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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    alrighty, whatever *bugs* within the matrix in dealing with posting pics...seems the gremlins are gone! wooohooo! just a couple more since i'm on a roll.....;)


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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Your garden is so pretty!! :) :ugeek:
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    justam wrote:
    Your garden is so pretty!! :) :ugeek:


    thanks!
    at least the photo imbed function seems to be working correctly...;)


    my garden grids arrived yesterday - yay! - so my cukes and zucchini will have something to climb. set it up this weekend, looks to be another gorgeous one!



    and...
    decides2dream wrote:
    i really want to see MORE GARDENS! getting started, already growing, whatever...i love to see what people do with the dirt in their yards :D



    let's see em!
    8-)
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Right now I have to go outside and trim my shaggy hedges! :?
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  • Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    I'll take some pics of my little veggie garden this weekend. I gotta say, D2D, your garden intimidates my garden. :D
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Cinnamon Girl wrote:
    I'll take some pics of my little veggie garden this weekend. I gotta say, D2D, your garden intimidates my garden. :D



    YAY!
    when i saw that you posted, i was JUST going to ask, where are the pics of your veggies!
    your little seedlings were fantastic! 8-)
    and puh-leeesssseee....... :oops: i simply LOVE gardening, have been doing it a long time....i also was a photo major so love taking pics, and sure....know how to make things look good ;)....so no intimidation! you're in a brand-new garden aren't you? that's EXCITING. just thinking to what my yard once looked like :shock: ...and my very first veggie garden :o .......yea.........but hey, it's all a journey, and filled with yummy produce! :mrgreen:



    AM....we just trimmed our shaggy shrubs!
    :lol:



    btw - just looking at the pics, some are about a month old (especially the ones with the tree in bloom)....even others taken when i *just* planted, which was may 16th, i cannot get over just how MUCH everything has kicked into gear, GROWING! gotta love it!

    and you bet....as things really start to grow, MORE PICS!
    even since these pics, i bought/planted over 7 containers and placed them within my shade gadren(behind the hammock) b/c it's SO shady back there, can't get much to grow with any height, so i made my own height with containers! :ugeek: the garden is a constant work in progress........
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    sooooooooooo...where are all the gardens?
    cmon folks, they all are GROWING now, let's see the progress!


    i am happy to report i set up the new garden grids over the weekend, easy....my plan for utilization worked perfectly, quite happy with myself. :lol: think they are going to be great! still no yellow squash tho :(....sad....no one seems to have plant sarts this year, would've gone the seed route had i known, still might...b/c the zucchini is looking rather lonely solo in the one bed.


    i snapped a few pics of my new veggie garden contraption, the new containers in the shade beds, and the overall growth of everything thus far. as usual, need to upload em. ;) that said...it's not as much fun if more don't share! :P
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I've been doing some major projects in my flower garden during the past 2 weeks, things I didn't set out to do but one thing would lead to another . . . . The biggest was deciding to dig up and divide my red spider lily bulbs, which I hadn't done in about 8 years. I knew they needed to be divided but I kept postponing it. So now that I've finished digging them up (more or less) I have over 600 bulbs. :shock: :shock: :shock:

    I'm giving them away to everyone I know and trying to figure out where else to plant them. If I ever get finished I'll post a few pics of some of the flowers in my garden. I've been trying to spend less time on the computer. :)
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    decides2dream wrote:
    sooooooooooo...where are all the gardens?
    cmon folks, they all are GROWING now, let's see the progress!

    Well, I haven't been doing much to mine this Spring since I'm so busy with moving chores. I've just been trimming what's there already, mowing, and keeping the weeds out. Mostly. :P
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    can anyone recommend an organic mulch for a community veggie garden?


    thanks!
  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    WOW! This looks fantastic- It looks so inviting :) Curious if you are single planting (only one veggie in each raised bed?) We're doing raised beds for the first time this year and I've heard contradictory advice on the subject. I went ahead and took a chance and cross planted the beets and cucumbers- we'll see what happens!

