BYC gardening thread!!

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks y'all for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us.

 

[jerryse]

Thanks y'all for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us.

You are welcome . I like sharing . Knowledge should not be hoarded by a few .

 

[chickadoodles]

 

[dan26552]

That thing has been eating good and been around a long time. Yuck!

Yeah. Actually I found it pretty cool so I've left it alone

 

[dan26552]

One of the volunteer squash, it has female flowers!







A male.

 

[Ardj]

Nice. I have a volunteer puppkins every year. Afret Halloween I give pumpkins for the birds and squirrels and they are burying the seeds in odd places. Some of them surviving the lawnmower when they volunteer to grow next year .

 

[dan26552]

Nice. I have a volunteer puppkins every year. Afret Halloween I give pumpkins for the birds and squirrels and they are burying the seeds in odd places. Some of them surviving the lawnmower when they volunteer to grow next year .

Yeah. Sweet.

I have another volunteer from about the same area that is a bush type but has almost the same shape fruit.

 

[Ardj]

Don't you just love volunteer plants? How cool is that. You walk through your garden and you see something growing here and there. I have lots of volunteer flowers this year. Flowers that i never planted in my garden. Maybe the wind brought them. So cool.

 

[chickadoodles]

Nice.

 

[Penny Hen]

Where I'm moving you can't grow very many plants because of the weather. It's right on the shore, so it's very exposed. Does anyone know any good trees or bushes etc, which would do well in these conditions? We're going to try and make a walled garden, by digging down a foot or two, and making the stone walls about a foot higher than they currently are, and then buying a greenhouse to grow cucumbers and tomatoes and such. We can also grow root vegetables there too, as they're protected from the winds. Thanks.

I take it you mean on the sea shore and dealing with high salt contents in the soil. Live oak trees work good on the coast from zone 10 thru zone 7 (coastline New England minus Maine and New Hampshire). They are evergreen and very strong so they can stand up to wind. I am not sure how the planting zones are figured out in Europe or if live oaks are even available there.