GeorgeSr

GeorgeSr

Member since: May 09 | Years gardening: 35 Organic gardener

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  • GeorgeSr's 24 x 56 Raised Bed garden

    24 x 56 Raised Bed garden

    Zone 3b While moving plants from the lower backyard garden, I moved a snow on the mountain and a bee balm plant to the smallest raised bed.

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  • GeorgeSr's 24 x 66 Raised Bed garden

    24 x 66 Raised Bed garden

    Zone 3b Next to the patio slab facing south

    • 0 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's 24 x 96 Raised Bed with hoops garden

    24 x 96 Raised Bed with hoops garden

    Zone 3b Taking advantage of our five foot concrete side walk that goes around the house, I decided to add raised beds with hoops.

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  • GeorgeSr's 45 x 96 Raised Bed #1  garden

    45 x 96 Raised Bed #1 garden

    Zone 3b This raised bed garden is located in the front garden. I have planned three 45 x 96 x 12 in high raised beds for the front garden. The first one in...

    • 3 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's 45 x 96 Raised Bed #2 flower garden

    45 x 96 Raised Bed #2 flower garden

    Zone 3b Bed 2 is visible behind me in this photo. This is going to be the middle bed in the front garden. I filled it with composted manure, vermiculite a...

    • 2 plants
    • 1 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's 45 x 96 Raised Bed #3 flower garden

    45 x 96 Raised Bed #3 flower garden

    Zone 3b To be installed after the tomato plants have been removed. Located on the east side of the front garden.

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  • GeorgeSr's 45 x 96 Raised Bed #4 garden

    45 x 96 Raised Bed #4 garden

    Zone 3b Each of these raised beds have twelve hoop brackets installed to be used for either hoops or trellis's. Located on the south side of the house wi...

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  • GeorgeSr's 45 x 96 Raised Bed 5 garden

    45 x 96 Raised Bed 5 garden

    Zone 3b Each of these raised beds have twelve hoop brackets installed to be used for either hoops or trellis's. Located on the south side of the house wi...

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  • GeorgeSr's Antenna Pole garden

    Antenna Pole garden

    Zone 3b Bev has one of these in her Air Conditioner Garden, which has done very well. She bought another at a garage sale and Cathy brought us a third one ...

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Ash Tree Flower garden

    Ash Tree Flower garden

    Zone 3b While considering where to plant the rose bushes, I considered the area near the fireplace chimney, but had to find a place to locate the hostas th...

    • 1 plants
    • 1 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Bev's Air Conditioner garden

    Bev's Air Conditioner garden

    Zone 3b Bev has been adding flowers that keep coming back to this garden. We started with hostas, but since have removed all but one orphan. Some of the pl...

    • 16 plants
    • 4 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Bev's Bay Window garden

    Bev's Bay Window garden

    Zone 3b Cathy Dahlman gave these to Bev in 2005

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Bev's Kitchen garden

    Bev's Kitchen garden

    Zone 3b One of Bev's first gardens. George Jr added several hostas, including the only one that gets the white flowers. The hummingbirds seeem to really li...

    • 1 plants
    • 2 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Birch Tree garden

    Birch Tree garden

    Zone 3b About July 15, 2009, I dug out the grass around the birch tree we can see from our dining room window. I also added dirt to create a raised bed. Th...

    • 3 plants
    • 5 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Butternut Tree  garden

    Butternut Tree garden

    Zone 3b Last year we moved a large Tiger Lily clump to the west side of this butternut tree. As there wasn't enough room between the fence and the butternu...

    • 4 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Cathy's Septic Tank garden

    Cathy's Septic Tank garden

    Zone 3 Cathy built this garden to hide the septic tank. She did a good job.

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  • GeorgeSr's Dirt Pit Wild garden

    Dirt Pit Wild garden

    Zone 3 This wild flower appeared a couple of weeks ago near where I was getting dirt for the Lower Backyard Garden.

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Driveway East garden

    Driveway East garden

    Zone 3b Mowing and weed wacking around trees gets old, so I removed the sod and added a couple of inches of black dirt to create a planting bed. Later I tr...

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Driveway North Pine Tree garden

    Driveway North Pine Tree garden

    Zone 3b I gave David & Shari four Iris plants in exchange for pine trees from their place in Two Harbors, MN. Dave brought five spruce trees which we plant...

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Driveway West garden

    Driveway West garden

    Zone 3b

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's East Driveway  Ash Tree garden

    East Driveway Ash Tree garden

    Zone 3b July 16, 2009 After digging the grass from around the Birch Tree, I liked the way it looked, so I did the same to the two ash trees closeset to th...

    • 0 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Forked Ash Tree garden

    Forked Ash Tree garden

    Zone 3b Decided the hostas look nice around the ash trees, so removed the sod and added fresh dirt around the forked ash tree in the front yard.

    • 4 plants
    • 3 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Front garden

    Front garden

    Zone 3b After many changes to the size, this garden ended up 16 x 20 feet. The rows run east to west and are 10 feet long. It is now parellel with the east...

    • 12 plants
    • 21 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Front Garden East Slope garden

    Front Garden East Slope garden

    Zone 3b Divided the Front Garden and seperated the east slope into a new garden

    • 2 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Front Garden Raised Planter Box garden

    Front Garden Raised Planter Box garden

    Zone 3b Used one of last years tomato trellis's for the peas to climb on wires The peas didn't do well in this garden because the roots from the overhang...

    • 2 plants
    • 3 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Front Garden South Slope garden

    Front Garden South Slope garden

    Zone 3b Decided to seperate the front garden and added the south slope garden where I transplanted about 25 ferns from our woods.

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  • GeorgeSr's Lower Backyard garden

    Lower Backyard garden

    Zone 3b Needing a seperate area for veggies, it was decided to layout and level a 10 x 20 foot area down the hill where the old compost pile was. I sprayed...

    • 7 plants
    • 16 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Planter Bed with rhubard garden

    Planter Bed with rhubard garden

    Zone 3

    • 0 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Self Watering Containers garden

    Self Watering Containers garden

    Zone 3b Modified ten gallon plastic totes by cutting the bottom four inches of a second tote and inverting it inside the first tote. This created a shelf f...

    • 2 plants
    • 0 journals
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  • GeorgeSr's Shady Side of Barn garden

    Shady Side of Barn garden

    Zone 3b I moved the orphan Hosta from Bev's Air Conditioner Garden here, as Cathy suggested. When we covered the parking area with gravel, we ended up with...

    • 1 plants
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  • GeorgeSr's Upper Culvert Wild garden

    Upper Culvert Wild garden

    Zone 3 This Primrose is growing near the Upper Culvert.

    • 1 plants
    • 0 journals
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