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danyaleeva

POSTED: Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:33am

How Does Your Garden Grow?

The very thing that makes us well, is the very thing that makes us garden. How does your garden grow?

bren67

POSTED: Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:20pm Herb garden.. We want to start an herb garden this year on the back deck of the house,mainly for cooking,we always love to go to local farmers markets for all the fresh veggies! I do still can a few things for winter...i miss our farm we had,but the new house is ok too,just not room for much...I do like to garden,even flowers... Bren

Marilyn

POSTED: Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:43am Bay I bought a small kitchen bay today. In our inclement weather it will have to live on the kitchen windowsill but at least that will remind me to use it. Everythingelse has survived out side for once!

Elizabeth G

POSTED: Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:25pm Herbs Bren, we have two 10 x 10 raised garden beds where we grow a surprisingly large amount of vegetables: chard, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, cilantro, eggplant and parsley. I also have three half-barrels (procured from a local winery, much cheaper than at garden or big box stores) where I grow basil, mint, oregano, and a few other herbs. One thing I learned after year one in this climate: other herbs need to be replenished yearly but not mint! Thank goodness it's in a barrel, otherwise it would take over the yard! (But it's lovely for mojitos on a hot summer day.) Our weather suddenly realized it had forgotten to be winter, so we're having all our snow at once! Of course the cold, windy snowy days make me yearn for spring and to begin working in the garden. I want to see the bees out among the lavender, and smell the lilacs in May.

jas	POSTED: Mon, 02/27/2012 - 7:47pm Stem cells What do you all know about Stem Cells? I know I should start a separate post...but somehow I ended up here.

Ava

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 4:44am Small but perfect! Currently, our 'garden' comprises a window shelf in the kitchen, as we live in an apartment. We also have balconies which we could use too. The kitchen shelf is packed with herbs...basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley, coriander etc and a couple of tomato plants! They get a great deal of sunlight and seem to love it on there. My wonderful other wants to grow some potatoes on the balcony:-) I'm quite happy with just the lavender, roses, lemon & olive trees and my antique French wirework table and chairs! In our previous home (a big old Victorian house) we had a greenhouse and herb propagator and some ducks! We grew all kinds of herbs, salad leaves; tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, carrots, spinach etc and the ducks ate all the slugs and snails and laid eggs almost every day. I miss that garden!

Tori

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 5:40am Hey me too :) My 'garden' is pots of herbs inside my 'Bijou Girlpalace' (as I call it) plus a mini bay tree (which my friend, squealingly christened my 'weebay'- say it out loud), a french lavendar and two 'crazy daisy' plants, all in pots, on my path. Still, they give me pleasure and I've just discovered my Chinese Dwarf Hamster, Esme, adores Parsley- must be all the vitamin C in it- so the pots of herbs have more use than one! I'd love to have balconies like you, Ava... I've always been spoilt with gardens in my previous homes, but this one is very central in my town so I sacrificed the garden for location. I use the parks here a lot in the meantime, but hopefully next time I move I'll try to find a place with a nice outside space to 'play' with :)

Marilyn

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 3:18pm Small palaces Your small but bijou gardens sound delightful. It doesn't matter how much space you have as long as you enjoy it.

Vintage1944

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 8:51am Hi Tori I am a non gardener but I enjoy everyone's descriptions of their bit of "green".Love your "Bijoux Girlpalace"description of your home.Mine is similar...tiny but cosy and it is home.Today,I can revel in my friend's garden.My dog is in heaven,as it is so large he can wander sniffing to his heart's content,without a collar or a leashDo have a great weekend.Jean

snorklee

POSTED: Tue, 06/15/2010 - 10:59pm Gardening continues... Took a day off of work to put in a vegetable garden. 3 kinds of tomatoes, 5 kinds of peppers, cucumbers, and bok choy. I rimmed the garden with assorted marigolds. Next project is an herb garden. Sage, parsley, rosemary, basil, chives, and peppermint. After that, I'll plant some currant bushes, blueberry bushes and a cherry tree! I'm thinking big! Cheers, Deb

Nya_Nya

POSTED: Thu, 06/17/2010 - 5:08am Souns great! May I ask what sort of climate you live in, snorklee?

