Gardening ideas, tips and advice

[Tribe]

How's about this for a idea , I came across this today Take a small pumpkin, cut off top, and fill with dirt. The pumpkin is full of seeds and they will begin to grow. Transplant to pot or yard when seedlings are big enough. :)

[Calabash]

Wonderful idea - even I can do that! :) Thanks Tribe . . . . and hope all is well with you

[Tribe]

Yes all good :) inspired ! Xx

[Tribe]

I am learning to adapt things , simplify , with the same results , it's quite awesome ! :D x
Would be great to share , exchange really simple ideas :)

[Altaira]

Here is very interesting ideas about small spaces gardening

BOTTLE TOWER GARDENS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vN2eudWcQ

[Moonlight]

Gardening season is very short in my part of the world. Most of the planting can only be done at the end of May/mid-June, and by the end of October it's pretty much over. We harvest pumpkins in October... could I keep a pumpkin until spring for seedlings ? :scrhd: Can a pumpkin be kept that long ? Would love to try it...

[Altaira]

I think you could keep it in a dry and cold place. There are two methods that came to mind, 1st is if you place the pumpkin in a straw bed and cover it in it and the second is if you cover it in wooden ash. I haven't tried this but this was used by our ancestors for preserving many things.

[Tribe]

Gardening season is very short in my part of the world. Most of the planting can only be done at the end of May/mid-June, and by the end of October it's pretty much over. We harvest pumpkins in October... could I keep a pumpkin until spring for seedlings ? :scrhd: Can a pumpkin be kept that long ? Would love to try it...

Yes yes you can :) .. Well I have miniature pumpkins still from last oct xxxx




Ps my two sisters looking good together in their beautiful avatars ;) xxxx moonlight & altaira xxxx

[Tribe]

Here is a inspirational video for anyone who thinks I cannot garden I have no room.

http://youtu.be/l7o_5UKIKTo

[Moonlight]

I think you could keep it in a dry and cold place. There are two methods that came to mind, 1st is if you place the pumpkin in a straw bed and cover it in it and the second is if you cover it in wooden ash. I haven't tried this but this was used by our ancestors for preserving many things.

Funny you should mention that as I thought about how the ancestors would keep the food for the cold season. What happened to the "caveau"? (google translates this to "vault"... you know, a dark and cold place that every home had to store the food. I guess it was replaced by refrigerators and that people thought it was a good idea. But then, how to keep a pumpkin from rotting for a whole season... If Tribe still has one from last year's crop, it definitely can be done.

I'll try to keep a pumpkin for next year. I have the whole summer to think about it and figure out a way of doing it.

I have a lot of little critters in my yard who think I'm there to feed them. I often times have to have a talk with the devas to let them know not to be so greedy in the garden. They can serve themselves in the garden just as long as they leave some for me too! For example, I had an Italian parsley in my garden that the bugs (earwigs) were just killing. I got really mad and had a chat with the deva. They don't like humans very much and must have Uranus in the first as they are very rebellious. At the end of my conversation I just told them ... ok, do as you please, but neither one of us are going to have any to eat pretty soon. You are killing it. We could share, but you are too greedy. Well... the plant just thrived and it was the most beautiful parsley I've ever had in my garden... we shared all summer long. :)

[Tribe]

http://youtu.be/tV6sbGWE0E4


Well worth a watch even if long , it's three in one I think ?

[Clark]

These are very useful and informative gardening tips, which you share with us, well, guys, i also love gardening and i have my own home garden, where mostly i like to grow all kinds of plants, and mostly me and my big brother, like to spend our spear time in garden.

[Tribe]

Ah great , look forward to swapping ideas and helpful tips with you CLark :)

[Tribe]

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[Tribe]

A Guide To Planting By The Moon

In ancient times when man had not quite got round to inventing the wrist watch the most reliable source of telling the time was the sun, moon, and stars. There seems to be several opinions of who came up with the moon planting calendar first. Was it the Egyptians or the Babylonians? It is more than likely that each and every farmer had a planting calendar based on the moon phases, and there would be different variations depending on the geographical location. As their calendars where passed on through the generations they evolved to cover the different crops they tried to grow, and the more productive farming techniques used.

