How many here have a garden?

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Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back for
herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm in
Zone 8 of course the ground is too cold now.

That's warm... my garden is in hardiness zone 5.

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(Roseb441702) said:

Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back for
herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm in
Zone 8 of course the ground is too cold now.

I've had bad luck with strawberries, but the thornless blackberries are taking off nicely, as are
the mustang grapes. :-) Now I need to plant some edible grapes. <G> I planted the wild grapes as
fence cover for privacy fencing. The honeysuckle just does not grow dense enough.

Too bad grapes lose their leaves in the fall.

We have yet to have a hard freeze! ;-P I wish we would, to kill the bugs. I was out back just a bit
ago working on cleaning up the dead tomato and bean vines, and plucking the rest of the dry bean
crop for the year, and lo and behold, some of the bean vines were still alive and producing! Sheesh!
;-) There were even some fresh sprouts, probably from some mature pods that I missed harvesting
earlier this year and they popped and planted themselves...

I miss snow!

K.

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Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back for
herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm in
Zone 8 of course the ground is too cold now.

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The ground here is rock solid from the cold temps. I may have nothing left anyway. While I was
incarcerated in the hospital, SO had a huge old oak tree removed. It was located right in the middle
of everything and naturally branches fell as the tree was taken down. It destroyed part of the lawn
and took out my dogwood tree. The dogwood had to be removed as well. On a brighter note, I get to
redecorate the back yard come spring.

Michael <- thinking a Japanese maple tree

Roseb441702 said:

Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back for
herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm in
Zone 8 of course the ground is too cold now.

I have a small herb garden beside my patio, making it very handy to the BBQ. There is enough room
in there to grow a few tomato plants. I can reach over and grape a fresh tomato, chop it in half
and lay it on the grill and sprinkle some fresh basil on it. Last year I planted a bunch of
raspberry canes. I hope that these canes do better than the last batch. They had been the favourite
feeding area for my neighbours free ranging chickens. No wonder the yolks of their eggs were such a
bright orange.

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Roseb441702)

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Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back for
herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm in
Zone 8 of course the ground is too cold now.

That's warm... my garden is in hardiness zone 5.

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Ditto... hard as a rock. Temp's around 5dF now and goin' down for the count.

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Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a

good

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sized garden out back for herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the

strawberries

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that I have grown. Right now since I'm in Zone 8 of course the ground

is too

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cold now.

I've had bad luck with strawberries, but the thornless blackberries are taking off nicely, as are
the mustang grapes. :-) Now I need to plant some edible grapes. <G> I planted the wild grapes as
fence cover for privacy fencing. The honeysuckle just does not grow dense enough.

Too bad grapes lose their leaves in the fall.

We have yet to have a hard freeze! ;-P I wish we would, to kill the bugs. I was out back just a
bit ago working on cleaning up the dead tomato and bean vines, and plucking the rest of the dry
bean crop for the year, and lo and behold, some of the bean vines were still alive and producing!
Sheesh! ;-) There were even some fresh sprouts, probably from some mature pods that I missed
harvesting earlier this year and they popped and planted themselves...

I miss snow!

K.

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I'm in my oWn z0nE down here in AustinTexas but my garden seems to be doing fine. Right now I have
oregano, marjoram, thyme, arugala, romaine, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. At some point I need
to pull everything so I can turn the soil for the spring veggies. That will probably wait until I
harvest some broccoli...

Tom

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: > Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do
have a
: > good sized garden out back for herbs and vegetables. I'm
most proud
: > of the strawberries that I have grown. Right now since I'm
in Zone 8
: > of course the ground is too cold now.
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: The ground here is rock solid from the cold temps. I may have
nothing left
: anyway. While I was incarcerated in the hospital, SO had a huge
old oak
: tree removed. It was located right in the middle of everything
and
: naturally branches fell as the tree was taken down. It
destroyed part of
: the lawn and took out my dogwood tree. The dogwood had to be
removed as
: well. On a brighter note, I get to redecorate the back yard
come spring.
:
: Michael <- thinking a Japanese maple tree
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We do (well... during the summer!).

I'm not sure what we'll plant this year but more than likely it will be:

Tomatoes Basil Zucchini Melon (maybe cantaloupe or honeydew) cucumbers (they produced like crazy in
03) Dill Sage

As far as trees are concerned, when we first moved here (almost 3 yrs ago) we only had our huge
evergreen out back and 3 "volunteer" trees that are at the very back corner of the property. Since
then we have planted a Wisteria tree, weeping cherry, weeping Wisconsin willow, Golden Raintree (?),
and I think Rick recently planted a couple of Japanese Maples (freebies through Arbor Day...). I'm
hoping the Wisteria will bloom this year. It has to be trained/trimmed on occasion so that it
doesn't resort back to being a vine.

