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    I thought I might start a hobby thread about gardening! How many of you have gardens?

    I use mine not only as a stress-relieving hobby, but as a way to get cheap, organic fruits and vegetables into mine and my husband's diets.

    I currently have jalapeños, tomatoes, strawberries, zucchini, and catnip growing. I thought about planting a bed of wheat grass next week for smoothies and for the cats to nibble on. My yellow squash bit the dust and I'm pretty upset about it, but I planted another pepper plant to take up its space.


    If you've got some space and a stress/anxiety/depression problem (like I do), I would really recommend growing a few things! It's soooo therapeutic and rewarding! It's also pretty cheap as far as hobbies go.
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    Here i got some ideas, for people who has a space and he does not.
    http://www.mixer2mower.com/18-easy-t...rden-beds.html
    i do plan to garden. I really wish i could also have trees, like apricot, sour cherries,apples.
    From home or farm produce so much better, and last longer.
    I will plant rosemary ( for hair and for cooking), kale, parsley,cilantro,basil, tomatoes red/ yellow,lettuce,oregano.

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    My garden is somewhat paused for the time being because of the record drought going on. But yeeesssss to this thread!

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    How much space do you have? Keyholes are good if space is limited, and even if it isn't, they can be convenient, once constructed.

    https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=keyhole+garden

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    Huge gardener here! I grow full salads ( lettuce , arugula, carrots , radish , cucumber, tomato ). The majority is dedicated to this. I also do squash , hot pepper, eggplant , various herbs.
    My garden is far from perfect but I have fun with it.
    I'm in an expansion faze ( getting land and * possibly * going 5 times bigger !).
    It's one of the only things I do in my life for just me.
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    Gardens are awesome. I'm working away from home and I had a bunch of potted herbs and plants. It was nice watching them grow and taking the time and patience to tend to them. There's nothing better then cooking straight from your garden!

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    When I was still in Florida I had the best garden. It broke my heart to leave it behind. I transferred as much as possible to my Mom's house. Recently I worked on a Urban Gardening initiative. But the funding ran out. Now im in limbo. Im gonna go crazy if I can't get a garden going soon. Thinking about starting a container garden.

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    I love gardening! I normally have a bunch of bulb flowers (tulips, daffodils, lilies, iris'), but I was traveling when I needed to pot them so I'm going a year without. Instead, I tried to focus on indoor and low maintenance outdoor plants.
    Recently I went on a dwarf plant kick, so I have dwarf lemon, pomegranate, papaya, orange, and avocado trees (I'm a sucker for amazon.com plant sales). All but the lemon tree are less than a year old, so it'll be interesting to see if any of them decide to fruit. I also have some potted lavender & some logs I put spore plugs in (which is an awesome way of getting mushrooms for super cheap) that should be taking this fall. I've done a few different types over the years and they're literally the easiest thing I've ever grown. no watering, no weeding; just drill some holes, put in the plugs, cover them with wax, and leave them alone outside for a few months. Plus, you can't beat fried oyster mushrooms on a cold winter's night

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhatGirlDynomite!!! View Post
    Recently I worked on a Urban Gardening initiative.
    That's what I want to do! Communal/small space gardening is a huge passion of mine. I'd love to be able to work with a charity to put them in... ah, one day.

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    just spent all afternoon in my new garden..still in the digging up phase. i've never in my life seen so many worms!! every shovel had like 6 or 7 worms each, i tried to save as many as possible and it took twice as long.

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    We have been trying to grow a couple pots worth of basil and flowers. I can't remember which pot is which, but I think the zinnia are doing fairly well, but the sweet pea sprouted and then died after a week of just not growing taller... I think they didn't get enough sun at first and then when they did get it, it was too hot and fried them. The basil seem to be slowly growing.
    It's a balancing act trying to do it here, we have to move the pots back and forth from the shaded balcony to the direct sun out front, because AZ sun is so intense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by caramelcraze View Post
    That's what I want to do! Communal/small space gardening is a huge passion of mine. I'd love to be able to work with a charity to put them in... ah, one day.
    Check with your local groups. 4H Club is how I got started. My sis is a horticulturist and she turned me on to it. I volunteered with them before I found a paid position.

