puu

Member since: Jun 08 | Invited by: MrPants | Years gardening: 8 Organic gardener

I’m not convinced the world won’t be burning down anytime now. I suppose there’s no reason my lovely gardens won’t go with it, but just in case, I’m growing all the delicious food I can.

been growing food for a living since 2001. I would tell you where and invite you to stop by, but that might be in violation of the terms & conditions.

anyhow, growing annual vegetables has worn me out. it’s a great job I have, but on my own time I want nothing to do with any carrots or beets or parsnips or any of that rot. my sister, though, she still likes all that. I mostly grow fruit trees and shrubs. a few self-seeding annuals and an increasing number of perennial vegetables as well.

I’m also rather taken with permaculture and forest gardening. just so you know.

my sister takes a lot of pictures.

Gardens

baby earth garden

Zone 8 in January of 2008, my mom and sister expanded the chicken coop out into the pasture behind the barn. January 2009, my sister and I tore down the ...
- 0 plants
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back flush garden

Zone 8 my grandmother's water filter has a backflush cycle every night. it dumps an enormous amount of water onto the ground outside the pump house, I'm ...
- 2 plants
- 10 journals
- 0 faves
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bamboo arbor garden

Zone 8 Hillary's employers left six big bamboo timbers when they vacated their previous location. so we took them. lashed them together into a triangula...
- 1 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
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booze garden

Zone 8a I like fruit. I like growing fruit. I've planted enough fruit trees that I'll never be able to eat all the fruit and I just keep planting. I loo...
- 60 plants
- 31 journals
- 0 faves
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deck vines garden

Zone 8 the East wall of my grandma's house is almost entirely windows with a covered deck just outside. in the summer, it gets pretty gd hot in the morni...
- 2 plants
- 5 journals
- 0 faves
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drive on it garden

Zone 8 it's in the middle of the driveway. I try to stop them, but people keep driving on it. that makes me stabby. the deliciousness calms me down. I...
- 21 plants
- 6 journals
- 1 faves
- 1 comments
fireplace garden

Zone 13 there are a couple of south-facing windows on either side of my grandma's fireplace. they're far enough away that I don't worry about the fire hur...
- 2 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
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foolhardy garden

Zone 7b there's a serious lack of growing space at our apartment. so I'm headed to the roof. the roof is pitched, and access involves climbing out a seco...
- 0 plants
- 3 journals
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goat garden

Zone 8 what, you don't have a garden for your goat? I'm trying to grow all the food and fencing for our goat. we'll see... future plans include goat's ...
- 4 plants
- 4 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
grapes garden

Zone 8 my mom likes to tell stories about sitting under the grapes when she was little. there used to be a trellis, but I tore it down because it was rot...
- 5 plants
- 4 journals
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living room floor garden

Zone 13 the majority of my gardening activity takes place on my grandmother's three acres in Woodland, WA. but right now, I'm spending a majority of my ti...
- 20 plants
- 134 journals
- 0 faves
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nettle patch garden

Zone 8 a whole bunch of nettles. folks here used to mow these down because, well, they sting. but I've put an end to that, and the nettle patch gets big...
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
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night stand garden

Zone 13 this is not a garden. it is my night stand.
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
nuts garden

Zone 8 growing some nuts. food from the sky, I tell you. manna. nut trees seem like a much better way to get carbohydrates than annual grains and tuber...
- 18 plants
- 7 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
passage garden

Zone 8b there's a path down the bank to the river that always gets overgrown with blackberries. it get's slippery. it's no fun. I'm trying to fix that. ...
- 1 plants
- 0 journals
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purgatory garden

Zone 8 things I've bought but haven't had a chance to plant yet. there are quite a few of these waiting under a big old maple tree in front of my grandmo...
- 6 plants
- 7 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
ramps garden

Zone 8 ramps. delicious.
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
sauna garden

Zone 8 there's a little bed outside the sauna. my sister wanted to salvage some of the enormous pile of grape prunings I created this winter, so she plan...
- 1 plants
- 0 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
shady garden

Zone 8 north side of my grandma's house. a couple of large maples and rhododendrons make sure any sunlight that outflanks the house still won't reach the...
- 1 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
sixty-fifth street garden

Zone 7b there's a sizeable triangle of landscaping on the streetside of our apartment building, maybe 100 square feet. largely occupied by obnoxious junip...
- 11 plants
- 0 journals
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stumble garden

Zone 7 outside the front door of my apartment. it's in the way and people trip over my containers. also, there are no trays under the pots, so when I wa...
- 36 plants
- 48 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
[Archived] olive garden

Zone 8 when you're here, you're family.* the Olive Garden is a shitty Italian chain restaurant in the states. or, more pleasantly, it's a sunny spot whe...
- 3 plants
- 2 journals
- 0 faves
- 2 comments