How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Diane Amberg]

  For those of you who have gardens coming on now,  I'd love to know what you are growing and how its doing. I've got Toms finally, Big Boy, Early Girl, Champion, and Celebrity, a grape tom and volunteer cherry toms. I've got California Wonder green peppers, sweet banana peppers, A jalapeno pepper called  "Holey Mole,'' a Habanero pepper, several kinds of squash and Tenderpick green beans. Also Straight Eight cukes, and parsley, cilantro, sweet basil ,chives, curry plant, oregano, rosemary, thyme, dill, several kinds of sage, peppermint, spearmint, pineapple mint.  I'll fall plant more lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, and Sugar Snap peas.

[Judy Harder]

Well after all the water we have had, my garden patch just didn't want to dry out enough to plant anything I would have grown.

I finally had to just concentrate on flowers...........and I did get some late  cukes in the ground.
May have some before frost...........if not the cucumber........I will have pretty vines in front of my apartment.

My gardening is in flower pots. Not a big spot for growing things. I live in an apartment and we can plant in the area just in front......but since I am not healthy enough to really plant and maintain a garden, I am still able to get my fingers in the dirt come spring.

I figure I can pick produce from the community garden, that the garden club keeps for us without the means to plant. so I have been able to get the tomato's from up there..Good... Not sure what kind........red and yummy. that is all I ask.

Hugs and God bless
Judy

[MarineMom]

About half of mine drowned But apparently cukes will grow no matter what the conditions are. Zuchinni and squash are doing great but only one pumpkin is growing (last year we ended up with 15) Tomatoes were going great until the rain drowned the plants but some of them look as if they might recover. Okra is coming along nicely. Cabbages are in the freezer in the form of spring rolls except for the ones that morphed into cole slaw. Broccilli did really well got lots in the freezer and ate quite a bit fresh, next year going to plant twice as much broccilli and cabbage. Peas beans and most of the onions drowned. Peppers like our dirt and they are growing lots of fruit I'm picking from them every day now

[Wilma]

I am concentrating on flowers since I, too, am limited in what I can do.  Vegetables would be fine, but I can't eat most of them fresh and there is only so much one person needs.  Also, my days of canning and freezing are over.  If I need it, I will buy only what I need at the time.

But the flowers that I planted this year are struggling because of the excessive rain.  Millie, my predecessor, used mostly raised beds and filled them with iris and day lilies that survive under the most strenous conditions.  With 1st daughter living across the street now, maybe we can conquer the weeds, grass and seedling trees that are trying to overcome the flowers.  At least we are trying.

[Janet Harrington]

My garden sucks and that's all I have to say about that.

[kdfrawg]

Well, Janet, that's clear and concise.   

My sister is a character (no surprise there, right?) and when she gets started you would think she was a 30-year veteran Marine in the barracks. She also has a rather quirky sense of humor (again, no surprise) and taught me that famous nursery rhyme when I was a toddler, like this:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
and one @%)$@# eggplant!

[dandymomma]

My garden consists of 4 climbing rose bushes, 3 lilac trees, a maple tree and a whole bunch of weeds; all of which I have managed to keep alive for 3 years now, so I'm doing great!!! LOL

I have somewhat of a Black Thumb. My houseplants are all plastic. I have 2 plants on my desk at work that are drought tolerant on purpose, and then my co-workers always make sure they are watered for me, or they nag me until I do it myself.

[Rudy Taylor]

We have lots of flower gardens around our home and they're lovely this year. The same weather patterns that brought devastation to many of our friends also ushered in the best assortment of flowers we've ever seen.

We only planted three tomoto plants and they grew to seven feet tall.  We're now enjoying delicious Big Boys and Cherry tomatoes.

Last year at this time, we had totally given up on our flowers, and we didn't even plant tomatoes.

[Diane Amberg]

 I love hearing about all your gardens. For those that drowned, you might still plant bush beans and the fall weather stuff, unless you are sick of the whole thing by now. As for flowers, we are having slugs big time this year, so I put all my annuals in hanging baskets and big pots. petunias, impatiens, snapdragons, red and blue salvias,and the squirrels planted some sunflower seeds which have grown into nice plants. The gold finches are after them already. In the ground I've got several roses, lilies, cone flowers, sweet william, a lot of daylilies (from my parents) nicotenia, many hostas, pholix, asters, poppies, and more.

[Wilma]

And you live, where?