snorklee

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 10:17am Climate... I live in a climate with a very short growing season. Danger of frost passes at the end of May and snow starts up again, sometimes as early as October. So, hence my frenzy. lol. My mission is to lay down beds this year with perennials, bushes and trees, so that next year I can start making little "garden rooms" throughout my yard. I have no idea what I'm doing, and the project seems so huge, but I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. :)

Nya_Nya

POSTED: Sun, 06/20/2010 - 4:52am I asked because you were I asked because you were planting tomatoes and cucumbers and I thought you were in a Mediterranean-type climate - I'd have millions of ideas, if that were the case :)

Celtic Owl

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 5:31pm square foot garden We have much in common. and your garden sounds wonderful. I have a rental home, where the landlord loves our little garden boxes, raised around the yard. This year, We have started with square foot gardening methods, with the mix made easily, and wow, things are growing fast.

Marilyn

POSTED: Wed, 06/16/2010 - 3:17am Garden Sounds lovely, Deb. Find a space in your herb garden for some oregano (or marjoram) and a bay tree. The latter might be better in a pot so you can protect it in the winter. We lost ours this year due to forgetting to protect it from the excessively bad frosts. I am missing my garden while on holiday. It will need a lot of work when I get home. You sound as if you have a large plot. Enjoy it though. LOL Marilyn

snorklee

POSTED: Wed, 06/16/2010 - 4:31am Plots My plot is very large, or so it seems when I'm trying to plant it. lol. It was 3/4 acre of grass when I started. I'm determined to fill the whole thing in with gardens. It will take years, I think. I completely forgot about oregano! I must add that. I've never seen a bay tree. I wonder if they could withstand our winters? Have a lovely holiday, Marilyn. Your garden will be waiting for you. :)

Marilyn

POSTED: Wed, 06/16/2010 - 1:12pm Bay tree You could try one in a pot. If you have bad winters I suggest you plant it in a nice pot that you can bring in under shelter away from the snow and frosts. Ours had been fine for a couple of years and we had got lazy with it. The hard frosts and snow of last winter killed it. I managed to salvage a few leaves but am now on the look out for a new one which I will look after more carefully. Fresh bay leaves are lovely in Italian food. Have you any roses in your garden? The garden of the cottage here is full of them. It is inspiring me to plant more when I get back, especially in the front hedge. My garden is not so big but it is suprizing what you can fit in!! When I get back if it looks anything like I will take some photos and if you let me have your email address I will send you them. That is if you do not mind putting the address on the forum. A few of us already email each other.

snorklee

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 10:21am Roses! What a good idea! I love them, but I'm a little scared of growing them. They seem to need some work, and I don't know anything about the poor dears. Rose gardeners always seem to have this magical quality of being able to coax gorgeous blooms from basically thorny sticks. I fear my roses would remain stick-like and bare. lol. Perhaps you could be my "rose whisperer" Marilyn. :) I would love to see pictures of your garden. I'll post my email when you are back from your trip. Thanks!

Marilyn

POSTED: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 3:24pm Roses I just plant mine and hope for the best. We have lost some patio roses this winter due to exceptionally hard frosts but the climbers and ramblers have survived. They should be in full bloom when I get home. I have a friend looking after the garden for us and another looking after the cat. I feed the roses old teabgs and coffee grounds. The hydrangeas get the same. I am going to plant more this autumn to cover an old bedraggled cotoneaster hedge which is in the front. Looking forward to getting your email address so we can swop stories and pictures. lol.

mireille

POSTED: Wed, 09/30/2009 - 11:45pm What can grow on a NYC terrace Bonjour Danyaleeva, I never thought I'd have so many pleasures growing herbs in my boxes and slowly adding tomatoes (they are the sweetest thing), blueberries (they love the sun and wind though birds love them too) and most fun is seeing huge bees and wondering how they get here on the 15th floor!. Nature is an amazing source of pleasure and picking up its bounties even more. The garden is easy and a little tlc is all it needs. Cordially, Mireille

