Gardening!
 

Hey fellow Trisphians or Trisphites,

I've recently been interested in gardening. I'm starting off very, very small-I bought a pot the other day and some sunflower seeds. Now, I have three cute little dwarf sunflowers growing. So far, so great.

Anyone of you like gardening? Any tips? :]

P.S. My avatar may or may not be subconsciously inspired by sunflowers and springtime.

OHH YES
I love gardening! As for tips, it all depends on what you are planting, your climate and soil area, if you are doing flowerbeds or potted gardening so on so forth.
I was raised gardening, and have 15 decent size flowerbeds on our property now, with my mother trying to add another 3 behind her 5th wheel. . . .
As a young-preteen I wanted to study herbs and be a real like natural alchemists of sorts XD Now I grow some herbs, some veggies and quite a bit of flowers, but currently a lot of roses, tulips and irises.

I think one of the biggest pitfalls I come to with gardening is with trying to find flowers I like that won't accidentally kill my animals if they eat them (certain lilies and things like poinsettas)

Starting from scratch is super rewarding. You can be sure of what you want to do with the place to make it your own comfortable home. I have a privacy tree fence in my front yard and it's great, I never have to worry about people driving by looking into my yard.

If you don't have a ton of space for a vegetable garden, there is the thing of gutter gardening that has come around. You can plant in some gutters you put up on a fence, and don't have to worry (so much) about pests getting to them and taking up yardspace.

For some reason a local CVS shop started selling gardening kits around today. Living in an apartment and having stuff die on me, I've never gardened. It's starting to sound fun with springtime being around the corner though

@u@ yes!
In previous years I have not been successful with gardening. This year I am trying something different. I am starting my seeds in a bag and then I am going to transfer to an egg carton green house. Then I am going to use milk cartons. I live in an small urban space. Once I found out you could use milk cartons as upside down containers I was sold.

I need to find someone to rototill an area for me to plant veggies for this year, and I need to find one soon. . . but first I need less rain XD

I am waiting for it to officially stop being bi-polar where I am. We have a strange 8 hour snow storm along with cold weather lately. I don't want my little guys freezing outside.

Hehe so something unexpected happened. I took some seeds from some mini sweet peppers weeks ago and started to germinate them. I had them in a bag. After a week they didn't look like they really work. About two weeks later my grandma is cleaning and asked me if I was going to put them in a pot... I was kind of like what those aren't they dead? She goes no and showed me that I had a bag full of sprouts.

Have you thought about a vertical garden? And since you are doing succulents you could do a succulent wall art.

http://www.designsponge.com/wp-conte...rden_intro.jpg

https://cdn.instructables.com/FAD/2C...TSG.MEDIUM.jpg

The vertical garden is a great idea for apartments! Another thing I mention to people if they admit to killing plants all the time (Just in case anyone here does) is to get one of those air plants XD

If you can't afford pots at first use Juice jugs!
http://cdn.goodshomedesign.com/wp-co...ni-garden1.jpg

And if you have railings apparently THESE pots exist!
https://anajuliaandrade.files.wordpr...y-planters.jpg

And water bottles can be recycled like this with a hoe through them for watering!
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...vex-garden.png

That is what I plan to do. I have a bunch of milk jugs ready.

I suggestion for all: if you want to grow mint, keep is segregated from all things. I just had to rip apart my entire pot to get the mint plant out, as the entirety of it was run through with a lattice work of roots. I changed the soil over because there wasn't a bit left that wasn't root laden. It took more effort than I thought and I'm hoping my remaining plants survive the trauma. I'm sure the mint will be fine.

Unfortunately I planted my mint near my oregeno, garlic chives and fennel in a large 1.5' diameter pot last year .-.
It is such a hassle I want to spray it with something to kill it XD
Specifically I picked up Kentucky Colonel Spearmint?
I had my friend zexx rototill my flowerbed since my mom took her roses out. I need to plant my annual tea rose, and then were going to use the rest of the flowerbed for veggies this year while I plan my future flowerbed!

I have been wanting to plant things, but we live in an apartment with only a balcony. And it gets windy outside a lot (which kills the plants) and we can't bring the plants inside because of the fungus gnats that live in the soil. Our bug traps were just covered in them. And then they found their way into our bathroom and would hang around our shower, toilet, and bathroom sink. It was just really gross.

I think I traumatized my carrot rose (called such because I stuck a cutting into a carrot chunk, not having any handy potatoes.) It got warmer and sunny so I put it outside with the established roses that were growing new leaves, but I think the nights were too cold for it. I've brought it back inside but the leaves are dried and pale looking. Going to try and start another cutting but I hope this guy makes it.

I need to work on some of the garden. (Have a sort of "steppe pyramid" design to work on.

...a bit like this:
https://cdn.instructables.com/F0I/7B...JWZ.MEDIUM.jpg

That's a neat looking idea, Lawtan. I know people will use old wood palettes as bases for gardens. Might work for a floor provided the wood doesn't rot too badly.

My rose appears to be a little greener looking around the leaf edges, but maybe that's wishful thinking.

I've really wanted to get into gardening for a while now, so I'm going to be using this thread for inspiration/tips. xD

Herbs and vegetables sound like the most productive use of gardening, but I've especially wanted to plant some flowers for bees and butterflies.

Despite my annoyance with it, I love having my English mint plant. I go out and pull off a few leaves to crush and steep with my tea in the mornings.

I picked the English Mint because I wanted a tall plant for my pot and because I preferred the smell to the other varieties at the nursery. I have a friend who grows herbs and veggies from food scraps and it's going well. I'm hoping to swap some of my mint for some of her parsley.