Planting Oaks

Member since Thursday, 03 Jan 08

I’ve been out of college for a year, and we just this November bought our first house with space for me to garden in. (read: two+ acres) I’m planning like a madwoman. But we also have a lot of fixing to do on the house itself, which takes time from that.

I never really got into container gardening when we were in apartments and dorms, but picked up the bug from my mother and grandmother.

Gardens (9)
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Planting Oaks's Back Orchard garden

Zone 5b This is where we put the extra trees. It's not so much focused on producing fruit as being ornamental. So things are tucked in naturalistic-ly amongst the trees behind the chick...
- 3 plants
- 9 journals
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Planting Oaks's Back Woods garden

Zone 5b Hmm, so, it doesn't really have natives in it now. But it is 'wild' so I guess that's the closest type. This includes the woods on the south and west borders of our property....
- 7 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
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Planting Oaks's Backyard garden

Zone 5b for now, I'm considering this the area south of the house that isn't the veggie garden. That's pretty vague, but so are our plans for it. A lot of it will just be lawn. We're st...
- 7 plants
- 13 journals
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Planting Oaks's Front Yard garden

Zone 5b This is along the North side of the house, facing the road. There's maybe 50 feet between the front door and the street. Shade comes from the house itself, and the ancient pine ...
- 15 plants
- 31 journals
- 1 faves
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Planting Oaks's Fruit garden

Zone 5b Parts of this meld into the Vegetable garden, but these are not in raised beds, and I was getting enough plants that it seemed worth while to separate the two. In general, the t...
- 6 plants
- 22 journals
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Planting Oaks's houseplant garden

Zone 5b Gunther is my one and only house plant, but I've had him since college, so he has earned the right to be here.
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
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Planting Oaks's Rose garden

Zone 5b Ha, this is funny. I don't know where I'm going to put the roses yet. But dagummit I'm gonna have me some roses.
- 0 plants
- 0 journals
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- 1 comments
Planting Oaks's Seed starting trays garden

Zone 5b Shelf by the window in the south bedroom. Right now it has one shop light for the lower shelf that doesn't get window light. Might add another light & a warming mat, since we ha...
- 7 plants
- 53 journals
- 1 faves
- 1 comments
Planting Oaks's Vegetable garden

Zone 5b Plans for off the back porch. A southern exposure, near the house. Would like to do raised beds, but we'll see how far we get this year. The underlying soil is clay. the layo...
- 14 plants
- 94 journals
- 0 faves
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Name	Type	Brand
Lemon Verbena Seeds Aloysia triphylla	Seeds	Purchase Oakland Nursery	Botanical Interests
Pea 'Alderman' Seeds Pisum sativum	Seeds	Purchase Victory Seeds	Victory Seeds
Romaine Lettuce 'Baby Romaine' Seeds Lactuca sativa var. longifolia	Seeds	Purchase Oakland Nursery	Livingston Seed Co.
Tomato 'Black Cherry' Seeds Solanum lycopersicum	Seeds	Purchase Victory Seeds	Victory Seeds
Tomato 'Brandywine Pink' Seeds Solanum lycopersicum	Seeds	Purchase Victory Seeds	Victory Seeds
Tomato 'Green Zebra' Seeds Solanum lycopersicum	Seeds	Purchase Victory Seeds	Victory Seeds
Tomato 'Hillbilly' Seeds Solanum lycopersicum	Seeds	Gift From Aunt Gwen.
Tomato 'Siberia' Seeds Solanum lycopersicum	Seeds	Purchase Victory Seeds	Victory Seeds