annamey

POSTED: Thu, 07/23/2009 - 5:30pm My front garden ... is a bit of a jumble, "inherited" when we bought four years ago. There is a large cedar tree out by the road that shades the yard for most of the day, but the beds on either side of the door are a mix of I don't know what to call the style. One side has a small but straggly camellia bush, a bunch of dead shrubs, and a lot of weeds. The other side features a couple of medium-sized hydrangeas, a single hedging cedar, some variegated hostas that also have some small pale lavender-colored blooms, a couple of hyacinths, a few tulips (which are the only things that didn't bloom this year), some sort of low succulent plant that I haven't yet identified, scattered foxgloves (digitalis purpurea) that need constant thinning - I just pulled one that was over 180 cm (6 feet) tall, and a cluster of some sort of lily that resembles lily of the valley but isn't (too tall and leggy, and grows like a weed). Along one side of the drive (in the deepest shade of the large cedar), I have four or five classic red peonies, and another cluster of those unidentified lilies. All in all, it's somewhat schizophrenic, but I have blooms of one sort or another almost all summer, so I won't complain. Anna M

danyaleeva

POSTED: Sun, 07/19/2009 - 12:37am Party Lights Lorraine, every year I say I'm going to start stocking hurricanes to create the design you suggested, but every year it doesn't work out. My budget heads to other areas. But tea lights in jars are an inexpensive alternative. They're both great ideas. I'll find a way to have an ethereal feel through lighting for the party. I love 'conference tabling' (I know) with all of you. It's like having a design team. I hope my classmates are as adept--I think most of them will be younger than us. That's why I wish more adult women would go back to school. We'd all work so well together.

Viva la Diva

POSTED: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 10:52am Back to School Needed to hear that...had a dream last night that I finally took the plunge and headed to design school. Wouldn't even know where to begin. Had what should be an illegal amount of fun plannin our wedding though!

Vintage1944

POSTED: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 9:06pm Oh yes... you MUST follow your passion.Jean

Viva la Diva

POSTED: Tue, 07/21/2009 - 9:38am Thanks... I will listen to some lectures today, and as for my passions; the challenge has always been that I have many! This one encompasses all!

danyaleeva

POSTED: Tue, 07/21/2009 - 9:38pm Too many minds that's a line from The Last Samarai with Tom Cruise/Ken Wattanabe when the Samarai's son tells Tom Cruise he cannot focus because he is holding too many things on his mind. It took me years to gain focus on what I absolutely want to do with my life, not just what I want to do at the moment which has been many things. Design is it for me. It's my fit. And I'm so glad that it's finally happening.

Viva la Diva

POSTED: Wed, 07/22/2009 - 1:55pm So great to know it is possible... To quiet the mind and focus on what we know we need to do. I had a good walk and talk with my husband last night. We helped each other sort out our frustrations and got back in touch with our values again. I know what I need to make next! I had a great chat with a life coach last year, and she just kept telling me that ideas are good but what we value is what we will be most likely to stick with. I have a lot more work to do er, quieting to do! Thanks for discussing this!

danyaleeva

POSTED: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 9:03pm Informational Interviews You can use Google to research information, or set up informational interviews with design firms in your area. Informational interviews are when you meet with a rep from a company and ask questions and gather information on how things work. Apple's iTunes offers an Application called iTunes U that allows anyone to access lectures from top schools on a variety of subjects. All downloads are free as long as you can access iTunes. Participating schools include: Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Oxford. Also the Metropolitan Museum of Art, WGBH, and the Library of Congress. This is the short list, and iTunes U is in its beginning stages, but I've downloaded at least six lectures on design.

St.TropezChic

POSTED: Tue, 07/21/2009 - 10:24am iTunes U Merci, danyaleeva! I'll also pass this along to DD, Ms. University-bound ;^). Lorraine

danyaleeva

POSTED: Tue, 07/21/2009 - 9:42pm iTunes U It also encourages students to talk to their professors to set up an App for students to download lectures from their own class to a laptop, desktop, or iPod Touch and keep in touch with their teachers and fellow classmates. They can do what we do here on FWDGF--talking to each other.

St.TropezChic

POSTED: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 9:57am Bonjour, danyaleeva How's your party planning coming along? I'm realising that you did say it would be a luncheon, so if you wanted to use the big paper lanterns for festive decoration, they would not even need to be lit (no one would notice during the day), and you could optionally light the sand candles anytime you chose. It is fun putting our heads together, isn't it? :^) Lorraine

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