How is your garden?

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I have to brag a little bit...I am so proud! Three of the tomato plants I started from seed survived!
They are now in the garden. DH bought tomato plants at the hardware store to fill in the rest of the garden space. Mine are significantly smaller, but they are catching up. We'll have late tomatoes from them, at least that's what I'm hoping.

How are your gardens? If you can share pictures, please do. I am so terrible with trying to post pictures that I could grow a tomato that looked like Elvis and you'd never get to see it.
 
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Originally Posted by CoolCat

No tomatoes here or any vegetables, but some bananas trees...




hope you enjoy it...
Wow, Rigel! Your place is incredible! Do you get any bananas from your trees?
 

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Nothing much here. Everything is small because it didn't start warming up until a couple weeks into May. Even my turtles came up a week later than normal.


I do however have a big patch of squash that came up because an acorn squash had been tossed in the compost. It's the future turtle pen that I'm working on and squash are safe and great plants to have around turtles. So that's fine. I do need to thin them out, though, I think there's ~60 plants that came up!
 

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Rigel, I'm coming to your house! That is truly a gorgeous picture. I love the banana tree. I had one years and years ago, but because I had to keep it in the house, we never got any bananas.

Congratulations on your tomato plants from seed. Way cool, Nurseangel. And strange wings, I'd gladly take some of your squash plants. I love squash...we've planted six zucchini plants and four acorn squash plants. They seem to be doing well, but we have just leaves thus far.

First, from the garden....

We have peppers! Yay peppers!



And the horseradish. I'll dig some horseradish up in the spring, grate it, and add my seasonings. I really like horseradish in mashed potatoes, baked beans, and in coleslaws and salads, too.



The back flower garden....some poppies. We dug the poppies up from my dad's flower bed before they downsized to their apartment.



Scarlet Pestomen



Some Gallardia, Canterbury Bells, and Scarlet Sage



Some Liatris



Pink Peonies....these are from roots that are decades old; they're from my parents' house. We have white, red and pink peonies by the driveway, too, mixed in with ferns. Yes, they need a good weeding. (Which will be done this afternoon)



The weigela...



The bonica with the catmint in front. I highly recommend catmint, if you like it. That stuff just blooms and blooms. It looks so pretty swaying in the breezes, too.



Now, out front; this is the garden we just started this spring....the Joe Pye Weed hasn't started to bloom yet.



Oranges and Lemon Gallardia....DH just loves his gallardia plants; these were just planted, so they're still a little on the sad side. But hopefully, they'll be OK and will come back next year.



I think these are yellow Margeurite Daisies....not sure of the spelling either.



Purple Palace Coral Bells



More gallardia by the front walk



I'll post more once everything starts really blooming. We didn't do any mulching yet....that front bed isn't nearly completed and we don't want to put any mulch down until it's done. I had some pictures of the Sweet William in the moon garden, but they were really blurry. And the darn rabbits, groundhog, deer, squirrels, whatever keeps eating my Thrift! I'm telling you......grrrrrr. We still have a long way to go, but we've got a good start.

I'm pretty excited about the vegetable garden because we've not had a garden in well over ten years or so. We planted mariachi peppers, banana peppers, jalapenos, and bell peppers, acorn squash, zucchini, tomatoes, green beans, and broccoli flower. I'll get some pictures as the plants become more established and (hopefully) start to bear. If it all works out well this summer, DH said that he'd enlarge the garden for me next year.

Thanks for looking.
 

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Originally Posted by CoolCat

No tomatoes here or any vegetables, but some bananas trees...




hope you enjoy it...
That is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen and I do love bananas
 

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I have a package of nasturtium seeds to plant in a pot on my deck. Hope to get that done today or tomorrow.
 

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Originally Posted by c1atsite

So gorgeous, Rigel
Originally Posted by Winchester

Rigel, I'm coming to your house! That is truly a gorgeous picture. I love the banana tree. I had one years and years ago, but because I had to keep it in the house, we never got any bananas.
Originally Posted by LaRussa

That is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen and I do love bananas
thanks for your nice comments!...
 

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Rigel, I LOVE the wagon/cart in your pic.

Winchester, what zone are you in?! I can't believe all the flowers you have in bloom! And your catmint is fabulous; mine is more of a ground cover, apparently, and never gets over 8-10 inches high.
 

