What's New In Your Garden This Year?

[time4fun]

It's garden season! What have you added to your garden this year? If nothing, what was already in it?

Our passionflowers experiment last year worked- they both survived the winter- so we picked up two more. I love these so much- I wish the flowers lasted longer than a day!

We're trying artichoke (I don't know why- we'll probably end up with exactly one, which we wont' eat because I'll forget to pick it and then decide it's too pretty to pick anyway)

Some replacement tomato and basil plants

A new kind of fuschia I found at a nursery with black flowers (and apparently a misleading name)

And I finally decided to do roses- which I will do my best not to turn into aphid food. And some hollycock and columbines. And some other flowering plant that I honestly couldn't recognize in a lineup, but we thought the pictures looked pretty at the time.

And then finally a new giant kind of pitcher plant for the carniverous plant garden.


My backyard is the most motley assortment of plants, but it's fun.



What is everyone else growing this season?

[Gelston]

We keep getting random freezes.

I have onions, tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers.

And a bunch of random flowering plants that provide no nutritional value to me, but distract birds and other insects away from my regular plants.

[time4fun]

I've never been able to keep cucumbers alive for some reason.

For the onions- do they self-seed or anything? Or do you have to keep going back every year and buying more like tomatoes? I've always wondered.

[Gelston]

I've never been able to keep cucumbers alive for some reason.

For the onions- do they self-seed or anything? Or do you have to keep going back every year and buying more like tomatoes? I've always wondered.

I put them in for the first time this year, so I have no idea. I've only ever bought seeds for carrots once and they are back again.

Cucumbers, I have a little fence thing for them to grow up. I usually pickle them later. The grow great here, so maybe they don't like your climate?

[time4fun]

Carrots come back?!?

My entire world just collapsed.

Why did I get a stupid artichoke plant? I should have bought carrots.

[Gelston]

Carrots come back?!?

My entire world just collapsed.

Why did I get a stupid artichoke plant? I should have bought carrots.

I got carrots because I have guinea pigs. I got regular carrots too, because I don't bow to the House of Oranje, mine come in all the colors.

It was weird when I got my first carrot and I forgot I got mixed colors... The thing was purple and I was confused.

[Androidpk]

I'd like to start a garden but I have a feeling the groundhogs would help themselves to whatever is growing.

[Gelston]

I'd like to start a garden but I have a feeling the groundhogs would help themselves to whatever is growing.

We don't have those down here, luckily enough. We do get opossums and armadillos that'll tear your garden up, but my dogs usually do a good job scaring them away.

[Roiken]

We don't have those down here, luckily enough. We do get opossums and armadillos that'll tear your garden up, but my dogs usually do a good job scaring them away.I like cilantro and growing herbs more so than trying to grow vegetables... if i were to grow some it would be tomatoes

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[Gelston]

I like cilantro and growing herbs more so than trying to grow vegetables... if i were to grow some it would be tomatoes

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Tomatoes are stupid easy. Honestly, all of them are.

[Archigeek]

Snow. My garden is covered in fucking snow. New as of last weekend's blizzard.

[Taernath]

Have: lemons, apples, oranges, figs.

Want: limes, avocados.

A lot of my property is caliche which makes it hard to plant more so I might just get dwarf varieties.

[Gelston]

Have: lemons, apples, oranges, figs.

Want: limes, avocados.

A lot of my property is caliche which makes it hard to plant more so I might just get dwarf varieties.

My next door neighbor has a fig tree and half of it is over my fence, so I get those.

[MotleyCrew]

Snow. My garden is covered in fucking snow. New as of last weekend's blizzard.
:yeahthat:
Except instead of blizzard it was an ice storm. Sunny this weekend though so maybe we can actually have some spring!

But, I do plan to do some gardening hopefully. Not a big space so I think this year I will just do a variety of heirloom tomatoes. Black Krim, Purple Cherokee, something yellow and maybe something speckled.

[time4fun]

:yeahthat:
Except instead of blizzard it was an ice storm. Sunny this weekend though so maybe we can actually have some spring!

But, I do plan to do some gardening hopefully. Not a big space so I think this year I will just do a variety of heirloom tomatoes. Black Krim, Purple Cherokee, something yellow and maybe something speckled.

OMG that sounds horrible. (the storm, not the tomatoes)

We're growing black krim tomatoes now. I thought they were black truffle tomatoes when I bought them. How are the Krims?

[time4fun]

In other news- my ketchup and mustard roses are blooming, and they're gorgeous! I've always been afraid of roses- I thought they were hard to keep alive for some reason. Now I look around, and they're basically growing wild out here. So I don't know what I was thinking.

Here's a google image of the roses:

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[Androidpk]

In other news- my ketchup and mustard roses are blooming, and they're gorgeous! I've always been afraid of roses- I thought they were hard to keep alive for some reason. Now I look around, and they're basically growing wild out here. So I don't know what I was thinking.

Here's a google image of the roses:

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I have a cherry blossom that usually comes in really nice. Hasn't started yet so I'm looking forward to that.

[time4fun]

I have a cherry blossom that usually comes in really nice. Hasn't started yet so I'm looking forward to that.

I LOVE cherry blossom trees! Do you know which kind it is?

[Androidpk]

https://i.imgur.com/N6Cb8ge.jpg

[MotleyCrew]

Black Krim are probably the best tomatoes I've ever tasted. Be prepared, they don't actually get 'black' per say, more of a maroonish color.

[Neveragain]

https://i.imgur.com/N6Cb8ge.jpg

A tree in your moms front yard is not gardening.

[Archigeek]

Black Krim are probably the best tomatoes I've ever tasted. Be prepared, they don't actually get 'black' per say, more of a maroonish color.

I will also vouch for these as tasty.

[Archigeek]

Snow. My garden is covered in fucking snow. New as of last weekend's blizzard.

On vacation in the tropics. The neighbors who are watching the house informed me that ALL the snow has melted, and my truck, which was parked at the edge of the snowbank when we left, is now 5' out int the street. Anyway, this is nice:

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And upside down apparently. But I'm on vacation so it'll have to stay that way.

[Stanley Burrell]

This thread (http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?70441-Gardening-Q) is my random gardening stuff.

[Gelston]

Got Pumkins, Watermelon, and Sunflowers on the new back garden that is completely new this year. Just cleared the area a couple months ago, used to be overgrown.

https://scontent.fmem1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33574385_10214220104553867_3190878654720638976_o.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=3bddf998747b10ca3329060e09463428&oe=5B8731DE

[Wrathbringer]

It is spelled, "pumpkins". Reported.

eta: that space is way too small for pumpkins and/or watermelon.

[Gelston]

It is spelled, "pumpkins". Reported.

Only sailors and faggots spell it that way.

[cwolff]

Got Pumkins, Watermelon, and Sunflowers on the new back garden that is completely new this year. Just cleared the area a couple months ago, used to be overgrown.

https://scontent.fmem1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33574385_10214220104553867_3190878654720638976_o.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=3bddf998747b10ca3329060e09463428&oe=5B8731DE

That looks great. My garden resembles the Charlie Brown Christmas tree

[cwolff]

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First harvest from new garden. We got a late start on it but it's coming together well.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I've got mint plant, a cherry tomato plant, and some basil. They're not dying and I mean that in the nicest way possible.