Cyndi

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(Roseb441702) said:

Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a

good

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sized garden out back for herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the

strawberries

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that I have grown. Right now since I'm in Zone 8 of course the ground

is too

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cold now.

I've had bad luck with strawberries, but the thornless blackberries are taking off nicely, as
are the mustang grapes. :-) Now I need to plant some edible grapes. <G> I planted the wild
grapes as fence cover for privacy fencing. The honeysuckle just does not grow dense enough.

Too bad grapes lose their leaves in the fall.

We have yet to have a hard freeze! ;-P I wish we would, to kill the bugs. I was out back just a
bit ago working on cleaning up the dead tomato and bean vines, and plucking the rest of the dry
bean crop for the year, and lo and behold, some of the bean vines were still alive and
producing! Sheesh! ;-) There were even some fresh sprouts, probably from some mature pods that I
missed harvesting earlier this year and they popped and planted themselves...

I miss snow!

K.

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I'm in my oWn z0nE down here in AustinTexas but my garden seems to be doing fine. Right now I have
oregano, marjoram, thyme, arugala, romaine, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. At some point I
need to pull everything so I can turn the soil for the spring veggies. That will probably wait
until I harvest some broccoli...

Tom

I'm in San Marcos. :-) The Herbs winter over in their own bed on the West side of the house. All
except Basil... <sigh>

K.

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The ground here is rock solid from the cold temps. I may have nothing left anyway. While I was
incarcerated in the hospital, SO had a huge old oak tree removed. It was located right in the
middle of everything and naturally branches fell as the tree was taken down. It destroyed part of
the lawn and took out my dogwood tree. The dogwood had to be removed as well. On a brighter note, I
get to redecorate the back yard come spring.

Michael <- thinking a Japanese maple tree

Noooo... not unless you have a very tiny yard, those things take forever to attain any size...
they're okay set in a corner as an accent piece but I'd not want one as a main specimen planting.
And none of the various Japanese maples tolerate full sun, they need partial shade. I'd replace the
dogwood, but those are also better as an accent planting. Depending on how large a space you may
want to consider one of the flowering pears, those grow rather quickly and each type with a
different configuration. Or if you don't mind the wait an American beech is magnificent (they grow
huge, but very slowly, so in any case you'll be long gone to fertilizer before space becomes a
problem). To help you decide go to <arborday.org>

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>Roseb441702)

>Looking at all the recipe posts made me think about it. I do have a good sized garden out back
>for herbs and vegetables. I'm most proud of the

strawberries

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>that I have grown. Right now since I'm in Zone 8 of course the ground is

too

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>cold now.

That's warm... my garden is in hardiness zone 5.

Ditto... hard as a rock. Temp's around 5dF now and goin' down for the count.

Yeah, 5dF was my high for the day, now (7:15 pm) down to 1dF... still a virtual heat wave compared
with the -10dF of last night, but the night is still very young. Somehow I just knew the temps
would be significantly low here abouts when my tractor arrived equipt with a plug-in block heater.
Oops, it's now .9dF. Albany area weather is like Miami compared with Lung Guyland. Now .7dF.

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Trust me, Poughkeepsie ain't that much better. Last I looked, we were at .9dF I'm not
lookin' any more!

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The ground here is rock solid from the cold temps. I may have nothing left anyway. While I was
incarcerated in the hospital, SO had a huge old oak tree removed. It was located right in the
middle of everything and naturally branches fell as the tree was taken down. It destroyed part of
the lawn and took out my dogwood tree. The dogwood had to be removed as well. On a brighter note,
I get to redecorate the back yard come spring.

Michael <- thinking a Japanese maple tree

Noooo... not unless you have a very tiny yard, those things take forever to attain any size...
they're okay set in a corner as an accent piece but I'd not want one as a main specimen planting.
And none of the various Japanese maples tolerate full sun, they need partial shade. I'd replace
the dogwood, but those are also better as an accent planting. Depending on how large a space you
may want to consider one of the flowering pears, those grow rather quickly and each type with a
different configuration. Or if you don't mind the wait an American beech is magnificent (they grow
huge, but very slowly, so in any case you'll be long gone to fertilizer before space becomes a
problem). To help you decide go to <arborday.org>

Thanks for the tips Sheldon. My back yard is shady with huge oaks. The yard is not small but not
huge either. I had thought of the beech trees because I think they're beautiful. I'm going to go to
arborday.org and take a peek at the flowering Pear trees as you suggested. I'll let you know what I
decide on.

Michael <- has got cords and cords of oak firewood stacked out back