Do You Keep a Garden?

My place has lawns, a few palm trees, a gum tree down the back and a garden bed full o' weeds.... nothing exotic.

Frankly, to save me the trouble, I'd like to dig it all up, load it on the back of a truck and give it to somebody else... free of charge.

I don't have a green thumb, am not fond of weeding, digging, planting, pruning, etc... like if I can't mow or whipper snip it off then I don't wanna know.

In fact, if I could afford that artificial turf I'd sell the mower and use the proceeds to buy something latest and greatest in PC parts.

What I'm really trying to say is that it is starting to get a bit much for me nowadays, my bones hurt for days afterwards and I can't afford to pay somebody to do it instead.... hence the wanting to give it away.

I used to keep a "victory garden". Till my health problems made it too hard to do correctly.

I grew cucumbers, potatoes, green beans, corn, tomatoes, and green bell peppers. Late in the season, I'd grow some watermelons and kale/turnip greens.

The work got to be too hard for me, and the groundhogs and rabbits ate too much of it. I gave up.

Not to mention Bessie the sheep.  I heard she likes to eat flower as well.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, garlic, potatoes, apples, plums, strawberries and some other berries.

Me? Aw, hell no.

That's my girlfriends garden.

I couldn't keep a cactus alive even if the fate of the Universe depended on it.

Here in southern NJ growing a garden is quite easy. But you do have to keep up with the weeds as they will take over if you don't. I use to grow String Beans, Tomatoes, Carrots, and a few other things. Wish I had a picture to show you. Gave it all up 5 years ago after my wife passed as it wasn't worth it just for me. She was the great cook. Now it's just beautiful grass and neither the garden or grass is work to me even at my age because I enjoy it.

I did a Pineapple. Took me 3 tries to get one to root and hopefully your's will do it the first time. I kept it for 3 years and it just wasn't doing much so gave up on it. Really need great conditions for them to do well. They need a lot of sun light or those glow lights. Temperature, just wow. They will die with just one frost but really they will only do very well with temperatures between 60 and 75 degrees. Watering is easy as they only need it once a week and not a soaking watering. It's all about enjoying what one is doing. I had many laughs over the Pineapple. They came from my wife as she would look at it month after month doing very little and laugh. She wasn't laughing at me but would wonder why I keep this poor thing going. That in return it always made me laugh. Great memory over a Pineapple. Hope you's does well.

i made four 3' wide by 8' long by 2' high boxes so i can grow a small garden and not have to get on my hands and knees to work it. i'm way too old for that crap. i hope to get cucumbers, peas, green beans, three types of tomatoes, golden yukon potatoes, garlic, and some iceberg lettuce from them. i thought about planting some corn but corn is plentiful around here at harvest time so it's sold out of the back of pick-up trucks fairly cheaply. i only planted one cherry tomato plant so if it doesn't produce i'm not out much. as long as the roma and beefsteaks come thru, i'll be happy. one gained advantageous by-product of the raised boxes is i don't have to be concerned about the dogs urinating on my plants.   they can't hike those legs up that high.

cactus and snowman

there's something rather odd about that combination. the two can't co-exist, can they?

Green thumbs?

Mine are more brown.....the colour of death in the flora world....;p

Usually have a few tomato plants stuck around here and there.  For some reason tend to have better luck with the grape tomato plants as opposed to the regular ones.  I think there are a couple of banana pepper plants out there somewhere this year, haven't looked in the last few days to see if they're still there.  (I'm primarily the "insertion/extraction" department, the "selection/acquisition/coax/maintenance" section is the other department. )

I did see a news story a year or two ago that might interest somebody.  A guy with mobility issues in an urban area had set up a little mini-garden on his balcony.  He'd used roughly (I think) 2.5 foot sections of maybe 4" diameter pvc tubing.  He'd mounted them around the perimeter of his balcony, filled them with soil, and was growing a tomato plant in each one, had a fairly respectable little crop of about a half-dozen plants going.  Honestly overall they looked better than "mine".  Don't remember how he dealt with the water, I'd guess he had the bottoms of the tubes screened off or such.  Anyway I thought it was an interesting approach for annual plants with essentially vertical root growth.

My thumb color?  Probably red from the over-zealous extraction of expired rose bushes.  Or maybe black because I really am better at miscellaneous vegetation containment/removal/banishment/obliteration.  Not terribly precise at it though, oops.

Unless they're great danes, Irish wolf hounds... extremely tall fox terriers.

I dunno, 2 foot ain't that high, really... and it sure ain't gonna stop neighbourhood cats from depositing their smelly little nuggets....

Look, I'm sorry for ruining your day [illusion yer garden is safe from doody] but.... well no, actually... I'm not sorry. 

Hehe, I'm just in one of those antagonistic stirring moods today.

That'd be the motor oil, I suspect... given all the Oz F1's and pit lane cellarbrations you've attended... not to mention all the bike races.

Well at least it explains the all-concrete yard... can't even grow a lawn with that nasty looking thumb.

As for lawns, well I'm in the process of injecting old sump oil into mine... with the hope it'll eventually slide downhill into next door's so it'd be his problem not mine.

Another thing I hate about my yard is the palm trees... the constant picking up of discarded frondes and having to cut them into small pieces that'll fit in the wheelie bin.  Frankly, I'd just throw 'em over the fence... if the dickhead next door had some palm trees to blame it on....

Oh well, s'pose I could always blame the wind.

I recently moved house, The front garden is a gravel drive, and the rear garden is HUGE and is all lawn. I don't own a lawnmower. We've lost the dog twice! lol.

Lost the dog, eh?  You should probably keep it on a leash until the jungle is cleared.... you just never know what else may be lurking in there.

And without a mower you ask the local farmer for some ravenous livestock... no petrol required.

jungle + weeds

This was a few years ago.

As you can see, I did have some troubles with grass. My garden sometimes had a better stand of grass than my lawn did.

I do a little flower gardening too, for the missus.

This was last year. This years crop just getting started.

Hehe, if I'm gonna show off pics of my garden I'll need ter pop up the road wiv me camera fer a bit.

Just be sure to disguise the weed as weeds....    

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 18

Quoting starkers, reply 17
Hehe, if I'm gonna show off pics of my garden I'll need ter pop up the road wiv me camera fer a bit.

 

Just be sure to disguise the weed as weeds....     [e digicons][/e]

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Yup, I'll send it to Doc for a photoshopping before I post it.  However, the yard up the road is pretty well kept.

We have a few flowerbeds, some potted flowers outside here and there and two tomato plants. (All the veggies we can get away with. Park rules prohibit vegetable gardens.)

Since my wife is Mrs. Greenthumb we do in fact have a garden.  Both flower and vegetable gardens surround our home now.  A few years back (when my wife was still a member of the local garden club) we had only flowers and other beautiful (expensive...arrgh) plants.......even placed 2nd in a gardening competition.   We're too old for that now.  Plus eating garden fresh veggies beats the grocery store any day!  

EDIT:

As to what we grow.  Well the flowers are often varied from year to year and as we do live in Canuckistan most of our flowers are annuals.  The veggies we like to grow are things like green/yellow beans, zucchini, parisian romaine, lots of types of tomatoes, kohlrabi, carrots, spinach, peppers, onions and various types of herbs for use in all of those summer grilling recipes.   We gave up on things like cauliflower because it requires too long a growing season to really be viable up here for us.