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 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:53 am
Title says it all I guess. For boquets I really like lilies. For growing I love pansies and I like all the basic New Englandy herbs. I also have this really neat hanging Ivy that I like.
Anyone else though, what's your favorite flower?
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:40 am
I don't have much of a green thumb, so I don't grow much. But I do like the look of magnolias, snapdragons, hibiscus flowers, and some other flower whose name I don't know...we have them in our yard (it was landscaped a few years ago). They're HUGE (about the size of my face) and only bloom for maybe a day? I will have to post a picture some time.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:33 pm
Good flowers, I also like the look of bleeding hearts. There are two kinds but they're both neat.
As for the mystery flower it sounds really cool. Wish MA was more hospitable to growing those kind of things.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:55 pm
PA's not much different in climate, I wouldn't think.
Someday when I'm old I'll get a garden started to putter around in. Maybe grow some berries and vegetables, too. Yum! cheese_whine
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:30 am
You'd be surpirsed actually. Depending on where you are in PA and where I am in MA there could be a noticable difference. I know for example that my grandmother's garden in NJ has a longer bloomings season, bigger flower heads and even supports some outdoor plants that only work indoors. Granted she lives in a costal more southern point, so it should be warmer there, but she also gets more sun than we have.
I don't knoy much about berries but veggies are a lot of fun. When I have out door space (my garden at home as opposed to my lovely campus potted collection) I like growing tomatoes, cucumbers, and potatoes a lot. Squash and brussel sprouts are a little harder. And strawberrys when you can manage them are a lot of fun. The biggest problem with that is all the pesky critters. I really do need to look more into ways to keep those things out of the garden without spraying.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:55 am
That's true, and sometimes I forget how far north MA is. Heh. We're near the Philly metro, about two minutes' carride from Jersey.
We keep a veggie garden during the summer, and our area has a HUGE deer problem, moreso than bugs (except Japanese beetles, but you can buy traps for them). We don't have to spray anything, we just keep the garden behind some chicken wire and then tie aluminum pie pans and stuff to rattle and scare them away.
We only grow corn, tomatoes, and green beans consistently. Some years we do cucumbers and sometimes cantaloupe or occasionally watermelon. I'm not a big corn fan, but the tomatoes make for good spaghetti sauce and I LOVE fresh green beans. Mmm. We also have some raspberry plants in the yard that we got from neighbors back when my parents moved in, but they need pretty much no tending.
I just realized that I don't think many people I know do any kind of food garden. I guess it's a leftover from my dad's side of the family, they were big into canning and growing things, my dede (grandpa) was still growing tomatoes in the summer up until last year or so, even though he's in his 80s.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:35 am
i hate those Japansese beetles! They were a big problem a few years ago here, and we couldn't seem to set up enough traps but its not so bad now.
*is jealous of your melon plants* We can grow them here, but we've never managed to get any fruit from them stare
It doesn't seem many people grow too many veggies. I know that since we grew up my mom grows a lot less veggies too. But we never did the whole canning deal, apparently its a lot of work to do.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:17 am
Heh, one of my friends and moderate health food/vegetarian/veggie fan from Texas was amazed and thrilled to see we had a veggie garden when she came to visit. She made us a lovely fresh salad for dinner one night.
Dad's family was all Russian immigrants, so I'm not surprised that they did the canning thing. Not really used to the idea of convenience back in "Soviet Russia," I'm sure.
I think I might make a recipe sticky in the main forum. I've seen it elsewhere on the internets and they're actually quite popular.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:26 pm
Recipe sticky would rock my socks ^_^
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