Garden...

[ThatOwlWoman]

https://www.thespruceeats.com/taste-...arrots-2215929

Interesting! Thanks.

[ThatOwlWoman]

No, just tomatoes. Our backyard is too shady for anything but english ivy. I have a small raised bed out front, but don't want to go crazy.

Yes, I am in a southern area. I live in Atlanta.

Shade is definitely not your friend when it comes to growing veggies. Do you have other landscaping in the front? It's fun to sprinkle herbs and garlic and short peppers here and then among the flowers, if you have some.

[WinterBorn]

Shade is definitely not your friend when it comes to growing veggies. Do you have other landscaping in the front? It's fun to sprinkle herbs and garlic and short peppers here and then among the flowers, if you have some.

The front yard has 3 flowerbeds and my raised garden bed, and a few decorative small trees. My g/f likes the green expanse of the yard.

[Ralph]

Got home from KY last Friday. The bugs are about to carry my garden off. Squash bugs all over my squash plants, some little iridescent green-back bug sucking the sap (and thus the life) out of my cucumbers, ants invading my okra...it’s the invasion of the insects! Oh, and the rabbits had eaten about 1/4 of my green beans.

I dispatched the rabbit with my Ruger Airhawk pellet gun yesterday morning before going to church and have a jar with a little gasoline in it and have started picking the bugs off my squash plants and have used some liquid Sevin on my cucumbers (its several weeks before they start bearing).

IT’S FARGIN WAR!!!

There are a great many natural non-toxic insecticides on the market today. There are some great home-made agents that work quite well also. Try a mixture of garlic oil and chile pepper spray. I run the little bastards off my tomatoes last spring....and the turtles and rabbits also quit taking little bites on the low hanging ones leaving them to rot on the vine. When you are ready to harvest just give them a good bath with some soft soap and allow them to set in a bucket of clear water for a few hours. No effect whatsoever on the taste.

[TOP]

I put a small herb garden out.

https://chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/ev...ion-fundraiser Just in case you need more

[Mason Michaels]

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Things must grow great in your yard with all the dog shit!

[ThatOwlWoman]

This is not my garden!

St. Louis is pretty much a hellhole, but it does have a few redeeming things. One of them is the amazing and world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden. People come from across the planet to visit it. In fact, as we were leaving the other day we saw a tour group of young Japanese students arriving. It's beautiful any time of year, but spring is special!

[Life is Golden]

Never been much of a gardener as in fruits and vegetables but do like flowers and plants.

While my favorites are tulips, gerbera daisies and many other beautiful plants which can't tolerate deadly heat, I recently planted some variegated purple/white and purple petunias, marigolds, celosia, lilies, kalanchoes in several colors, dusty rose, purple and red salvia (separate, of course, lol). I also have banana trees, elephant ears, bromeliads, angel trumpets, confederate jasmine and a huge birds of paradise, it's actually 3 plants together. Those bloom in late summer to "fall" here. I planted a crape myrtle recently, one of the larger Natchez varieties, and bought two perennial red hibiscus trees this weekend. Being in hot climates is limiting as I'd like to have things like lavender but can't ever get it to grow.

Like clothes shopping, plants can become addictive.

[Bill]

Got home from KY last Friday. The bugs are about to carry my garden off. Squash bugs all over my squash plants, some little iridescent green-back bug sucking the sap (and thus the life) out of my cucumbers, ants invading my okra...it’s the invasion of the insects! Oh, and the rabbits had eaten about 1/4 of my green beans.

I dispatched the rabbit with my Ruger Airhawk pellet gun yesterday morning before going to church and have a jar with a little gasoline in it and have started picking the bugs off my squash plants and have used some liquid Sevin on my cucumbers (its several weeks before they start bearing).

IT’S FARGIN WAR!!!

So how did it turn out??? I often grow squash, usually butternut & spaghetti squash & one or two zucchini & crooknecks & have not had those but have had the cabbage variety-stink bugs, harlequin bugs..

Could not get rid of them & they would go on flowers or anything they could find once I pulled out the kale they were feasting on...... (It was my own fault, it was growing so high I wanted to see how high, it went over 6ft but by then it was mid summer & the bugs flourished)..

[leaningright]

So how did it turn out??? I often grow squash, usually butternut & spaghetti squash & one or two zucchini & crooknecks & have not had those but have had the cabbage variety-stink bugs, harlequin bugs..

Could not get rid of them & they would go on flowers or anything they could find once I pulled out the kale they were feasting on...... (It was my own fault, it was growing so high I wanted to see how high, it went over 6ft but by then it was mid summer & the bugs flourished)..

It worked out ok. I picked the squash bugs off and eventually the squash made a comeback and the green beans made enough for me to can 35 quarts. While the cucumbers didn’t do as well as they normally do and though I finally had to resort to one round of Liquid Sevin and wait a couple weeks before keeping any cucumbers, I was able to can my desired amount of pickles. I just didn’t have any cucumbers to give away.

Got the garden started and am ready to go at it again this season. We’ll see how it goes.

[Life is Golden]

So how did it turn out??? I often grow squash, usually butternut & spaghetti squash & one or two zucchini & crooknecks & have not had those but have had the cabbage variety-stink bugs, harlequin bugs..

Could not get rid of them & they would go on flowers or anything they could find once I pulled out the kale they were feasting on...... (It was my own fault, it was growing so high I wanted to see how high, it went over 6ft but by then it was mid summer & the bugs flourished)..

You really are some fancy gardener, huh. I've grown tomatoes before but that's about it.

[christiefan915]

Never been much of a gardener as in fruits and vegetables but do like flowers and plants.

While my favorites are tulips, gerbera daisies and many other beautiful plants which can't tolerate deadly heat, I recently planted some variegated purple/white and purple petunias, marigolds, celosia, lilies, kalanchoes in several colors, dusty rose, purple and red salvia (separate, of course, lol). I also have banana trees, elephant ears, bromeliads, angel trumpets, confederate jasmine and a huge birds of paradise, it's actually 3 plants together. Those bloom in late summer to "fall" here. I planted a crape myrtle recently, one of the larger Natchez varieties, and bought two perennial red hibiscus trees this weekend. Being in hot climates is limiting as I'd like to have things like lavender but can't ever get it to grow.

Like clothes shopping, plants can become addictive.

I bought these tulip bulbs online last fall, planted them and forgot about them. They are so beautiful in person.

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[Life is Golden]

I bought these tulip bulbs online last fall, planted them and forgot about them. They are so beautiful in person.

Attachment 9727

Those are gorgeous. I wish I could have them here.

[christiefan915]

Those are gorgeous. I wish I could have them here.

They're zoned 3-8. I got them from Holland Bulbs.

[Bill]

It worked out ok. I picked the squash bugs off and eventually the squash made a comeback and the green beans made enough for me to can 35 quarts. While the cucumbers didn’t do as well as they normally do and though I finally had to resort to one round of Liquid Sevin and wait a couple weeks before keeping any cucumbers, I was able to can my desired amount of pickles. I just didn’t have any cucumbers to give away.

Got the garden started and am ready to go at it again this season. We’ll see how it goes.

Good luck.. If can catch them early perhaps you can keep them @ bay...