seajda
Member since: Jan 10 | Last seen: Jan 12 | Years gardening: 30 | Organic gardener
We were fortunate to buy 14 acres and build a new house four years ago. I have been developing my gardens since moving in. Although it was hard to leave my old gardens, I brought many starts with me. Several of the plants are “heirloom” in the sense that they began their journey in my great grandmother and great aunt’s gardens. I also have starts from my husband’s grandmother and our mothers and sisters. A brother-in-law has contributed many “prizes” also! These are special to me for the link they provide to family.
At my old garden, my husband and I build a small goldfish pond. I decided to enlarge it after moving! Jim rented a backhoe and we ended up with an 11,000 gallon Koi pond! I’m still trying to fill it with plants.
We have several deer, but I have attempted to use deer-resistant plants and have had only one casualty…a Dappled Willow shrub. (It was not replaced!) We did have to build a six foot fence around our vegetable garden.
I was excited to find this site. I am able to garden online while waiting for spring to arrive!
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Zone 6b Started a new garden bed around the bird feeders today. Canary Climber and Black-Eyed Susan vines will grow up the latticework for the hummingbird...
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Zone 6b What else could this troublesome area under the oak trees become but a shade garden? Too shaded for grass, it created a dust cloud when the weeds...
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Zone 6b Established in April, 2006 and still developing. Hauled in humus and cottonseed compost. Bordered with brick. I was planting this garden before ...
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Zone 6b Of course I had to have a Koi pond…it just grew out of proportion! This garden is based around our 11,000 gallon pond. Big pond…big g...
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Zone 6b A nice little footpath garden to get us from the front to the back. My husband moved in some very large lime and sandstone rocks to form the path....
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Zone 6b This was originally called my ‘Secret’ garden until my five year old grandson informed me that it couldn’t be a secret garden bec...
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Zone 6b When I was younger, I grew and canned all the time. My garden eventually ran out of sun (trees got too big) and I was busy raising our daughter. I...
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Zone 6b I’m introducing several plants to my pond in an attempt to stabilize the water ecology. It will take quite a few to accomplish this, so it w...
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