How Me Your (Nice) Garden

[Dan in Pasadena]

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.










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.

[VaSteve]

I swear I saw that hot tub in a porn movie

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.

[syncroid]

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.

[Flatbutt1]

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.

[Dan in Pasadena]

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!

[lonewolf]

[lonewolf]

[gassy]

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.

[BRPORSCHE]

lonewolf - Colorado?

[Dan in Pasadena]

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.

[CRH911S]

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

[BRPORSCHE]

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!

[Zeke]

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.

[lonewolf]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
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.

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.
I live in the souther BC interior on a river.lots of fish and very popular for floating down on the hot summer days.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by CRH911S
Nice yard Dan...but you really need to focus on the lab of yours...too fat.

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.

[livi]

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.

[syncroid]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
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!

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?

[vash]

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

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

[Rikao4]

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

[jshape]

Here is ours - from early spring last year









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