CLOSED: Free Seed for Newbies!! Come on in!! New Thread 05/28/2009

Ill remind you when you complain about all the plants crowding into your kitchen, living room, bathroom, etc...........
Have fun
Robin

Please don't forget the ones that will be in the mudroom and the ones on the back poarch covered with slleeping bags.
Thank you sooo much,
Lisa

Lol Lisa...You are honorably crowned addicted ...along with the rest of us!!


I am looking for Debbie from Savanah, I dont see a dmail name on the letter you sent me. Even more troublesome, I don't see where I wrote sent??? Did I send to you?
Robin

I have one last lost note...Lou2lou2 did you get a package?
Robin

Hi arejay59

Flowerfantasy sent me here and welcomed me onboard. I've got my envie, stamps and note ready to go. I've included some seed packs to pay ahead. Thanks for all your hard work.
Sherri

Last year I tried corn in a party tub. It was so successful, I 'm trying 3 varieties this year. If that varmit comes up on my deck to eat any of my organically grown, sweated over, lovingly tended veggies, he goes in the stewpot!

This is just to give you an idea of how you can have a garden without land.

This year's corn seed hasn't germinated yet, this is last year's picture. Ruby Queen Corn.

I love peas, my experiment was great so am trying it again. This year's picture taken today.

Mittsy!! Who would have thought corn in a pot!! I'm going to try that!! How many stalks to a tub? Are you talking about the big silver party tub?
Robin

My Danish grandfather was a wonderful gardener. he taught me how to plant the Three sister's method. I had to substitute seaweed for a dead fish but otherwise here's the method. Dig a hole (or fill a party tub) put in a dead fish or a clump of seaweed, (or aged manure) add more dirt, I call it soil because it comes in bags and costs the earth. Plant 4 squash seeds in the middle, plant 4 corn seeds for the winds, North, South, East and West. All around the edge plant beans, preferably runner beans.

Like I said I am experimenting. I have Ruby Queen, and Silver Queen corn. I am trying Butternut and Spaghetti squash, and green pole beans and yellow wax beans. I hope the beans will climb the corn, and the squash will shade the roots, keeping the soil cool. I have planted a lot in a small space. I have also tried another tub with green peppers, marigolds and cukes. I plan on putting the cukes into net bags and tying to the deck rails. I am open to any suggestions. I want to write a bestseller on how to feed a family of 2 without leaving your porch deck, complete with recipes.

Here's tub one,

Here's tub 2.

Mittsy!! I love it!! Will you keep posting for us?? As you go. I was just wishing for something exciting to happen on this new newbie thread and poof there you are!! Law of attraction.....???

Put me on the book list I want a copy!!

I finally planted a few of my newbie pack seeds, including a few from an unmarked envie... so far everything is sprouting and doing well, and the 'unnamed' seeds look to be some sort of pepper. WOOT!

Glad the package arrived Robin!

KB

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Every year my dill seeds itself, this year no dill, so I went to a friend's garden and dug up a small shovel full of her extras. This will be harvested and used with the cukes to make dill pickles. I had to plant it in a terra cotta planter as i had already planted the peppers where I usually have my herbs. I will let some go to seed and save it for the newbies.

I'm fascinated with this idea also! It has inspired me to plant a few corn stalks by my decorative hay bales out in the front yard. I usually tie dried stalks together there come the fall anyway. Wonderful idea Mittsy!

Mary Ellen

I also grow grapes, my niece came and pruned them during "winter" while we were in Sunny Florida. Every year we make grape juice out of 3 five gallon buckets of Concord grapes. I grew up on it as a winter treat with freshly popped popcorn. Her mom, my sister, did too. She is keeping the tradition going with her four children. I'll have to ask her if the popcorn they make is microwaved. Her husband is a keeper, he came out and rototilled a new bed for my latest swap iris. Isn't family great? DG is like a great big extended family.

It's truly great! And I'm excited about that book. Can't wait for you to write it!

Mittsy do you grow the popping corn ...corn?
Hi Kelly,,,glad to hear they are all working!!

We used to. Now I buy it at the Farmer's market.

I did find the new jump page, I've just been busy the last few days.

Wanted to fly last week when the weather was so nice, but our mechanic had our plane "grounded" for some minor repairs. Hope to be chasing clouds again within the next week or so.

