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I'm on the central coast of California (I don't know what growing zone that is, sorry ETA: Zone 10a?) and we are growing them in wine barrels from our local vineyards. They started dying a few days ago and we googled and found out that you harvest them when they die, so we dug up three plants and look we have potatoes!



We are going to eat them tomorrow night for dinner. We still have about 6 plants to dig up so we have a couple more meals. We'll dig up the rest in a few days when they are deader. Then we are going to plant more! They grew very quickly.

I hope they're delicious! So far our zucchini and crookneck squash have been wonderful. Also all of our onions have been delicious, and we have this veritable forest of parsley that we try to use in everything, LOL.

Does anyone know why our radishes didn't grow? They started really small and then went to flower and died. Did we have too many? did we need to really thin them?

I have a six foot strawberry patch. Here is a picture I took of it this Monday:



This is a small, six inch close up of strawberry goodness also taken this Monday. ( Read more... )

And this is what I found today on the work table that sits on the concrete pad you see abutting the little strawberry patch. ( Read more... )

The critters had themselves a tea party, sitting at the table eating my strawberries. Those are not all the strawberries, of course. Some they left on the ground around the patch and, worst of all, some they just bit the red parts off of and left on the plant. Birds? Squirrels? Demons from the fourth dimension of strawberry hell? I dunno but I hope they choked.

Hi there,

I have a question about the proper way to separate a "baby" snake plant. I went to dig it out today to give it way, but I found that it is attached to the larger ones. How do i remove it without harming the larger plant.

I also have a beautiful and large jade that I am terrified to cut! Someone gave me a ton of garden flowers and is looking for house plants so I would like to give her a piece of the jade.. if it doesn't harm it. How do I do this?

Thanks a bunch!

Howdy everyone! I was hoping after my last post that we would have finished one of our larger projects by now but unfortunately, it has not come to pass. I've mentioned before that my husband and I take care of my mother and that we moved her bed to the window where she can look out and see some of the yard. The back corner of the yard is in a straight line of sight from her window and part of it was quite an eye sore. So this past weekend decided we to give it a little facelift. I haven't given it a great deal of effort as the soil is absolute dreck and we eventually want this to be tiered, hopefully.

We cleared out some of the area we cleared last year, laid down garden/weed cover, gravel and a couple pavers. Besides, it was time to move some of the pots from the other corner and patio. One of the many benefits of containers - when one space starts getting full it's easy to rearrange and add focus to another area.

So, here we are last year in May:


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Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy!

OK, so now I have my own house my concept of garden finally does include flower/rock gardens and not only vegetable and edible sort of gardens(this is actually a big thing for me). Around the back patio is what turns out to be a rock garden. There were some rings but nothing in them or showing when I moved in January, all I knew for sure is where the stumps and bushes were(which is only impatients on the end walls). So anyways as things started coming up I checked and knew a few clumps for Peony's but never knew just how big they would shoot up before flowering....or therefor fall over because they need more support.


Thougths, adice, ways to deal with them (or dry them for the peony flowers).


IF it makes a difference I'm in CT, there is one ring around the base but they are much taller and too hard now along to put on another ring. Can I put in bamboo stakes then tie a string around to hold them up? Not even sure how long the blooms will last, can I leave day or two with them being OK or have to cut as they bloom to show them off??

As is the answer to all things, I do believe it is time to look at porn.

What? Garden porn.

Went out after a weekend of rain last weekend and discovered that my squash plants had all done this:



O_O Did not know they could do that. It scared me, quite frankly. Here, for size reference.



I actually had to scoot them away from the other plants, because they were trying to choke out my peppers. In a container garden.

But! Baby squash:



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Who can tell me what the flower on the right is? I thought it was columbine, but on closer inspection it doesn't look anything like what I bought that is *labeled* columbine (no trefoil leaves). I'm pretty sure it's a perennial, but other than that...?

EDIT: phone still won't let me upload pictures, but, yar, I think it is a pansy. Someone put an annual in the perennials row at the garden shop. *grumble*

Hello everyone! I'm new to this community and and I'm also pretty new to gardening. We had a big garden when I was a child, but for the last 15 years, I haven't had a garden.

I don't really have a garden now, but a backyard. The people that lived in the house before us, didn't like gardening, so they got rid off all plants and put down flagstones. We don't have enough money to make it a garden again (at the moment), but at least we bought some containers and set them in the backyard and on the patio. I really enjoy to look at and after my plants. I'm also growing herbs.

I also love house plants. I've had them all my life. I can't life without them. I've also become pretty Dutch (I'm originally from Germany): we have fresh flowers in the house every week.

You can see my favorite flower in my icon.

( Some pictures )

I don't have a question about gardening yet, but I hope that my post is ok anyway.

I got these awesome nepenthes the other day. I've been so busy with other stuff I haven't had a chance to share.



So cute. This is how they came packaged. These are the ones I got in return for the commission.

( N. albomarginata rubras )

Cross posted from ljcps Livejournal Carnivorous Plant Society.