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It's finally rained and our water tanks are full! We're in Qld, Australia and our dams are at record lows.

We live on acreage and don't have town water. We solely rely on water tanks.

I've spent this weekend planting. I've put in tomatoes, capsicum, silverbeet, snowpeas, beans, pumpkin, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, lots of herbs and lots of flowers.

My fruit trees are smiling.

My sons have enjoyed helping me.

Anyone else like gardening?

Helen

I like to help my mother gardening sometimes, aslong as I have gloves.

Our garden has lots of grasses and has palm trees. Also has shells and pavers and a coffee table with chairs. We have a water feature too.

And the garden I grow is vegetable garden and has carrots, tomotoes, cucumbers and lettuce.

google for "permaculture", they have are some really interesting ideas!
i don't yet have a garden, but later, i certainly will when i live on my own i certainly will.

Is it still raining, Smelena?

I enjoy gardening. One of the two main, front gardens is "mine" and I design, plant, and care for the plants in there. We've had a drought as well this year (although not nearly as bad as yours, I'm sure - it'll pass by next year, I think), so the apple trees aren't blooming, and a lot of the new flowers in my garden have withered despite my attempts to keep them alive. Still, some of them are doing well. My garden has flowers (roses, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, petunias, snapdragons, a particularly confused plant that is supposed to bloom in the fall, but instead blooms every spring, and more that I either can't spell or can't remember) and herbs (lavender (which is my favorite plant), sage, and more that I can't recall their names (there's actually quite a few herbs, because they spread after I planted them, but I don't remember their names; it's been a few years since I put them in)).

I actually used to be into this a lot when I was younger, as in during elementary school. Then I got too depressed to care anymore.

I have moved into my brother's house last year. The result is that there is little yard, it is mostly gardens. This has allowed me to re-indulge in my hobby of gardening. The garden in the front is mostly flowers. However, the garden in the back has mint, salad greens, radishes, carots (which never came up), tomatoes, sorel, and many varieties of peppers.

I look after a small plot in my parents back garden. This year we had peas, potatoes, raspberries, leeks, cabbages, onions, gooseberries, kale and rhubarb. I enjoy gardening so much I'd really like to be self sufficient, infact next summer Im thinking on getting a few chickens for eggs
I dream of moving to the country and having my own poly-tunnel then relinquishing my ties to the capitalist food chain

Too uncomfortable* for me to go out side in the daylight to garden. My brother-in-law did say the basil I planted at his house is a foot high though.

*I've always had agoraphobia like anxiety during daytime but at night the fear is much less as there are few chances of social contact.

my mom has some chilli peppers growing in her garden that are mine,

You should try runner beans. You get masses of them from a small area and can freeze them, with no noticeable deterioration in quality, to eat over the winter. I tried sweetcorn last year, too, but you don't get a very good return for area used. Parsnips were a bit better, and I've got some growing this year along with the beans and a few carrots.

I'm fairly new to it, due to living in flats most of my life. Always had lotsa indoor plants.

This is my second house in 3 years, moved once. I'm in the burbs, ugh. so far I'm doing screening shrubs, which I'm ok with. Will be putting some climbers in this spring too, to fill in any gaps (gawd I hate the sight of neighbours, ugh).

Am going to have some vegges this year. Have got the snow peas going (my dogs love snow peas), bought some lettuces and spring onions (punnets of seedlings) on the weekend, so they will go in soon.

I'm in Tasmania so it's still cool here.

My landscape is a work in progress, when we first bought this house 5 years agon it was a huge mess! but it is coming together. I had a really pretty flower bed going but we had a severe freeze late in the spring and I lost some things then, and now we are under a severe drought and are only allowed to water on certain days so a lot of stuff has either died or is close to it! I do like planning it and having it all come together, this was my best year until this horrible drought.
As for vegetables, I have tomatoes and pumpkins (not together of course). The kids and I plant the pumpkins every year and then we pick them out and carve them up for Halloween. We also plant sunflowers that line up along our fence (at least they did). I like to plant mostly perennials

The boys helped me a lot today (they homeschool on Mondays). My 7 year old shovelled mulch and put it on the garden and my 9 year old watered the plants. My 4 year old pulled out some of the weeds.

It's stopped raining now but our water tanks are full!

The kids have their own flower bed that they love.

We're about to sew some sunflowers.

Helen

yes, my boys like to help too, especially with the shovels! They both have their own little shovel and rake. They have their own water cans too and help water. Another really cool thing we are growing (trying to anyway) is an outdoor teepee and we have planted vines all around it and hopefully they will grow up around it and cover it. I got the idea from a Lowe's weekend project idea, it gives the boys a good hiding place outside that is safe. Unfortunately with the crazy weather we have had over the past few months, it is growing very slowly.

I love gardens.

My mom use to tend a vegetable garden in the back yard. The only thing I remember being grown that I like is squash. Other big crops there were potatoes and corn, but those either don't agree with me or I don't agree with them.

Lately there's been tomatoes growing in pots, near the house. I've grown cayonne peppers in a pot, but didn't find much use for them. I probably just need advice on what to do with them after picking.

What I really want to grow in pots are those little red Thai-Hot peppers that are used in Szechuan Chinese food. Those look really handy for flavoring food.

My mom does still tend to the front garden. It has azalea, hasta, iris, and a couple of other flowers. The flowers attract the carpenter bees that are damaging the house, but I now have a viable way of picking those evil bastards off before they can reproduce. Gotta put an end to their onslaught.

Keep up the good work, all ye gardeners.

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I spent seven summers as a landscaper, including two working in the Horticulture Department at Kentucky Kingdom. I love landscaping and turning something that is otherwise boring into something beautiful. When I bought my house, I had this grand scheme and each of the first two years I set out to put my plan in place. Unfortunately, the front of my house is in the sun all day as we face East-Southeast. Two straight years of drought destroyed my lawn and I gave up due to mounting medical issues within my family. This year I had hoped to replace the now dirt with some ground cover plants that could withstand the 12+ hours of sunlight, but other things have drained me. Maybe next year?

My kids love helping too! We do still have some stuff in the backyard that is not too bad off. My yard slopes from East to West, so I had to build a wall and fill it with dirt to properly set up the swingset for my kids. We planted stuff inside the wall on the edges. I also bury my fish there when they die.

"Gardening At Night" by R.E.M.

I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change.
Though all the feelings that broke through that door just didn’t seem to be too real.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes somewhere.
It must be time for penitence. Gardening at night is never where.
Gardening at night. Gardening at night. Gardening at night.

The neighbors go to bed at ten.
Call the prayer line for a change.
The charge is changing every month.
They said it couldn’t be arranged.

We ankled up the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows.
We fell up, not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn’t grow.
I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change.
Though all the feelings that broke through that door just didn’t seem to be too real.
Gardening at night. Gardening at night. Gardening at night

Your sister said that you’re too young.
They should know they’ve been there twice.
The call was 2 and 51.
They said it couldn’t be arranged.

I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change.
Though all the feelings that broke through that door just didn’t seem to be too real.
We ankled up the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows.
We fell up not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn’t grow.
Gardening at night. Gardening at night. Gardening at night