any gardeners around?

[Danielegrl]

I have 120 tomato's planted already but the sun is still hiding here in northern Calif.. lots of rain.. i did plant 100 berry bushes and vines too and another 20 fruit trees this yr.. i sure can't wait for the sun to get here so everything will explode with blossoms etc... anyway does anyone else here like to grow stuff? I also just planted a couple hundred flowers as well... i love growing stuff

[Sandi]

i love growing stuff 

Wow! you sure do. Sounds like you are starting a canning company, winery and fruit business.

All kidding aside I admire your ambition. I like to grow stuff too, but only a few things in the house. Presently my goal is to get a potted Hoa quynh (also called Queen of the Night, or Cactus Orchid) to grow which should be a breeze because they are quite hardy. Probably because they are a cacti relative. The harder trick it getting them to produce flowers which is pictured below. They only bloom at midnight, then only for a few hours and are wilted by morning.


If I can grow a beauty like this I may succum to the vapors.




The flowers blossom at the edges and ends of the flat leaves.


Sandi

[Danielegrl]

Yes i will and have done some canning as well. Just tomato's so far but i want to learn how to can the harder things. The local community garden also wants to start canning. I just proposed to them to do this last weekend.. Maybe they will and someone will get a nice career out of it..

Your choice of flowers are lovely.. i wish you well in your plantings..

[HelenW]

Any gardener's around?  No, they're still out back with their tillers! 

I started to learn about growing things some years ago when my SO and I bought our house.  I really like digging around even though it's hell on the fingernails - I don't like gloves, I like getting into the dirt!  I have some great flowers, herbs and ferns, nothing exotic and no veggies yet although one year I planted tomatoes in containers that the beasties ate faster that I could LOL!  My favorites so far are my columbines, they look so exotic but are quite native and hardy (and, importantly, like shade and are perennial!) but my Host of Golden Daffodils make April a joy. (Thank you, Mr. Wordsworth!)

Spring is taking its sweet time getting to western New York too but it's on its way.  I just love it!

helen

[Denise]

I love to garden as well,  For me 18 tomato plants are lots, and there is lots for freezing and canning well.
A few years back was into gardening real big, and one of the nice crops we grew were Gladiolous.
They are a very beautiful flower, and at one time had 50,000 bulbs plante.  got to be way too much work so had to give it up.

As they say you can take the  girl from the country, but you can't take the country from the girl

Denise

[LostInTime]

I can kill damn near anything.  LOL.

So far the oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme, and strawberry plants have stuck around the longest.  My rose bush is more like a sparse set of thorny twigs that bloom a beautiful flower once in a blue moon.  But at least it's not dead yet.

[Danielegrl]

Yes once you get strawberries, rosemary, thyme and sage and oregano going its hard to kill them.. i have them as well.. and way more than i can list.. but with what you have you can surely add to your diet some good stuff.

right now all i have is strawberry flowers ... but as soon as we get some sun... they will all turn to ripe lucious berries yummy