How Me Your (Nice) Garden
 

Did an OT search and found no threads on gardening.

Its almost Spring (in SoCal) and I am jonesing to work in my garden. We had what is a real cold snap for us and had a few nights below freezing in the San Gabriel foothills which killed off a bunch of my garden because I have mostly tropicals.

I suppose its wussy for a car guy to like gardening(?) but I do. Anyone share this hobby? My garden is tiny by most standards, nevertheless here are a few pictures from last year. Of course I'll slip in a picture of my car and my puppy dog - all 100 lbs of him. His name is Sooner and he may be the best, smartest dog I've ever had. He's 3-1/2 years old.


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The 951 is gone, the old Honda 90 I will eventually restore. Lots of the bananas are toast now and the fibrous begonia died to the ground, but it will come back.

I swear I saw that hot tub in a porn movie :D

I'm not a big "gardener" but I like being outside, digging holes and messing around in the yard. Unlike messing with the car, it doesn't need to be perfect and there's a margin for error. :)

I've been itching to get out and re-do our back yard and the raised beds in the vegetable garden. Too much rain for that right now though. Here is a pic of year before lasts garden. Those are my failed upside down tomatoes project in the back. ;)
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We're still under a few inches of ice and snow. Heck the slab in front of the shed is heaved so I can't even get in to visit my bike.

But come spring I'll be turning the soil over and getting ready to plant.

We have to much wildlife for veggies so I stick to flowers.

Syncroid, What's the idea behind the upside down tomatoes? Higher yield somehow? I have seen the vertical gardening of squash and it supposedly works really well. Raised beds work great too, you're obviously already on to that!

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beautiful pics lonewolf--wow. Dan, gardening is a lot of fun. I'm in the process of ordering my seeds now--can't plant in IL 'til May 15, but I start inside before that. Ain't wussy at all.

lonewolf - Colorado?

lonewolf, beautiful pix. What's that body of water? Am I missing it? Is it pond or aection of a river? Fish in it? Man, I'd love to have that. You're a lucky man.

Nice yard Dan...but you really need to focus on the lab of yours...too fat.

Don't really have a garden per se, but I hope to plant a rose garden on the side of the house this coming spring!

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lonewolf is in Canada. That's a beautiful setting, isn't it? I like to garden, but I'm afraid I don't have much to share like what's here. Just a lot of potted plants. I do good at roses.

Thanks Dan
thats about half of it .over 190 different flowers,17different colour roses bushes alone+fruit and veggies.attached is my flower map of the backyard.
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Oh he's not fat at all. He's the biggest pure bred Lab I've ever seen though. He's not true to standard but undeniably a Lab through and through and very big.

I don't have the pictures of him standing up on this computer but I'll post them tomorrow and you can see for yourself. My other, older Lab is 88-90 lbs and IS fat, but he's almost 14 now and I can exercise him much.

You are not alone, Dan. Gardening to me is an essential ingredient in life. Slow pace, cycles of life, growing and evolving. I am primarily a tree freak, but anything Garden goes.

There was an article in our local news paper about growing them upside down. It sounded interesting so I tried it. The tomatoes came out okay but the root system got some sort of rot problem. I forget the correct name for it. Here is a link about growing upside down tomatoes. I wonder how growing upside down pumpkins would work? :p

i need to start a "show me your nasty garden" thread.

to quote rodney dangerfield; "it looks like the trees vomited".

My Lab pup is currently doing some landscaping. I'm not sure if he has a plan, or if this is a swag project.
Rika

Here is ours - from early spring last year

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