Low Carb Garden 2006!

[2big4mysize]

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you can get a 5 gallon bucket and useit as your rhubarb pot

[Horsenpuggy]

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They get really big and come back every year!!! They are beautiful but need a lot of room to stretch!

[Heidi3]

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instead of entering my tax reciepts so far today I have picked a sink full of collards and thinned my onions so I have a bunch of green onions...lots of rosemary buds ....

spring is coming you guys

[Heidi3]

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garden update time..spring has sprung even my husband has noticed my flowers all blooming in the garden!

yesterday I separated my baby garlics and now have a freshly planted bed.I planted artichokes ....I pulled the old collard/kale plants so the reseeded babies have a chance for life....and I cleaned my strawberry bed....all my herbs are starting to flourish and my rosemary is blooming already...it feels so good you guys to see the garden come to life again...

[2big4mysize]

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my rosemary will flower? I've never seen either of my bushes flower. I have 2 different varieties of it. i got to check this out.
did you plant garlic seeds? I just stick the old uneatten sprouted cloves from the yr before in the ground each fall and come JUNE havest away. Have you got the kind that gets curly and you can cut the greens to eat? I have the soft neck kind and don't get the curls nor the edible flowers in our growing season. of course unless we get weather in the teens my garlic grows all winter here so that might be why.

[Heidi3]

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OMG 2big Rosemary is beautiful flowered I will try to get a pic and show you it is covered with pale blue blooms all up the stalks

I have huge bushes now of the stuff

[2big4mysize]

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okay I'm going to watch for them. do you eat it when it flowers or does it get bitter like basil does?

[Heidi3]

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It does not affect the tender shoots the only time I find I can not eat my rosemary is mid winter it gets tooo piney tasting

[not2late]

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I worked with someone who used rosemary as a hedge plant, lol....

[Heidi3]

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I have to whack iit down like a hedge but then I use the sticks for skewers for lamb kabobs

[Heidi3]

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we are going to put a waterfall in the garden there is spring behind my husbands shop and it bubbles so we are going to just divert it over around and down the side of our hill into the lower garden so we have a waterfall down the hill to a pond..I am so excited about this...we checked the laws and we can do this legally because it is going to protect the shop foundation to have the water diverted and not disrupted....

that and a nature trail around the perimeter of the yard I am so excited those are the HUGE plans for the yard this summer wish me luck

[MotherOfGizmo]

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My rosemary died.

John tilled the garden again this weekend and added 10 bags of cow poop! I can't wait to start planting in a couple of weeks!

[Heidi3]

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I am still eating last years collards!!! I can not believe this!!!

the rosemary is bursting with blooms and looks beautiful!!! I am harvesting all the fresh tips off the top and they are so amazing in flavor!!!

chives ...good grief if you lived near me guys I would be passing you baggies of chives I have taken tons to work already they are really yummy ones that is for sure!

parsley ..everytime I eat the first bite of fresh parsley I remember why I love it so much

the hyacinths, tullips and dafs are in full bloom so are all the fruit trees..

and I have had to cut the grass twice already!

my poor husbands allergies are also in full bloom

how are you guys doing with the gardening?

[Heidi3]

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oh yeah and my rhubarb hill is looking mighty good with all those leaves bursting out of it

[not2late]

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On tuesday night I came home and found a flyer from the neighborhood committee. First of all, I didn't know my neighborhood had a committee. Secondly, the committee is sponsoring a neighborhood beautification contest this year because I guess they think our front yards aren't beautiful (dunno...if people don't have flowers, they have shrubs and bushes. if they don't have flowers, shrubs or bushes, they just have grass...)

Anyhow, I'm thinking of doing either a native meadow theme (lots of wild flowers and grasses with a very "meadow" look) or a colonial farm garden look (corn, beans, squash and tobacco).