Search results

Yes, it is, that is the only spot I've been able to have that 'take', for some reason. It's rather temperamental - but seems to be happy there. Yes, those are the real old-fashioned bleeding hearts. On the other side of the stairs I've got the fringe leafed, it's very different. Then, on the...

No, beans don't look much like tomatoes at all :) The cukes will do better if they can climb, so you could plant them near the corn, but better would be to give them a trellis of some sort, that leaves more room on the ground to grow other things. I plant lettuce in the shade of the cukes, it...

No, Steve, that's Brunnera 'Jack Frost', and it's so happy it has actually seeded in, there's another one further down. Yes, I know, it's a cultivar, but the baby looks remarkably like the parent!! The bleeding hearts have actually been blooming now for well over ten days. This cool rain is...

Tree peonies do not die down to the ground in the fall/winter. They aren't that hard to grow, they just need a bit of protection from harsh winds in the winter, I use burlap. Wait til you see the yellow one, hopefully the rain won't ruin that one, too!

I love this little garden, it came out really nice this year: Here it is today, from another angle: My 'lawn' back there consists of old grass, dandelions and ever other weed imaginable, but the gardens are under control ;)

I went out to weed a bit in front of my tree peonies, this rain is really bringing them out (the weeds, that is). You can see the weeds at the base of this unopened yellow (it's going to be gorgeous when it opens, it's got lots of blooms this season!): This is the pink one, it's getting...

Yes, a good rinse takes care of the salt. If you are fortunate enough to be able to gather enough seaweed, go for it! Not only will it work as a mulch, but as it breaks down it will enrich your soil.

Go for it. They grow in the woods down behind me, and not all of them are in the wetlands. They do like dappled shade, though, do not try to grow them in the sun. Over on the farm I used to garden on they were growing wild down by one of the barns that edged up to the woods.

I'm not hung up on zones, I'm well aware of the effects of microclimates on plant survival - with the precautions I've practiced over the past two winters I've successfully kept a cardoon alive and well. I know of a rosemary that grows in front of the pillar of a garage, in a well cut out of...

I've tried Arp rosemary many times, it never makes it. I don't know where they got the zone 5 hardiness designation.

Awesome score! This was a locally owned nursery selling their own plants? Even better

ninnymary, I just want a change, and that is me doing what I love the most, working in the garden. I still have the bee on the borage, it may make its appearance again. And vfem, I've miss you all in my personally imposed exile :love

I've got French Tarragon out in the herb garden that's now overwintered two times, so it seems pretty hardy for me.

Pinch the tips out, and they'll branch nicely for you.

Coast of Maine lobster compost is good stuff! As for the wind, I feel your pain, it was windy as heck here for over a week. Everything is still in pots huddled on the porch. You are brave to plant that stuff out up there this early - there's still a chance of frost up there, ours is barely...

Ours showed up on the 9th, hanging around the porch post where I usually hang the feeder - so I hung one out! I'm well trained ;)

Hi, Mark, you and I came back to TEG on the same day! Your spider plant needs to be a bit more potbound before it will start sending out shoots. Don't pot it down, just let it be, and by mid to late summer I'll bet it'll be 'spidering' :watering

Yes, let's continue this topic in that thread so we can keep all of the rhubarb recipes in one thread!

Hattie, my hens have never bothered the cardoon, for some reason. They do go after the rhubarb when it's first bubbling out of the ground, but not the cardoon. We have to keep them pretty confined lately, though, we lost our first hen to a fox (of course it was my favorite, Henny-Penny :( )...

Yes, we still have the bees. I've been working on ringing my veggie beds with the wonderful granite my husband brought me home last fall. It's almost finished. This is a shot I took to enter into a backyard makeover contest, I'd love to have the money to do what I want to do out there! It's...