Chryssie
Internet Junkie
Most recent picture. More flowers are blooming. And the bulbs I planted last year have started to grow back but they don't look like much yet!
What's in your Garden (& Indoor Plants)
- Thread starter Tom L.
- Start date
@KLS52 I have some Lilies Of The Valley growing on the North side of my house, too. Over 30 years ago, they were in just a small area at the East end, and there was grass on the rest- but trees started growing on the property to my north, that area got a lot shadier, the grass died (no more mowing there), and the lilies took over. They're nice, but I'm pretty sure they're poisonous to eat.
Finally...mine are always the last to bloom! M
(regarding lilies of the valley) I'm wondering if I should eradicate them. I've been outside on my property with cats, rabbits, and the occasional dog- and none of them ever showed any interest in the lilies. They're native to my area, so the squirrels and rabbits instinctively know not to eat them. Lilies of the valley spread like weeds, and once I tried to dig a few of them up and grow them in a terrarium, safe from my cats and rabbits, but the lilies died.
Some peonies were growing on my property (in the yard) when I bought the place; the big, heavy, deep pink flowers always used to bend the stems down onto the ground. I transplanted them to the area around the foundation, and they're doing much better.
I planted some bush black beans, both outside and in a pot where I have a chili pepper plant growing. The ones in the pot just came up!
My mom and I planted our basil at the beach cottage last week, but the groundhogs got to it and devoured all the plants down to the stems. So we're ordering some netting, which we hope will do the trick. I guess they can climb because they somehow got to the flower box on the deck railing. We've never had that happen.
Exactly! My mom actually saw the groundhogs scampering under the house next door (the beach cottages are often raised on pilings) after they had their feast! I told my mom the same about the roots. Just cover them and see what happens.
Rose Campion and Evening Primrose
Rhododendron and Japanese Meadowsweet
Daisy Fleabane
Rhododendron and Japanese Meadowsweet
Daisy Fleabane
Work in progress. Still so much to do! I'm leaving a lot of the greenery because they are native. I pulled a lot of invasives...mugwort, knotweed, oriental bittersweet and garlic mustard. Still need to get rid of the Japanese honeysuckle and wineberry . I'm leaving the goldenrod, white wood aster, Virginia creeper.
I'm amazed at how many invasives there are in my yard.
I'm amazed at how many invasives there are in my yard.
Chryssie
Internet Junkie
I have pretty much left my garden to go wild! LOL I have many native plants and haven't bothered weeding or mulching.
It was looking like that's what I was going to do this year. I just could not get motivated! I am really doing minimum...no planting, just hanging baskets. But I did want to get out at least some of thenon native invasives, especially the ones that kill or prevent natives from growing. I'm not too concerned with non natives that aren't causing a problem.
It's a bit confusing for me. I've never been into gardening. It's a learning process. As many times as I identify plants with the mobile app, I can't remember from one day to the next what the plants are lol.
Same here, though I need to trim one of the perennial plants because it's creeping into my walkway in the front yard, lol.
Also, my mom and I may have to abandon our basil growing at the beach. My mom bought netting for the new plants, but the groundhogs managed to get under it somehow.
I'm going to have to ration what's left of my frozen pesto! I would grow the basil at home, but I'm gone a lot for multiple days in the summer, and you really have to water basil daily if it doesn't rain. <sigh>
That's such a shame. I'm always torn between love for all of the critters but then I'm not a gardener. It has to be very frustrating to try and grow anything and then have it ruined by wildlife. Flowers and plants are bad enough but to have food eaten by them is terrible.Same here, though I need to trim one of the perennial plants because it's creeping into my walkway in the front yard, lol.
Also, my mom and I may have to abandon our basil growing at the beach. My mom bought netting for the new plants, but the groundhogs managed to get under it somehow.
I remember two years ago when i planted two tomato plants and something took a bite out of my first tomato lol.Yes, I struggle with that, too. It's so odd because we never had a problem with the basil before this. Very frustrating. My mom isn't an animal lover, lol, so she's just aggravated.That's such a shame. I'm always torn between love for all of the critters but then I'm not a gardener. It has to be very frustrating to try and grow anything and then have it ruined by wildlife. Flowers and plants are bad enough but to have food eaten by them is terrible.
I don't have any oriental bittersweet on my property, but it grows in my area. I sometimes collect some of it and give it to people I know for free, warning them that it's invasive and they should not discard it on their property in a way that it might germinate. Garlic mustard is another invasive, which is edible; it tastes very much like mustard greens. I sometimes collect white mulberries- I don't know if it's officially an invasive, but it sure seems like one to me! It's fun to eat edible invasives (so long as you're absolutely sure you know what you're doing and you have the owner's permission, of course!)
Maybe I should change my VF username to "Euell Gibbons"...
The bush black beans in the planter are doing well. The kabocha squash I planted came up... but both they and the black beans I planted in the ground are doing strangely: only the ones at one end of the rows came up. I'm tempted to dig up and transplant 2 of the squash plants that sprouted close together to give them more room- but squash don't like having their roots disturbed, it's already mid-June, and it might be better to just let them grow.
FredVegrox
Forum Legend
I am glad to see all here who are growing things, for food or anything useful. I would start soon as I hope. I had been planting seeds for good food plants. But I moved from there and didn't get anything from that, I'm sure someone will. Seeds I had, some that I can't ever replace, are gone now, I will have to find seeds to buy and start accumulating all over again. But this is important to do, that I will as soon as it is possible for me.
My mom is not giving up! She has put together a barricade along the railing to keep the groundhogs off. That, and the netting, has thwarted them since. Fingers crossed that we get enough basil to make our pesto.
Similar threads
