kightp

Member since: Oct 07 | Years gardening: 7 Organic gardener

After a lifetime of killing houseplants through benign neglect, I bought a home with a big yard in 2000; serendipitiously, my sister – a trained horticulturist – moved in with me for a couple of years and helped get me started gardening. Now I consider myself an avid novice with a taste for garden-fresh produce (and an aversion to weeding).

I practice no-till, no spray gardening, use soaker hoses to reduce water consumption and will grow and eat just about anything my garden can produce, including flowers. And I cheerfully murder slugs and snails on sight.

Gardens

Backyard border garden

Zone 8 Two long fence borders - one with most-of-the-day sun and one in deep shade - hold a haphazard array of plants that please me: An akebia vine, bora...
- 9 plants
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backyard raised bed garden

Zone 8 My sister and I built this 4'x10' raised bed in 2001, initially filling it with a truckload of garden soil containing well-composted steer and ch...
- 0 plants
- 1 journals
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Container garden

Zone 8 I have two groups of container plants in the back yard: Herbs and strawberries, in a sunny spot on the brick patio, and shade-loving plants - a fer...
- 4 plants
- 1 journals
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Front garden

Zone 8 The front beds are devoted to bulbs (daffodil, tulip, a few hyacinths, day lilies, saffron crocus and a few tiny native irises) hardy perennials (s...
- 9 plants
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Shade garden

Zone 8 A corner where two exterior walls meet at the back of my low deck makes a perfect sheltered spot for containers of shade-loving perennials and fern...
- 6 plants
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- 2 faves
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