ElizaK28
Member since: Feb 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Organic gardener
I can’t remember a time where I didn’t love to be in a garden. My mother has always had a green thumb like no one I know! As I got older, I helped her plant annuals, then perennials, then vegetables and berries. Now I’m a newly wed with a home of my own. A new construction type that had NOTHING on it except the scrappy trees at the back of the lot line concealing the RR tracks. My husband is a professional landscaper, but I do all the veggie gardening, bulb planting, berry handling, and herbs…not to mention the planning. Hey, a girl has got to have her say, right? tehe.
Having a few health issues, eating healthy is important to me. This drives my desire to keep a large organic garden.
I love all things old fashion too. Hence, I’m learning old techniques of canning and preserving.
Well, I hope to learn here and share what I know if it may help others. Happy planting!
~Elizabeth
Gardens
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"Kitchen" Orchard (haha) garden
Zone 5a One day I told my husband I had always dreamed of having a little kitchen orchard. You know, a couple apple trees, a pie cherry, a pear, maybe even...
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29 Gallon Aquarium Jungle garden
Zone 5a I have kept freshwater fish since I was a small child, whether as a goldfish in a bowl or a true aquarium. It wasn’t until I was in college a...
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Zone 5a Hubby and I LOVE berries. It was only natural to plant them too. April 6, 2008, 4 beds 14′×6′, 2 beds 25′×4′, an...
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Between the Edible and Berries garden
Zone 5a Area between the fence at the back of the Edible Square Foot Garden and the Heritage Raspberry and Blueberry beds. Hoping to tuck in more edibles t...
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Zone 5a My hubby purchased a Juwel brand cold frame and extension kit for my birthday/Christmas 2008. I assembled it March 21, 2009. I’m so very exci...
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Zone 5a Small area in front of our backyard deck. Extends front deck stairs and connects to edge of herb bed and backyard foundation gardens. 2008 install...
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East Border to Edible Garden garden
Zone 5a I find my vegetable garden to be beautiful, but not everyone does. Hence, I decided to frame the garden in with my attempt at beautiful borders. Th...
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Zone 5a With my husband running a landscaping company, it is necessary that the front of our home look beautiful. Upon moving in, we had nothing! My love f...
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Front Border to the edibles garden
Zone 5a The square foot edible garden is not exactly beautiful from the road. Being that my husband is a landscaper, I feel I should clean up the appearanc...
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Front of the black berries garden
Zone 5a Bed cut fall of 2010. A few divisions transplanted there, but few took hold. Neglected 2011 due to pregnancy. 2012 will begin true development.
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Zone 5a Simple, nothing fancy, highly used. Mints are in 12" pots in the ground to prevent invasive spreading. Year one all from plants at store or t...
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Zone 5a Daisy, our chocolate lab puppy, has an outdoor kennel attached to the garage at the back of the house. (There is a dog door leading to another larg...
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Zone 5a Black garbage can with holes drilled to experiment with growing potatoes
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Zone 5a Single red oak Pete had growing at the land for several years. Transplanted to house near road on West side of driveway. Beautiful! Will eventually...
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Zone 5a In March 2008, my husband (then fiance) installed my dream plan for a square foot garden. We have sandy soil in a new construction area…squar...
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Zone 5a This raised bed, Stone pavers, container garden was built due to the excessively large emergency basement escape window well. It is built off of th...
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Zone 5a The sun room is my favorite room in the house…the reason I encouraged my then boyfriend to buy the house. The room faces Southeast. A sliding...
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The 5 Oaks - East Lot Line garden
Zone 5a Pete had large white oaks growing at the land for several years. He transplanted them to the house as the basis for our 5 Oaks bed. Planted on the ...
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Zone 5b My husband owns 5 acres of land about 1/4 mile from our home. This is located on “The Hill” down a long gravel drive sandwiched between...
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The Pines - West Lot line garden
Zone 5a Pete planted several white pines at his shop 5-10 years ago. Quite large now, he decided to move 5 of them to our house to create a future privacy ...
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Zone 5a The back of our lot is a mess of Black Locust, Honeysuckle, Poison Ivy, Bramble, Wild Raspberries, and a fallen male and healthy female Mulberry tr...
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Zone 5a The Northeast corner of our lot, near the road, has a great deal of unsightly utility boxes. We cut out a bed around it. Hopefully it will hide the...
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Zone 5a Kidney bean mulched area disguising the well utility in the front yard.
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West Border to Edible Garden garden
Zone 5a I find my vegetable garden to be beautiful, but not everyone does. Hence, I decided to frame the garden in with my attempt at beautiful borders. Th...
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