It was noticed that different plants grow better when they are planted during different phases of the moon. Each of these phases imparts an influence on the way vegetation grows on the planet through the rising and falling of the moisture in the ground and in the plants.

To provide more accurate records it was noted that certain crops faired better when planted whilst the moon was in a specific constellation. As the moon can take only 2-3 days to pass through a constellation, the planting calendar was a 'cutting edge' technology.

Planting was not the most important time for the farmer, harvest time also had to be recorded. If you harvest at the correct time your crops will last much longer. It is down to how the plant stores the water in the fruit/crop at different times of the Luna cycle.

For information on this and a guide here is the source of the information

http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Moon_Planting.asp

[Sooz]

I thought this was pretty cool:

http://www.naturalnews.com/045738_self-watering_garden_bed_sustainable_agriculture_drough t_conditions.html#

Some Vids in this link as well.

Another link:

http://foodisfreeproject.org/resources

[Sooz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEgnK-veV4Q

[Altaira]

Hey Toters how are your gardens blooming? It is June and everything is growing, I hope I'll find some time to put a few pictures of my veggies soon.

[Spiral]

Hey Toters how are your gardens blooming? It is June and everything is growing, I hope I'll find some time to put a few pictures of my veggies soon.

Thanks for the reminder, this year my peach tree has its first fruit, which look rather like apricots to me, I just went to see how the apricots on the peach tree are doing & the storm last night has knocked them all off :cracky:

Rescued what I could, apricots for breakfast :thup:

[Tribe]

Spiral do you make Jam ?

[Spiral]

Spiral do you make Jam ?

No, its too sugary for me, I barely ever eat fruit, but the type of peach* that tree was supposed to be produces & apricots are ok for me in limited amounts because they are low in sugar



*Peche de vigne, a small peach tree traditionally planted in vineyards that produces a small but intensely flavoured fruit.

[Tribe]

Lovely to have fruits I wish I was successful but we are limited for space so I stick to greens . I managed to grow four carrots lol loads of kale , rhubarb ah ok so that can be my fruit I guess and I will make jam , I can't not it's the process of making jam wrapping jars and gifting them ..I take my son into the countryside and we pick from the trees blackberries , apples and pears , lots growing in the wild here :) lovely !

[Frances]

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[lift the veil]

Beautiful. Loving your hanging baskets. I have never seen a style like that before, with a trellis type top. I would love to plant more but the damn rabbits and deer eat it all. No fence to keep them out.

[Frances]

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[Frances]

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[Frances]

I like Itatian Courtyard Gardens.
Little gardens within a garden. It's also a mobile garden as the pots get moved according to my mood.
I like dimensions as the garden gets higher and higher, tall plants are wonderful to greate another dimension in the garden.

I like to create a different garden each year. Because it's mobile I can do this.
Frances.

[Elen]

Love your garden, Frances, and the places your mind takes you. That is stunning work.

[Dreamtimer]

OMG that is glorious. I'm in love. I particularly like the beautiful wrought iron holders. My mom did a lot of gardening, in ground and in pots. Wonderful colors.

[Elen]

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This is my garden Frances. Not so many flowers, but a lot of small trees.

Elen

[Kitsune]

So beautiful!

[Frances]

Hello Elen, I love your stone work and your trees.
There are some wonderful shapes with the trees and they add another dimension to the garden, makes it interesting and pleasing to look at.
Thanks for showing us your garden.
Frances.

