how does your garden grow?

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Swamp Lillies are in bloom

[SIXFOOTERsez]

More swamp lillies from today


Pickeril


Castor Bean


Moon Vine Flower


The White Water Lillies are starting to bloom

[Lady Cop]

those are lovely Six...did you happen to see the movie "Adaptation" about the guy stealing rare orchids in the Everglades? i bet you'd like it.

very nice photos~

[Maggot]

Can you eat any of that stuff like the roots or stems or anything?

[SIXFOOTERsez]

The Coco Plumb is edible and pretty tasty when its ripe, nice deep purple color and slightly soft, the brown ones are not ready yet


Cat Tails are edible, diiferent parts at different times. The roots and fresh young shoots can be eaten raw, chopped and sauted, cooked in stews etc. The pollen on the Head can be used as a flour for making pan cakes and the like.
There are man other edible plants out there. The Castor Beans are squeezed to extract an oil, supposed to fix everything from a broken heart to the crack of dawn, I think it tasts like Dawns crack.
None of the rest of the pics are edible. Might be a good thread, "Edible Plants of the Glades"

[SIXFOOTERsez]

I took this guys walking class last year, learned a lot.
http://www.eattheweeds.com/

[Duchess]

Cattails have cooties.

[Smegma]

Furry vines creep me out. As much as I love tomatoes, those plants are horror shows.

Ever see a tomato bug? Holy shit.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Thats actually a Tobacco Horned worm you have there, it has 7 stripes, the Tomato Horned worm had 8, but that won't stop him from eating your tomatos
Yes, they are creepy lookin

[Lady Cop]

anyone think granny lies like a rug?




Associated Press

UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A southwestern Pennsylvania grandmother says she's no marijuana grower, just a woman who wanted something that would look pretty next to her tomatoes.

A Fayette County jury cleared 67-year-old Alberta Kelley of drug possession and manufacture charges on Wednesday after she told them she simply tossed a handful of seeds into her garden after a bearded stranger gave them to her.

Connellsville police charged Kelley a year ago after receiving a tip about Kelley's garden. Investigators say they found seven well-cultivated, four-foot marijuana plants behind her home.
But Kelley claimed she didn't know what she was growing. She said she'd been given the seeds by a stranger in a pointy hat who told her they were flower seeds. <------

Kelley tells WTAE-TV that to her, "weeds are weeds."

Her attorney, Thomas Shaffer, says Kelley has a seventh grade education, can barely read and simply told the jury the truth.

[Maggot]

Note to self: print dumb lady article.

[Sterling]

Her attorney, Thomas Shaffer, says Kelley has a seventh grade education, can barely read . . .

Images of two members are flashing before my eyes.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Early blooms on the peaches in East Texas

[thekid65]

Cant wait for stuff to start blooming around here, that means that golf season will not be far behind. Since the wifey and I are splitting up, I have no freaking clue what I'm going to do with our veggie garden. Certainly not gonna put a lot of effort into a bunch of veggies for just me...might do a bunch of flowers and plants..not sure. Open to suggestions.

[Duchess]

Open to suggestions.

If you're just into some pretty color & not actual gardening I would fill some pots to overflowing at your main entrance.

Tags always suggest you plant a certain number of inches apart but when planting flowers I never pay attention to that. Pots ALWAYS look better when they are spilling over the sides. Try to get three different heights, tall in the center, trailing so they spill over the sides and then something to fill in the space left.

[thekid65]

I've got two large pots in the front of my house to which I was going to do just that...load with flowers...my quandary is what to do with the two very large veggie garden boxes in the backyard, I really dont want a huge weed patch.

[Duchess]

The only decision you have to make is whether you want to invest any of your time in tending a vegetable garden, if not, cover your little plots with mulch so you don't have weeds coming up.

[Maggot]

Plant something profitable.........you're gonna need it.

[Cracker]

Plant horny goat weed.

[thekid65]

Since day one of buying my house I've been very dissatisfied with the tree in my front yard. It's a Golden Chain, which is a beautiful tree, however mine just plain sucks. Seems to get worse every year, and I want it gone. I'm looking for something like a Japanese Maple, as I love the color. I do not want any type of tree that produces fruit, as the wasps are bad enough out here as it is.

Just looking for a colorful tree, and looking for other suggestions as to what to look at besides the Japanese Maple. Keep in mind that it must be able to withstand the cold. I'm in zone 5 on the horticulture map.