how does your garden grow?

[thekid65]

Wifey forgot to water our starts for a couple of days...think we're fucked.

[aileen]

One inch by one inch pots?

Sorry, that should have been 1 ft X 1 ft...but I'm pretty sure you knew that

[Lady Cop]

WOW! where's the cheese sauce? mmmmmm

DailyMail
A farmer has a big problem on his hands after his crop of cauliflowers grew so huge shops won’t stock them.

Expert grower Martin Godfrey is now desperately trying to sell the whopping veg at farmers' markets after supermarkets rejected them for being just too much for their shelves.

Mr Godfrey, 43, who has farmed Shillingford Organics at Shillingford Abbot, near Exeter, Devon, for six seasons, was stumped after his two acres of caulies defied the elements to grow to five times size the average size.

The monster caulies weigh in at 5.5 Ilbs and are 18 inches in diameter, compared to half a pound and 5 inch diameter for an average sized one.

Mr Godfrey sewed around two acres of cauliflowers with a handheld seed drill in May.The varieties included Long-ships, Christingle, Galleon, Sky-walker and Medallion.

The farm is fully organic and the seeds go into field nursery beds with the cold weather triggering growth.

He thinks the fact he sewed the seeds straight in to the fields rather than in glasshouses may be why they grew so big.

[Midnight]

spring is here

[concerned]

I love spring!!! I raked the Saturday and today my Hostas, Bee Balm, Lilies, Clematis etc.... all are coming up!!!! yea!

[Midnight]

Spring is here

[username]

I am a serial plant murderer.

[Maggot]

Wifey forgot to water our starts for a couple of days...think we're fucked.

They will come back I bet.

[Lady Cop]

Duchess: One inch by one inch pots? Hahahaha! No, they cannot stay in them. LMAO. For tomatoes, your pots should probably be at least 18 in. in diameter.


i will bet you she meant one foot, not one inch, pots.

[melissab]

Oh, thank you guys for all the beautiful pics. Mush time...when my Mom left my bio Dad I was 3 and came to Ft. Walton Bch, FL to my GreatGrans. They lived in a nice hood that bordered one of the main roads through the town and it was a gigantic corner lot. The whole lot that bordered neighbors was chainlinked then 6 ft. hedges then a 2 ft. clear path and then following the same angles was shorter shrubbery and perfectly cut, bright green lawn year round. There were still pines in the yard but he kept the limbs cut high up. Lining the driveway way monkey grass, shrubs in the front against the home and the same type of tall shrub around back of house to keep it completely private. Front yard center had a well sculpted bird bath garden and to the left of the home was the Garden Club winner every year. A lg flower garden that started with ground sizers like pansey, etc, to daisys to hydrangeas, roses, and the back (LC) mid size sun flowers, (no more than 3-5 ft) and the back drop of the whole thing was a grapevine covered sitting area. Absolutely beautiful! Now for the back yard. My Great Granddaddy got up at 5am each morn without fail and quit working by 12 as the sun was too hot by then. Of course he had a guy help cut yard and trim hedges and maintain house that worked for him for years. The garden was all yr round though, summer had peppers, beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, squash, cabbabe, lettuce, okra, cukes, onions, strawberries, etc. How I miss those times. LC and everyone thank you for bringing back a very fond memory of my hard working GGDaddy and GGMom. She in her hat and scarf every year tending to the seedlings she wanted planted in the hothouse in the back of the home hidden by the hedges lining the home. He gave us grandkids lots of magical places to play!

[Lady Cop]

that's sweet melissab...i lived in florida for years, and could NOT grow a garden. my first year there i had good dirt trucked in, (my yard was sand and coral) and i worked my butt off to get stuff planted.
well between the extreme heat, snakes, fire ants, and weeds, nothing grew. i finally gave it up.

but i had established night-blooming jasmine, and that stuff was overwhelming! it smelled like a funeral home every night. after a while i came to like the scent. i wish Mock had smell-a-post hahaha

[melissab]

I don't know where you lived in FL but it sounds like hell. I think you mentioned you were more on the Eastern side? Dunno but nearer the gulf and up in the woods and being hot a humid, things usually grow really good around here. Of course you gotta have good base soil and sometimes haul in the cow chit or shroom compost. Your place now is beautiful and looks kinda private. Your garden is the schizz nizzle my friend! Beeyouteefull!!!! Delicious I bet!

[Lady Cop]

whoa! i didn't know my big-ass wild turkeys could fly! last night i saw one fly very high up in a tree at dusk, i was surprised as hell!

so i looked it up:
wild turkeys can fly. Apparently not fast or high enough, however. Hunting by early Americans brought the wild turkey population to a low of just 30,000 birds back in the 1930s. conservation efforts have restored the population to about 7 million today. (half of which live in my yard.)

Wild turkeys feed on the ground, which may have something to do with the myth that they can't fly. They have to fly, however, because they roost in trees at night. Some accounts say they can soar up to 55 mph for short bursts.

[thekid65]

Just got done with the first lawn mow of the season..yeah, it pretty much sucked as bad as I remember from last year. Anyhoo..Spring has sprung in I-dee-ho!

Sorry for the bad focus on the 1^st pic








And of course, the true sign of spring...the dastardly:



Fucking things are defo out growing all the pretty ones

[Duchess]

I recognize the tulip & the vinca but, what's the ground cover that looks like daisies? That's purty.

[thekid65]

lol...ok, I know which one is the tulip, and which is the dandelion...but someone else will have to answer what the white things are....fuck if I know..all I do is make sure they're watered.

All I know is, I got some serious weed spraying to do.

[Lady Cop]

that's a dandy looking dandelion...my Italian grandmother used to pick all the neighbors' dandelions for salad (they loved her!). some people also cook the greens down like collards or turnip greens. i love those, but the dandelion salad was too bitter for my palate as a kid.

[Duchess]

I can't believe the vinca in the mid-west bloomed before mine.

[Duchess]

I liked the spreading white ground cover enough that I investigated a little. I think it's Iberis sempervirens or commonly called, "candytuft".

[Lady Cop]

I liked the spreading white ground cover enough that I investigated a little. I think it's Iberis sempervirens or commonly called, "candytuft".

Duchess, i have a lot of that growing at the base of some of my trees, it looks pretty but i thought it was ragweed since it grows wild. but i really don't know for sure.

my yard is full of these--->