[Cearna]

Love the gardens. I haven't worked on mine, since the doctors told me I wasn't to bend over. However, as you know I got carried away and bout tulips, that gave me the gardening bug back again. at the moment, there is a parcel of plants sitting at the High School, Would you believe we are no 1 in our street and this house has been here for about 100 years, so when the High School was built they numbered it 1A and the posties never seem to be able to sort out who lives where, so my parcel was delivered there on Thursday, and I went down in the rain to collect it, but it was too long a distance and too heavy a parcel for me to carry. Yesterday, it snowed, so school was closed for the day - you might find that strange on your side of the world, but we are one of the few places where it does snow and that is only a few days in the year, so they don't ever set anything up to clear the roads, other than nature herself, so I am going to have to wait till Monday for some one from the school to deliver my parcel to me.

So, Frances in this parcel I have 2 clematis, which I have never grown before, one a similar colour to the one I see in your photo, growing on a trellis. I have a peach/arine tree which doesn't do too well, because there is too much wind in June for me to spray for curley leaf and I decided it might be ideal to grow a clematis over it. the other one is a single mauve/purple which I want to tral on a trellis against a wooden fence where it will get the sun, and what I am asking you is, do you put the plant inside the trellis, so that it can grow outwards, or put the plant on the outside of it and you keep trailing it where you want it to go, Yours is just lovely, as are all the rest of your wonderful blossoms. I am on a pension, so the few plants I bought was all I could afford. I still have to dig the ground for some of them and get pots ready for the rest.

I have this large backyard, which was fine once, till we got Jack our dog, who has made it into a racing track and is plowing it up, so gardening there is a bit of a waste of time.

[Frances]

Hello Cearna, life never makes things easy for you does it?


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Let the clematis grow in front of the trellis, tie the stems to the trellis as it grows.
The stems get very long and need support.
Position the clematis so it is easy for you to cut it back when the time is right. They benefit from being cut back once a year, if they are left they will still grow but all the blooms may be at the very top of the plant, with little or nothing at the middle and bottom.

Above is a photo of a cane obelisk that I put together to support the clematis in a large pot.
I am going to post some photos of the ones I have so you get a better idea.
Frances.

[Frances]

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You will see the cane obelisk that is in the pot, and any long stems that stick out and need support I just tie them to the trellis.

[Frances]

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This clematis is in the ground. I am using the conifers as a support for it to climb up.
This is still a young clematis and I am just trying out a little experiment to see what it looks like when it starts to bloom.
It is only three years old.

[Frances]

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Theses two clematis are in the ground and tied to the back of the fence. As they grew I tied the stems back to a willow screen on the fence.
Frances.

[Kitsune]

Your garden is stunning!

[MaryMay]

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Wow! that is fantastic! Beautiful!

[MaryMay]

I have a lot of little critters in my yard who think I'm there to feed them. I often times have to have a talk with the devas to let them know not to be so greedy in the garden. They can serve themselves in the garden just as long as they leave some for me too! For example, I had an Italian parsley in my garden that the bugs (earwigs) were just killing. I got really mad and had a chat with the deva. They don't like humans very much and must have Uranus in the first as they are very rebellious. At the end of my conversation I just told them ... ok, do as you please, but neither one of us are going to have any to eat pretty soon. You are killing it. We could share, but you are too greedy. Well... the plant just thrived and it was the most beautiful parsley I've ever had in my garden... we shared all summer long. :)

haha I love this!
I often wonder if some of the Devas or Elementals dont like humans, I mean duh, weve don alot of bad stuff to the Earth, etc. But I love how you dealt with this!

I sometimes ask for blessings for the gardens from the Devas and Elementals but I like this idea better. its like bargaining but a reality check. which is good!

[MaryMay]

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This is my garden Frances. Not so many flowers, but a lot of small trees.

Elen

Beautiful!

[bsbray]

What's that pink bush, Elen?

