Community Gardens

That is in a pretty location. We have a community garden area really close to me, but I am going to try it in our back yard this year. I grew a few pepper and tomato plants up front last year, the tomates thrived, but bugs kept eating my peppers.

thats nice

That is a great idea, thanks for sharing.

I have tried to grow tomatoes in containers. Cherry tomatoes do quite well.

What a great idea!

Thanks for sharing

lovely, we have a few in the area, but not near me.

My neighbors plant a garden together on one neighbor's vacant property. I have never been successful at growing this, but they give us some of their extra veggies and I give them baked goods.

If I couldn't find a spot this year I was hoping that our landlord would offer an adjacent lot to us. I may still ask him about this so we could plant some extra things that won't fit in the plot of the community garden.

Very pretty

Wow, very nice...elusive butterfly, I love saying your name Sarina!!!

that's awesome.

My husband and grandson have planted some broccoli this year. Not so sure it will grow but fun project for Jr.

Fresh broccoli is so good. I tried it without much success.

Excellent idea. I've always had a garden... a couple of times my own, and several times in a community locale. We've loved it every time. Often we would get so much material out of it that we were able to can and enjoy our produce all year round.

I will probably try my hand at canning if we have a good harvest.

wow that is very cool Sarina, I hope this works out for you!

Food always tastes better fresh out of the garden!

My kids have started one in our backyard. I have always been good at killing plants.

We also have community gardens in our town. We do have a nice sunny spot in our yard so we'll plant some tomatoes again. I also have a raised bed of strawberries. I want to create one more raised bed for squash which for some reason I've been struggling to get to grow!

Can't wait to get my garden going. If this weather ever clears up. We have a community garden of sorts-we try to plant something that the neighbors don't so we can trade some items,
That is a very beautiful garden

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We're hoping to use a little spot in our backyard for a garden. We actually bought some seeds today.

I can't do a full garden. So, I have thought of growing some things in pots. especially cucumbers.

I can't wait to plant our vegetable gardens. We have an herb garden, too. Also, plenty of flowers. And apples, pears, grapes, blueberries, etc. I love it.

Every year, from the age of 10, my mother would have a neighbor plow and disk a garden plot (a one-acre plot, mind you). Half would be hers, and half would be mine, but it was all mine to weed.

I can't stand gardening!

I have a garden, again, this year, in my back yard. Much of it is in pots. I've never had much success, but I keep trying, and each time around, it does a little better.

I wish our town would start a community garden.

It is a good idea in temperate climates. I used to have all those things you planted and rows of corn. The tempeture get so hot in the summer here that you spend all your time and money watering! I still can do tomatoes in a planter, the soil up here is granite and has no nutrients!

I would love to grow pumpkins too. The space isn't large enough for it. I am going to try to plant some in the back yard and see how they do. Not too certain there is enough sunlight to have them grow.

That's really lovely! I enjoyed looking at your pics.

How cool is that! Pay $20 and someone else does the tilling. Now that is how to garden.
Whenever I can finish my at home transcription work in time so that there is still some sun to see what I am doing, I am out digging my truck garden from last year. Last year the fences were not up and the neighbor's tractor did the digging and he dumped loads of manure on it and dug that in. I just made the rows how I wanted them and put in the seeds and then fenced out the bunnies. This year with those fences up, I have to dig that huge thing with a shovel (wish I had a roto tiller.) I am getting there but it is slow. Sitting all day working, I can use the exercise. I feel like a pudgy horse just let out of the barn in the spring after being in and getting fat all winter. This winter fat is coming off with that garden though. My garden last year much to my surprise was a huge success and I got to give away lots of squash. I did not get last year's garden in until the end of May. I really could have had this garden in a month ago by the weather but I have plenty of time to get the digging done and still have a great crop. It is my thing. So, I don't have to compete with anyone.
Shasta Dasies and sweet potatoes and paprika are being added to what I grew last year. I saved seeds from everything last year. I even froze some tomato seeds, so that should be interesting, first time I ever tried freezing seeds but the web show a guy doing it and he said it works well. We'll see.
My chickens have been making lots of poop for the garden too. :-)
Happy gardening.

WOW, that's a BIG garden !

OH, it's a community garden....no wonder !

This looks like it is going to be a fantastic garden! I love your flowers, they are just beautiful.

I'd love for you to post this over at Gather Gardens. It would be fun to watch your garden over the summer. :)

I have had a garden ever since I was a child and helped in my parents gardens.
I also can and freeze what I grow. We have stewed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, salsa, chili sauce, ketchup, sweet pickles, pickled beets, dilly beans, etc. all winter long.
Always have enough to share with non gardener friends too.
Both of my daughters tried beginner gardens last year and did pretty good - they didn't get enough to can though - they're trying again this year.
I also have a separate herb garden - so love those fresh chives on a baked potato, and sage and rosemary... yum yum!

Beautiful garden Sarina.
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I have room to grow my own garden...

That is a really cool idea! Do you have any problems with missing veggies? :)

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What a beautiful location. I wish we had something like that here. I love our home, but we don't have alot of yardage in the back because of thepool. I just don't have enough yard for a garden.

Sarina, We love gardening and I hope you good results if you take a spot in the community garden.

wow so beautiful

Sarina, I wish you lived near me. We have plenty of land. But as we get older the weeding or hoeing is getting harder. Digging the potatoes in rough on us too. There is always enough to share. But everyone wants it for free and no one will help with it at all.

We have been hoping to persuade our landlord to let us use some of the vacant lots where we live.  One thing we have been concerned about is the fact that some of the people who live around us may think that it is a "free" garden and take the vegies before asking.  I would have no problem with sharing as long as they put in their time too.