Gardening

[anarky]

It's a bitch.

Discuss.

[Ran]

I just dig the holes. My wife puts plants in them.

[Seven]

I actually have a wonderland of different types of flora in my backyard including two huge ass fucking sago palms (that's an invitation to anyone to steal my sagos, which is bad luck ya know). I got kinda pissed today because I bought two plants the other day at Target and while one is thriving, the other just literally withered up and is DEAD! I should take it back but it will cost twice as much to drive there than the money the damn thing was worth.

It's like a contest to me, keeping my flora alive, I feel "less than" should they pass away!

We have these huge trees on my street in Compton that form a canopy down the entire street and it really is quit breathtaking, especially for living in Compton. If it weren't for the street market value of my Borg Nanoprobes, I'd surely be dead living here.

So back to my trees on my street...they drop these seeds that look like rabbit turds and literally will grow anywhere, so I decided to take 5 of them and plant them in this pretty big pot. They've come along beautifully and I'm in the process of putting the BONZAI on their asses!

That's my gardening adventures so far.

Hopefully we'll hear from Mabs on this one, I know you love the greens

[vynsane]

So back to my trees on my street...they drop these seeds that look like rabbit turds and literally will grow anywhere, so I decided to take 5 of them and plant them in this pretty big pot. They've come along beautifully and I'm in the process of putting the BONZAI on their asses!

nice, i've had many failed attempts to maintain bonsai... i had a few galleries on my site at one time about the largest collection i had, but they've all died off by now. i've gotta get back on the ball, but i think i want to attempt to repot a wild tree this time around, one that's far more hardy than the "mallsai" you get at those specialty ripoff stores...

[anarky]

I've planted grass.

I've planted four citrus trees (one was killed by wind and had to be replaced).

I planted a row of roses.

And, today, I finished digging out the area for our vegetable garden, laid out the bricks that surround it, and added the bullshit and soil.

It's not so bad, except that this desert soil is like fucking rock. I think digging a 40"x120" area to a depth of six inches is as tough as digging the much smaller, but deeper, holes for the trees.

I am sore. Tomorrow, I will probably hate gardening more. In a week, I will love it.

I am going to plant some motherfucking habaneros.

[mabudon]

Oyes- we have a bunch of area around our house devoted to perennials- right now we have daffodils and tulips up and my native bleeding heart (not the common "man made" one, this one is fairly plain) is flowering just a bit so far. Soon peonies, lupines and torch lilies along with several other kinds of lilies and Irises etc. Lots of hostas and ferns too but they're just poking up now.

OH and our clematis vines are getting pretty big pretty fast, we have a pretty one that looks like little reddish bells and a couple big-ass purple ones including "The President" which makes stupid big flowers.

I also have a few pots of winter-hardy cactii which flower every year- basically just prickly pear cactus with DEADLY spines

My bog is waking up nicely, flower stalks on the pitcher plants around 4" tall (and they grow around an inch a day) my sundews have put up their first carnivorous leaves and are happily eating as well, and my butterworts (pinguicula) all made it thought the winter (I just leave my North American species outside year round, only species I have trouble with is the standard venus flytrap, which is odd cos plants from further south do just fine, tricksy little buggers)

Vegetables- tomatoes, hot peppers and squash mostly- gonna try eggplants again this year, we used to have success with them but 2 years ago there was a blight so hopefully it won't be back this summer

Oh and tons of herbs etc- oregano (the clump is now 3 feet square and almost 10 years old) summer savoury, basil, cilantro, plus I have a huge comfrey bush and a fuckin field of horseradish, a real hot kind

OH and I have a raspberry patch and a nice gooseberry tree

And that's just what we gots outside!!!

but sweetes word in the outdoor ornamental garden has to be perrennials

[The Grin]

This one is just too easy.

[The Grin]

On second thought, your mom enjoys a green thumb while I plant my seed.

[anarky]

Ugh.

My wife didn't have to work today. She went out to the garden to plant some veggies about ten minutes ago.

A couple minutes ago, I heard her scream for help.

Seems she went into the garage, grabbed what she thought was a bag of soil, brought it around the house, and dumped grass seed in the garden.

[Antropov]

I planted a row of roses.

ur mom planted tulips on my dick oh burn i got u gud u bich

I'm not a gardener as much as I am a "yardener". Yard work is almost therapeutic for me. We live in a townhome so we don't have that much of a yard, but I spend a few hours a week weeding, cutting and trimming the grass (insert pubic hair joke here). I see some of the other yards out there and fail to understand how people can live with shitty yards. I don't mean brown grass here and there or that their grass is a bit long. I mean not owning a lawnmower or letting your dog dig all the holes it wants or having your backyard look like a white trash daycare center.