puu
Member since: Jun 08 | Last seen: Sep 12 | Invited by: MrPants | Years gardening: 9 | 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
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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 ...
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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...
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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 tri...
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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 plan...
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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...
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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 do...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Zone 8a well. this is sort of my first real vegetable garden, strangely enough. been growing vegetables professionally since 2001 on some friends’ ...
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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 major...
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Zone 7b my pals live twenty blocks away. they’ve got a pond. they said I could plant things in it. I’m going to.
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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 ge...
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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...
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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. I̵...
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Zone 8 things I’ve bought or propagated but haven’t had a chance to plant yet. there are quite a few of these waiting under a big old maple t...
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Zone 7b shady spot under chestnut, maple, cherry, alder, and ash trees next to the river.
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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 sh...
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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’...
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Zone 7b there’s a sizeable triangle of landscaping on the streetside of our apartment building, maybe 100 square feet. largely occupied by obnoxious...
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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 whe...
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