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What are planting in the garden?

I am so curious what everyone is planning on doing?

seeds,
flowers,
Veggies,
Both....

Brand new garden, already existing garden,
a little of both.......
got your eye on a pond, dirt or pre~form?

a statue?

Weezie

Here's my Veggies that I am planting:

corn (golden cross bantam hybrid)
corn (early golden bantam)
corn (gold 'n pearl_
radish (early scarlet globe)
carrots (chantenay)
sunflowers (mammoth russian)
peas (green arrow)
peas (alaska)
pole beans (kentucky blue)
zucchini (grey)
zucchini (black beauty)
zucchini (round)
squash (lebanese white bush)
squash (straightneck early yellow)
acorn squash ( table queen)
green peppers (california wonder)
peppers (grand bell mix, orange, purple, yellow, etc.)
jalapeno peppers (jalapeno early)
banana peppers (sweet banana)
pickling cucumbers (national pickling)
pickling cucumbers (market more)
swiss chard (bright lights)
leaf lettuce (black seeded simpson)
leaf lettuce *romaine type* (paris island cos)
lettuce (mesclun mix)
spearmint
onions (white lisbon bunching)

and Pumpkin (atlantic giant)

Ooh yeah, tomatoes tooooo!!
rutgers
celebrity
sweet 100's
beef master
beef steak
lemon boy

And here's my flower List:

African Daisy
Lobelia *Crystal Palace Purple*
Cosmos *Sea Shells Mixed Colors*
Cosmos *Single Sensation Mixed Colors*
Amaranthus *Love~Lies~Bleeding*~A. Caudatus
Swan River Daisy
Tithonia Torch *Mexican Sunflower*
Salvia *Bonfire*
Bachelor Button *Blue Boy*
Sweet Pea *Old Spice Mixed*
Morning Glory *Dwarf Early Call*
Morning Glory *Dwarf Blue Ensign*
Morning Glory *Choice Mixed Colors*
Nasturtium *Gleam Hybrids Mixed*
Nasturtium *Dwarf Alaska Mixed Colors*
Calendula *Pacific Beauty*
Snapdragon *Dwarf Magic Carpet*
Snapdragon *Tall Deluxe Mixed Colors*
Coleus *Rainbow Mix*
Portulaca *Moss rose*
Balsam *Camellia Mix*
Pansy *Swiss Giants*
Canterbury Bells *Campanula*
Cleome *rose Queen*
Bachelor Buttons *Cyanus Double Mixed Colors*
Sunflower *Mammoth Russian*

Hey-this is good-start to plan things out-I keep thinking and thinking but not writing anything down-I need to start planning-anyway-I have a border dug from last year, about 20 feet long, not too wide-maybe 5 feet at the widest spot-it's pretty much empty except for a few bulbs and misc. stuff. Between there & the back of the house, where I'm going to dig a border, about 15-20ft long, 4 feet wide-I'm going to purchase a "garden" from bluestoneperennials.com. It's something like 60 plants, 25 varieties, for $85. I'm also trying to choose a couple of shrubs for those areas too. I would like to find some interesting stuff for the front near the fence. The front of the house is just a nightmare and we need to rip out several shrubs that are just too old and mishaped. Then for the vegies: tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, eggplants, lettuce, carrots-that might be it-oh ya-and pumpkins-I have a real sunny spot along my front fence that I plan to fill with pumpkins and gourds-I may even try to do one of those GIGANTIC pumpkins just for fun. Do any of these vegies need to be started from seeds indoors? If so, I'd better get moving. I've got a lot of work cut out for me. We bought the house almost 5 years ago and haven't really addressed the landscaping very much. Planted a nice little Japanese maple in the very front corner, plus some peonies and scabiosa nearby. My 3yr old loves to dig, so I'm hoping to start putting lots of hours in out there-so much digging-yikes! Anyway, I'm done rambling-that's what I plan to do-I have to try to wade through the snow and get some pics-we'll see how it goes-wish me luck!

morning, whast am I gonna plant........well I will plant carrots, kentucky blue bush green beans. I tasted calalloo when we were in Jamacia this Feb so I am going to grow that stuff,lol. I will do the usual green onions and radishes, tomatoes both beefsteak and roma so when I can my salsa I'll have that stuff, jalepenos. red peppers I just love red peppers. Lettuce, and the rest of the salad stuff I grow.
Am going to make a new kitchen herb bed this year. so I will be planting oregano, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil, dill, parsley, french tarragon so far. the right side of my yard I am going to transplant the climbing rose for the focal point then put in some peonies ont he sides of that, going down the fence at the corner I all ready have lilys. the front section is the shed and I am thinkin to put morning glories on the posts for the roof.
The left side of my yard will be a flower bed. It also holds my dwarf apple tree. an azaelea in fornt of that, and grapes down in the corner, I will fill it in with all kinds of flowers both by seed and by started plants. Between the apple tree and the azalea is the spot for Bandit, she needs her cool spot for when she is supervising my work,lol. the deck is going to be redone this year so Iwill wait til that is done before I even put anything in there. the crew tends to , oh shall we say, not see my plants. I lost 15 mums in front cuz of that. so that si what I am gonna do for a start.

Elfie/ Elfinone

Hi all! I also ordered a few plants from Bluestone Perennials ( butterfly bushes, a honeysuckle vine, and some wegelia). On top of those there's plenty for me to do. Here goes:
hibiscus (about 20)
oleanders
golden dewdrops
allamanda
elephant ear philos
snow-on-the-mountain bushes
red sister cordylines
four o' clocks
gardenias ( )
miniature roses
shrimp plants
Turnera buttercups
holly bush
tibouchinas
butterfly bushes
Confederate jasmine
devil's backbone
Mexican sunflowers
Mexican petunias
Mexican heather
crotons
periwinkles
flamingo flower
pentas
ferns
impatiens
more coleus
polka dot plants
poinsettias
black & blue salvia
copperleaf
red/green caladiums
Stargazer lily
phlox
nasturtiums