So I grounded myself in the garden to finish up on the tomatoes and peppers. Also rigged a new steel arch trellis wifey bought last year, it's really beautiful. We had some stability problems with it last year blowing over in severe wind storms so we're moving it to the corner sunflower lot and anchoring it down better with steel wing posts.

Good to hear from ya all!

Al

Al, your walkway is just beautiful, love the maters, too.

I could use one of those arbors at the entrance to my siberians. As you can see I have a lot more weeding to do, but Iihave brought the Wisteria under control, for the moment.

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Thanks Carolyn for the invitation to this forum! I would love to participate! First I will save up some seeds. One of my recent projects was gathering Japanese iris seeds. I planted them and they are growing. I just wonder what thier bloom will be...or if they are ever going to bloom!
Lois

Tomatoes are only a dream right now. The photo was taken in mid August last year. As you can see, my garden is a little hap-hazard in the back. My theme has been greatly influenced by lots of marigolds, zinnias, and often wild sunflowers. I'm don't claim to be a true landscape artist, I just grow what seems easiest for me. I throw in the tomatoes and squash for something edible, and to keep the neighbors guessing. Believe me, I get a lot of comments about it.

Al

They both look great. Love the Irises Mittsy. What is the tall red leaf plant on the right at the beggining of the path?

Beautiful walkway Mittsy. Good to see green again isn't it? Nice irises too.

Al

Al, you are welcome any time for a garden tour. I'm north of Syracuse. Sure to send you home with some goodies.

Husker's red Penstemon.

Lois, I planted J I seed several years ago. They are looking fine this year, I think it is too soon for blooms, but I am in hopes of a surprise. 7/10/2008

8/14/2008

They were a mystery type seed labeled J I orange. Well I've never heard of an orange Japanese Iris so I had to try it.
After you start harvesting seed from your own gardens then you can join a seed swap. They are a lot of fun and you get all kinds of wonderful surprises. Most of my columbine and all of my hollyhocks were seed swap seeds. Here's one of the columbine, aren't they beautiful?

Hi Mitsy

Great idea about the corn. I used an earthbox and it kept blowing over. Finally tied it down. Maybe your "four corners" in a round bucket would give more stability. I'll give it a try.

Your pictures are wonderful. I think your Danish grandfather's genes have expressed themselves again in You!

We've had so much rain our cannas have started to bloom. This is a Richard Wallace I think.

I participated in a bulb, corm and rhizome swap. Look what I got. Canna King Humbert. I love the surprise element of these swaps. You never know what you're going to get.

I wish there was a bulb swap closer to me. Most happen in N. FL and usually on weekends when Im working...LOL

What kind of bulbs Kelly?
I have a Richard Wallace too Seray I hope I get to see blooms like those. Someone here on Daves surprised me with it. I love it!!

Are you saving seeds for that beautiful plants Mittsy?

They were blooming when we left FL. They may reseed themselves. No one there to harvest the pods.

Mittsy, have you tried the scarlet runner beans in your garden tub? They make beans you can eat but has the most beautiful scarlet red blooms you ever saw. So you get color and food. I have some growing now if you like one. Mekos

Hi Mekos,

I've been thinking of planting scarlet runner beans in one of those hanging bags they use for strawberries. Do you think it will be worth the trouble? I've never seen the vine growing. The color is certainly wonderful.

Mine are beautiful. They have a nice size leaf and just about to start running up my lattice. The leaf is a dark green. These are my first I've tried. I have a lattice at the head of a pond and wanted to put a vine on it to cover the lattice and put some shade for the pond plants. I have several kinds of vines started and that is one of them. I wanted the color but it produces beans also. So 2 for one kind of thing.

Show us the pond Mekos

I'll have to take some pictures of it. I was hoping for the water to clear some first. I put some stuff in it to kill the algea but it almost destroyed my lotus pads. They started turning brown. I havent completed it just yet they way I want to. I have to do a little at a time. I'm looking for some different kinds of plants to put in it also.I have a few tiny little fish in to help with mosquito control and because of the algea, I put in a pump to circulate the water but I'm looking for a pretty something to spout the water back in the pond with.Maybe a water wheel or just something different. Can't be too big, it's not a big pond. I have another pond for my koi fish and same problem with algea. It's in the shade too. I heard the sun was what causes algea but that one is deeper and barely gets any sun. The small one gets full sun. I also still have to get mulch to top everything with.I'm still planting plants around the outside of it. Our soil is red clay, so I'm getting a bag of potting soil each week to put good dirt in there and when it's finished, I'll mulch everything . Then pictures .