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Winter Gardens - Photos
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Thanks, camp, I enjoy setting in my garden too. I don't know how we keep missing each other!

Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Ha, ha, ha! That got the first laugh of my morningboffer wrote:Thanks, camp, I enjoy setting in my garden too. I don't know how we keep missing each other!![]()

Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
CC's and camp's tablet spelling 'mistakes' are fun sometimes!
The legs are used chain-link fence posts, angle iron, or bed frames-whatever happens to be in my scrounge pile when I need them.
The bottom of the boxes are all half inch hardware cloth with a sheet of foam board laying on top.

audrey.jeanne.roberts wrote:Beautiful Boffer! I just love seeing so many different ways of doing beds. What are your supports under your table tops?
The legs are used chain-link fence posts, angle iron, or bed frames-whatever happens to be in my scrounge pile when I need them.
The bottom of the boxes are all half inch hardware cloth with a sheet of foam board laying on top.
Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Love seeing every ones winter gardens!
its to dark for me to take pics today....rats...hee hee
happy gardening
rose...who really does have ugly garden beds right now....
its to dark for me to take pics today....rats...hee hee
happy gardening
rose...who really does have ugly garden beds right now....

FamilyGardening-
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
stoopid autocorrect

43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
This thread is fabulous! If it ever stops raining I'll get some photos and join in.
Thanks for all the great photos, essays and laughs, folks.
CC
Thanks for all the great photos, essays and laughs, folks.
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
One of my "good" photos, my winter color spot: dianthus, snapdragons, pansies, and a some self-seeding cock's comb, which should die with the first freeze. 

Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Very pretty! I have impatiens overflowing my window boxes that will be dead, dead, dead with the first frost
Everything looks so bare from then on. My front patio runs the length of the house and has probably 20 large plant pots filled with hydrangeas, roses and peonies. It's lush in the summer, not so much from now until late March!

Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Since we've already had hard freezes back in Nov here, the only flowers I have blooming right now are primroses and Christmas Rose: 
SFG. Front bed is kale & collards that I'm still eating from and hoping will give me seeds next year:
The other beds are covered with seaweed and some mixed in shells:


Asparagus bed:

Strawberry bed in front of 2 old school SFG beds:

Some collard greens & some sad looking dino kale still going in one of the perennial gardens. They get to stay in for the flowers & seeds next year:

Kale in the kitchen garden. Hoping for seeds next year:

And last but not least, my indoor garden - lettuces, greens & herbs:
CC

SFG. Front bed is kale & collards that I'm still eating from and hoping will give me seeds next year:

The other beds are covered with seaweed and some mixed in shells:



Asparagus bed:

Strawberry bed in front of 2 old school SFG beds:

Some collard greens & some sad looking dino kale still going in one of the perennial gardens. They get to stay in for the flowers & seeds next year:


Kale in the kitchen garden. Hoping for seeds next year:

And last but not least, my indoor garden - lettuces, greens & herbs:

CC
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Photo? You can wait until April if you want. Side by side photos?audrey.jeanne.roberts wrote: My front patio runs the length of the house and has probably 20 large plant pots filled with hydrangeas, roses and peonies. It's lush in the summer, not so much from now until late March!
You know winter is here when our impatiens die! This was the first summer I didn't plant any. Too busy in other areas.
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CC, I can just picture everything in the spring. All those leaves and seaweed have got to be nutritious.

Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Here's the current pictures, I'll have to go look for last spring's photos if I took them. The cool nights are just now starting to turn my hydrangeas leaves yellow.

These are usually overflowing with pansies, petunias and other annuals:


Remember when I said my weeds green up nicely after a rain, LOL! That's my front "lawn" don't look too closely however
The fountain's raised platform is subsiding, we need to shore it up this winter.


These are usually overflowing with pansies, petunias and other annuals:


Remember when I said my weeds green up nicely after a rain, LOL! That's my front "lawn" don't look too closely however


Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Your "lawn" is so green! Do you use MM in your pots? Please take the same shots in April when the roses are blooming and the hydrangea are greening up. I have a hydrangea that is shaded most of the day in the summer. Mine doesn't take the direct sun very well. Love your salvia! Perennial?
Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
The pots were long before MM so no, I have no idea what on earth I used in them, but I put several inches of compost in them each spring and then fill them up to the top with wood chips to help retain moisture. I don't feed with anything else. I'm going to drop a few red wigglers in each of the pots this year as I have plenty now to spread.sanderson wrote:Your "lawn" is so green! Do you use MM in your pots? Please take the same shots in April when the roses are blooming and the hydrangea are greening up. I have a hydrangea that is shaded most of the day in the summer. Mine doesn't take the direct sun very well. Love your salvia! Perennial?
This patio is the north side of the house so the hydrangea are tucked as tightly as I can to the house. They don't do well with the hot sun either, but are spectacular in the spring and again in the fall. They survive the summer throwing a few flowers. The salvia are perennial. I bought a 3 pack at Costco a couple of years ago and they've been the best.
I'm supposed to turn my compost pile today - I guess it will just have to wait out the rain, LOL!
Cape Coddess, I wish I lived close to the sea to harvest sea weed for my garden. It's a 4 hour drive there for me :-) I will grab much more next trip over.
SFG garden in Memphis tucked away for Winter
https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/16/66/39/greenh23.jpg

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nosmok-
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Yes, lettuce, bok choy, rapini, carrots, radishes and leeks.
My lettuce were doing well until an early frost singed them. Hoping the tent will revive my crop.
My lettuce were doing well until an early frost singed them. Hoping the tent will revive my crop.
nosmok-
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Location : Memphis, TN
Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Nosmok, I love the seats around your boxes. They would be so handy when you're working. My newest beds are low enough to have them, my other table tops are too high.
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I really like that too. Stooping over from a standing position gets uncomfortable fast, and sometimes a little tricky. Kneeling makes it hard to move sideways and is less than great on a bad knee I have. But sitting while gardening is great.
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Thanks! I figured gardening should be enjoyable and as easy as possible. My beds are 24 " high. There is Garden mix the first 12 inches and MM the next 8-10 inches. The bench surround is easy to sit on and I can also stand on them to reach trellised pickings. The hoops are electrical conduit, primed and painted green. I just added the center pole at 3 feet above the beds to support plastic in winter and tuille in spring. Seems to be working so far. Warmer and moist inside. My lettuce and fennel plants are staging a comeback.
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
a recent peak under the cover!
https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/16/66/39/image113.jpg
https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/16/66/39/image113.jpg
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Re: Winter Gardens - Photos
Wow, Nosmok! They look great!
Thank you for sharing that. It gives me more incentive to get my winter garden up & running! Or at least get it ready for next winter so I'm prepared.
Thank you for sharing that. It gives me more incentive to get my winter garden up & running! Or at least get it ready for next winter so I'm prepared.
Photos of my winter greens bed
I wanted to do some gardening over the winter. My original plan was window cold frames, but I didn’t get them built, and didn’t get seedlings started in time, and other plants didn’t get out of the way in time – and I’ve since learned that window/plastic cold frames can be a hassle due to venting and watering needs, which is difficult with holiday travel plans...
So for this winter I’ve made a belated attempt at covers instead. First I made a frame using freshly hewn zebra grass stems “braided” together. Next I gathered up the few planned winter plants I’d started that were scattered through the garden and transplanted them. Then I gathered up more transplants courtesy of volunteers, marked with a *, left to right, starting in the back row:
potted parsleys, wild arugula, komatsuna*, radicchio, radicchio w/ salad burnet* around the edges
minutina/parley, parsley*, 1/2 green wave mustard*+ 1/2>, red giant mustard, lettuce
beets, mache* w/claytonia*, rocket, lettuce, green wave mustard*

Finally, I covered the frame with Agribon-50 and clothes-pinned it to the frame, and also tied it down to the nails my grid attaches to. I have no idea how it will hold up to the wind. I know the plants will grow slowly if at all, but fresh greens are such treat in the winter, even if the servings are small.


So for this winter I’ve made a belated attempt at covers instead. First I made a frame using freshly hewn zebra grass stems “braided” together. Next I gathered up the few planned winter plants I’d started that were scattered through the garden and transplanted them. Then I gathered up more transplants courtesy of volunteers, marked with a *, left to right, starting in the back row:
potted parsleys, wild arugula, komatsuna*, radicchio, radicchio w/ salad burnet* around the edges
minutina/parley, parsley*, 1/2 green wave mustard*+ 1/2>, red giant mustard, lettuce
beets, mache* w/claytonia*, rocket, lettuce, green wave mustard*

Finally, I covered the frame with Agribon-50 and clothes-pinned it to the frame, and also tied it down to the nails my grid attaches to. I have no idea how it will hold up to the wind. I know the plants will grow slowly if at all, but fresh greens are such treat in the winter, even if the servings are small.


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