More Gardens

ah... Well I talked my parents and Luke into putting more gardens in and I just ordered the plants for them. Yesterday Luke rototilled a large garden in the back of my yard for melons, specifically honeydew because I LOVE honeydew. And we put in two smaller ovals for what was supposed to be blackberries and blueberries. Well after a round of shopping and a look at cost online I couldn't believe the price of blueberries. Are they flippin nuts?! My gosh, I mean Home Depot was getting 15 for a lousy looking plant that was maybe in a 1gal bucket. Menards was getting 20 for a nice looking plant in a 3gal bucket. But id need 4 plants of each at 20 dollars each?! I mean for real. thats a lot of berries I'd have to buy in the stores to be even. So while I was ordering some gorgeous pink climbing roses for 'Paradise' I was porusing their sale items and low and behold they have bush cherries. What is that? Heck I didn't know either. So I read the description and read on some other sites and decided that they would be perfect. and Perfectly cheap too. 3yr old fruiting plants for $6.95 for 5 Plants! YEP you know it! And the Blackberries? oh they will be here too with 5 plants for $10. MUCH better. And the random angel trumpet plant I ordered? Thats just for enjoying. And I say random because they charged 10 for you to pick your color or 4 if they picked it for you. I looked at my color options and decided they all were pretty and that I would be pleasantly suprised by what I got. :) yay.

Look for more pictures soon!

It's starting to look like....summer baby!!!!!!!!!!!

So I just spent the last...oh...8 hours outside in the garden. I have dirt so far under my nails it may never come out. I have a mountain of creeping charlie and other weeds not worth mentioning to prove it. buwahaha.

Step 1: Clean out weeds, till, put up fence and add nutrients to the garden---DONE!

Step 2: Get 'Paradise' clean. (My personal oasis of happiness behind my dads garage. complete with lovely bench, umbrella, and table (when I finish it! haha)---NOT Done. :(  there is another small bed with my tiger lillies in it along the fence on the right side of this picture...Didn't get to that part. However!, there were oriental lillies and white asiatic lillies in the bed on the wall in the back. A POOR choice on my parents part because that area receives less than six hours of light a day. Not so good for a full sun plant. They have now been moved to the fountain area on the left as well as in the 'island' in the center. The island was intended for wild flowers but I was unhappy with how they looked last year. So when the lillies started coming I decided I would move the orientals and dwarf asiatics in there. :) Also trimmed the Wisteria and hosed off my potted plant fixture to get that prepped for the oncoming summer!

Step 3: Get plenty of pretty flowers! DONE and DONE...and I'll still get more...lolz!

Slightly bored, not much to say.

So I am rather bored and thinking about summer. Cannot wait to start the garden! I am already looking at seed catalogs and trying to decide what I want to grow and how I will do it. I really want to try pumpkins again, I had many starts that just didn't get big enough. I really want to try honeydew as well.

There were some deer in my garden the other day. I had a pumpkin by the house that I didn't carve and was using as a decoration and it finally started to rot so I had Luke throw it into the garden area that way in spring it can be rototilled in. The deer decided to try and eat it, even though I'm sure it was frozen solid. It allowed my dad to get some nice pictures using the camera because they were so close.

Yesterday I saw some really cool decorations that I hope Luke gets for me. There was a sun hanger and a moon hanger that had globes in them that I would love to hang on a Shepard's hook near a tree. There was a metal sun that was pretty cool as well, but I'd really love a lightweight metal moon that I could put opposite from the sun that is already out there. I think I am going to spray paint it right away in spring with some outdoor paint to make it pretty again. The sun has faded it pretty good. That will be very fun for me though, and I'm really looking forward to starting that project.

Oh well...I just have to keep dreaming of summer because we are going to get like 15 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. Summer dreaming will just have to do for now.
                             Although, I did buy a pretty darn delicious honeydew from Aldi on Friday! Num!

Hello

It is the middle of winter. Which is why this blog won't have to many updates till summer. However this past year my father and my boyfriend Luke helped my build a garden for me to grow all kinds of exciting things in. I have loved gardening since I took a botany class in high school and then another one in college. I thank both of my teachers for encouraging me and teaching me about the way plants work. I can apply that knowledge to my garden now. The garden is about 25 feet long by 9 feet wide. It is a dealable size. However, I don't know anyone that has done successful gardening, besides my grandfather who is to old to teach me, so my garden is an experiment. Last year I tried to do to much of to many different things. I had pumpkins and gourds and watermelon and tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers and yellow squash and green beans and lettuce and carrots. WAY to much going on and because it is so small I found out the hard way that vine plants won't be good in that setting. I'm hoping to build some raised gardens near the end of my yard where the ground is rather wet constantly. That way the roots will have access to water. I hope to try pumpkins and watermelon again down there and maybe corn, we will see. I want to focus on cucumbers and peppers and tomatoes and lettuces and things like that in my small garden for this upcoming year. I have a gate that you enter into the garden through which I have grapes growing up the sides and next to my garden I have smaller patches of asparagus and raspberries (red and gold). I also have hanging planters that I do strawberries in and they were most delicious last year and I'm really looking forward to that again. We tilled the ground a bit after throwing all the leaves from our yard into there along with some uneaten vegetables. I hoping that it will soften the ground and make it nice and rich with nutrients for the plants next year. mmm... I'm drooling for them already and winter just started!!!