Penny
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Post by Penny on Mar 4, 2010 8:30:59 GMT -5
Not up here on Georgian Bay , i guess it has alot to do with the fact that we are a huge tourist destination, and they like everything to be kept up with.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 4, 2010 8:58:16 GMT -5
Tourist area here too (Niagara) as well as the horticultural hotspot of Canada. But again, I think a lot of it has to do with the municipality. I'm in a beach community with a lot of artsy folks. Guess we are just more tolerant.
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Post by stratcat on Mar 4, 2010 15:24:16 GMT -5
Here's a pic of the Hellstrip in 2007. On the left I had a triangle of Japonica inside a circle of purple millet. A couple of corn shocks in 2006. The close one ended up with juniper trimmings weaved in along with a garland and some blue Christmas ornaments.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 4, 2010 16:57:32 GMT -5
Strat, you've got a lot of trees on the property. What exposure the garden have to obtain adequate sunlight? I just love the mix of vegetation, BTW. The flowers at the front of the garden help soften the veggie garden aspect for those neighbours who perhaps don't think that edibles have a place at the street.
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Post by sorellina on Mar 4, 2010 19:11:37 GMT -5
Stratcat, I want that purple millet! I've been telling the guys here about the time Duane and I took a trip to Niagara and saw it growing at the School of Horticulture over there. It's just the coolest thing! Is it easy to grow?
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Post by PVP on Mar 4, 2010 20:30:36 GMT -5
BLRH, I saw you are growing Wisconsin 55 Gold this year and wanted some information about it. You can contact me at tomatohead48@hotmail.com or start a thread about that tomato in the tomato conversations forum if you wish. Pretty good tomato.
Bill
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Post by stratcat on Mar 5, 2010 1:40:06 GMT -5
Strat, you've got a lot of trees on the property. What exposure the garden have to obtain adequate sunlight? I just love the mix of vegetation, BTW. The flowers at the front of the garden help soften the veggie garden aspect for those neighbours who perhaps don't think that edibles have a place at the street. Thanks, blrh! Yes, I have plenty of shade so I don't get the maximum out of my garden. The peppers don't seem to mind. OTOH, gardening here on the west side of my house catches the heat from the afternoon sun and also protects my plants from cold onshore breezes. I'm five miles inland from Lake Huron. ps: Some hate my flowers. Stratcat, I want that purple millet! I've been telling the guys here about the time Duane and I took a trip to Niagara and saw it growing at the School of Horticulture over there. It's just the coolest thing! Is it easy to grow? Hi, sorellina. I got the purple millet from the American Horticultural Society seed exchange in a coin envelope, so I'm not sure if I had the hybrid seed. They were easy to grow. I started the plants inside and set them out and they took off. And I like your garden pictures, as well.
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Post by Penny on Mar 5, 2010 7:44:46 GMT -5
I know, me too, i love the purple millet, so pretty.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 5, 2010 9:13:09 GMT -5
Strat, I hear ya about the winds off the Great Lakes. I'm 3 blocks from Lake Erie and within eyeshot of Buffalo, NY and it's legendary winter weather. Our house is set at the back of the lot, about 10 feet from a government protected forest. Last year, we tried to have a garden where the previous owners and the ones before them had grown since the 1930's, but the trees overshadowed too much of the plot. So in November, I redesigned the plot, and prepped the soil at the other end to hopefully move the growing zone out of the darkness. Pruning of the trees actually on our lawn has helped I believe, and winter winds have done their part to prune a few of the protected ones as well.
Another attractive and utilitarian plant is Broomcorn. Last summer I planted a mixed colour variety, a red and one other colour that escapes me at this very moment. (One from Baker Creek, the other two from Sandhill). They made for a striking display in what had previously been a front "flowerbed" which was just an overgrown mass of tangled vines. Even with the unseasonably cold and extremely wet summer, they managed to grow and begin to produce seed.
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Post by stratcat on Mar 6, 2010 1:06:13 GMT -5
Hi, blue. The Summer of '92 was a cold one courtesy of Mt. Pinatubo. I gardened on the east side of the house and with the cool onshore breezes, the garden was awful. Not sure if I even got a cherry tomato. My uncle, near town, gardened on the west side of his barn and did OK. My front yard, in 2002, was many varieties of sunflowers along with some mixed color broomcorn that I was gifted. The broomcorn was striking. In a typical year, do you get amounts of snow like Buffalo? Hope your garden gets better with the redesign. I have lots of shade for my plants at Mom's house where I grow tomatoes and peppers in containers.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 6, 2010 7:15:38 GMT -5
Strat, this is only our second winter in this community, although my husband grew up only an hour from here. Normally, no. We don't get the same brutal storms as Buffalo. Prevailing winds are westerly, but when they come from the southeast, Look Out! The news in Buffalo was interviewing a woman during a storm this year who had just moved up from Florida. She thought the snow was beautiful and wasn't at all inconvenienced by the storm. She'll learn, It was the same when we lived at the end of Lake Ontario due North of WAtertown and Syracuse NY. That's a beautiful area, but it seems that I81 is closed for much of the winter, lol
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Post by vixen on Mar 16, 2010 13:11:57 GMT -5
Stratcat! That is one of the coolest yards I have ever seen! Thanks for the pict!
I do have some edibles in my front yard... But my yard is a 5 acre playland. So you can only imagine... This year I am giveing the edible flowers over to my daughter... she is into edible chrysanthmums, sunflowers(thanks to Darth we'll have 20' sunflowers in the front yard),herbs and other edibles. I'll take picts this year!
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Post by stratcat on Mar 16, 2010 13:43:35 GMT -5
Stratcat! That is one of the coolest yards I have ever seen! Thanks for the pict! I do have some edibles in my front yard... But my yard is a 5 acre playland. So you can only imagine... This year I am giveing the edible flowers over to my daughter... she is into edible chrysanthmums, sunflowers(thanks to Darth we'll have 20' sunflowers in the front yard),herbs and other edibles. I'll take picts this year! Thanks, sc/vixen. Looking forward to seeing your pictures this year! Another one of the Hellstrip with Gloriosa Daisies growing in the street.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 6, 2010 8:08:19 GMT -5
So yesterday, a lawncare guy banged on my front door, asking if I was the one who had called him to have my lawn cut? Seems the house number was only one digit different and there is no house with that number?
Makes me wonder if one of the "neighbours" phoned him in an attempt to get me to cut down the mass of Soapwort and English daisies that are in bloom over much of my yard right now? I'm enjoying them. I know they are there. I'll cut the grass soon enough. I had more important things to do yesterday. My car was dirty and needed some TLC!!! Of course, we had ferocious thunderstorms all night long and this morning is sunny and warm. I wonder how many inches the lawn will grow today? lol
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Post by sorellina on May 6, 2010 9:46:45 GMT -5
Ciao bluelacedredhead- I know exactly what you mean. I think some people obsess over their own lawns and can't understand why everyone doesn't. I personally can't stand lawns at all and would love to rip out the entire thing and grow flowers and veggies with pathways and arbours. I've recently spent a good deal of my time taking out the zillions of dandelions that have popped up overnight in both the front and back lawns. I certainly think my time could be better spent.
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