    My veggies look about the size of yours though I just showered them with compost tea and am hoping they go nuts!
    decides2dream wrote:
    wow, so far...so good! :D
    here's the veggie & herb garden planted & mulched 8-) .....still not *finished* tho, need to add the garden grids to support the cukes and zucchini....will come later...and of course...needs to GROW!

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  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    My lillies bloomed :D I planted two bulbs in a pot in the kitchen. The scent from them is amazing, the kitchen just smells of lily-awesome 8-)
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    stuckinline wrote:
    can anyone recommend an organic mulch for a community veggie garden?


    thanks!




    if you purchase 'natural' mulch, as in the pine or cedar that is NOT dyed....isn't that organic? i thought by definition (until some genius decided to start dying it colors :roll: ) that all mulch was organic, and just part of the reason it's so good. we compost most of the leaves in our yard each year right within the garden beds, turn/work it into the soil each spring...and then every year when i plant i top off the veggie gardens with the fine/shredded pine mulch and all other beds with the pine mini nuggets(simply b/c they last and last, thus only top off every couple of years instead of annually)


    embrace - 2 out of the 3 beds are dedicated to one plant species only. one bed is two cucumbers, another bed is 6 roma tomatoes, but the third bed is zucchini and yello squash - so related plants, but not the same. all peppers are in individual pots, and herbs we have 2 varieties in each box. however, when we first bought our house and planted our first veggie garden, we had one large garden bed and planted everything in there....so i wouldn't be too concerned. just try to plant 'related' plants, with similar light/soil requirements and you should be fine.

    i still haven't uploaded my newest pics....weather's been too nice to be bothered! :P maybe tonight i'll get to it....



    jenny - nice on the lilies! 8-)
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Oh I love the lillie smell- got it going in the backyard now big time- but
    what I'm extra excited about is the gardenia-after 5 years its finally bloomed. I really didn't think it would ever produce it
    Smells soooo good!
  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    pandora wrote:
    Oh I love the lillie smell- got it going in the backyard now big time- but
    what I'm extra excited about is the gardenia-after 5 years its finally bloomed. I really didn't think it would ever produce it
    Smells soooo good!

    Gardenia is my favorite for smells! (Jasmine ranks close 2nd) YAY! on yours blooming :) Mine has zero flowers right now.
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    d2d,
    thanks!
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    stuckinline wrote:
    d2d,
    thanks!

    you're welcome...hope it helps.

    take pics of the garden and SHARE! :mrgreen:


    cinngirl said she'd post pics of her garden.....where are they? :? :D
    and i know i said i'd post some new pics too.....i will.....eventually. the garden IS gorwing leaps and bounds, love it! but i want to see some other gardens growing too... 8-)
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  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    technically challenged, can't upload :oops:
    decides2dream wrote:
    stuckinline wrote:
    d2d,
    thanks!

    you're welcome...hope it helps.

    take pics of the garden and SHARE! :mrgreen:


    cinngirl said she'd post pics of her garden.....where are they? :? :D
    and i know i said i'd post some new pics too.....i will.....eventually. the garden IS gorwing leaps and bounds, love it! but i want to see some other gardens growing too... 8-)
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
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    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT

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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    embrace wrote:
    technically challenged, can't upload :oops:
    decides2dream wrote:
    stuckinline wrote:
    d2d,
    thanks!

    you're welcome...hope it helps.

    take pics of the garden and SHARE! :mrgreen:


    cinngirl said she'd post pics of her garden.....where are they? :? :D
    and i know i said i'd post some new pics too.....i will.....eventually. the garden IS gorwing leaps and bounds, love it! but i want to see some other gardens growing too... 8-)



    do you have a digital camera?
    b/c it really is quite simple. i mean, the camera comes with a cord to plug it in, pics come up, load em on your harddrive or wherever you save your files......then just open a photobucket accountm load em up there, link em here!

    (and if all else fails...ask your hubby to help ;))

    once you try it, you'll see it's very easy!
    :)
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  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    Let's see if this works...

    Everything looks a bit dry but it's just the repurposed tree we had to take down. (non dyed mulch)

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    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.

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