumption. and some cayenne, habaneroes, those peppers are experiments. So y'all have fun with yours, I plan to have fun with mine.!

Also for senior citizens, tight budget and all, this is a great way to save a bit of money, to do a veggie garden and can or freeze items! thats what I am going to try and do this year.

I have flowers and my husband plants four tomato plants. My girlfriend (in the country) plants all kinds of things. I go there in July and August to can green beans and then harvest corn. You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl. lol

No we don't have a community garden. The kids in our complex wouldn't dare mess with someones garden especially if it was mine. I would explain why but thats not what this thread is for. :-)

amen to that smagruder!

I planted garlic last fall... and peas, lettuce and cabbage are in now, also beets and chard. Onions need to go next. Tomato seedlings are on their second set of true leaves. Still to be planted: beans, eggplant, summer squash and peppers. And LOTS of weeding and digging. Our soil here is clay and very wet. Though with four days of long-awaited sunshine, the top is likely hard as a brick now.

I do garden. In fact, this time of year, my quilting takes a back seat to being outside. I went down to Asheville N.C. a week or so ago to their annual herb festival and added a few things to my herb garden--basil, savory, pineapple sage. The beans are sprouting. I'll have new potatoes in a couple of weeks, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins. And the flowers, of course. I went out this morning early and everything smelled like honeysuckle. Quilting can wait awhile. Still my favorite way to pass my evenings.

Memorial Day weekend is my planting weekend. I plant petunias. Here in Central Oregon it can get below freezing any day of the year. The frost will kill the flowers on petunias but it will not kill the plant and the flowers come back. I can't plant too much because it just becomes deer food. I do have some hanging baskets on my deck for some color.

Ditto, here in NH. I've tried planting sooner only to have everything killed by frost or drowned by rain. This year we'll be expanding just a bit.

I have mostly mixed beds which contain evergreen shrubs, flowering shrubs and perennials. I have one long bed that is perennials only for color across the front yard. I do not plant annuals, seems a waste of time and $$ to plant every year.
And I do not plant containers, they are too time consuming for me. I plant very few veggies, tomatoes and onions.
For your rocky yard you can plant a rock garden.

Johnny Jump Ups are just tiny violas...they are perennial and edible!

here a links to the two topics I had going on this subject!
HERBS---http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-109886-1.htm
VEGGIES---http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-109873-1.htm

Love gardening. Have finally got everything in except field peas and some melons. I can 600 to 700 jars each summer. This is the first year since Hubby died that I've been excited about the garden - not sure I'll do as much canning this year. No fun or need for just one person.

Although weather is still dicey here in the PNW, we had a lovely, sunny, warm afternoon yesterday, and I transplanted the 10 tomato plants and some dill that I bought last Sat. at the Seattle Tilth plant sale. I have two 3x6 foot raised beds and four 3x3 raised beds. I also bought one of those topsy-turvy "tomato trees" last year at the end of the season (for 50% off) and put that together yesterday. It's supposed to hold up to 3 tomato plants, but I put in only 2. I also planted two kinds of garlic last fall, and they are coming up well. Some mixed colorful lettuce and radishes sprouting, plus the potatoes (Red Norland and German Butterball) are coming up. I'll put green beans in one of the 3x3 beds and two yellow crookneck squash in the other two. My little fig tree (on its 3rd year) is budding out, and I have mini cantaloupes and more lettuce sprouting inside.
We just realized this week that one of this year's litter of bunnies has taken up residence in our backyard, which is driving our lab mix nuts and making me nervous for my veggies. Bad choice bunny! I scold him while he hides inside the woodpile. He has an escape hole under the back fence, and we're hoping to block him from coming back in that way.

Think you can get seeds for these cute flowers at grocery store. I love them too.

No garden yet. Understand about not much fun or need. My DH will be gone 10 years this year. Maybe next year I will plant and can, as I will be living near my son and his family in NM. Hope all does well for you. Enjoy the garden.

Perennials my fave

I got several flower plants from my DD for Mother's Day, as well as a hydrangea from DH. I sorted the flowers by light need and set them outside. I think the weather is supposed to be sunnier tomorrow and Friday, so am planning to get everything into the ground. I wnt to get more flowers, though. Gotta have my pansies and petunias, as well as more geraniums. I used to do marigolds, but the slugs get those so badly I quit planting them.

I also will get plants for the vegetable garden, such as tomatoes, peas, beans, carrots, onions, lettuce, peppers, and brussel sprouts. I'm trying to stick to plants that will either peak early or will winter over because I think it might be another cool summer.
We have two apple trees and two cherry trees, also. I have some chives and a couple of herbs in with the veggies.

I love to garden and am planning to do more canning this year, partly because of the economy and also because I'm reetired now and have more time. However, I still want to do a lot of quilting so will need to budget my time. Love to do a lot of patio sitting with DH, too. It's a good thing the days are longer!
Happy gardening everyone.

Have blackberries, blueberries, service berries, aronia berries, green beans, pickling cucumber, butternut squash, cantaloupe, watermelon, yellow zucchini, swiss chard, two varieties tomato, red potato, sweet potato, corn, onions, garlic, and rhubarb. Oh, and peppers.
We have created new flower beds around the house by digging out a 4 ft by 50 ft area of the sod, adding composted manure, and rototilling. I am in the process of planting stargazer lilies, mock orange, hydrangea, honeysuckle, anemones, gladiolas, and if I can find it a couple of Frost Proof gardenia. Later this summer we will put in three Centennial Crepe Myrtle along the street side of the house.
I love color and wonderful scents in the garden and try to plant for the butterflies and birds in addition to my own enjoyment. Ann in Eastern TN

Im about to start one. have lots of weeds to clear. im not sure where to start. i have 3 small beds. im renting and have a super tight budget. i do know i want hostas, and other perennials no veggies though, there are bunnies everywhere.

If you want to keep bunnies away from your garden, plant a line of Marigolds around it. Rabbits avoid them.
Or sprinkle shredded strong smelling soap around your plants.

I planted 3 tomato plants so far waiting for that last frost which may be tonite. While on gardening does anyone know of pepper that looks long & slender but is not hot it is a sweet pepper. I saw it on a cooking show the other day but don't remember which one. I also planted several new perenials and 5 roses. Seems I always find room

My husband and I really enjoy gardening.He does the building and moving and spraying fruit trees,ect.Around our area several people dig starts and pot them and sell them for $1.00@. I have lots of perennials from starts and now my grandkids sell my extras,Emily made $100.00 so far this spring!I highly recommend raised beds,even one or two can grow lots of food.I LOVE hostas and collect them one at a time,they are expensive.We live in a wooded area and impatiens come back every year,so that saves me lots of money.I spend too much money on container plants,but I can't say no when I get into a gorgeous greenhouse! Gardening is so fun and relaxing to me,yet I'm getting older and it's harder.Quilting is probably my favorite hobby.