plantingOaks

Member since: Jan 08

I graduated college in 2006, and in November of 2007 we bought our first house with space for me to garden in. (read: two+ acres) I’m planning like a madwoman. But we also have a lot of fixing to do on the house itself, which takes time from that.

The first year I got a veggie plot in, and now I’m finding time to plant flowers, as well as expanding the veggies, and trying to reforest a treeline that was taken over by honeysuckle.

I never really got into container gardening when we were in apartments and dorms, but picked up the bug from my mother and grandmother.

Gardens

Back Woods garden

Zone 5b Hmm, so, it doesn't really have natives in it now. But it is 'wild' so I guess that's the closest type. This includes the woods on the south and...
- 30 plants
- 6 journals
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back: Chicken coop garden

Zone 5b Things in front of the chicken coop / shed. The soil is good here, though full of bits of broken glass, and it's not very well drained. The white s...
- 2 plants
- 7 journals
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back: Peony Bed garden

Zone 5b The part of the backyard by the porch, south of the trees. It's on a bit of a slope, making it better drained than many places. It's not 100% sun, ...
- 5 plants
- 4 journals
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Backyard garden

Zone 5b for now, I'm considering this the area south of the house that isn't the veggie garden. That's pretty vague, but so are our plans for it. A lot of ...
- 9 plants
- 8 journals
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Birdfeeder & Stump garden

Zone 5b This is immediately off the west side of the house. Most of it is viewable through either the dining room or kitchen window. I'm trying to develop ...
- 13 plants
- 11 journals
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Boggy place garden

Zone 5b No, it's not a bog. It's the low spot where some of the drains let out, so it gets a fair amount of standing water, but still dries out in the summ...
- 5 plants
- 0 journals
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Front Yard garden

Zone 5b This is along the North side of the house, facing the road. There's maybe 50 feet between the front door and the street. Shade comes from the house...
- 21 plants
- 33 journals
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Front: quince & rose bed garden

Zone 5b Killed some grass around here because mowing up next to gangly, thorny things is a pain. Hmm, maybe I should have named this 'gangly thorny red thi...
- 3 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
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Front: west porch garden

Zone 5b
- 5 plants
- 0 journals
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Fruit garden

Zone 5b Parts of this meld into the Vegetable garden, but these are not in raised beds, and I was getting enough plants that it seemed worth while to separ...
- 5 plants
- 19 journals
- 0 faves
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houseplant garden

Zone 5b Gunther is my one and only house plant, but I've had him since college, so he has earned the right to be here.
- 1 plants
- 0 journals
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Rose garden

Zone 5b Ha, this is funny. I don't know where I'm going to put the roses yet. But dagummit I'm gonna have me some roses.
- 0 plants
- 0 journals
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Seed starting trays garden

Zone 5b Shelf by the window in the south bedroom. Right now it has one shop light for the lower shelf that doesn't get window light. Might add another ligh...
- 3 plants
- 63 journals
- 0 faves
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Vegetable garden

Zone 5b A southern exposure, near the house. The underlying soil is clay, but everything important is in 5x2 raised beds. the layout and plants are turn...
- 32 plants
- 93 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Wintersowing garden

Zone 5b Three trays. This is my first year wintersowing
- 27 plants
- 17 journals
- 0 faves
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[Archived] Back Orchard garden

Zone 5b This is where we put the extra trees. It's not so much focused on producing fruit as being ornamental. So things are tucked in naturalistic-ly amon...
- 0 plants
- 5 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments