technoflutemomJoined: May 17, 2007Status: OfflinePosts: 88Rep:
Any other gardeners out there? Mon May 21, 2007 4:10:30 AM#38218Perm Link
Back in the apartment days I always had a container garden. When I moved to my house, it had a lovely English garden which I slowly destroyed through ignorance. Now I've got it about rebuilt to suit me, added a vegetable garden and am revitalizing my courtyard.
I prefer to do soil-less, raised bed gardens. They are a lot less trouble to weed than gardens in the ground. My flowers are in the ground, though. I use myrtle, creeping thyme or juniper as a ground cover so I don't have to weed.
I love gardening. I live in the dark woods with tons of rock all around. So I have gone to container gardening. It works pretty good. I grow carrots, letuce 4-kinds, and onions in them.
I want to grow something now that I finally have a yard...(front AND back!) but I never have time or am too lazy when I have time, so I just throw old fruit out back and hope it grows, and if not, at least some squirrel or bird gets dinner.
We started some watermelons this year in a pot. We have just put them in the ground because they have grown so fast. We have never had any luck with watermelon. Hopefully this year will be different.
We grew some up the back fence last year. They did very well until the school that shares the fenceline with us sprayed their side down with herbicide.