If I'm forgetting anything, too bad! lol

I am planting flowers vegies and fruit:

strawberries,
sugar baby watermelon,
cantiloupe,
black diamond watermelon,
potatoes white
red onions
white onions
green onions
carrots
2 types peas
2types green beans
tomatoes beef steak
cherry tomatoes
broccoli
cabbage
lettuce
bell peppers
squash zuchini (spelling?)
pumpkin
corn
2 types cucumbers

i just can't remember everything i'm not at home i am in town right now but i live out in the country with the old old counrty style of living:
cuting and spliting wood for heat and cooking oil lamps for light hauling water you know like in the early early years canning food washing done in a tub with a scrub board the thing is i

Hi Rachel,
I would love to do all that you are doing in the country, *although I have often joked I probably would not have made a very good pioneer*
I can do all the work involved, but the first time I get sick and down with the flu bug, I'd be a goner, my seeds would die, the plants wouldn't of made seed and I'd be in the middle of nowhere's with an empty root cellar~ :rolleyes:

Have you ever read books by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch? Four Season Farm.com
He has a couple of books out, The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest, Winter Harvest Manual, Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes.
I haven't read any of his books, *too poor* :rolleyes: but he's got alot good, organic gardening ideas.. and he does the root cellar thing and I would just love to be their neighbor!!
I watched them on the TV series, Gardening Naturally, on The Learning Channel.

Weezie

Rozy,
I had gotten some of those seeds last year..
2 pks, they said they had 5 seeds each, wellll,
they had 10 seeds each and only 3 didn't sprout.
And I didn't get them into the ground until late (I'm slow) it was actually July :rolleyes: *I should back it up a bit, I had started them in 6 packs in my greenhouse in May/June, so, they were started, just not in the ground..

Any how, I did end up with 8 pumpkins, one was the biggest one I had ever grown, my husband had to lift it, now, it was by no means a prize winner but it was in my eyes and my kids... IT WAS BIG, I kept saying I can't imagine what size it would have been if I'd of gotten those plants in earlier...

Lot's of Compost, loose dirt, sunshine and a good fertilizer and some epsom salts.. and you're good to go and have lot's of fun!!!

Weezie

I've got lots of types of seeds to put out. Most I harvested last year and a lot I've received from my garden friends. Some annuals, some perennials. I also plant a few vegetables, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, okra. If it dries out enough I want to plant sunflowers and wild flowers in my field.

Gosh, I'm not organized at all.. I can't even remember what I'll I've bought to get in the ground..lol. I have started some seeds indoors..
BROCCOLI
Roma Tomatoes
Bell peppers
Chile peppers
Jalapeno peppers
Cayenne peppers
Lavender
Tiny Tim Tomatoes
Wonder Egg
Hollyhock
Angel Trumpet
Jimsonweed

I also still have to plant..
2 kinds of corn
2 kinds of green beans
carrots

bulbs..
can't remember what all now.. few different kinds... daylily, peacock orchid, glads, freezia.. a few others.

seeds from collecting..
4 o'clocks
mexican hat
purple coneflower
red poppy
baby's breath


and gosh, I'm so tired, I can't think of the other ones. Must be the sinus medicine I took earlier.. it's doing me in for the night.

Meg

Meg,
You better get roto~tilling that 4' x 300' garden!!!

Weezie

I have a huge garden, and many plans for it this year..it is snow outside, so there isn't much i can do there for the moment, but in grandpa's basement I have a lot of pots. The first plants have started to show themselves, mostly poppys and some one year plants. Last year I started on my kitchen garden. I will have to finish it this year..give it some compost and divide it into different sections. I have planted some herbs indoors. Some of them are:
allium schoenoprasum
origanum majorana
melissa officinalis
lavandula spica
hyssopus officinalis
monarda didyma
ocimum basilicum ++ other basilicums
borago officinalis
petroselinum crispum
I will get some more herbs when the snow dissapears. Can't wait have also planted some vegetables: tomato, corn, pumpkin, salad ++
I tried to sow some citrus plants, and they are growing fast

Hmm.. I could probably think of a few more of those if ya give me time..lol. Umm.. I'm not gonna plant the whole packet.. just a wee bit of each? Only because, I don't even have a 300' yard! I'm thinking 2 10' squares for the veggies, at most. And if it weren't for the corn.. I'd likely only be doing one square. Hubby just shakes his head at me.. like I'm crazy. I'll figure it out.. one way or another. LOL.

Oh yea, I forgot.. daughter had me save cantelope seeds from the one we just ate.. she wants me to plant them. And now, I'm thinking, I love strawberries & grapes so much, why should I keep paying top dollar for them at the store, if I could possibly grow my own?

Meg

You better scratch that Meg, make it 10' x 600'

Weezie

P.S. My raised beds are; 2 of them are 4' x 20' and 3 beds are 4' x 10'....
And I am cryin' for 2 more 4' x 20'.........
if I cry just a little bit more, I might be getting them...

You better scratch that Meg, make it 10' x 600' I was reading (I bought a couple books recently) that you can do this stuff in small spaces, just go UP with it. I hope I can make it work. I was only going to put in like 1/2 or 1/3 row of each of the peppers & tomatoes.. don't plan on using them a whoooooole lot. But want a whole row or 2 of the broccoli, a row of carrots, and the space hog.. the corn.. at least 3 or 4 rows (and remember, I have 2 kinds of corn.. this is why I'm needing 2 beds.) Then, there's the green beans.. I have both bush & pole beans.. the pole beans, easy, will climb up whatever.. but the bush beans.. well, I may have to limit how much of that I plant as well. I hope they turn out good, and I get a decent amount.. but I have NO IDEA how to can/freeze/store/whatever.

I am not sure how the frilly heck I'm supposed to do the cantelope.. that's the one that is stumping me. It was completely unplanned.. and it takes room for that. I am thinking of getting a hanging basket for strawberries, just to try it out.. but I really want a trellis or something that I can do grapes on.

flowers, seeds/bulbs/whatnot are just going whereever, all around the yard. Lavender, I am using as a flower.. just for it's looks & smell. I have 2 varieties.. Lady Lavender that is a quick to bloom in the first year, and True Lavender that can take 2 years to bloom. I was thinking of putting lavender in different spots in the yard. The only other thing is trying to figure out where to place all these bulbs I'm getting! I think I went overboard..lol. But don't tell that to Steve!

