KatPowers

Member since: Jun 08 | Years gardening: 6 Organic gardener

I have no idea what I’m doing, but I like to eat what I grow. So do my kids.

Gardens

Backyard garden

Zone 6a Most of the plantings are from the previous, late owner, Tom Montgomery. We're just maintaining a lot of what he poured his heart into.
- 11 plants
- 13 journals
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Container garden

Zone 6a Some of this stuff has to move around. And some of it has to look pretty for guests. I guess that's why I'm moving it around.
- 2 plants
- 10 journals
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Deion's garden

Zone 6a This is the patch abandoned when the previous owner died. In spring 2008, Dominick helped clear the old beds of leaves, weeds and ivy, and Deion to...
- 6 plants
- 38 journals
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Dominick's Tomato garden

Zone 6a This is the one spot of constant sun I can plant, so I jam everything I can in -- the bed is closely planted, sifted with peat moss and then mulche...
- 12 plants
- 31 journals
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Fence garden

Zone 6a Dominick needed a place to get out his aggression, so we let him whack away at anything he found growing along the fence -- mostly scrubby-looking ...
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
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Kitchen garden

Zone 6a We needed a place to dump clay before taking it to the dump. When digging up the clay, we had found the previous owner had been gardening on that v...
- 2 plants
- 9 journals
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Miss Laurene's garden

Zone 6a This garden is dictated by the landlady's tastes. Everything is mulched and pretty from the street, and I usually get around to weeding it before i...
- 5 plants
- 8 journals
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Not God's Green Acre garden

Zone 6a I really tried with this bed, and I can't make it work. When we first moved in, the landlady had planted marigolds that didn't take very well. I...
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
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