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Related: About this forumTook my camera for a walk around my yard and gardens this AM....dial up warning!
Things that bloom....
Things we eat (or soon will...)
mia
(8,363 posts)alfie
(522 posts)I may try that for 1 or 2 next year. What did you use for fertilizer? How long did you prep them before transplanting into them?
Love all the pictures.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,028 posts)I am working on a how-to book for bale gardening for Storey - I pretty much followed what was in the Karsten book, but also did a few variations - it takes about 2 weeks to prep them prior to planting. Easy...and thus far I am really impressed with the result.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,028 posts)flowers: Hibiscus Abelmoschus manihot (Sunset Hibiscus, from a seed pod at a local arboretum years ago - now winters over easily), Torenia, Salvia Guaranitica Black and Blue (hummers love it - our favorite perennial!), a chartreuse and brownish zoned leaf geranium we've had for years - similar to if not the same as Occold Shield, Lantana that we took cuttings of on Ocracoke many years ago, a Dahlia I grew from seed last year that somehow wintered over - I dug the tubers this spring and potted them up!, Buddleia (butterfly bush), leafhopper on a geranium leaf, our deck garden - including Diva cukes we are growing in a large pot and having climb, Diva cuke tendril
Eggplant Skinny Twilight (a project of mine - dehybridizing Orient Express and have several promising new named ones), tomato Saucy Mary (one of our new Dwarf project intros - this is F4 generation, should be a green fleshed medium oval tomato on a 4 foot tall plant), sweet pepper Royal Purple (another dehybridization project selection - this time from Islander - I've got 5 new named varieties in development), our first ripe tomato - in 37 days - Mexico Midget, baby Diva cuke on our deck, cluster of Lemon Drop cherry tomatoes in a large deck pot, mix of Genovese and Red Rubin basil, our blueberries that the cardinals and bluebirds didn't manage to eat yet, Bush Bean Cosmos (just about ready to start picking - yum!), Livingston Favorite and Livingston Golden Queen tomatoes in a bale (both from the late 1800s), and tomato Arkansas Traveler in a large pot at the bottom of our deck stairs.
alfredo
(60,078 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,537 posts)I don't recognize this flower, but that's a gorgeous shade of blue.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,028 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)amazing. I've never seen those flowers or any flower that was that blue.
You have some beautiful pics from a beautiful yard.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Solly Mack
(90,795 posts)And other wonderful things!
Great yard!!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Thanks for sharing!
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)I love the blue/black salvia but then I love everything else too.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)So beautiful.....I didn't realize that you did so many flowers as well as all the 'maters. I am in love with it all.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)wish my plants were as far along
Rhiannon12866
(206,420 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Looks like the Garden of Eden to me. Just spectacular. And how cool that besides being a knowledgeable gardener, you're pretty good with a camera, too! Thanks for posting.
K&R
joanbarnes
(1,723 posts)Box of seeds best $5 winter blah cure I ever splurged on.
asjr
(10,479 posts)you obviously speak their language.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I'm also totally jealous of all the blue flowers that grow up north.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)It does work well though.
Out here in Newcastle the first year I did big cans and enough plastic totes and so on because wherever I dug was full of big rocks. So this year I did the strawbale thing and it has worked out well. I do a weekly watering in with fish after some topdressing with organic to get the strawbales going, this Spring.
I will look for for your book soon.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)The look like birds almost!
EDIT: Never mind, I should have known someone would beat me to asking that question!
Absolutely GORGEOUS, though!