Meg

Meg,
Do you have a carpentar in your family??
You could make something along these lines, for growing "upwards" with your strawberries???
strawberry tower

Then for your corn, you can plant your pole beans up them.. Just make sure the corn has a bunch of weeks head start, because the corn needs to be
strong to hold up the bean..
but inturn, the bean will "feed" your heavy feeding corn...
Stagger the plantings of corn and you will get succession crops of corn.. the next set of corn,
plant your peas on the sunny side of your corn.
That'll also help...
*will be semi~hard to see your "product" so search for them daily once they start producing.

And in the meantime, when your corn and beans are just starting, in between you can plant carrots and raddish's, the raddish's produce fast enough before the corn and beans/peas fill in to shade them.. and also, the carrots go down and don't compete with other roots...

I'd say you could do your cantalope up your chain link fence... maybe find Njoynit and see if she can shed some light on those, I think she's grown them up fences' or up a tree or something "up" before, I don't have a long enough season here for me to grow them..

I would personally hold on your grapes until you become a seasoned gardener....they need to be trained, and certain acidy soil and a place they can stay....

Maybe later you can think of having a pergola seating area, and put it under the arbor type thing for your grapes, so you've got two things in one.. picture of a grape arbor type. My grampy had one, 4 solid timbers for footings, and 4 in a square at the top, and then used a heavy gauged fencing at the base of one side, up the top, over the top and down to the bottom on the other side..That's it..
the plants wher planted on the out side of one side and trained and allowed to grow up to the top. Great pickin', I can taste them now...
Here\'s another style grape arbor
Yet another idea for a grape arbor

For your flowers, I went to the $1.oo store last year and got alot of pots for flowers...
Tried to find a good bargoon on dirt though..
that's the only problem, when you have alot of pots/containers and have to plant in them, is DIRT!

Weezie

Yea, you may be right about the grapes.. but you've given me a good idea what I want to do now for my patio. I wanted to put something growing, all around the patio that I plan to put in on the far end of the house.. by my basement door. Hubby wanted a screened in/covered/extra room kinda thing, but I wanted it open, with planting stuff all around. A small concrete/something patch, and a glider swing w/canopy, maybe a small table.. and some little lights for accent.. and plants, just surrounding it on the 2 sides & back & maybe even over the top. (We are getting a refinance loan & hoping that we have the cash available to do all these "upgrades".) Garage w/dining room over it- sliding door from that to deck & hot tub below. Patio, storm door for the front door, and privacy fencing.

So, perhaps the grapes will wait another year. And I still don't know about the cantelope..lol.

Meg

Woman overboard? I can go with that statement.

I got way to many seeds I think. But none of the packets tell me how much space I need to plant them.

And I'm not familiar with the plants for the most part so I don't really know how large they will get when they grow up.

I mean they tell me how far apart to plant them but without knowing how many seeds are in a packet that doesn't help much.

With luck my garden will include; Celosia (red velvet), Carnation (super giants mix chabaud) Honest, Baby's Breath, Chinese Lantern ( pot placed in ground so it can't bully the other plants) Torch lily, Ipomopsis, Zinnia, Dianthus, Amaranth, Moss rose, Chives, Mint, Bells of Ireland, Roma Tomatoes, Butterfly flowers, Ranunculus, Curled Parsley, Thyme, Cilantro, Marjoram, Cannas, Nasturtium ( i didn't know that was a form of watercress), marigold, green onions, hosta, peonies, tulips, caneldula, lettuce, bell peppers. See what I mean I'm sure I bought way to much. Way way to much. But how could I resist?

hi Wezzie no i have not read any of the books but i just might for the fun and the info in them. i have been out to the homestead planting and i till the land by hand no gas power roto tiller here just old fashion work, good for the body i have about 2 acers to plant, gonna make some jam this year too. the apple tree that is in my back yard is getting buds on it now and the apples are so good and juicy and make great apple pies. i need to go look for some recipes see ya laters

Rachel,
Have you ever heard of a Broadfork from Johnny\'s Seeds
Those are very to use and break up soil very
deep into the ground..
With out distrubing too much of the root system..

Weezie

unfortunatly, I am scaling down this year...I am exhausted and don't have the energy to fight the whiteflies (they won last year) I am sticking to my 3 raised beds for tomatoes, peppers, bell peppers, squash & eggplant. I am planning to try to start the landscaping project in the front of the house..just don't know how much I will get to do. My flowers are on the porch ready to be put in the beds but it is storming right now..so that will have to wait. I am extending the herb garden this year...that is what everyone gets for Christmas every year (and they love it!)So am going to add some new herbs. My strawberry bed is already lookin really good...I am excited about it.

flowers!!!!!

Enjoy yours for me, will you Vanessa???

Weezie

I will if they don't get blown away Weezie...we are under a tornado watch...I need to go rescue them before it gets really bad, but I have been making bread all day and haven't had a chance to stop and run out there yet.

I heard that this morning...
Your area, Central South...
Midsection, area, oh, I know I butched that
area where abouts....

But it was on the Today show this morning...
I thought of all of your around there.......

Banton down the hatches, and grab a hot cup of coffee and a gardening book.. :rolleyes:

Weezie

R O S E S!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

I'm also adding roses to the agenda this year...the "old man" wants to start "his" rose collection now (of course, ya know who's going to be the one taking care of "his" roses, lol).
What varieties are you planting, Sue? So far, we've got the Chrysler Imperial, Tiffany, Joseph's Coat (climber), which are already in the ground. We just picked up the Oklahoma, Redgold, White Lightning, and Sunbright.
I've had my eyes on the Don Juan climber, the Mr. Lincoln, and a bunch more, too. See, when I get roses, I can bring them home and tell the other half, "Look what I brought home for you!!"

Sue Z,
WAVE PATUNIA'S?????
Wanna see a realllllly neat picture I came acrossed a couple of days ago???

Ride The Wave Petunia Tree
***Find where in the second paragraph it says those words,
and right after it, it will say HERE,
click on that and it will show you HOW THEY MADE IT...

Seemed kinda easy and realllllllllllly neat!!!

Weezie

Now you have done it, Weezie. I have just got to have one of those! Wonder if I can get Jim to make me one after he finishes up his present "honey-do" list?

