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- Where do you live and garden?
- Anywhere the Marines send us......currently North Carolina USA
- How long have you been growing food?
- 10-20 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Italy
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We are not allowed to grow any "food" in the small landscaped areas near our houses, we are required to maintain our lawns etc etc. For the most part I am able to circumvent this with containers, but too many containers and sooner or la… Continue
Posted on January 4, 2009 at 6:05pm — 4 Comments
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- At 11:49am on July 13, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said…
- Shawna, I was reading what you said about eggplant, and I was wondering if you have to do anything to the eggplant before you cube and freeze it? Just raw? Does the taste or texture change after defrosting? I don't care for it much, but my husband loves it, and I'd like to find ways to preserve it for winter. I think I could eat it in soups and stews. Thanks!
- At 6:19am on July 11, 2009,
TAR HEEL said…
- Shawna, in one of your pics.I see some leaves up top.maybe just the angle. have a good one.
- At 8:25am on April 29, 2009,
TAR HEEL said…
- Shawna, was looking at your pix,.......whats on the ( roof)??
- At 8:13pm on January 6, 2009,
Ann Lamb said…
- Hi, Shawna,
My nephew is Maj. Terry Johnson, and he and his family moved in September from Jacksonville, NC, to Tampa, FL, but I don't think his actual station was mentioned in family mail. What's in Tampa? Before that they were in Virginia; before that I have deleted the files on their addresses. They have 2 young children and so far as I know Sallie doesn't have the gardening gene--at least it's never been mentioned. Terry grew up in Palo Pinto, TX, and his wife is from Asheville.
I hadn't fully come into my heritage as a gardener when we were in Albuquerque (friends tell me the housing where we lived on Sandia Base has been bullcozed), so I was irritated but not desperate about the rules. Here in Knoxville I do more container gardening because I am interested in growing tender herbs and citrus, so some of the pots just get rolled in and out of the garage during the winter. Sunday I had everything out for an airing and a glimpse of sun. The hardiness thing is veeery interesting to study and play with.
You have wonderful pictures!
- At 11:33pm on July 29, 2008,
Rachel said… - Hi Shawna,
Thanks for texting back. That's an impressive garden you've got growing! (And a cute kitty). I have both containers and in-ground veggies; I can't say one is doing better than the other. I planted a lot of flowers, mostly in containers, and most of them are doing well. But my vegetables are another story. One huge problem I've run into is what I believe is downy mildew. It gets my squash plants every time!
This spring and early summer were especially wet here in St. Louis (MO). I thought I'd beat the mildew this year because I used a product to prevent/control it before it ever showed up; but I was wrong. I think the spot I picked to use for a garden may not have been the best; in spring it seems like it's going to be plenty sunny, but then my neighbor's tree and hedges fill in. The only sunnier spot is untillable due to under-ground phone lines. It's not that things don't grow there, it just seems like they start out so promising and end up teaching me some new lessen about gardening each year!
I've learned about blossom-end rot, over and under fertilizing, lots of different insects and vermin; one of my least favorite: squash-vine borers (which I actually seem to have beat this year with diamatous (sp?) earth--I'm excited to not be tweasing those disgusting little things out of my zucchini vines!). But so far this year has had very little yield. Must be the weather......
I don't remember from the pictures, are you growing any broccoli or cauliflower? This is my first year attempting them (really my second, but the rabbits ate all my seedlings last year; I put up a bunny fence this spring). I have the most gorgeous green plants. Leaves, leaves, leaves. Just getting a few inches of broccoli now on some plants, but not a speck of cauliflower that I can see. What's up with that I wonder? Someone I work with had a great broccoli year last year and seems to be having the same problem as me this year; therefore.....must be the weather.
I wonder if container gardening might prevent the downy mildew I keep getting on my squash plants. I think the spores stay in the ground and come back each year. Have you ever had problems with mildew on your squash? Either in pots or in ground? (It starts out with white spots, most prevalent under the leaf, but eventually covers the whole leaf and stem all the way down to the vine).
Sorry to write so much and ask so many questions. But I am interested to know you previously had in-ground gardens and found you have fewer problems with container gardens.
Thanks for your time,
Rachel
- At 7:05pm on July 26, 2008,
Rachel said…
- I liked your pics of your container garden so much I decided to sign up! They look so healthy, a lot better than some of the things I have growing in the yard.
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