[sandy]

Wow Frances and Elen>>>>>>>>>absolutely amazing colours, landscaping design and architecture as well as Beautiful green thumbs you both have. Thank you for sharing your wonders of art and creation. :h5:

[Cearna]

Hi Francis, thank you thank you for your answer. Now you have me a bit worried over whether I should put them into a pot as you have done with some of yours or go into the ground. The pot might work best for the peacharine tree, and the ground for the fence, because behind the fence, is a very old very big pink camelia tree, which flowers profusely at this time of the year, but in summer has the lovely leaves that would be a great backdrop to the clematis flowers. However the one you show as a three year old, which hasn't flowered - is that how long before I will get to see the flowers? Can I wait that long. The nursery is having it's winter half price sale and I might be able to get a double mauve if I get an order in fast, maybe even a few others.

I'm sure, you like I love to garden, I must be weird, but I love messing about with compost and dirt, one of the God sources I just call Soil and he keeps talking to me about my love for the soil itself, and saying just how upset he gets when people do not love his soil, for he it was who put soil over the bare rocks in the beginning of Earth. Some of my favourite critters are the composting red wrigglers - I have two worm farms, looking more like compost bins on legs, and these little worms do nothing but chomp away and when really happy, produce lots of babies. In the next couple of days they will be really happy, because I now have huge piles of weeds, spread around the yard, and the first chance I get, they are going into the worm farms, and the worms will be able the chomp for months to come.

So you have given me lots of inspiration, and not for the first time, last year your garden was just as stunning, unfortunately the space I have is so much more than you show, which was fine when I moved in here and I was only 60, but now the size to keep up with is very daunting, when your knees tell you, what ever you do, don't get down or you won't get up again. Thanks again for the time you took to help me out. Love colleen

[Cearna]

haha I love this!
I often wonder if some of the Devas or Elementals don't like humans, I mean duh, we've done a lot of bad stuff to the Earth, etc. But I love how you dealt with this!

I sometimes ask for blessings for the gardens from the Devas and Elementals but I like this idea better. its like bargaining but a reality check. which is good!

Don't forget my very favourite little people, the fairies, elves, gnomes and pixies, and the nymphs. We live next door to a nature reserve and we have teaming numbers of little people about all the time. I kid you not with this next story, I was grieving after the death of my mother, and upsetting other people with the vibrations I was putting out, so my Ivan, told me you need to go to meet the little people, they will help you.

My friend and I duly set off with no knowledge of where we were going, just directions to me by ESP, and we were told when we got to a golf course, go in here. We stopped by a gully before you get to the club house and I was told go down into the gully and there was a tiny rivulet of water running through it which I was told to stand over. Next I heard a voice telling me to hold out my hands, facing one another and about a foot apart. Then I heard, welcome, I am the king of the fairies and I welcome you to my home, he gave me a gift and my hands began to automatically move to the full shape that he was between my two hands, then one after another some one would come and say, I'm a pixie, or an elf, or a gnome and each gave me a gift, I don't see, but for each one my hands move to surround their shape and my friend could see them, so I wasn't imagining it. They told me to place my grief into the ground, which I did, then I felt wonderful. I have called on them many times for healing and they make a fairy ring above me till I no longer require it, some have stayed with me permanently, and one called Jacaranda, will clean out the house from any unwanted visitors of the evil kind. They spend a lot of time in my garden, they have a name for me of big mumma. If you visit one of their spots you may find something really strange happening - we were at a reserve area in the Blue Mountains near a small waterfall on a very clear windless day, when I spied one tuft of grass going in circles, when all else were still - it was one trying to catch me eye, and when I pointed it out one of the people saw a pixie twirling the grass like crazy.

These loved us and have never been anything but wonderful to us. One of my friends told me once, you have 6 elemental diamond fairies with you - green in colour, gold in light, and they have always been with me. If I feel down, they start dancing and singing and chucking a party till I feel happier. These and the others chase away any of the nasty type of elementals who have a habit of getting into your head, and creating mischief, sometimes worse than that, so I wouldn't like to think of you trying to be nice to them, for they are bad news.

The animal Divas are another story, we often had stories told to us by our Homeopath, who also worked on race horses, and he would come to help heal some of them, and quickly told the horse off if it was about to kick, my friend, which some liked to do.