Dianna

Sheritoots,
There's a bunch of those Miniature rose's on QVC,
I think there was something like 10 of them for $26.35 plus shipping, they end up coming out to be around $3.50/$4.00 a plant..
Not tooooo bad of a deal...
I got them a couple of years ago..
And they are so pretty!!!
There's some tree rose's too!!!

Weezie

(if you go to the QVC page, find Program Guide, click on the yellow program guide in the middle...
And there will be a calendar, click on the 21st.
*(you will only be able to do that today, the 22nd) find Cottage Farms Made Easy...
(3rd one down.)
The tree rose's are second one down.

Weezie

Dianna,
I showed it to my husband too,
and said, My mother would absolutely
LOVE one of these........
I always get one of these looks :p :rolleyes: back!!!!
I said, but it's for my mother!!!!

I saw that and I was oooooooooh, LOOK AT THAT!!!

Weezie

hummmmI just dig in my seed bag everynite and pull out a hand full to plant the next day,

I've got strawberrys planted, marigolds (around my front porch) Hollyhocks, daisys, I moved a wagon full of bulbs one day this week. (Ashley helped, she told me the ones I was planting were no good because they didn't have blooms --she only want to plant the ones with blooms til a bee got after her then she stopped helping.

I still want to plant some tomatoes, but I'll get a plant from wally world. I'll cheat and get a big one

I have alot of stuff that will come back from last year.
oh yeah got 2 new rose bushes out too. and those rosemary bushes hubby got. got those out of the house finally.

guess that's all. I've got my patch ready for my gourds but haven't planted them yet.

I have a pile of bulbs by driveway at gate to plant tomorrow.
varieous daffs
agapanthus
iris some white others will know when blooms
cannas
ferns
lillys
paper whites
alluims
some shrub with yellow flowers kinda like the bridal wreth spiera
a hawthorn tree
variegated vinca
& is no telling what else.we dug a whole pick up bed full with tail gate down and was full to the top of bed.we dug for 1 hour 40 minutes.Then I grabed some waterlillys out of lake.I transplanted 6 hibiscus seedlings,some catnip,some shrub with red flower& some EE& red petunias.
And the kids are out of school for the next 10 days.....THEN they go back for 38 days till out for summer..We are NOT counting days out for summer.

I shoveled cow manure ALL day! Do you think it is possible that hubby PLANNED his back surgery to get out of doing this FUN gardening stuff? (just kidding) Got it home and am ready to roll. Tomorrow....

I raid rabbit manure from my neighbor.they haven't had rabbits in 5 yrs so is already useable.I get 55 gallon trash can at a time.actually time to finish emptying mine so can go re fill.They have a hog so will have different manure soon.I been moveing the hog-poo to sunny spot in yard and will work on that stuff this winter.in 2 more weeks we'll kill the last hog.His name is bacon,his sister ham met the pan& oven in january.& another neighbor has volenteered his horse manure(good on cannas)I'll also be getting some chicken eggs from my sis in TN soon& will produce chicken manure(suppose to be good on citris)

Hey being he had surgery....he has to bring you drinks& rub your back..ha HA dr orders

Good morning, good morning, good morning

My shipment of yellow dawn tulips arrived from Brecks. Part of the coupon stuff I bought. I really liked the way they packaged it. Anyway out to the garden beside the red velvet celosia it went. Then I attacked the clay/burmuda grass conglomerate on the shady side of the tree. I will get a place for the hosta and peonies even if it is one inch at a time.

I don't know if this will work but I'm thinking about stakes and plastic bags to reinforce the slope of my weed patch so I can start a second level above the first? There is enough clay in the soil that it stays in place pretty well. And although I would love to use rocks/bricks/fencing I don't have any money to spend. Am I cookoo?

gourds and zinnias planted today. I heard somewhere that the zinnias would help to keep bugs off the gourds. So the gourds went on one side of my trellis wire and the zinnias on the other side.

Oh Suzydaze...I hadn't heard that about zinnias, I have heard that marigolds are good bug flowers. I was shooting to get my zinnias out today but ended up cleaning out the strawberry bed (has a ton of blooms) and digging 2 lawn bags of cannas! Had to go to my friend's house and bag 4 bags of cedar shavings (my mulch)and had to seperate my lamb's ear, then re-worked my front yard bed...til dark. Still have lantenna to put out tomorrow if it doesn't storm like they are saying it will and have to till a new spot for the million cannas I dug up! I'm whooped!

Wow Vanessa were you ever busy.

After the clay/burmuda grass/weed war this morning I noticed something about the incline. It has a knoll sticking out of it. So I wondered over that way and dug around a bit. It looked pretty good so I planted the peonies on it. While I was out there doing that a lady came by and asked if I was planting marajuna. Strange people in this here world there certainly are. I told her no hoping she wouldn't be back tonight trying to smoke the dirt. Next a guy and his dog came by. He was very interested in the tulips since he over wintered his and they weren't as big as mine. Hope the tulips are still there tomorrow. I'm beginning to wonder if this garden was a good idea. If I work my tail off and just as it starts to bloom someone comes by and destroys it I'm going to be horrible hurt.

I sound paranoid, but who takes their dog out in the car to come to a parking lot to let it do it's business.

Vanessa,

Yep, I heard from one of those gardening shows that the zinnias would help keep the bugs off. I've got pleanty of zinnnia seeds. I plucked off all my dead heads last fall and tossed in some shoe boxes and set on shelves in my storage room, so ashley and I popped them all open and got the seeds ready. I planted chaf and all. I know the marigolds help with the bugs too, I live so far out I need all the help with the bugs I can get.

are you getting rained on yet? Looks like the rain is almost here. all I need for easter, more rain.

'wave petunia tree'


Ooooohhhhhhhh Weezie, how unique!!!

Right now, I'm just tidying up the lot - I've been able to work the last two days. The temperature is going up fast in Toronto.

7 to 8 tomorrow, and 12 to 14 by Friday. Whew! Hope it doesn't go too fast - the snow is still melting and we don't want floods all over the city.

I'm uncovering some of the stuff I protected with racks.

Easter Sunday morning I'm going down to the beach to collect some more flat stones.

