Free Seeds for newbies... A New Bee ginning continued!!

Hi Debra!! So glad you found us. You'll find that our enthusiasm is shared by all here in the New Bee forum. :)

Late summer plAntings in IN. Hmmmm. A bit out of my league and zone. I did not have my own garden before I moved here from Boston, and its mostly what I love about NC. I grew up in PA, so it's not un likely that you'll be looking at some fall crops if you're not starting till June. And/ or you will have to be trading or begging for FulL grown plants. Fortunately, most of us will be glad to send out plants for little or nothing in trade
,sometimes just enough for postage. :)

Keep us posted on your progress. I will be hoping to hear from you directly. ;)

A.

Dear Amanda:

Thanks for the warm welcome! I will certainly get in touch as I discover my needs. Glad to be on board!

~Debra

Welcome Debra!! The season is so far behind my bet is you will do fine if you plant as soon as you settle! Be sure to send me a envie. Ill send it right out!!

Welcome Debra, we are so glad to have another "newbee"
La. Iris......

Welcome Debra:). Good luck on the garden! Lots of help here for sure!
Pictures- 'Friends are like flowers in the garden of life.'. Bouquet from garden-1 for Grandma/Aunt, 1 for neighbor on Mother's Day-Love sharing the joy- you may recognize a couple of the blooms?:)The cactus I thought was blue whorl finally whorled-crazy about!!!! (Last two are sideways).
Hey guys- scorching here!!!! No rain in sight for over a week:(. Looks like I'll be toting the hose-lol!

Get those rain barrels set up too Belle, just in case!

Amanda-teensy downpour for like 10 seconds:( yesterday, didn't even wet under the trees! Found 4 survivor tomatos, let you know how they do:). Definately saving seed if one makes it! Picture if little pink zephyr lily in my aunts yard- need to get me one:)

Cute Lily! We had some rains yesterdAy that line of thunderstorms was at her impressive on the radar!

Buffy if you are here. I will send today. Would you dmail me? Thanks Buffy

Funny. Did you see the 'hortiscope' on the main page for today about good gArdeners finishing all of their chores? I guess that means I'm a crappy gardener, and I thought I was at the very least half-a _ _ ed. :/

pfft finish? There is no finish to a garden...lol!!!

Daylilies....Oh, and Black out lily too....

Lovely!!!

Good Morning
Has anyone use the garden showcase yet?

I didnt even know what it was until I went to look at it after your post. some nice pictures but I would be too embarrassed to show my garden after seeing them LOL I do enjoy seeing what wonderful things others have done
kc

lol have you seen the weeds at my place RC? I grow herbs. They are all weeds!! Jewel weed taking over!!

I have problems with the native sunflowers, that the birds dearly love, growing everywhere. dont have the heart to take this food source away from the birds, so I work around them. they are in my veggies, my herbs, everywhere. my other pain in my garden is mustard. comes up everywhere. that I pull out. Just cannot keep up with the weeds once the heat hits.
kc

forgot to ask if you save seeds from the jewel weed. I would love to have some, it works so well on insect bites, poison ivy etc. cant find any seeds for it though.
kc

I will see if I have any saved but even if I don't...I have plenty that will set seed and probably sooner than later!! So yes I will send you plenty!!

Should I wait til Mitt sends the flowers to post pictures of wifes flower gardens. Fred

thank you thankyou!!!

Arejay and RC. You have some nice native weeds. :)

Another funny at the hortiscope today. A friend of mine on Facebook wrote on her page yesterday, "Garden . . ..done!!!"

I kept my mouth shut.

A.

"Another funny at the hortiscope today. A friend of mine on Facebook wrote on her page yesterday, "Garden . . ..done!!!"

I kept my mouth shut.

A."
Ill take my cues from you A!!!


"Should I wait til Mitt sends the flowers to post pictures of wifes flower gardens. Fred"

No Fred post away!! I would love to see her gardens!!! "Mit will start mailing soon. By July anyway as soon as the blossoms are done!!"

Cabbage-Pepper Relish
2 medium heads cabbage
6 sweet peppers
6 sweet red peppers
8 carrots
8 onions
½ c. canning salt
2 quarts vinegar
6 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp. celery seed
1 Tbsp. white mustard seed
1 Tbsp. crushed red pepper
Chop vegetables, discarding pepper seeds and first peeling carrots and onion.
Mix with salt and let stand 3 hours.
Drain liquid from vegetables and discard.
Boil vinegar, sugar, and spices, while hot pour over chopped vegetables and bring back to boil. Cook 15-30 minutes. Pack into hot sterilized jars. Seal at once. Process in boiling water bath (212*) 5 minutes. Makes 14 pints…

Suppose I could do this with beans or cauliflower?

