Your Garden

**SuuT** · 03-29-2010, 06:30 PM

What are you growing/planning to grow?

I'm doing container gardening this year. Thus far I have Bell Pepper, Banana Peppers, Romain Lettuce, Jet Star Tomato, Roma Tomato, Chard, Garlic, Cilantro, Red Onion, Leeks, Parsely...yeah, that's it for now. I want a lot more herbs, but it's still somewhat cool in the mornings - so I'll wait a month or so before planting.

**The Lawspeaker** · 03-29-2010, 06:33 PM

Good one. I am still thinking about what to do with mine. (those couples of inches of soil)

**Loddfafner** · 03-29-2010, 06:39 PM

I planted peas and lettuce in one raised bed. I set up groundhog fortifications around another, and composted a third. I have a ways to go in installing the vegetable garden. As for flowers, I put in a white single-flowered peony in a site where it will find the accompaniment of blue irises, baptisia, and foxgloves.

**Allenson** · 03-29-2010, 06:47 PM

Still early here for any gardening outside of a greenhouse--but, we'll have the usuals: carrots, peas, green beans, potatoes, broccoli, spinach, herb, summer sqashes, winter squashes. We also have a few apple trees, so those are included, I reckon. Lastly, there's some wild harvesting to do: for example, we have oodles of wild leeks on the property which are some of the earliest herbaceous emergents in the spring and they make for some great eating. They should be poking up through the leaf litter within the month based on how this season has been going thus far. They are abundent in the hardwood copse next to the house:

**Skandi** · 03-29-2010, 11:20 PM

Bit early yet. The broccoli is just coming good, will be harvesting in a month I would think, the broad beans just went in, as did some more mint seeds..everything else will haev to wait for the frosts to stop..Another month or so I guess

**~~Arne~~** · 03-29-2010, 11:38 PM

I´ve sowed Chillies and i plan to plant them all out..
The Garden is nearly almost full of Cacti´s from my Collection.

**SuuT** · 04-01-2010, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Barbie

... As for flowers, I put in a white single-flowered peony in a site where it will find the accompaniment of blue irises, baptisia, and foxgloves.

Do you do annuals, Barbie? I'm doing some containers with Dragon Wing Begonias, Viola, Bacopa, Calibrachoa, Dianthus, New Guniea Impatiens, Coleus, and some Asiatic Lillies. It's amazing how big things get down here.

**Loddfafner** · 04-01-2010, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by SuuT

Do you do annuals?

Annuals are filler. I use nasturtiums, poppies, impatiens, zinnias, marigolds, ageratum, and the like. As for centerpiece annuals, tithonia or Mexican sunflower, and this annual vine, which no one has gotten yet on the Botany quiz.

**SuuT** · 04-01-2010, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Barbie

Annuals are filler. I use nasturtiums, poppies, impatiens, zinnias, marigolds, ageratum, and the like. As for centerpiece annuals, tithonia or Mexican sunflower, and this annual vine, which no one has gotten yet on the Botany quiz.

Mina Lobata.

I used to take you from behind with He-Man as a child, by the way.

**Germanicus** · 04-01-2010, 05:55 PM

The furry children can no longer destroy Mrs Germanicus's garden, last summer i built a wooden fence around her plot, they did try to tunnel underneath it, (the darlings) but my Legionaire training enabled me to thwart their attempt at sabotage, i buried house bricks a few inches under the soil around the outside of the fence.
Mrs Germanicus has been buying bulbs and seedling for when the weather warms.