It's become clear to me through posts and PMs that there are some gardeners here just waiting for the chance to discuss gardening!
So, I was thinking... how do you use gardening, or how does it affect you if you need a break, need some respite, need to relax, need inspiration....how do you use it as a therapy tool in caregiving?
What are your activities: Do you go out and pull weeds, read a magazine, design new beds? Look through garden catalogues? Go to garden stores?
And what interests have you added to your gardening? Visit estate or garden displays? Do you go to garden shows?
Does anyone design and plant Knot Gardens? Raised bed planters? Assistive gardens? Pollinator gardens (and have you thought of ways to help the bees and butterflies?)
Are your gardens primarily for pleasure or food, or a mix of both? Do you grow plants for medicinal purposes? Which ones, how do you harvest and process them? Any suggestions?
Do you grow plants that can be used in crafts, such as grapevines for wreaths and lavender for lavender wands? Do you make herbal products such as creams, lotions, chapstick?
What else can you share about gardening and the means in which it nurtures your soul?
I am not going to wait until they turn red. I can’t wait to taste my peppers!🫑
They aren’t quite ready to pick yet. I know what I want to make with them. Stuffed peppers.
I told him that I think that is the case but that I wasn’t completely sure of my answer.
I am sorry that you lost your tomato plants.
7 years is a long span of time. That’s fabulous!
I really want to try my hand at growing tomatoes. We do get our fair share of rainfall.
My favorite tomatoes here are creole tomatoes. They are absolutely delicious! I love creole tomatoes, Roma tomatoes and cherry or grape tomatoes.
My dad grew tomatoes. Grandpa too. Grandma would can them. I know nothing about canning.
Grandma had a fig tree in her backyard. I ate the fresh figs right off the tree. She had so many figs that she canned fig preserves. The preserves were good too.
Are tomatoes prone to insects? I wish that I would have let daddy teach me about gardening when I was younger.
He offered to show me shortly after we moved into our home. I wasn’t as interested then. I was busy with other things.
Need, there's an older neighborhood in Vero Beach, FL that is full of live oaks and it's such a pretty drive. I'm up in Zone 4... I'll look up the jasmine ground cover.
That was my most rewarding gardening adventure, keeping plants that are treated as annuals, which we live in climates that allow perennial life, alive and producing for years.
The smaller the tomato, for my climate, the better. I'm guessing you have more rain and can do the bigger ones easier.
All of mine were in 24" minimum pots, just FYI.
Enjoy your harvest!
Here we have huge live oak trees. They are gorgeous but grass will not grow underneath them. The roots are massive!
It’s common for us to plant Asian jasmine ground cover, which is lovely and extremely hardy.
When I posted my experiment on Nextdoor.com to see if anyone else had done it, it got 6K views. I had no idea there were so many other frustrated yard warriors, like me.
Have any of you tried micro clover as a replacement to grass?
I am excited because this is my first attempt at growing peppers!
I wonder how she and GardenArtist are doing.
I hope that GardenArtist was able to move to her dream retirement residence like she wanted to.
Everything blooms so beautifully in California! I also think the palm trees are lovelier in California than they are in Florida. The ground covers, the flowers, the produce, etc.
Very smart!
my plants.
Put them all together in a planter and put wire over the top to keep animals out. However the planter is overall not big enough for all that I planted, the tomato plants are crowding out the strawberries now. Oh well, thats ok. A handful of tomatoes are starting to ripen.
its a pleasure to come home in the evening from work, water them and assess the progress. Raising vegetables gives a good feeling. When getting back from visiting dad also, to just go outside for ten mins and look at the vegetable garden, is calming.
LOL 😝
I wish that I had my grandfather’s rose garden when I was a child. He grew the most beautiful roses.
I was so proud to bring grandpa’s roses to my teachers when I was a kid.
Grandpa would cut a bouquet for grandma to place on the dining room table and a bouquet for me to take to my teacher.
The funny thing is that some of the same nuns that taught my mother also taught me. It was cool.
I loved hearing stories about my mother as a child from them. Those nuns didn’t forget a thing! 😝 They were quite young when they taught my mom and my aunt.
My dad’s peppers flourished so well that my kids gave him the nickname, “green pepper grandpa.”
Maybe I will become. bell pepper, momma! 😝
Maybe, I will try planting hot peppers next time and I will be, Hot pepper momma! LOL
Let us know how it works. It’s very hot and muggy here!
I have peppers on all of the plants! Yay! 😁 Can’t wait until they are big enough to pick.
I love our Spanish moss too. Historically, it was used to stuff mattresses, pillows and furniture in Louisiana.
We do have long hot summers and high humidity but we also get a fair amount of rainfall here.
I love the beautiful colors of zinnias.
It is fun watching something grow, very rewarding!
Gardening is a lot of work! It is a nice hobby for those who enjoy it.
My grandfather never saw it as work because he loved it so much. Grandma would never have worked in the yard.
My dad loved to garden. Mom enjoyed it too.
I am seeing tiny peppers growing on my plants now! Yay! 😁
I've potted everything up but still no sign of life from the cannas.
I love gazebos and trellises. They are so pretty!
Yes, seasoning and the way veggies are cooked makes a huge difference in taste. Who wants bland food? Yuck 🤮.
We can’t like everything. I still hate beets and butternut squash.