I hope you have a blessed EASTER, Carly

yep Suzydaze...the rain hit yesterday and hasn't stopped yet! I was sure hoping to have another good day to get the garden in line...but, no such luck...we are flooded now...wont be able to get in the garden for a while now...unless I dog paddle!

Vanessa,

Knee deep in water here all over the place, now where did I want that swap garden?? I moved blubs today they pulled right up out of the dirt, never let a little thing like water stand in the way of my gardening .

I went to wally world today they are hiring here, I put in for the summer, running my test right now to see if I pass everything

WWWOWWWW!!!

I am soooo intimidated and impressed by these lists of things everyone is planting!!!! I am the newest of new "gardeners" (if thats what you call what it is I am doing ), I will be very impressed with myself if I get 2 or 3 things in the ground this year!!! If any of you have any advice, I have a tiny (2' by 6') bed out front that is acidic due to the pine tree in front of it and partially shady. I need something easy, others have suggested a couple of things including Zinneas which sound great to me. I am in a 5b zone.

Nurse Kate,
Everybody's got to start out slow...
When I did my first garden, when I was probably 10??? My mom had gotten me the seeds that were
in the those roll out mats... I scratched the dirt, put some rocks around in a circle,
found some really good dirt from the bunny~poop pile, forrest finds *like dead tree and decomposing leaves* and rolled the mat out,
and watered...
Mine was full of zinnia's, big~tall ones'..
I was so proud of my self..
That was UMPTEEN years ago, and have advanced my gardening skills 10 fold since then.

And even though I have been gardening for a bunch of years now, I just did seeds for the FIRST TIME last year, and quite proud of my self for my success rate..

So, don't be so down on your self, you'll be a
gardener on a grand scale in no time flat..
Just takes a wee~bit of patients, alot of experimenting, a bunch of failures, a bunch of hours reading and learning and enjoying a wonderful time..

Don't give up, even if you have a set back or two, *or three* that's bound to happen...
You'll find your niche of gardening and then go on to be one of those gardener's posting allllll those things to garden with and then be able to help another new gardener into spring planting...

Weezie

P/S Welcome to The Garden Helper's Forum by the way, we are very glad you found us!!!!

They have the zinnia that are shorter if you want to do those rather than the big ones but I think they like sun. Peonies are a personal favorite of mine and I planted some for the first time this year. They like partial shade and 6.5 to 7.0 ph which is alittle acidic. And they come in some lovely colors. I had hoped to intersperse them with some hosta but it didn't work out that way for me. The hosta are more leaf than flower although they do bloom. but the leaves are varigated and very pretty. They also like shade. I had some lily of the valley up in Washington state when I lived there and they did well planted underneath a quince bush, but they don't bloom for very long. Primroses love shady spots but they are an annual would that be a problem? They come in a variety of colors.

Well heck, shoulda put my tomato and pepper list in here instead of the seed exchange section. Major faux pas. Ok campers, just to be clear, unfortunately because I wanted to grow out a ton of new varieties this year and lacked the funds to get tons of seed for each, I don't have enough seed to share with all of you for this year. That's the bad news. The not perfect but better news is that I'm planning on bagging blossoms from these plants so I can grow them close together and still save true seed for next year. The reason why it's not perfect news is that this is the first time I'll be trying this so I can't guarantee that all/most/some of that experimental seed will indeed be true. If some of you would like to try some untried newbie seed, I'll post what I've got at the end of the summer and we'll go from there. Sooo to make a long story longer, if you want to know what I'm growing this season, check out the seed exchange area (for the tomatoes and peppers). I can post the rest of our garden plans (in here now that I know where to put it properly, lol) if there's interest.

Sigh,
Julianna

Julianna,
If you want us to move it, just let one of
us know... not a problem moving it for you!!!!

Weezie

Woo-woo, planting time!! What we've all been waiting for . . .

I went to the nursery a couple of weeks ago and stuffed my truck full of

Azaleas
Indian hawthorne
Eleagnus
Dwarf yaupon holly
Aucuba
Gardenias
Fountain grass
Dracaena marginata
Marigolds (Inca Gold)
Impatiens

and spent the last two weekends planting (ouch, my aching back) in between rain showers (and a couple of torrential downpours).

Lowe's had some very nice Boston fern hanging baskets that I couldn't pass up, so four of them are now hanging on the porch. It didn't take long for the wrens to find them, it's neat to watch them zipping back and forth and hopping about on the porch railings.

Everything is in the ground now except for the azaleas and fountain grass. I have to start my next big project of building a raised bed for the azaleas this weekend because the ground is way to rooty to dig (underneath a huge sweetgum tree). Still trying to decide what type of raised bed to build.

A couple of weeks ago I cut back all the monkey grass and liriope, they are now growing back furiously and are nice and green.

Is this the best season of the year, or what?

Weezie, prolly makes more sense for it to be in this area eh? I'm all for making things clear and unconfuzzled for people.

Yippie!!!!

One of the yellow dawn tulips is flowering. I didn't know some tulips had yellow red leaves/stems?

More of the marigold seedlings are comming up too.

And I found a home for the 40 extra roma tomato plant seedlings that came up (boy did I over plant that one).

Juliana,
What I'll have you do is,
You go back and copy and paste your post in the
other section, and re~post it in here...
That'll have YOU posting it,
and then I'll go back and delete it for you..

Weezie

wooohoooo.....i finally did it!! i planted some pink moon flowers, moon flowers, cardinal climber, back eyed susan vine, and my favs...4o'clocks!! but i forgot to soak them i have more, so will soak the next batch....is it suppose to be warm h2o? and fer how long?

Linda

Just seein' the green pop through the dirt for my bee utiful day lilies was blessing enough, but now getting to go out and play in the dirt and fuss around with things is extra special. WOOHOOOO!!!

BLUE SAND....i wanna play in some!! <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

Linda

LOL Meijers had all the pastel colors, but at five bucks a pop, we only got one 40 pound bag for now. The grandkiddos just love it.

They pretend it's water for their lil' plastic boats till it gets warm enough for the real thang'. lol

Sue z

Wednesday I planted out my first tomato plants--protected by Wall-o-waters. I planted Brandywine, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter and 3 early tomatoes--Moskvich, New Girl, and Oregon spring. Yesterday, I got the trellis up for my first planting of peas and then planted 1/2 pound of Caselode peas. I've never tried them before, but they're supposed to have superior flavor. I'll plant my Eclipse peas in 3 weeks about when I plant my potatoes. Eclipse is a fairly new super sweet pea and it'll rot if the soil is too cool. I also planted 32 cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli plants.

I just downloaded some pics of what is growing in my yard(so far)...take a peek if you want.

March 2005


G-Mom

You need to check your link, G-mom! It said I wasn't logged in.....

Dianna

Oooops

Let me see if I can fix it

G-mom

OK...try this

March 2005

G-Mom

great pics g-mom thats some garden you've got there!!

Linda

I want a heart shaped bulb garden. But I am clueless.

What kind of bulbs, how close together, how do you do that?

Please, please, pretty please?

That would be so great on the incline I have.

I planted the hosta today, the package said 4 but there were six in there so I got a pretty good deal 6 for 5.00. Something is comming up in the celosia, red velvet area hope that's what they are and not weeds but I'll have to wait a bit, I've never seen the red velvet before so I don't know what it looks like when it is little.

Theres 3 different kinds of bulbs mixed together. I only know what one of them is...Rain lillies,the other 2 Ii'll have to post on here when they bloom. They are all small plants,only 5-7 inches tall and they all bloom at different times. The rain lillies bloom off and on all year.

6 for $5...thats a great deal! Where did you pick up on them?

I love the "red velvet"...they are just so...rich and elegant.

G-Mom

Great pics, G-mom! Now I am jealous.... Want to come help me fix mine as purty as yours is?

I never knew that aloe bloomed. Now I will be watching mine and expecting it to do more.

Dianna

Oh Geeeeeeeeeesh,
I haven't even planted the seeds to my pepper
plants yet!!!

Weezie

my peat pots have what apears to be mold on top......this just upsets me..;-(


Linda

I got the hosta at wal-mart. The package said 4 hosta's and appears to be the wal-mart brand (?). It said assorted colors but I think they were all the same type but I could be wrong. I don't know that much about them except they are pretty.

The red velvet is one I haven't see except on the packages but I had the other kind that look like feathers(?). And I really liked those, so when I couldn't find that one I bought this one.

I have a mess of ranunculus croms could I do something like the heart garden with them? I've never grown them before, but I did get the one that I planted to sprout finally lol. I believe the fact sheet I looked at said I could get up to 7 plants from each crom and I have about 20 croms. (went alittle crazy there).

I can't wait for it to dry up around here. I want to plant my veggie garden, tooooo.......

Dianna

I decided to also post my pepper list as there are quite a number of new varieties we're trying this year.

All of the tomatoes are Open-Pollinated, meaning if I save the seeds from them, they should breed true the following year, unlike Hybrids. Most of them are also Heirlooms. I'm planning on 1 plant per variety for each of the tomatoes except for Opalka (6 because we like lots of sauce). The peppers are a mix of Hybrids and Heirlooms. I'm planning on growing 4 plants of each pepper variety.


Tomatoes:

Paste:

Opalka, a Polish heirloom, supposedly sweet enough to eat out of hand (replaces San Marzano)

Purple Russian, dark, rich, very sweet

Power's Heirloom, pale yellow, 2-3" long

Orange Banana, one highly recommended for sauce

Yellow Bell, also highly recommended

Principe Borghese, the famous Italian variety used for making tomato paste and for drying

Black Plum, 2" even darker than Purple Russian, extremely prolific, growing up to 6' tall

Beefsteak:

Yellow Brandywine Platfoot Strain, supposedly the best-tasting large yellow, but needs 90 days to maturity so we'll see

Aunt Ruby's German Green, very large green type, spicy, scrumptious

Paul Robeson, thought by many to be the best-tasting "black" variety

Marianna's Peace, a favourite among many

Burracker's Favourite, one of the best-tasting bi-colours (yellow/orange with red streaks throughout the flesh)

Coustralee, an absolutely huge, very prolific, outstanding tasting red (some get 2-3 lbs each)

Misc:

Marmande, a French heirloom with mixed reviews, some claiming that the French soil has everything to do with the great taste and even importing French seed makes them taste like winter store-bought tomatoes..gotta see for myself though

German Red Strawberry, an oxheart-shaped tomato highly touted and prolific

Carbon, almost true black in colour, very dark, flattened med-size, super rich and delicious

Wonder Lights, canary yellow, shaped like a lemon

Costoluto Genovese, an Italian red heirloom, shaped like a flower, with many "pleats"

Hawaiian Pineapple, another bi-colour, said to taste almost tropical

Saladette:

Green Zebra, spicy with a tang, green with yellow stripes

Pale Perfect Purple, more pink than purple, very sweet and rich

Sutton, my only true white, and highly recommended

Northern Lights, a smaller, early-ripening bi-colour

Jaune Flammee, orange, ping-pong ball sized, with red flesh, like a blood orange

Black From Tula, beautiful dark purple

Cherries (in hanging baskets):

Sungold OP, open-pollinated version, orange, one of the sweetest of all tomatoes

Isis Candy, a bi-colour cherry

Black Cherry, dark purple, highly praised flavour

Green Grape, one of the favourite "greens"

Snow White, very sweet, white to pale yellow

Galina's Yellow, hailed as 100 times tastier than yellow pear and just as prolific

Earlies (in 5 gal buckets):

Matina, high-yielding, with taste like a beefsteak

Stupice, heirloom from the Czech Republic, pronounced stoo-PEECH-ka, full-flavoured

Sophie's Choice, from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on the large side for an early (avg 1/2 lb), sweet

Azoychka, Russian yellow, highly recommended

Silvery Fir tree, carrot-leaf foliage, very ornamental

Mr. Stripey (AKA Tigerella), red with yellow stripes

In Munchkin's Potager:

Whippersnapper, very small (full size is 2'), early-producer of 1/2 lb red globes

In BF's salad garden:

Speckled Roman, elongated version of Mr. Stripey, paste variety

Whew..


peppers:

Sweet:

Blushing Beauty, pale yellow with pink blush when ripe

California Wonder, yellow bell, late-maturing

Corno di Toro Rosso, red elongated Italian

Nocera Yellow Bell, yellow mid-maturing Italian

lilac Bell, medium purple, very sweet

Purple Beauty, dark purple, thick walls

Orange Sun, very sweet gourmet pepper

Hot:

Anaheim, mild, "veggie" salsa pepper

Serrano, our salsa "machine", very prolific, med heat

Hot Mix, mixture of several hot varieties

Purple Jalapeno, for making colourful salsa

White Jalapeno, ditto

Cubanelle, another "veggie" salsa pepper from the Caribbean

I hope this isn't too long-winded and is even mildly interesting for you all !

