cmagnus

Member since: May 08 | Years gardening: 7 Organic gardener Folia Supporter Folia Helper

I’m a visiting scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I live in Albany, NY. I’m a relatively recent transplant from Southern California, but I’m gradually adapting to this bizarre climate where water (sometimes even freezing water) falls out of the sky at odd times of the year and tomatoes are treated as annuals instead of perennials.

Gardens

...The Zokalo... garden

Zone 5 This is the first bed I put in when we moved into this house. I mostly reserve it for annual edibles, although things might shuffle a bit now that...
- 52 plants
- 337 journals
- 10 faves
- 11 comments
..._The Promenade_... garden

Zone 5 This garden was built to house gooseberries, rhubarb, perennial herbs, and things that overflow from the annual bed. That may change in the future...
- 30 plants
- 26 journals
- 0 faves
- 2 comments
..Walkabout.. garden

Zone 5b Path through the reclaimed part of the garden. Our first raised bed we surrounded with small pavers, but that got expensive. Also, we didn't want...
- 8 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
- 2 comments
.._Foundation_.. garden

Zone 5b I was going to fill the foundation plantings with edible herbs, but our soil turns out to have lead in it and we can't build raised beds right agai...
- 18 plants
- 3 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
.Haphazard. garden

Zone 5b This garden has walking onions in it. They don't seem to do well with neat organized lines. I've also been wanting for a while to have a big patc...
- 14 plants
- 3 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
._Squash Patch_. garden

Zone 5 The backyard has been reclaimed from the grass. I won't say successfully reclaimed, because it is still threatened by quack grass, which I will ev...
- 11 plants
- 76 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
.__Periphery__. garden

Zone 5b This is the periphery of the backyard. The middle of the backyard is a squash patch; this is the various things on the edge of the backyard that a...
- 9 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
_..Critter.._ garden

Zone 5 This is a garden for tracking garden critters, friendly or otherwise.
- 25 plants
- 83 journals
- 0 faves
- 3 comments
_.Caffinated Houseplant._ garden

Zone 5 These are my permanent indoor plants. I've moved all of my temporary plants that are waiting to be planted to my nomadic garden.
- 22 plants
- 51 journals
- 0 faves
- 2 comments
_Nomadic_ garden

Zone 5 Indoor garden of seed startings, clippings, recent purchases, etc. Plants in this garden move around the house depending on state of plant and tim...
- 13 plants
- 138 journals
- 1 faves
- 10 comments
__.Winter Greens.__ garden

Zone 5 In the interest of adapting to life in the frigid north, I am attempting a winter garden. I'm planting cold-hardy greens in window boxes in a thre...
- 0 plants
- 74 journals
- 2 faves
- 3 comments
__Unreclaimed__ garden

Zone 5 This is were we keep the grass. We're gradually trying to reclaim it and turn it into ungrass, but it's still mostly grass. Hopefully one day it ...
- 8 plants
- 26 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
___Study___ garden

Zone 5 This garden is my partner's garden. It lives in his study. I'm keeping track of it because he has traded plants out with plants from my caffeinat...
- 2 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments