GTKY: Green thumbs?

[wegrowsheep]

Anyone out there busy in their gardens these days? Container gardens? Fabulous windowsill successes? I've been trying to get some stuff in the ground, but the ground is getting tough to get close to AW it up with pics!

[ladymouse]

I'm doing WAY better with outdoor plants than I ever did with houseplants. The roses and blackberries that were here when we moved in are doing well. My mint and rosemary from last year are still going great. Lilies, phlox, purple salvia, and one blueberry bush are still going as well, though not precisely spectacularly. The gladiolus I planted this spring are doing WAY better than anticipated (most have come up, despite late planting.) I planted some butterfly-attracting annuals in my backyard, and they are somehow not yet dead. DH gave me my favorite type of rose to plant for our anniversary. No photos because I really need to attack the main flowerbed with some loppers, the side flowerbed with rose gloves, and the back is just a few disjointed flowers/herbs.

[Widget123]

DH is the gardener and he has been getting DD into it lately. However, after he decided to cut down almost all of the trees in our back yard over the years, it has become too hot out there for me on a normal day, even not pregnant. If I remember when I get home, I can post a pick of DD holding the hose

[wormgerm]

My raspberry plant is full of buds, looks like we're in for a good little crop! One blueberry bush has a few flowers. Peonies are leafy and one has a little bud. Grape leaves are out in full glory. Shasta daisies look nice and bushy, rose bush is full of leaves, purple cones and black eyed susans are growing. No flowers yet though. This year I'm off but since MIL got all the beds cleaned out the perennials are looking great.

[laurenlou83]

We are in a condo, so we are limited on what we can do. We have 2 hanging ferns, 3 potted plants/flowers, tomato plant and cilantro on our patio though!
DH is a landscape designer, so he potted them all and takes care of them. I try to have a green thumb, but no matter what he always outshines me! Ha!

[erbear]

I kill plants. My h grows things!

[wegrowsheep]

May 19, 2015 11:39:58 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

I can't plant anything right now since we are moving at the end of June, but I would love to have a little garden in our new house. My kids love picking fruit and planting flowers, so I think they would really get into it. I don't have a lot of experience gardening, but hopefully I can find some time this summer. For those who are more experienced - what type of veggies/fruits/herbs are good to start out with/easy to take care of?

I had a few herbs in my kitchen last summer, but they attracted so many gnats, I had to get rid of them It was wonderful having fresh herbs to cook with though.

Strawberries, basil, and cherry tomatoes are all fun in containers. In a big container, elephant ears are pretty cool.
My daughter is in love with her fairy garden, and it's fun to find little treasures at yard sales to hide in it for her. My son has a "boy garden" in which he has black petunias, green zinnias, and yellow snapdragons. But not too close to the house, because he insists that the snapdragons might eat it...

[ThePalindromicOne]

Oh I love this thread. Will totally AW it up


9 of 11 different rhododendron blooms


I love hostas!


Homegrown Cascade hops for the hubs home brewing


First time growing kale! These guys grow easily


My euphoria - new addition


Little bit of blue lithadora


Last rhodie ready to burst open!!

I love spring!

[belle0720]

I have a black thumb of death. Pretty much any plant will die when left under my care. I do have small tea tins and a tea cup with succulents in our garden window above the kitchen sink that I've managed to keep alive. And once we're out of this drought I plan to make a little veggie/herb garden and use wine crates for planters. With our moms being our nannies, I'm pretty certain they'll make sure to keep everything alive.

ETA: pic of my tiny little tea tins

[billyhorrible]

My geraniums are going crazy, which is a good thing. When we bought the house, there was a row of pansies leading to the front door. Which the gophers ate. I researched what kind of flowers gophers don't like, and came up with geraniums with lobelias as ground filler between.


We planted them last summer and they got kind of wilty right away. I convinced DH to give them time. My MIL showed up and convinced DH to dig up all my lobelias and plant ugly yellow flowers instead.  Which are not ground fillers, but taller than the geraniums.  Now that the geraniums are gorgeous I point out to DH all the time that he ruined my front yard.


We have a whole weird space behind the garage that is gated off from the backyard that eventually we'll turn into a veggie garden, but for right now I just have my geraniums.

[mrsdee1982]

I have the black thumb of gardening death. I can actually make plastic plants die. It's quite pathetic. My husband has a pretty decent green thumb though. All of our pretty in our backyard is 100% because of him

[ladysif]

I like this thread! Admittedly DH does more of it than I do, especially pregnant me, but we have 7 raised bed garden boxes we plant every year that we built after we moved in. We switch it up a bit based on success but staples are tomatoes (trying 5 varieties this year) peppers (3 varieties) carrots, brussel sprouts, gourds, butternut squash, onions, peas, zucchini, cucumbers... I can't remember what else. Oh, we're trying popcorn this year, ha. We have some perennials too, rhubarb and a couple different herbs. Then the landscaping which we have worked really hard on, we've completely transformed the yard. I love that we timed all the flowers so we always have something blooming. We like outdoor entertaining so I always have planters on the deck too.

I love all the succulent arrangements that are popular these days and have one, but it didn't winter well inside so I'm sticking to my double begonias, geraniums, and ranunculus for the pots with some varied greens mixed in.

[ThePalindromicOne]

@jemomma - thanks! I've really started to love gardening the last couple years... Lots to learn, but I have some great neighbors that help teach me. I'm worried about neglecting it all and not making progress this summer though!

[wegrowsheep]

belle0720 those are super cute! Nothing grows well inside my house, all my southern exposure is shaded.

Here's my tomato garden:

And here's a glimpse of DD's fairy garden. I

[tatersalad]

I also have a black thumb. I've managed to keep the two potted plants by the front door alive so far this spring, but I killed both of my window boxes and need to replant.
At least the peonies in the backyard and other flowering plants I don't know the names of are immune to my lack of gardening skills.

[Bluedaisy]

I love seeing all of the pictures of everyone's gardens! Last year we put in sod and built a retaining wall. This year I'm putting in flowers and veggies above the retaining wall. In the front yard I'm putting in hostas, ferns and day lilies.

[bendherova]

I'm way late in joining the party, but I have had a relatively successful container garden since 2009 when we bought our first condo. (except last summer after we moved away from the condo to an apt).

I grew mostly herbs and cherry and heirloom tomatoes. Space is limited in our apartment, but we have a small porch that gets enough sun, so I've started the herbs up again. Here they are!

DS1 is a terrific gardening helper and it's been a lot of fun to share gardening with him. He'd pick the tomatoes but wouldn't eat them! He chose all of the herbs we planted this year.

(L-R Chives, Parsley, Lavender, Rosemary, Basil--can't see it, I had to start over from seed-, thyme, Mint, sage and oregano)