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    My family has a LONG history of gardening. As a young girl I spent countless hours with my grandmother gaining hands-on learning about gardening ... especially growing herbs ... as well as canning / preserving, and of course cooking.

    While I was living in NY I had a small ( 8 by 16 ft ) greenhouse ... which was fantastic for growing tomatoes, herbs, and anything else which required a longer growing season than NY's climate was naturally able to offer. The greenhouse is still there, but unfortunately I am not !!!

    Gardening way south of the border is a 'whole different animal' ... literally. My biggest garden problem these days is local pest animals eating my produce faster than I can grow it. Because of this, I now have the best 'luck' with container gardening on my porch for anything which is soft, doesn't have spines or prickers, doesn't grow very tall, etc. i.e. an easy meal for those 'critters'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by caramelcraze View Post
    Recently I went on a dwarf plant kick, so I have dwarf lemon, pomegranate, papaya, orange, and avocado trees (I'm a sucker for amazon.com plant sales). All but the lemon tree are less than a year old, so it'll be interesting to see if any of them decide to fruit.
    Dwarf trees! That's a great idea!

    So question: even though your citrus trees haven't fruited yet, do they smell good? I may have to hop over to Amazon and get myself a dwarf tree

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tsepmet1 View Post
    Dwarf trees! That's a great idea!

    So question: even though your citrus trees haven't fruited yet, do they smell good? I may have to hop over to Amazon and get myself a dwarf tree
    The flowers on the lemon tree had a lovely fragrance, but I've only seen two thus far and neither amounted to anything. :/ Still, I hear the orange and papaya are amazing when they bloom, so I'm looking forward to that. They're pretty cheap too!

    I don't have the sunniest location, so that's been my major struggle... but I've managed not to kill them, so I'm pretty pleased with myself thus far :p

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    Today my sister gave me two medium sized geraniums to plant. My dad is also going to give me some of his succulents (he overplanted last year). I'm excited because I have a patch of all-day extreme full sun where everything just withers and dies. I need some hardy deserty plants to withstand it!

    I have a potted Brugmansia that's slowly dying. I have no idea why it's not happy. Someone come over and help me with it, please!

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    I LOVE to garden. I miss it so much! I need to move OUT of this apartment and into a house with a backyard, damnit! I do have basil growing indoors though.

    Quote Originally Posted by PhatGirlDynomite!!! View Post
    When I was still in Florida I had the best garden. It broke my heart to leave it behind. I transferred as much as possible to my Mom's house. Recently I worked on a Urban Gardening initiative. But the funding ran out. Now im in limbo. Im gonna go crazy if I can't get a garden going soon. Thinking about starting a container garden.
    Hey girl, when are we going to grow our special plants? hehe
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    Gardening is sort of my 'real job'. I have apples trees, and grape vines. Raspberry & blackberry bushes. Strawberries & herbs plus flowers including roses, hydrangeas, 3 kinds of Dahlias, 4 types of sunflowers, 9 different lily's and a white weeping cherry tree. Plus other flowering bulbs and landscape plants. Yearly I grow corn, a salad garden, beans, peas, potatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, zucchinis, 4 kinds of peppers including ornamental's, heirloom tomatoes, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkins and I'm probably forgetting a bunch. I love this thread! I could talk about gardening all day!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScarletKitten View Post
    I LOVE to garden. I miss it so much! I need to move OUT of this apartment and into a house with a backyard, damnit! I do have basil growing indoors though.


    I live in an apartment, but I'm blessed with a southern-facing patio that is also screened in. Most of my plants have done well so far except for the squash. Not sure what I'm doing wrong on those.

    I live in Florida, so after the hot summer, I'm going to build a small raised bed for lettuce and kale.
    I may also acquire a dwarf orange tree, maybe cara cara.

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    It varies, but we try to put in five rows 4'x120' and the keyholes. I think I overwatered our fruit trees and killed them, but we are going to try again. The problem is most things ripen all at once, and it can be hard to deal with it.

