How Does Your Garden Grow?

[missy'smom]

With Spring just around the corner, how does your garden grow? What's afoot in the garden right now? What are your plans and dreams for your garden(flower, herb, or vegetable)?

Here, the daffodills started blooming this week and the lilacs are unfolding their first green leaves. My neighbor has these tiny yellow daffodills that I admire. My iris weren't bloomimng last year-only 3 blooms, so I divided and re-planted them and am anxiously waiting to see if my work paid off. I plan to add a few more herbs this year-lemon thyme, variagated oregano-for show, and regular oregano and rosemary if I can find a place for it. After a freind gave me tomato plants last year and I fought with the birds for them and worked so hard to tend them, I said I wouldn't grow them this year. But they were so good. My husband, who isn't a big vegetable eater, and I can still taste them and miss them so I may have to reconsider. I will grow more okra this year. The tender, baby pods were SO good, fresh picked from the plant and cooked right away. I will plant zucchini sooner. Last year I planted too late and the bees had already gone and they never got polinated or produced fruit.

[ranger]

With Spring just around the corner, how does your garden grow? What's afoot in the garden right now? What are your plans and dreams for your garden(flower, herb, or vegetable)?

Here, the daffodills started blooming this week and the lilacs are unfolding their first green leaves. My neighbor has these tiny yellow daffodills that I admire. My iris weren't bloomimng last year-only 3 blooms, so I divided and re-planted them and am anxiously waiting to see if my work paid off. I plan to add a few more herbs this year-lemon thyme, variagated oregano-for show, and regular oregano and rosemary if I can find a place for it. After a freind gave me tomato plants last year and I fought with the birds for them and worked so hard to tend them, I said I wouldn't grow them this year. But they were so good. My husband, who isn't a big vegetable eater, and I can still taste them and miss them so I may have to reconsider. I will grow more okra this year. The tender, baby pods were SO good, fresh picked from the plant and cooked right away. I will plant zucchini sooner. Last year I planted too late and the bees had already gone and they never got polinated or produced fruit.

I have a pretty good sized garden (40 by 60 yds.) that last year wnt to %&*#. Its kind of far away from the house and I was tied to the bathroom last summer, so am really looking forward to spring.I grow mostly potatoes, corn, beans,peas, salad stuff, herbs, and od course, tomatoes. I think that between my new diet and the economy, the gardens success will be more important than ever! We also have a cherry tree, pear trees, and wild berries. There are all kinds of flowers around the house that are starting to pop up making me so happy. I live in town, but am thinking about getting a few cickens. What do you think? My garden is my art and religion. Susan

[Lisa16]

Here in Lake Wobegone we just got 4 inches of snow and it is currently -10. Daffodils you say?

Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream... I live in zone 3. I suffer from zone envy. Bad.

I love tulips myself and usually plant several hundred bulbs, but the squirrels get them or a late snow storm. And our growing season is so short! Sometimes the hydrangeas barely make it to flower before the first frost.

I long for a yard full of flowers, flowering bushes and trees! I have lilacs, hydrangea, dogwoods, spirea, rhododendra, azaleas, snowball bushes, rudbekia, shasta dairies, lilly of the valley, asian daylillies, hostas and sundrops. At least, that is the stuff that comes back.

I am saving my pennies to move to a warmer zone in retirement. Assimiong, of course, that I can retire.

:-) Happy spring to those where it has sprung.

[ranger]

Here in Lake Wobegone we just got 4 inches of snow and it is currently -10. Daffodils you say?

Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream... I live in zone 3. I suffer from zone envy. Bad.

I love tulips myself and usually plant several hundred bulbs, but the squirrels get them or a late snow storm. And our growing season is so short! Sometimes the hydrangeas barely make it to flower before the first frost.

