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Diana smith
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Do you grow anything in memory of a loved one?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Nita Mar 20.
What do you grow that is a luxury?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Gina Feb 9.
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Ohh yes, I grow a purple podded pole bean that my gardening mentors gave to me a long time ago. My garden is fashioned after theirs and a day doesn't go by that I don't think of their huge subsistence garden and small farm. I use their milking stool…
I made a large planter box out of cedar, filled it with peat & sand, and planted some dwarf blueberry bushes in it. My grandparents always grew blueberries, and we'd always visit in July when they were ripe. We'd be out there picking buckets full, w…
I have a Concord grape vine, even though I shouldn't, down here in Georgia, because my great grandfather had one in Claremore, Oklahoma. He always had a woody food plant of one kind or another in his yard, but the grape vine is the one I liked the b…
We grow alot of dalhias as my husband's dear grandmother was such a fan of them...she was the one who took him to the family farm every summer and planted the dream of a farm in his heart. I grow glads for my Dad who used to grow them in the ditch o…
One thing I use alot of is Folgers coffee cans! Each variety of tomato...and I grow about 15 kinds...are started in a can. Once filled with Pro-Mix and well watered you need do nothing but make sure the top doesn't crust over. I generally get 100% g…
The paper pots last just fine. We just them extensively in our greenhouse. You will have to have something stout to set them in; then they just aren't moved until you are ready to plant them out or plant them up in bigger pots. We've used our potmak…
I don't think you can ever have too many tomatoes. =)
Our luxury is roses - we've got over three dozen. In our defense, we live in "the Rose city" (Pasadena) and they grow like weeds here. I don't fertilize them (save for compost when I have extra)…
Hostas! They grow so well in my yard all I have to do is put them in the ground with a little mulch, and they sure are lovely.
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- About Me:
- Farm wife for 40+ years...love to garden,can,sew,knit,quilt,read.. You name it...we've done on our homesteads, in MI and here in the Ozarks. Raised cattle,sheep,goats,chickens,horses, beekeepers, small grain production.
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