Delish!

Thanks. :)

'Done'- ??? Now that is side splitting humour-lol! Drowning in weeds, finally getting a little ahead with actual st. Augustine-patch of 'yard'? out front! The iris/day lilies are spectacular! We need more rain, hit and miss! Thank you for relish recipe, Bumble!!! My husband will love it! Sounds great. Put a few pictures on garden showcase, 'showcasing' effort at having something green/flowers or we can eat:). No Grandbaby yet, still practicing patience:). Hope you all are well and enjoying your gardens.
Picture of garden surprises-Gasteria finally bloomed after taking advice to sit outside (several years old!), beautiful Crown of Thorns? cactus bloomed soft yellow tinged pink, the Blue Whorl cactus - it finally whorled this spring (picture sideways-bottom left) and 'Baby' pink (?-don't know real name) runner rose bloomed, yea!
More garden humour- Picked a gourd? to eat the other day, still not sure:) I'll try and remember to get a picture and let you guys know if it was any good-lol!

Ooooo, pretty. Specially that first one. A neighbor gave me her crown of thorns last year. The blooms are pink. I've never seen a yellow variety, but I'm no cactus connoisseur. :p

No funnies in today's garden. Just very squish and still caring for my disabled neighbor. Once you fall into this kind of helping its hard to pull out. Still have his 11 year old old black lab mix. House ( and yard!!!) Still infested despite 4 foggers set off in the house yesterday.

Newbies: don't do as I do!!!

Have a nice evening.

A.

Hello everyone. Seems no one has posted here for nearly 3 weeks, so don't know if you have moved on to another thread and I missed it on the thread, or everyone is just out working or weeding their gardens. I have been MIA for quite some time, but hope to be able to get back to posting and visiting with everyone!

Now we're getting some serious summer weather, temps nearly in the 90's. Things really warming up fast and waiting for the next rain tonight. My tomato plants are knee-high right now and growing fast with this humidity and all. We'll be eating fresh ones in another month or so.

Spent the last two days cleaning up the lawn and returning the starting benches to the storage shed until next year. Planting lots of cosmos, marigolds, zinnias, snapdragons and sunflowers. The Mexican sunflower (tithonia) is new this year, but is well recommended by other gardeners. Supposed to be a great butterfly and hummingbird feeder, we'll see for sure later.

Al

I wanted to show these photos in bloom for wild cosmos, common milkweed, and crownvetch that we sowed last year at a local city park. They were just beautiful this Spring, attracting lots of butterflies and hummingbirds.

Al

Looks like some nice work, Al. :)

I'm a good bit behind in my sowing, but I suppose the season will be just as long as it always is.

Hiya Patti! I thought you were awfully quiet. No, we are not gone, we are just out weeding.

What have you been up to? I know you've been nursing some wounds. Glad to have you back.

I've been gardening we didn't get any weather to garden in until three weeks at. So I'm out in any time I can be!! Arden looks as beautiful as it ever did Al!! I have a few blossoms lets see, my 4 year old rosé cutting is amazing this year

Arejay, is the sale still going? I need a link please for a friend....

Yes still on the website is
Www.thatotherstuff.com
Facebook page is
Www.facebook.com/beardediris

Has anyone other than me noticed changes in DG? I cant see anything with my chrome and in FF it looks like I am on the wrong website. Anyone else? Anything different?

Robin, a lot of folks just plain got lost in this the last week or so. Problem is this - the new Dave's format won't boot properly using the old "cookie" already in most peoples' browser. The old cookie must be cleared before the new one will replace it. The answers are here in DG's forum and the EarthLink advice, so check these out for more help:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1321152/
http://earthnet.net/support/general/clear_cache.htm#.UcziZJxRCJQ

Al

Thank you Al, If I had thought about it for a minute.....

Good Morning Everyone. I hope you are finding your way with the new Dg design. I think the member list mailing addresses are gone. If I am wrong and someone knows where they now are would you point me in the direction?
Fordpickup and Snarva if you see this would you dmail me?
Thank you

the member list has a button across the top when you go to a forum, but not on the home page. the address exchange seems to have disappeared

I talked to Admin about that several days ago. Apparently that function somehow disappeared with the new format. They informed me that they were aware of the problem and are working on it.

Al