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Mar
?? Gardening
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Assuming you did not kill every plant you come in contact with AND you had both the time to garden and the space for it …
What would you plant in your garden?
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Strawberries. Cherry tomatoes. Bell peppers. Green onions. And an herb garden.
I’ve often considered an entire front yard devoid of grass, and instead a garden. Particularly fragrant herbs.
If I had to pick only one thing it would likely be tomatoes. Then again I would probably throw down with some squash and perhaps potatoes as well.
Oh, I know. Soybeans. That way I can make burgers out of them =)
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@valkyrierisen
I like your idea of the herb garden better. I am thinking of starting one in my kitchen when we remodel it. (I’ll build shelving at the south facing window)
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Enough veggies that I’d not have to buy fresh stuff from the supermarket all summer, and plenty left to freeze/can.
Flowers – gerbera daisies, roses, shasta daisies, anything that I could cut and bring inside if I wanted to. Also pretty flowering ground-cover type plants. ANd snapdragons.
Oh and fruit trees! Especially citrus. And maybe pears and peaches. NOMs.
My imaginary garden is going to take up a lot of space…
Herb garden… I’m more interested in fragrance and texture than particular culinary use. Lavender. Rosemary. Sage because it’s fuzzy.
Roses, I don’t particularly care for the smell specifically, but I love the look. Tulips. Paperwhites. Peonies taking over that corner over there with giant globes of pink petals. Violets.
Otherwise, tomatoes. Apricot and Almond trees. Grapes.
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For Veggies: tomatoes, cucumbers, and green beans… maybe some squash, watermelon, or pumpkins
For Flowers: Roses, roses, and more roses, tulips, irises, sunflowers (for The Hubby who grew up in Kansas), gardenias, and a magnolia tree
For the record I already have a few rose bushes and a magnolia tree :-)
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I am not a gardener. I don’t even like mowing the lawn (unfortunately, part of that is due to a bad back). My dear wife, on the other hand…
She has an area in our back yard staked out, and around Mother’s Day (or maybe a bit later) she’s out tilling and weeding and planting. We also have a very productive raspberry patch on the south side of the house. In the garden she generally has tomatoes and zucchini, sometimes yellow squash, and “other stuff.” Unfortunately, our growing season is fairly short (see the part about Mother’s Day?), so her options are limited. But I always have homemade raspberry preserves!
We also have flower beds along the driveway with both annuals and perennials. Tulips, lilies, peonies, and lavender (although the lavender hasn’t done well lately; hopefully, the very wet winter will help that).
We also have an apple tree, a peach tree, and a cherry tree. The peach tree should give fruit this year.
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Tomatoes
Peppers
Squash
Watermelons
Pumpkins
Onions
Cucumbers
I would like to try blueberries. But I am told that takes skill/effort.
We have tulips,roses, honeysuckle,and annuals that I change for the entry each year. I plant marigolds next to the tomatoes, as it diminishes aphid problems.
On a completely different issue, I went to the Bluebonnet Bowl this morning. It is a local competition focused on knowledge of the current Bluebonnet Books, clearly a Texas thing. Knowledge of characters, plot lines, authors, illustrators, and even quotes is called into question. I took Sweetie Pie out of school so she could experience it. We had a great time. Nothing like an auditorium full of chanting kids encouraging thier team to win a competition on reading!!!
@Mother of Three
Bluebonnet Books? I am intrigued. *Googles*
I have lived in Texas my entire life and have never heard of this.
Also, Marigolds help with aphids? Good to know, I tend to have major aphid problems on my roses, I assume it would work the same?
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One of my dreams is to have my own garden when we buy a house. I’d have a garden split into sections if space weren’t an issue. One section, I’d rotate various seasonal veggies. Another section would be fruits. And a third would be herbs. Then I’d surround the whole thing with a hedge of flowers.
It would be a lot of work but it’d save us so much money in the long run.
@ Lauren,
Yes. The marigolds should help the roses as well,since tomato and rose plants are related. I have alwyas planted the marigolds next to tomatoes and never had a problem, but I have no control for that and I am still a novice gardener.
Bluebonnet books were started in 1979, I think, so depending on how old you are, your knowledge may be limited. They are a selection of books that students get to vote on through their schools.
I, personally, never heard of Bluebonnet books until my kids got to elementary school. When my oldest was in elementary, the librarians promoted the books and if a student read a certain number of them , they got a cookie at the end of the year. Woo hoo.
Previous winners of the Bluebonnet Award have been:
Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Math Curse
by Jon Scieszka
Superfudge
by Judy Blume
This year 190,000 students in the state of Texas participated in voting for the winner.
@Anne, @Lauren
I remember SEEING the “Bluebonnet” title on those books, but I never knew what it meant. That’s pretty neat, I think!
Oh! Anne! Also, one of my heroes is Ursula Vernon. I need to get my hands on some of her books, but it occurs to me they may appeal to you and your posse as well. Dragonbreath is her most recent (and most popular) series. =]
Snapdragons, bachelor’s buttons, clematis, bearded iris, daffodils, dahlias, the list could go on and on and on, frankly.
I prefer to hit the farmer’s market for my veggies (mostly because I live in a climate cool enough in the summer to make it difficult to grow things like tomatoes), but I am a big flower fan.
@@valkyrierisen
I saw a backyard in Bryan that was all rows of cabbage.
I don’t know yet, but some kind of foody/herby garden is on our house project list. Given our current list and plans, it may be awhile. I’m just not keen on feeding the deer (so I’ll need to install some kind of giant tesla coil and then I’ll just have lightninged venison and veggies (or I guess I could just build a big fence)).
I own a garden supply store and garden center, and living in a colder climate than the US and really sell most of my products are sold during the first 6 months of the year. The question “What should I grow in my Vegetable garden?” is asked of me about 15 or 20 times a day during the rush time. I look them straight in the eye and say “Anything you like to eat ”
Have a happy gardening season.
Lytstep