jennydee

Member since: Mar 08 | Years gardening: 2 Organic gardener Folia Supporter

My dad has a real green thumb and I helped him with the garden growing up. I’ve been on my own for quite some years now and have tried with varying success to grow things in containers and in strange beds. I think last year I finally started doing some real learning about gardening, and this year I’m in it full speed ahead. Hopefully my SFG will produce some good vegetables, and I can get the front bed and rose bed looking nice so our rental house yard looks less like, well, a run-down rental house yard. To really make it nice would require more time, money, and effort than I’m willing to put in on property I don’t own, but I think I can apply some sort of patch so I can at least enjoy my own yard.

Gardens

Front garden

Zone 5b This bed is currently in horrible condition. There are two huge shrub stumps in it that I have had no success removing. I planted it with petunias ...
- 1 plants
- 5 journals
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Houseplant garden

Zone 5b I haven't got many houseplants, just a few. I used to kill them as soon as they came into the house just by being near them, apparently, but I've h...
- 2 plants
- 8 journals
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Kitchen garden

Zone 5b This year I am converting the square foot garden of last year into the beginnings of a larger kitchen garden, inspired by an article in the Herb Co...
- 0 plants
- 6 journals
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Outdoor Container Herb garden

Zone 5b This is just a place for me to keep track of various edible things I may plant in containers this year. So far that consists of mint, but will prob...
- 0 plants
- 0 journals
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Rose garden

Zone 5b This is a bed I dug out and improved only very little over the existing soil last August. It is planted with one New Dawn rose and one catmint plan...
- 5 plants
- 17 journals
- 0 faves
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Square Foot garden

Zone 5b This is my first SFG-style garden, and I'm really excited. I'm only doing one square, but with just two of us I'm hoping to have enough vegetables ...
- 20 plants
- 39 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
[Archived] Annual Border garden

Zone 5b Starting with a horribly neglected patch of lawn - the previous tenants must've had elephants tromping down the soil, which is heavily clay to begi...
- 3 plants
- 5 journals
- 0 faves
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