The Official Gardening Thread

[Supafly]

I will completely rework the little garden in our backyard. Most of the yard is plastered with bricks, but just below my balcony lies a little patch of overgrown earth.

The old lady upstairs used to work it, but she is 93 and now she can't do this any more

I will grow some kitchen herbs, and maybe some vegetables.

 

[Facetious]

im gonna have to try that shaking thing. i had 3 small flowers fall off on their own which was really weird. im not sure what the means..

You are only watering them at the ground level, correct? Tomato plant foliage and blossoms generally hate getting wet.

Also, you mentioned wanting to plant star jasmine . .. When you go and shear it, it cums all over the place. You'll find out what I mean when you get there. :1orglaugh

 

[D-rock]

which is the dutch ginger spice cookies.

I thought a long time ago when they were adding in the feature to make all models and such in the FreeOnes database automatically link their pages to their names in post that there was a way mentioned to turn it off by the same types of code we use for everything else.

I forgot what it was and even though I searched I can't seem to find what code does that anymore. FreeOnes doesn't seem to have it listed. It's kind of annoying and I sometimes find myself editing post and rewording a sentence just to take a models name out I had no intention of putting in.

 

[RichardNailder]

Just got a call from my roommate - the hail last week fucked up the corn pretty bad and he had to replant. The corn is in the upper garden this year.

Here's a pic from last years garden:

 

[larss]

I have a few herbs - Basil, Parsley, Chives, Mint and Thyme.
I'm not sure how long they'll last though, as I seem to have a brown thumb. I love to cook with fresh herbs, but keeping them alive always appears to be my downfall.
Weeds, on the other hand, seem to thrive :dunno:

 

[RichardNailder]

I have a few herbs - Basil, Parsley, Chives, Mint and Thyme.
I'm not sure how long they'll last though, as I seem to have a brown thumb. I love to cook with fresh herbs, but keeping them alive always appears to be my downfall.
Weeds, on the other hand, seem to thrive :dunno:

Some herbs are harder to kill than weeds....

Dill Weed, Lemon Balm, Spearmint, Oregano all can overrun a garden if allowed too. I spent three years trying to get rid of dill weed and lemon balm that had overrun my back garden

 

[MissHybrid]

I love gardening and I grow most of my own fruit and vegetables. I have a well in the Veg garden which keeps everything moist in the heat of the summer.

I have shelves full of jam which I make each year and then give away, as I can't stand the stuff. Gardening photos coming up.

Miss Hybrid

 

[MissHybrid]

My secret to beating droughts.

Miss Hybrid

 

[MissHybrid]

I love having fresh fruit vegetables, straight from the garden.

 

[MissHybrid]

My climbing beans are ready to out this weekend. Onions and leeks from seed will be out too.

The new potatoes are the size of peas but in a couple of weeks I will be eating them with melted butter 10 minutes after digging them. Beat that sainsbury.

Miss whoreticulture

 

[lurkingdirk]

Petra - you'd be amazed what you can do with just a little space and a few clip-on light fixtures with full-spectrum grow bulbs. I have relatives in the Netherlands who do successfully harvest jalapenos and Beefsteak tomatoes without the aid of a greenhouse. Give it a try next year - start your seeds early indoors, and fertilize the hell out of them (not a hard thing for you to do, just take some of the bullshit you collect at work home...)


Last fall I convinced a local church that has a huge property that the best way for them to witness to their community was to create a community garden. They have amazing soil that I enriched with manure last fall and compost this spring. In addition to the community garden I now have a 40' x 80' plot for myself. Potatoes, peppers, beans, spinach, watermelon, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, cantaloupe, and zucchini. As well as a huge herb bed, featuring HUGE amounts of basil. I'm going to mass-produce pesto this fall.

Gardening = good.

 

[Kobra]

I wanna play in your garden Miss H

 

[SpexyAshleigh]

LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!!

I live in a high-rise condo, so no real garden, but I do have a huge balcony and I have tons of planter boxes full of herbs - parsley, dill, oregano, rosemary, basil, thyme. I also have a few topsy turveys full of diff kinds of tomatoes so hopefully those work out. I can't wait til I make enough money to buy or build a house in the country and can implement a real garden with lots of foodz!

 

[squallumz]

My climbing beans are ready to out this weekend. Onions and leeks from seed will be out too.

The new potatoes are the size of peas but in a couple of weeks I will be eating them with melted butter 10 minutes after digging them. Beat that sainsbury.

Miss whoreticulture

damn! you got a really nice garden going. what is that a cucumber? its massive!

we totally forgot about potatoes.. i grew those once a long time ago. yesterday i discoverer a tomato i didnt know i had. beefsteak. i cant wait to try it out.

 

[Shifty]

Gardening is ok, but I prefer routine yardwork.

 

[Facetious]

We are experiencing the coolest, most fall like condition spring here in recent memory, of course this is not good for the ag sector of the market.

Does anybody know what ever happened to the global warming scare?

 

[GodsEmbryo]

I only have dead burried bodies in my garden. No, wait I have no garden, that's the neighbours.

I have a cactus.

 

[MissHybrid]

I like strawberries that are tart myself. What I don't like are the strawberries that end up mostly white inside and hardly have any flavor to them. Strawberries would be something that's good to grow if you can do it because they tend to decompose a lot faster than most other fruit. The window to get good strawberries is smaller than most fruit and it's easier if you can grow it yourself.

I must admit, I like the same, home grown ones, with much more flavour.

 

[MissHybrid]

damn! you got a really nice garden going. what is that a cucumber? its massive!

we totally forgot about potatoes.. i grew those once a long time ago. yesterday i discoverer a tomato i didnt know i had. beefsteak. i cant wait to try it out.

It is indeed a cucumber. Since we joined the EEC cucumbers need to be straight. I prefer the curved ones, so I had to grow them myself.

I have just dug up my first potatoes of the year. I let all the ones I missed last year grow and than dig up loads of roots to get one meal but its worth it.

Kisses

Miss Hybrid

 

[RichardNailder]

I just got home from Europe and despite my best efforts - my fucking roommate killed my entire garden. Stupid fucker decided that if a little fertilizer was good - more was better and every single plant has nitrate burn so bad it's ether dead or will be in two days. Soil is so "hot" that only the marigolds have a fighting chance - melons, cukes, squash, herbs, tomatoes, corn, eggplant, sunflowers, peppers etc... all dead or dying.

I may as well just wait till next year - hundreds of hours and more than a few hours down the drain and one stupid fuck decided to put 400% the recommended amount of fertilizer down - wait till he sees what i put in his fucking food tomorrow.