Member since Saturday, 31 May 08
Although I have 40 years of gardening experience, I’m not consistent enough to be very successful. I grew up with gardens, because my father loved vegetable gardening, especially since he had lots of kids to do the grunt work. He loved to try new things – including okra when we lived in Florida and kohlrabi after we moved to Washington state.
I prefer flower gardens, and I’m not very good at it, so I’ve got just a few containers of daylilies, a bed of lavender and a raised flower bed across the front of the house that usually houses geraniums. I want to put together a kitchen herb garden on my deck and perhaps I’ll try my hand at something different in my flower beds if I don’t fail completely.
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Organic Gardener
Years gardening: 40
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Zone 8b This Italian Prune tree has been a problem since we moved in 19 years ago. It was surrounded by black plastic covered with beauty bark that had composted and was full of weeds. ...
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1 plants
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Zone 8b This is a raised bed we built several years ago. It wraps around the front porch facing south. In the summer it gets full sun for most of the day. The rest of the year, when the...
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7 plants
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Zone 8b Trying something new - kitchen herbs in containers on the deck to keep the slugs off. I plan to start with a single pot in a stand and three basic herbs - basil, oregano and fla...
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Zone 8b I love the look of daylilies and a few years ago managed to scrape together enough to buy some big plastic pots. I planted daylilies in every other pot, and filled the others wi...
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Where am I?
Bellingham, WA, United States 8b
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I love to grow
flowers, herbs
Hobbies
reading
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