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MetroidZoid
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Everybody's doing it. In the front yard. In the backyard. By the pool. On the roof. I'm talking about gardening people!
Space is not a problem! You can have a plant in a windowsill. You can have a 10 acre garden in the back 40. You can tell gravity to go fuck itself!
There is so much about gardening that is rewarding. Watching life spring forth eternal via your own handiwork. The satisfaction of growing your own vegetables (and regret that everything after that you buy in the market tastes inferior). The neverending expanse of interests that come from a common denominator of plants.
For me, it's been a love-affair since childhood. My grandma got me started on planting annuals every year, and I specifically remember saving Morning Glory seeds in a butter container, underneath her counter, to replant every year. 13 years later, I end up getting a job at a local nursery / garden center. I don't think much of it ... I've always had an interest in natural sciences and such, but I went into that job only knowing the difference between an annual and a perennial. Now three years later, I've got ... a dozen houseplants and growing, a large garden outside, and I can't stop. Dirt is my drug of choice. And I can't wait until me and the future-wife get out of this rental and I can really go nuts with my landscaping. I have plans. Oh the plans I have.
Like this grand one: I'm gonna take four Red Maples / Acer rubrum.
Space them 15' feet apart, on the corners of a square. Then, build the very basic framework for a pergola; single posts in small, deep concrete footings. At the 8' mark, the frame will bend in, and as the trees grow, so will they, until they all meet in the center. At that point, I can gently scrape away the bark layer until I reach the cambium, then tie the trees together. About a year or so after that, I should be able to remove the wooden frame and voila, I'll have a living pergola.
So who else, as the weather warms and buds are opening, is going to go outside and get their hands dirty?
Space is not a problem! You can have a plant in a windowsill. You can have a 10 acre garden in the back 40. You can tell gravity to go fuck itself!
There is so much about gardening that is rewarding. Watching life spring forth eternal via your own handiwork. The satisfaction of growing your own vegetables (and regret that everything after that you buy in the market tastes inferior). The neverending expanse of interests that come from a common denominator of plants.
For me, it's been a love-affair since childhood. My grandma got me started on planting annuals every year, and I specifically remember saving Morning Glory seeds in a butter container, underneath her counter, to replant every year. 13 years later, I end up getting a job at a local nursery / garden center. I don't think much of it ... I've always had an interest in natural sciences and such, but I went into that job only knowing the difference between an annual and a perennial. Now three years later, I've got ... a dozen houseplants and growing, a large garden outside, and I can't stop. Dirt is my drug of choice. And I can't wait until me and the future-wife get out of this rental and I can really go nuts with my landscaping. I have plans. Oh the plans I have.
Like this grand one: I'm gonna take four Red Maples / Acer rubrum.
Space them 15' feet apart, on the corners of a square. Then, build the very basic framework for a pergola; single posts in small, deep concrete footings. At the 8' mark, the frame will bend in, and as the trees grow, so will they, until they all meet in the center. At that point, I can gently scrape away the bark layer until I reach the cambium, then tie the trees together. About a year or so after that, I should be able to remove the wooden frame and voila, I'll have a living pergola.
So who else, as the weather warms and buds are opening, is going to go outside and get their hands dirty?
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I'm going to have to get bird netting to be safe from pigeons but luckily being on the third floor means no four legged animals. It's kind of a bummer being in Boston because we could still have a frost so I have to be conservative with my planting dates.
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I'm probably going with mint, basil, oregano, parsley and thyme. I would love to give ginger a go though. No idea how to go about that one.
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I don't garden
But my grandma grew the biggest fucking roses I've ever seen, I swear they were bigger than my head.
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i grow lots of tomatoes too and then eat them i guess
i've always wanted to get really intense with the garden space i have but i have no motivation to do so
do you think I could grow rhubarb in a city
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
also having raspberries, a mulberry tree, and green beans
Miles Standish lived behind our house and would trade us his delicious jams and jellies.
Like, start with a big green hedge, finish up with a dolphin or a fucking unicorn.
It's like when you torture people and resuscitate them when they die so you can torture them more!
I know! I hate it. :-(
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Here's what the corner of my back garden was like when we first moved in:
Then here's that same corner after I went nutso on the ivy and made that corner a bit more useful:
My wife recently got it into her head that she was sick of the weeds growing in the beds and started ripping them out. I've got a feeling that she also ripped out a bunch of flowers in the process, but at least we can start from scratch now in the back.
The only problem is that we've got no idea what to plant or how really.
is this possible?
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I've got a basil plant that is struggling to recover from an aphid attack, and some rosemary, and some impatiens. For some reason I can't keep mint alive in a pot, even though it's supposed to grow insanely and take over everything when you plant it in a garden environment.
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This is why I'm going with a topsy turvy.
We're the same. Rosemary is meant to be super-hardy and able to grow anywhere and spread - our bush died within a few weeks.
We even managed to kill a whole load of geraniums and some daisys.
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And two aloe, bushes? Plants? Aloe somethings.
I would like to make a tiny herb garden also.
To eat.
Satans..... hints.....
Stab in the dark, as I haven't worked outside of the Rose industry in a few years (I grow 40k a year for the UK retail market), what compost/growing material are you chucking in your pots, and what kind of size (litres) is said pot?
Double posting, I know, but hell I only just saw this. You can actually get varieties which are "self-topping" which tend to have shorter growth habits. You can also train some vines, but it's pretty essential you think about the way a plant works when you do this. Pruning without thought often removes the flowering growths, which eventually are your fruit, so be careful. I'd have a go at using wire ties on an oblong trellis or spars. Just remember a few things. Keep the fruiting bodies away from soil level, this encourages fungal infections and soil burn. Remove unwanted growth at the base, and try to tidy away all the detritus that you prune/pick as, again, this prevents mould based diseases.
And glorious sunshine and all I can think of is
It's going to freeze again. This is not a 'maybe'. In this area, it will ALWAYS freeze one more time before the middle of May. And even with the 5% chance that it doesn't, any tomato or pepper in the cold damp ground now will be miserable as shit. And yet people continue to ask for them, so we plant them. It's not like there's any advantage to growing them early here unless you have a greenhouse; tomatoes in June is just a pipedream, and not worth the panicked covering and frost-protection at 3 in the morning. I can't wait to be rolling in these racks upon racks of tomatoes every night for a week, either.
On a better note, I bought myself a new houseplant. A little baby Sanseviera, 'Black Gold'. It's so cute.
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We were just trying them out in the beds out back and threw some B&Q basic compost in a hole.
I know that it's entirely my fault for not starting in a pot and then moving it out once it started to grow a bit but we got lazy.
John Innes is your your friend. Mint would probably go mental in #2. But is has got good slow release fertilisers in it.