Ciao,
Julianna

PS Just an update since I did my original post of this a few days back in the wrong place...

Most of the tomatoes, peppers, and also eggplants have second leaves now. I've done a priliminary transplanting of 32 tomatoes, tomatillos (purple, giant yellow, and verde), and eggplants. The boyfriend is in charge of the peppers this year, so with the Munchkin's help, he'll be transplanting 16 of his pepper plants tomorrow. I do the first transplanting from peat pellets to small yogurt containers, the kind you put in a kid's lunch box. When they get too tall for those, another few weeks or so, they go into 16 oz plastic beer cups, the kind you get at a keg party.

I also have an entire flat of basil that sprung up in 2 days, lol. Yesterday morning, I planted a mixed flat of Giant Italian Parsley, Cilantro, French Tarragon, English Thyme, Greek Oregano, and Summer Savory.

tk....i bet the ranunculus would look great in a heart shape!!

man, julianna you one busy girl...that sounds like a fantastic garden!!

Linda

Still no actual 'new' planting going on, Weezie - a lot of vandalism around here lately, so I'm going to hold off on small bushes, shrubs, etc.

Besides, it's going to take me a while just to clean up that lot of ours. Jeff will be helping me of course, but I'm kinda' possessive about my gardening space now.

He ain't arguin', either. He won't let me do big stuff though - like hawking up those big patio stones. I'm going to do it anyway - I'm in really good shape this year.

I love doing things the men don't think women can do - hee hee!

Veggies:

Feldsalat (German lettuce seed from family in the 'old country')

collard greens

mustard greens

Teton spinach

Bloomsdale spinach

Malabar spinach

arugula

buttercrunch lettuce

Simpson lettuce

freckles lettuce

mesclun mix

celtuce stem lettuce

leaf lettuce

Swiss chard

bright lights Swiss chard

red heart radishes

early scarlt globe radishes

easter egg radishes

lemon cukes

straight eight cukes

bush pickles

land seaweed

bok choi

joi choi

brocolli

red cabbage

sweet corn

strawberry popcorn

poblan peppers

anaheim peppers

jalapeno peppers

'red peter' peppers

asst hot mix peppers

big bertha green peppers

bianca peppers

husky peppers

oriole peppers

Hungarian hot peppers

sheepnose pimento

tequila sunrise peppers

hershey peppers

tomatillas

pineapple tomatillas

scallions

leeks

black krim tomatoes

big boy tomatoes

sugar lump tomatoes

roma tomatoes

German strawberry tomatoes

beefsteak tomatoes

jelle bean tomatoes

brandywine tomatoes

sugar snap peas

snow peas

green beans

wax beans

edamame

pumpkins

zucchini

summer squash

spagetti squash

acorn squash

ultra hip squash

eight ball squash

cream of the crop squash

Siberian kale

horseradish

asperagus


Fruits:

Cantalope

sugar baby watermelon

elderberries

blackberries

blueberries

huckleberries

mulberries

strawberries

currants

Herbs:

lime basil

cinnamon basil

Thai basil

sweet basil

African blue basil

lettuce leaf basil

purple ruffles basil

lemon balm

peppermint

lemon mint

orange mint

spearmint

chives

garlic chives

cilantro

Vietnamese cilantro

chamomile

tarragon

marjoram

greek oregano

mother of thyme

dill

Florence fennel

rosemary

tri-color sage

bee balm

soapwort

neem


stevia

borage

feverfew

artemesia ansinthe

sweet Annie

parsley

patchouli

anise-hyssop

bay laurel

black cohosh

coltsfoot

curry

bloody dock

dong quai

ginko biloba

siberian ginseng

gotu kola

henbane

henna

horehound

lovage

lion's ear

boldog paprika

blue sage

St John's Wort

skullcap

lemongrass

valerian

yarrow

munsted lavender

English lavender

Provence lavender


flowers/plants:

dahlias

foxgloves

chinese forget-me-nots

azaelias

hostas

lilies

pansies

love-lies-bleeding

coriopsis

gladiolas

canna lilies

marigolds

fountain gass

sweet potato vine -grren and purple

clematis

rudbeckia

purple millet magesty

snow-in-summer

red sedum

yellow sedum

roses (4 kinds)

sunflowers (8 kinds)

Bonfire salvia

hens-and-chicks

Hollyhocks

bottlebrush

hydrangea

zinnias

snapdragons

lambs ear

coleus

dusty miller

phlox

butterfly bush

butterfly weed

I think that's it...well, at least until I see something at a nursery that I just can't live without.... :rolleyes:

That never happens...

Gisela

When I first started reading this thread, I thought you meant, what are we planting at the moment (pansys, primroses, peonies, lilacs) not what we plan to plant. But I am getting inspired by everyone's lists! I am creating a herb garden (I have cilantro and parsley so far) and want to put out lots of old fashioned flowers in a cottagy look. I only plant tomatoes to eat and sometimes pumpkins just because they are easy for the kids. As soon as I say that, someone will give me some new variety of something and I will have to plant some just to see what happens!!!! Oh and I am decreasing the size of a giant tulip garden as we have to drive over part of it to fill the oil tank for heat. Anyone want some bulbs???? I haven't a clue what colors or types I have as yet.

Fern

fernie

Put them in the seed exchange they will be gone super quick.

Gisela, where did you find Purple Ruffles Basil seed? I can't seem to find it up here in Canada. It's a wonderful variety, especially in Caprese Salad. I've got Gigante d'Italia, Purple (serrated leaf), and Minette in a flat right now, almost ready for transplanting.