I long for a yard full of flowers, flowering bushes and trees! I have lilacs, hydrangea, dogwoods, spirea, rhododendra, azaleas, snowball bushes, rudbekia, shasta dairies, lilly of the valley, asian daylillies, hostas and sundrops. At least, that is the stuff that comes back.

I am saving my pennies to move to a warmer zone in retirement. Assimiong, of course, that I can retire.

:-) Happy spring to those where it has sprung.

I thaught Lake Wobegone was a fictional place! I'm from Wisconsin, and thaught that I lived in Lake Wobegon, but only in my head! I now live in Ohio. Big fan of Garrison Keelor and gardening. Could it be true? Is Lake Wobegone real, or just wishful thinking? Susan

[missy'smom]

I have a pretty good sized garden (40 by 60 yds.) that last year wnt to %&*#. Its kind of far away from the house and I was tied to the bathroom last summer, so am really looking forward to spring.I grow mostly potatoes, corn, beans,peas, salad stuff, herbs, and od course, tomatoes. I think that between my new diet and the economy, the gardens success will be more important than ever! We also have a cherry tree, pear trees, and wild berries. Susan

I'm really sorry to hear that you didn't make it out to the garden last year but glad to hear that you are feeling well enough to tend it this year! It's very healing and does help with our diet. What kind of cherry tree do you have? I LOVE the tart cherries in pie!

[ravenwoodglass]

A little early for the outside here but my windowsills are starting to look pretty green. I have started heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, banana peppers, sweet peppers, rosemary, chives, cosmos, allysm(sp), sunflowers, blue morning glorys and white nightblooming 'morning glories' and of course sunflowers.

I have lilacs, rose, multiple varieties of thyme, mints, oregano, sage, daffy dillys, tulips, carpet phlox, lavander and daylilys just waiting to sprout. My strawberry bed should produce a lot this year and I really, really want spring to get here.

[purple]

I don't have a "green thumb"

But, our first crocus popped up today. We still have piles of snow in our yard and its 12 degrees at night.

That crocus is a yellow smiley face

[ranger]

I'm really sorry to hear that you didn't make it out to the garden last year but glad to hear that you are feeling well enough to tend it this year! It's very healing and does help with our diet. What kind of cherry tree do you have? I LOVE the tart cherries in pie!

The tree is an ancient tart red cherry tree. We lost half of it last year in a bad windstorm, but it still survives. I'm going to confess- I don't use the cherries! Maybe I'm to lazy to pit them all but, never mind that, the birds eat them before I can even get to them. But thats allright. The birds need to eat. This year, I may ask the birds if I can borrow some. A cherry pie mid-winter sounds good. Can't wait for warmth.

[ranger]

A little early for the outside here but my windowsills are starting to look pretty green. I have started heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, banana peppers, sweet peppers, rosemary, chives, cosmos, allysm(sp), sunflowers, blue morning glorys and white nightblooming 'morning glories' and of course sunflowers.

I have lilacs, rose, multiple varieties of thyme, mints, oregano, sage, daffy dillys, tulips, carpet phlox, lavander and daylilys just waiting to sprout. My strawberry bed should produce a lot this year and I really, really want spring to get here.

Sounds like you have a great garden. Iv'e never been able to start plants in my house- too dark, too small. Don't much like it , but I love the property. I've got a lot of the plants that you have, and am itching to get out there and work in the garden. I hope it goes better this year.

[Lisa16]

I thaught Lake Wobegone was a fictional place! I'm from Wisconsin, and thaught that I lived in Lake Wobegon, but only in my head! I now live in Ohio. Big fan of Garrison Keelor and gardening. Could it be true? Is Lake Wobegone real, or just wishful thinking? Susan

Hi ranger!

[Lisa16]

Woah-- sorry. I accidentally hit a button I didn't mean to.

I think we all live in Lake Wobegone. Actually GK says he modeled Lake Wobegone on Freeport, MN in Stearns county. Freeport is "the city with a smile." I actually live North of there, but Wobegone is a state of mind, afterall. :-)