Anyone else like simple gardening

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Like seed germination?

Simple gardening, more like...

Hard Darwinism:
If things live, they live. If they die, they are replaced, and anothr experiment takes place.

I'm expecting something over 400 visitors in my garden on 18th June.
(My bit of a charity day)
But the main feature of my tiny garden is trains, not plants, though I have a good few nice examples of those too.

I'm getting a greenhouse that is fairly good sized, there is bulk seeds online to order and special containers at the garden shop. Larger seeds are easier to germinate so I am going to do 50-100 flower plants at a time for the yard. Plants that just die off after a year are a waste.

My dad was going to do these large trains through the yard as well.

This...

http://www.mainstreetseedandsupply.com/flowerseed.htm

Eep! I don't have that option: not at 15 ft square for the entire garden...



That's not a yard, that's a mile! (Boom! Boom!)




Well there you are, another option.
Start with a little loop round a rockery, and just watch it grow...
My picture site is down for maintenance at the moment, or I'd post a sample.
http://www.picturetrail.com/emettplus has them, in the "Not Emett at all" folder, when it comes back...

we're planting a garden where my kitty is burried. we bought a stone with a kitty on it to put in the garden and we're planting flowers and catnip.

Most seeds have emerged from the potted garden I started of 30 posts. I use to live in places where there was not enough sun light in usable areas and also no yard at all. Here is is one half acre and it needs to be tractored again before usage, which is to anticipating.

plants do not talk.

catnip is great, add some flower fert when it gets to the flowering stage otherwise they are wimpy for production.

Every year I either widen or make one more bed...I am slowly doing away with the grass.

I plant seeds and forget what I planted and where, it's always a surprise later on...and I kind of like that.

I mostly stick to perennials, hardy bulbs...some annuals for interest. Love my herbs, I mix them with the flowers (some of them are beautiful flowers anyway )...chives, parsley, oregano, feverfew, lemon balm, lavendar, choc mint, catnip, basil, tyme...etc

Thanks for the link, looks like a good site...here's another you might like to browse...

http://www.cheapseeds.com/home.php

When I grow the flower plants I am only growing perennial flowers. I could if I wanted make a mini-nursery just bulk producing certain flower plants I get good at. Then I could go to the farmers market and sell them 5 or 10 at a time for reduced costs.

There could be different prices for younger to older plants. I could compare to local stores and make it a reduced costs for buying larger amounts where the price is very good to them but I make money.

Edit,

Or I could just sell them to people around here that my parents know.

Most of my plants are potentially perennial, but even these do not last for ever.

In a small garden some grow too big, or straggly, and some don't survive the pruning designed to prevnt this. I lost a ten-year-old Californian lilac (ceonosis) this year, despite having taken advice on its treatment, cutting it back at the right time of year, etc. But it was a hard winter, for here.

On the other hand I have several alyssum plants which are supposed to be annuals which have been looking good for three years now.

Pictures back up:
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL97/78462/125495/29971109.jpg

A few more at http://www.picturetrail.com/emettplus