Vegatable Gardens or Mini Gardens!

[Kimerpuff]

hehehehe!

how about truffels?

oh man exploding sauerkraut! EWWWWWWWW!!!!

I cannot stand the smell of it, I wont allow it even to be opened in my house! if the guys want it they have to open it by the grill and heat it there... eww! lol

 

[DaliMama]

Let me try this picture thing again

 

[blueeyekelly]

Nice garden you have there Dalimama

 

[DaliMama]

Thank you! It would be look more impressive if I had the time to weed it!! I have found that the weeds love miracle grow just as much as the veggies!!

 

[blueeyekelly]

Thank you! It would be look more impressive if I had the time to weed it!! I have found that the weeds love miracle grow just as much as the veggies!!

Oh yeah they do, one of the reasons I like raised beds, you can catch the weeds when they are smaller and easer to pull (I am too cheap to go buy a nice hoe...lol)

 

[DaliMama]

Part of my problem is that the "weeds" are actually bits of grass that survived being rototillered (is that a word?) when we turned this area of yard into the garden! We thought that the rototiller would tear up the roots enough to kill what we didn't tear up in sod squares, but boy were we wrong! When I have time I take my little hand held tools and cut out pieces from the garden and transplant them to the bare spots in the rest of the yard ~ Talk about exhausting! If i don't get out there first thing in the morning it is so excruciatingly hot/humid that I have to wait until the evening...and then I'm fighting mosquitos Ah, gotta love Georgia!

I was thinking that raised beds would be a great way to go and it sounds like the would be much easier on the back too!! Next year I will try talking the other half into helping me with that!

 

[blueeyekelly]

I know about that grass especially if it is the type I have that do the root propagation thing darn near imposible to get rid of...LOl

Raised beds are super simple to build, your other half should be able to do it in no time, ours are made out of decking because that is what we had...LOL

 

[Mary Kay]

Dali! great garden! Loved the herbs.

 

[DaliMama]

Kelly, your hubby sounds like mine...resourceful!! My other half won't wast a thing and amazes me with the things he can come up with!

Thank you MaryKay! I think next year I will have to get some hanging tomato planters like yours!!

 

[feebee]

Great gardens there ladies

We finally have our own place, so no more 'pots'. We planted a REAL garden. These pics are from a before and after art journal I am doing of our home renos.

ETA: No disrespect meant- Some of you have WONDERFUL looking veggie pots - I just always had an extremely brown thumb when trying to do pot herbs & veg. Big gardens are a little more forgiving when you neglect them for a few days...or so lol

 

[feebee]

...and the last few.

 

[Moonflame]

feebee--Your artwork is fantastic. What media are you using?

 

[feebee]

Thanks Moonflame

Ooooh I use a bit of everything -Mixed media, but usually big canvasses. Haven't done anything this small in a while! I love acrylics, texture pastes & gels particularly, & in this part of the journal, I used a lot of Lumiere paints

 

[blueeyekelly]

Kelly, your hubby sounds like mine...resourceful!! My other half won't wast a thing and amazes me with the things he can come up with!

Thank you MaryKay! I think next year I will have to get some hanging tomato planters like yours!!

Well have to make do with what you have, having the right stuff to do things with is better however...LMAO

 

[blueeyekelly]

Feebee-

Those are wonderful

 

[blueeyekelly]

Talking about not letting anything go to waste, I am spending the morning pulling nails and staples from wood so we can reuse it when needed...LOL and the kids are helping...LMAO

 

[Mary Kay]

Feebee..love the art and most of all the spotty chooks!

 

[feebee]

Thanks ladies

MaryKay, do you have a UK (or Aussie?) background there somewhere? I <3 my spotty chooks too, but when I mentioned them on a forum one time, no one knew what chooks were lol

 

[Mary Kay]

My Aussie friend was teaching me a foreign language..lol!
She taught me about chooks, tea, Bickie (money, but in Brittish it's bikkies=cookies).
There was vests, stickybeaks, vegemite, afters and savories. I love learning new stuff!
I spoke to her once on the phone and she sounded like Olivia Newton John!

 

[feebee]

My Aussie friend was teaching me a foreign language..lol!
She taught me about chooks, tea, Bickie (money, but in Brittish it's bikkies=cookies).
There was vests, stickybeaks, vegemite, afters and savories. I love learning new stuff!
I spoke to her once on the phone and she sounded like Olivia Newton John!

Oh that's so funny On forums I now try to avoid using everyday words like arvo, chooks & bickies (I use that for cookies too, $$ to me is moolah or dosh), but I still spell colour, flavour, neighbour etc <<< like that, & vapor both ways. I'm sure a lot of ppl just think I am misspelling