How's your garden?

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

My container garden is starting to produce fruit! Last week I picked our first cucumbers and this week I see little butternut squash replacing the blooms. I'll have no onions since a critter made the tops his little midnight snack. My green and jalapeno peppers are looking great (if you think peppers can look great, that is. I'm not a fan even though I grow them for my husband.)

We had so much rain in April and May, but now we are in dire need of it. So we water every day since it's so hot.

How is your garden growing?

[Debb Cozzi]

We had to give up on our vegetable garden several years ago because of drought conditions and the cost of water (even without the garden our water bill runs between $150-$200 a month in the summer). We still have our grapefruit tree (planted in tribute to Mario's grandma when she passed away) and a crab apple tree but that is about it.

For my flower garden I switched over to native plants a few years ago. I had a beautiful field of California poppies and the lavender and the sage bloomed like crazy this year. A couple of weeks ago the drive up to my house was so pretty with the jacaranda trees & mimosa trees in bloom. But now is the time of the year where everything starts dying back. There are still some pretty spots of color here and there but mostly we are in the "brown, dried-out, crunchy" season.

[pSyren]

I envy you!
Our new house has not one single plant in the backyard. We have grass and that's it
I'm trying to come up with a planting plan before spring. It's hard because was have such a small space. I want to leave room for the kids to play so I need plants that will grow high enough to hide the fence but not so wide that they take up lawn space.
gotta paint the fence before I can plant too.
I miss my old garden. I had herbs and flowers and fruit trees and a much loved coffee plant.

[Debb Cozzi]

Did you harvest your coffee beans Bec?

[pSyren]

yep we did
After years of care we finally had a plant big enough to be worth harvesting but then we moved and left it behind

[Whisper Pink]

This is my first year of having flowers and some veggies in years and years!!! I have been taking some pics as they grow. We have three beautiful hanging flower baskets two which show through our french doors out our dining area and then we have a beautiful fushica on our front patio to welcome guest . Then we did two topsey turvy tomatoes that have tons of blooms and some turning to fruit now and I just transplanted some strawberries into a topsey turvy strawberry planter and they have just come out of shock. Though we probably won't get a harvest this year from them, we hope that they will next year cause they were well established plants when we got them. Then I have another hanging basket with snap and sugar peas man do they grow fast!!! it has been alot of fun watching them grow and planting them with my granddaughter!!! Can't wait for our tomatoes to start ripening, the first couple I plan on having some dynamite bacon lettuce and tomatoes sandwiches!!!

[AlexEvelyn]

your garden is Super and beautiful.....

[AlexEvelyn]

Any other model or garden are there

[AlexEvelyn]

What a Creativity mind, super