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Intro

Hello! My name is Luna. I am new to this group and also somewhat new to Dreamwidth! I keep a small backyard garden of mostly veggies and herbs. I grow most of my plants in containers. I use a variety of pots, grow bags, and upcycled totes for growing. Helps keep weeding a lot easier and I don't have to bend over quite as much/often (I have POTS). I live in the middle of the city, close to our downtown district. I don't have a lot of yard space, or the space I have may not be suitable for growing in ground. I am still working on them, but I have a few ideas for posts about composting and upcycling in the garden that I hope I can share in the future!

Below the cut is a small garden tour! This isn't everything I have, and I am still working on adding a few more things. :]

( Garden tour! )

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Intro Post

Name:

nsfwords aka Brandy

Location: Mid-Michigan. Recently updated to USDA hardiness zone 6a.

Lot size: 0.40 acres of land in the suburbs, which is quite a change for this farm girl from the thumb. But, the yard backs up into an 8 acre county drainage ditch park, with a paved nature trail, so it's like I bought the woods for free!

I garden by "yard" - as in I've broken my land into vague chunks or areas, named them all, and now I'm doing different things with each one. Let me introduce you to my yards! Pic heavy post to follow:

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Hello from Kansas

Location: northeast Kansas (zone 6a), middle USA

Yard: medium - there's an inner part bordered by a box hedge and a large outer verge with a couple big oak trees. Corner lot. Flowerbed bordering the porch.

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peach and yellow rosebud

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Intro Post

Name:

ysabetwordsmith

Location: Central Illinois. It used to be Zone 5b and is now Zone 6a. Some of the changes are dramatic.

Lot size: About 2 acres of rural territory. The yard by the house and south lot are mostly lawn. The streetside yard is forest. There's a savanna on the far side of the driveway, and then the prairiegarden. The ritual meadow and the orchard are toward the back.

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Hello gardeners! So glad to have found you!

I'm EmeraldEm, or you can call me Em. I live in Providence, Rhode Island in the U.S. I was my dad's gardening assistant as a child (I'm 53) but have never had a garden or space for it as an adult. Just house plants. But suddenly my wife and I moved to a new apartment where there's a raised garden bed at the back of the property. So I asked for and received permission from the landlord to use it.

I have yet to go and measure it to see what the square footage is, but that's on my list. I'd started to get some tools and stuff two months ago, then the pandemic hit and everything went to heck. Now the weather's good I really want to get going! Here are some things I want to plant:

* lavender, dill, mint (I know mint should be in a separate pot or plot). Maybe sage?

* lettuce, carrots, tomatoes

* some pretty flower-things that will nicely grow on and cover the rather ugly stone walls of the raised bed

I've got a trowel, a cultivator and something that looks like a trowel but is narrower and maybe longer. Not sure what it is. The soil has clearly not been worked in ages and has some trash and a lot of weeds in it. Also some rocks. I'd clear it first before cultivating and planting.

So, basically, I'm starting from scratch. Any advice, comments, etc. would be very welcome. Thank you! :)

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Intro Post

With spring coming soon, I figured it was high time to start preparing for growing season to start, and ended up here. Anyway, info!

I live in Canada, in roughly zone 8 or 9. Last year I had a few potted herbs (basil, cilantro, thyme) and some broccoli growing, but this year I want to expand with a few more herbs (mint, sage, oregano) and vegetables (peas, beans, lettuce, radishes). I also want to transplant last year's thyme plants to a bigger container to get it away from the mint my mom put next to it. I'll have to keep watch to make sure the mint doesn't try to overrun the thyme post transplant via any roots, but we'll see what happens.

( And here's a couple pictures of my newly sprouting oregano and last year's thyme )

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Plans for the spring?

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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Introduction & Quick Question

Hello!

My name is Lupin and I am probably going to be spamming this page with questions sooner or later. I always seem to do that when things go wrong with my plants (I have a horrible black thumb and seem to be able to kill off cacti. Cacti.) and the garden in our backyard. Hopefully, I'll become a little more plant savvy like my dad and grandfather.

Anyways, my question is this:

I have a Senecio radicans (better known as String of Bananas) that is better off inside that outside as I discovered when I forgot to water it for a week and most of it became burnt from 90+ degree weather. It's since popped back up in the last few weeks and is doing well now that it's in my room which gets a nice amount of afternoon sun. I have been watering once a week, give or take a day depending upon work and if I remember.

However, in its pot, along the top of the soil, is a bunch of fuzzy patches of white mold.

I know a few techniques for getting rid of mold, but I've also been told you can leave it alone, and if you want to prevent it, don't water it so much.

What do you guys think I should do? With my black thumb, if I tend to leave plants alone, they do better :P

ANOTHER QUESTION:

It has many burned/shriveled leaves on its branches, and a lot of healthy green ones. Should I pull the dead ones off or will they fall off on their own?

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Intro Post & Some Questions

Hi everyone, I've been nosing around this community for a few days and I thought it'd be good to introduce myself. I live in South-East England, hardiness zone 8 bordering on 9, AHS heat zone 2, and about 600mm of rain annually. I'm not that good a gardener as most of my problems come from forgetting to water plants, but I'm willing to give growing some of my own fruit and veg a go.

Currently my garden (in a house with my parents and fiancé) is in a state of, well, not disrepair but it's being completely redone with some nice decking and a ton of plants that I've never seen before. I've been allocated a section (3m by 3.5m) of the garden for a vegetable patch, and some space on the decking for some patio plants. I'm planning on growing tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, peppers, carrots and potatoes in the veg patch; raddishes and hopefully some mixed salad leaves in containers in the kitchen; and blueberries, strawberries and raspberries on the decking.

( I will say this about me: I'm interested in growing foods that not only taste nice, but look good and/or unusual )

( Although I do have a couple of questions )

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Introduction and some photos

Hello all! Seeing other people's photos has made me even more impatient for my seeds to sprout and my seedlings to get big enough for transplant. The recent warm weather isn't helping either...

So, I'm in the California Bay Area; USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9a/9b, Sunset Zone 15. The weather this year was really weird - dry over the winter and then several huge rainstorms just when I'd usually start planting (it was so wet my peas - sugar snap and snow - rotted in the ground. That has never happened to me before.) As a result, I feel like I'm behind in getting my garden started.

I mostly grow vegetables at the moment, and I have a rather cottage-garden sensibility when comes to landscaping and flowers. I love roses, but since I'm renting at the moment, I can't really indulge myself there.

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