Paradise regained, at home:
Share, Please: Pictures of Your Garden
by compound complex 45 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
Too soon, we cannot plant until May 5 at the earliest and our perennials aren't out till the end of April...but they last longer than some warmer climes.
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GrreatTeacher
Lovely! A great place to hide away and read a book!
A few more weeks and hopefully it will be warm enough to start working in the garden here.
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compound complex
Thank you, blondie and GrreatTeacher, for posting. Yes, a great place to read -- and swim (soon).
A local has already set out his tomato plants, which is not recommended till May.
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GrreatTeacher
Oh, beautiful pool! It doesn't add any value to your real estate to add a pool here, so the thousands of dollars would be a waste, but, dang, I would love a pool in my backyard!
I have a photo of my home with my windowboxes overflowing with petunias on my cellphone from the end of last summer, but I can't figure out how to post it on my tablet. Oh well.
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blondie
Our gardien in the back is 12 x 40 feet, carrots, green beans, beets, green peppers, tomatoes (heirloom), cucumbers, romaine lettuce, salad lettuce, mini watermelons, 1 small zucchini plant, horseradish, rhubarb, asparagus planted this year. Forgot, sunflowers along the fence for the birds. We plan on putting in an irrigation system and a time from our back faucet. We water mostly from the rain barrels we have that collect off our roof. Our water bill went down 30 dollars each month.
We have a large triangular bed with perennials in the back that we can sit and look at from our patio.
I have 40 feet of flower beds in the front down the driveway and the entryway and across the house, with 5 hanging plants on the porch, and 6 containers up both sides of the stairs. We live in a small residential area with families with children and dogs and some grandparents types like us. They walk around with kids and dogs twice a day and they admire the flowers: I have made signs and descriptions of the planst by each type finally after many questions. I have been involved in the master gardener program for 3 years, 1 year as retired. I even get asked about bugs, but I have a specialist at the uni I consult.
I will get my husband to help me post things from the planting to the first hard freeze.
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compound complex
Look forward to seeing more, when you are able to post, Blondie and GrreatTeacher.
Swimming pools are a lot of work and are often a detriment towards a property's sale, GrreatTeacher. Thanks, Blondie, for the description of your wonderful garden. Your "guests" must appreciate what you tell them. Below is a photo, circa 1950, of me in front of Nana's garden. She taught me gardening, a debt I could never repay.
Only recently did I learn how to transfer photos from my ancient Apple to my DELL (in use now). When Simon went to https, the Apple no longer allowed replies to JWD. You just have to know all the "back doors," I guess!
Gratefully, . . .
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blondie
I learned from my Tante Emma; she would take me every day down to the garden, to plant, or cultivate, weed, or harvest. Then she would let me help cook them for dinner. I moved a lot, but we always had a garden. My husband's family had a large garden growing up and even now my MIL has a large garden too.
I find it calming, one thing that achieves a good end that I can be proud of. We exchange veggies with the neighbors, one makes the greatest salsa and we combine our peppers and they can them, 2 men in the kitchen, chopping.
Even if you only have a balcony or a patio, container gardens are very satisfying.
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Still Totally ADD
We just moved into a old farm house built in 1900 on 1 acre. The property has woods on three sides. We are only two blocks outside Jamestown NY city limits. It is on a very quiet road. You would never know you are so close to town. Waiting until mid to late May to plant our garden. But I do have hardneck garlic coming up thanks to the warm winter we had. I will be putting up a 20' x 30' green house this year to lengthen my growing season. On our walk today we did see coltsfoot flowers along the road. Which is one of the first signs of spring. So any of our pictures would just show dead grass and no leaves on the trees. Still Totally ADD
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jwleaks
My garden. I started in 2008 with a barren yard and have planted and built everything myself, except the pool, but I did build the fencing and shade sail.