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Well, I harvested my first tomato today! I'm the one who planted a tomato in a topsy turvy in mid February and now have at least 50 tomatoes on that one plant. My yellow bell pepper plant (also in a topsy turvy) got spider mites and I nearly killed it scraping them all off, but it survived and yesterday I noticed a teeny little bell pepper on it.

All my flowers have already died since we've had our first 100 degree day already! Although I DO have a miniature petunia plant growing inside that I started in my aerogarden and transplanted to dirt after it took over and grew into the herbs that were also in the aerogarden. Which reminds me, my basil and thyme are doing well, although I'm going to have to move my basil soon because I'm having to water it every day now and once the temps get even higher, I'm afraid it'll burn to a crisp. But I planted more in my aerogarden, just to make sure I don't run out of it (that's where my thyme and chives are growing...I just LOVE that aerogarden!!)

If I get around to it, I'll post a picture of my topsy turvy tomato, but it might be better after more of the fruit starts to ripen.
 

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Very pretty garden pics everyone!!


Hopefully I'll have a garden sometime this summer, if we find another house and actually get to closing, and then I will take pics to share!

Winchester- best of luck on your veggies, sounds wonderful!!
 

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I have been very frustrated this year....I have a rooftop garden that has been devastated by neighboring construction for over a year now....... Long story short, the most I have and I am happy to have this, is yesterday I cooked and used my fresh herbs from outback...........Honestly, that was very fulfilling!
 
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Thank you all for responses and the beautiful pictures! I love those heirloom peonies. I am thinking of making some cuttings of a rose bush that belonged to my grandmother. The original is gone now, but it still lives on in my mom's garden.

I love that the Topsy-Turvy is working! I came so close to buying one, but I just wasn't sure...next year, I'll get one.

I am also fascinated by the idea of a roof garden.

As it looks, if we don't have a major hail storm (something that destroyed my entire garden one year), we should be up to our ears in tomatoes.
I've already told my co-workers to be ready for tomato parties (we get together for home-grown tomato sandwiches at lunch...it's a lot of fun...any excuse to have a party at work.
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Originally Posted by libby74

Winchester, what zone are you in?! I can't believe all the flowers you have in bloom! And your catmint is fabulous; mine is more of a ground cover, apparently, and never gets over 8-10 inches high.
I think we're in either zone 5 or 6. I know we have to worry about frost until mid-May or so. This year, because of the very warm push we had, our flowers seemed to bloom earlier. I think everything got an extra push of heat because our daffodils and tulips were blooming and then everything started to bud out and flower.

The catmint is now about 3 years old. It's the "Nepeta" catmint and it does get quite tall. It's so pretty. We're going to add more catmint to the flower bed in the front yard.

Nurseangel, I took those peonies from my parents' yard years and years ago....my mother thinks they're about 50 years old by now, if not older. When I took the white peony, I thought I had it all. But, wouldn't you know, the following spring, the came back in my parents' yard, too. And it bloomed.

We don't seem to do well with roses, other than the older kinds. The newer hybrids don't do well. Maybe it's the soil. We have one surviving rose bush, that's a beautiful pink color, but I don't remember what its name is.

I would definitely come for a lunch of homegrown tomato sandwiches....I dearly love tomatoes.

I just read (in Birds and Blooms, I think it was) that the favorite vegetable to grow is the tomato. In second place......cucumbers. I thought that was a little odd, but people do like to can pickles, so maybe it does make sense.
 

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Trying a new idea for this year...floating garden.
Our garden failed last year from too much rain and slugs. We dismantled the site of the original and moved everything around. I thought it would be cool to try doing some vegetables (and strawberries) on my porch, where they'd get more sun than if I put them in my half of the yard.

I have a small flower garden too, just no current pics.
 
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Originally Posted by DragonHeart



Trying a new idea for this year...floating garden.
Our garden failed last year from too much rain and slugs. We dismantled the site of the original and moved everything around. I thought it would be cool to try doing some vegetables (and strawberries) on my porch, where they'd get more sun than if I put them in my half of the yard.

I have a small flower garden too, just no current pics.
Strawberries are so much fun! We bought one of those clay strawberry pots one year, but a friendly little couple of Carolina Wrens kept trying to nest in the top. Since we had indoor/outdoor cats at the time (and the pot was on a table on our back porch in easy reach) we had to cover it up before the birds could get a good start on their nest. I felt so bad about that. And the beautiful strawberry plants, which I'd bought on vacation in Georgia, died from being covered by the potato sack.
 

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Trying a new idea for this year...floating garden
What a great idea! Wish I had some rails around my patio, but, alas, I don't!
 
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