Tarragon bit the dust yesterday. Apparently it hates hot/humid conditions and it was still in early germination stages in a jiffy domed mini-greenhouse. Very sad, will re-sow. English Thyme, Summer Savory, and Greek Oregano are doing ok so far though..very early stages. Fingers crossed. I have mixed results when starting herbs from seed. Some are way easy, throw in seed, ignore, and they thrive..others you have to say a rosary every night and they still might croak.

To the person who posted growing German Red Strawberry tomatoes, that's a great variety. I'm growing it for the first time this year as well. It's supposed to be quite prolific, something the oxhearts aren't known for.

Do I dare mention the chicken dance for finicky plants? Probably not........

Funny you should ask...I get almost all of my herbs from Richters Herbs in Goodwood, Ontario! They're online, but have them send you a catalogue -- it's the best for herbs.
I'm the one with the German tomatoes -- my first time with those too, so I'm glad to hear that they're so prolific. <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

Gisela

Gisela, interesting, Richter's has Purple Ruffles Basil seed eh? I sure didn't notice last year but then we got the Richter's seed at Humber Nursery in Brampton and got plants from Richter's Nursery itself. I'll definitely check that out when we go up there for plants this year.

I'd like to see an Ontarian gardener who can get good results with planting rosemary from seed. It's so weird for me as I'm orig from California where people grow rosemary HEDGES and it's used as an ornamental in parking lots. Sigh.

woohoo the nasturtium sprouted. It sure took a long time but they are up. I'm looking for forward to see that container when all the plants mature.

WOW, Gmom! Your garden is GREAT!!

This year I am not going to plant much, well that's what I say every year :rolleyes: . I have alot of plants that have to be divided and moved around.

I plan on planting yellow bush beans, scarlet runner beans,pickling cucumbers,lettuce,tomatoes,green peppers,onions.Also some rhubarb.

I have daffodils to plant. Black eyed susans,ruby eclipse sunflowers, regular sunflowers, maybe some lillies,lavender.

That's my for sure list. I know there will be more. Those garden centers just call my name.

Added 8 glad bulbs to my garden today. I've forgotten the color I ordered so it will be a suprise when they bloom.

Let's see....I bought 4 plants yesterday for a dollar a piece on clearance.....2 azaleas, and 2 wandering jews!!!!!! 4 bucks for 4 plants..... I also bought 10 daylilies yesterday. The wandering jews are super healthy too--nothing wrong with them--they were from the huge nursery about 10 miles away. The azaleas were on clearance from walmart on a rack screaming "RESCUE ME"... I found 2 that looked healthy with new growth and I just couldn't pass them up!

I have a lot of seeds growing--marigolds, nasturtium, four o clocks, morning glories, cosmos, sunflowers, dahlias, hyacinth vine, oh and about 8 other kinds that my mind has went blank on right now. I planted about 50 corms and bulbs the other day....about 6 different kinds, including glads and freesias, and some I can't remember...lol. And I also planted 3 more clematis....so that takes me up to 5.

Plus I already have in my yard 5 hydrangeas, 4 azaleas, a burning bush, 3 veronica, pinks, tickseed, 2 sedums, penstemon, bleeding heart, Hollyhocks, foxglove, dusty miller, tulips, daffodils, and 2 hostas. Now I just need to fill in the beds with annuals and vines......

Dad dug me up 2 shrub like things the other day and I planted them, I'm not sure what they are--I always thought they were some kind of peony...but hopefully they take okay--last year he gave me 2 and they died....

Nothing better than playing in the garden at this time of year when it's not too hot, and it's not too cold.....I love it!

Yesterday I planted all my potatoes (13 varieties) and set up a trellis and seeded my second planting of peas.

No gardening today, except for watering some flats of seedlings and a few potted plants. I went to Greensboro NC to tour the Bicentennial and Bog gardens and the Greensboro arboretum.

Well, it's been in the upper 70's here,
and for April, that's just about unheard of....
So, I've been outside loving and charishing every
second... BUT ALAS, IT'S SAYING SNOW FOR THE WEEKEND!!!! :rolleyes: :p

But, I have planted peas and 2 kinds of lettuce's, Black Seeded Simpson and Romaine variety...

And in the greenhouse, I'd started some jalapeno's, cayenne slim's, green peppers, onions, zucchini's, accorn squash,
and 2 kinds of corn.
But I have no heat in the GH, soooooooooo I may not get anything, I have those little~GH's
inside the big~little GH, not sure if it will be enough heat kept inside though... we'll see....

Weezie

I don't know, but in service we had potbellied stoves with some kind of very slow burning fuel that didn't put out a lot of heat but enough. That and a vent and appropriate vent plate and maybe it would be good? I wish I had additional information on the heating fuel but I don't. Someone who served in Supply just might. Or maybe one of those Army Navy Stores would. It's just a thought and probably not a very good one.

Jim and I have tomatoes, radishes, peas, corn, peppers, beans, cucumbers, okra, squash, and marigolds sprouting up in our garden. We put it a little farther from the house this year so we are hoping the deer don't take more than a fair share. We put the new gazebo close to where last year's garden was.

This morning when it warms up a little I am planting some more irises (purple), rancunulus, and sparaxis in the front bed next to the house. I'd like to have a cut flower garden mixed in with my lorapetalum and heather bushes.

Dianna

It got down into the 30's last night,
and is scheduled to be in the 30's over nights
for the next week...
Welllllllllll, it is only April, so I was
wishful thinking I guess............

Weezie

Aha!!!!

Something likes the weed patch. I planted a Dusty Miller earlier in the week and it's growing!!!!! About doubled in size as a matter of fact. I am pleased since it is growing in mostly dry clay. I ran out of potting soil and my local wally world doesn't have compost yet. Nor do they have mulch yet. When I bought it I thought I had a lambs ear but the tag says dusty miller. It's ok by me as long as it will grow.

I also put down the nicotine tea this morning around the peonies that are probably dead. The ants check out that area more often than I do so I figured; since, I made it I might as well use it.

The zinnia, portaluca, and calendum look like they are going to make it so far. They aren't growing fast but they aren't turning brown either.

Weezie, I am sending you wishes for better growing weather!

Tammy, I think that I might have to try some dusty miller down at the end of the driveway after reading your post. There is an awful lot of clay there.

Dianna