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    Dwarf trees! That's a great idea!
    I tried dwarf Meyer Lemon and Key Lime trees in large containers while still living in NY. They smelled fantastic. They also produced a good harvest the first year. However, because they are so sensitive to cold I had to bring them inside for the winter. I kept them in my semi-heated basement under 'gro-lites' on a timer. They looked healthy but didn't produce any usable fruit the second year. I never could figure out why ( pollination problem ? ). I got rid of them after adding up the costs of running 'gro-lites' all winter versus the cost of the dozen or so lemons and a dozen or so limes each dwarf tree would produce per year.

    Down here way south of the border I can simply plant full sized fruit trees in my yard without low temperature worries ... and hope that a hurricane doesn't trash them !!!

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    ^ good to know that they smell good! My patio has about a 12' of vertical space, so I think I may try it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Addison Lynne View Post
    Gardening is sort of my 'real job'. I have apples trees, and grape vines. Raspberry & blackberry bushes. Strawberries & herbs plus flowers including roses, hydrangeas, 3 kinds of Dahlias, 4 types of sunflowers, 9 different lily's and a white weeping cherry tree. Plus other flowering bulbs and landscape plants. Yearly I grow corn, a salad garden, beans, peas, potatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, zucchinis, 4 kinds of peppers including ornamental's, heirloom tomatoes, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkins and I'm probably forgetting a bunch. I love this thread! I could talk about gardening all day!
    Please adopt me! Lol that all sounds beautiful. Are your hydrangeas blue or pink?

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    My last house I had a small yard. So we had a blackberry bush, raspberry bush, and grapevine that 'belonged' to my daughter. We also had 4 types of tomatoes and 2 types of peppers. My mom was constantly outside moving flowers around.

    My current yard is huge. About 1/2 an acre, IN TOWN! It currently has a GIANT black berry bush in the back corner (My daughter picked berries for weeks off of it last year) and a couple of random flower beds full of all sorts of flowers. The last owners were a retired couple, so a lot was already done to the yard, but it doesn't match my vision for MY yard. I started to slowly move things around when it got nice out, but I have to wait for stuff to start growing so I know what is even in the yard. I prefer more organized beds that I can identify various plants, not the hodge podge I currently have.

    I have plans for several raised garden beds for various vegetables, herbs, and flowers. We want to cut back on our grocery bills, if possible, and our own garden is the way to do it. I'd like to be able to eventually handle a vegetable garden large enough to either sell or donate throughout the season too. I want to add a resting area/butterfly garden near the bird feeder and tree in the side yard. I also want to figure out if I can safely put a few bat houses back there because we have so many bugs in the late summer. (We're only a few blocks from a few farm fields) I have so much work that can be done in the yard, and I love it.

    I'm glad that gardening is something that doesn't have to be done RIGHT NOW. I can take the time and gradually perfect my vision over a whole summer or years. Things aren't permanent. I can remove things that I don't like. This reminds me. I need to get to a store and buy up some tulips and daffodils. I like having blooms all seasons, and I saw that I have like zero spring flowers...

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    I've grown my own veggies and berries for years. I learned the hard way to focus on leafy greens ( I just planted mine Saturday ) and vine grown veggies. Those will be planted in three weeks. My soil has way to much clay and not enough sand for root vegetables - carrots , radishes etc.

    You can use seeds but I've been planting seedlings.

    I literally started from scratch with bales of peat moss and mostly horse manure I was able to get cheap from a horse farm in New Jersey. I've been making my own compost for years - Get a large trash barrel - line it with a contractor bag - dump in grass clippings and organic garbage - potato and other peelings ( go easy on the coffee grounds ).
    In October I dig out my garden space and bury the compost and then cover it over.

    I could use a little help - I have had lousy luck with cucumbers. My neighbors all get beauties but most of mine die and what fruit I do get is small and shriveled. ( O.K. O.K. Everybody have a giggle at the obvious joke Ha Ha. ) Now seriously - Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong or should be doing ? I plant in full sun with a trellis for the vines to climb up ?

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