40 Signs you’re obsessed with gardening
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Comments (107)I've been lurking in this forum getting ideas for a school garden where I volunteer. You all have great ideas. Very inspiring. Our local garden shop had some great signs in recently, but they are a bit pricey. Here are my favorites: On plant marker type signs: Weedum invasium Twigga mortis Gardenitis uncontrollius Plantus unknownus Bloomis notimus (Duh, it took me several visits before I realized this one was funny) On signs and rocks: Tickle the Earth with a hoe, She laughs with a harvest If friends were flowers, I'd pick you This place is for the birds (decorate with bird or two and place it near the bird feeder or birdhouse) To Weed or Not to Weed That is the Garden Wishing you Butterfly Mornings Wildflower Afternoons How Lovely is the Silence of Growing Things To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow A beautiful garden is a work of heart Peace to all who enter here Bless this garden Angels help my garden grow I hope to make a few of these into signs myself. I found a large flat bright yellow plastic platter at a thrift store that may be the "canvas" for my first attempt....See Moreobsessed with shredding leaves
Comments (21)A similar obsession but an alternative approach. I collect hundreds of bags of leaves every fall on my way to and from work in my small pick-up(about 25 miles one way). I've constructed a specific rack for the truck bed to contain as many as 40 bags. In my garden, I built 4 enclosures that each consist of two 100' wire fences, 4' high, 3' apart, attached to 6' rebar sunk 2' deep. The ends are made of the slats from dismantled pallets. I use more slats with holes drilled in them to connect the rebar at the top to prevent it from spreading apart. Each fall, I empty one of these enclosures (the oldest one) of leaf mold, and fill it with that years' leaves. The newly constructed leaf-fences from a distance resemble a long brown stone wall. After decomposing the first year, stuff starts to sprout there - young trees, bittersweet, what have you. I harvest what I want to keep and uproot and compost the rest. After four years, what started as a 4' high wall of leaves is about 16" of fine leaf mold. As you can infer, I have extensive gardens and the luxury of space. I do own a shredder, and it's a wonderful tool, but what I don't have is the luxury of time. The solution is to provide myself time by working with volume, without sacrificing too much horizontal space. This is, by the way, an excellent way to increase garden space - once the leaves have decomposed, the soil beneath has been thoroughly worked and fertilized by an abundance of worms, and needs little preparation to become another of my 30" wide by 100' long garden beds. If you've ever worked with 4-year old leaf mold, you're drooling about now....See MoreNEW: Now Time to Sign up for the 2014 Theme Garden Seed Swap
Comments (150)Peggy and Lisa, I just re-sent the information to you by e-mail and through GardenWeb. I have no idea why the first mailing didn't reach you. Please let me know when you receive it. If you can mail Tuesday or Wednesday it will be fine. I have surprised myself by working with so many of the arrivals up to this point that I'm hoping I am a little of ahead of where I supposed my schedule might be now. I'm sorry people are having trouble getting the message. Please check your spam folder in case it might be there. I have not gotten the e-mail or GardenWeb information from either of you that you hadn't received my address and the rest of the information so it's not being kind to us. Meanwhile, what great seeds everyone is sending! Many of you have made it very easy for me to distribute the seeds by sending a list or otherwise labeling themes. Thanks so much. All of you are the best! Jeanne...See More2016 SpringFling/Swap Sign-up
Comments (207)Amy, It was great but we missed you and wished you had been there with us. Jen, I would hope so! If you didn't take home enough plants to keep your busy, then cleary that means you must take home a lot more next year. Mia, They both do vine and do best on a trellis. However, you could let them sprawl if you want. With the Armenian cukes, I grow them both ways....letting each plant climb or spray as it prefers, and get a great harvest either way. With the summer squash plants that are C. moschata, they vine wildly and will do so whether on the ground or climbing something. I find them easier to control on a trellis. In lieu of a trellis, how about an extra large bamboo teepee for each plant? I can just picture a certain little Sprout playing inside each teepee this summer. Dawn...See Moremazerolm_3a
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