[sandancer]

Frances and Elen I am in awe of your beautiful creations , thank you so much for sharing with us my heart is lifted !

Sadly I have no space to grow anything , just a small back yard that gets little sun and no spare cash to spend on it so I just enjoy looking at what others can do .

Cearna , As a child I spent many happy hours sitting with my dog at the bottom of my family garden which was wild and beautiful , I knew the fairies, elves and pixies were there with me , I could feel their prescence and we had many happy conversations , of course my mother thought I was talking to myself or the dog !

My secret garden !!

We bought a caravan next to a wood and I found my tree where I could sit curled up and safe in the branches watching others go by but they could not see me .

My tree made me feel safe and protected I told him all my secrets and feelings and never worried about being alone in the woods ,I could see the beach and watch the waves from my vantage point .

Happy days , that was over 50 years ago , sadly I don't think children these days would be allowed to sit alone in the woods with nature . How much they miss.

:garden::swing:

[Elen]

What's that pink bush, Elen?

Hello bsbray, it's called:

Acer palmatum dissectum, which started off a miniature and slowly, slowly grows into a shrub, although it can be cut to shape.

Best
Elen

[Frances]

Hello again Cearna, you may want to plant the clematis into the soil.

Reason. The pot you buy has to be big and must be frost proof, you want the pot to last for years.
Big frost proof pots can be expensive, you need pot feet so the pot can drain and canes for
Support. This increases the cost.

If your budget allows, put one in the soil and have an experimental one growing in the pot.
Make sure you put the pot where you want it as they are heavy and can be difficult to move
When full.

The 3 year old clematis has its buds on and will bloom this year.
The other clematis in the garden are over 5 years old and with the yearly cut backs that I do in late autumn it makes them thick and bushy when they start growing again in Spring.
Frances.

[Cearna]

Hello again Cearna, you may want to plant the clematis into the soil.

Reason. The pot you buy has to be big and must be frost proof, you want the pot to last for years.
Big frost proof pots can be expensive, you need pot feet so the pot can drain and canes for
Support. This increases the cost.

If your budget allows, put one in the soil and have an experimental one growing in the pot.
Make sure you put the pot where you want it as they are heavy and can be difficult to move
When full.

The 3 year old clematis has its buds on and will bloom this year.
The other clematis in the garden are over 5 years old and with the yearly cut backs that I do in late autumn it makes them thick and bushy when they start growing again in Spring.
Frances.

Thank you again, the parcel arrived this morning, with everything in plastic and lots of good stuff to transport well, for they have been in the mail for about a week. When I opened it up, the two plants are barely three inches high, but one has a good shoot coming, and a label saying I am not dead or dieing I am merely dormant. They send a book for how to care for each of the plants on offer, during the winter. Your advice adds a great deal to theirs, not to mention your photos. I'm hoping I get a quicker result with the thornless blackberry. I do a yearly battle with blackberries growing up against my fence, from the school side. They came once to kill them off but can't reach with their pesticide machine, this far back from the road, so now I am spraying from my side, and my neighbour (on the othe side) is spraying from the outside, and, one year we will win. These are considered noxious weeds and must be removed so they won't get into the forest reserves, which this land abuts onto. These blackberries seem to want to grow on my side of the fence but I presume they are the brambles that some "Poms" (English) brought out here and they went beserk, are very thorny and put canes out everywhere. I had a trellis up which I thought I'd use to grow this blackberry, and have weeded the patch for the last 2 days, but it is in the backyard and on one side of the trellis, to-day Jack dug a foot deep and wide hole in seconds for himself to lie on - so yes, nothing I do seems to go easily Francis.

The reason I wanted the clematis is because I had never seen one, till I went past a house in the Vale of Clwdd with a white one climbing all over the front porch and it was so lovely, so I have wanted one ever since. However, in the winter, money is scarce because we buy a $100 load of wood every fortnight, and I never could afford it, but this year, with Esu in hospital for 3 1/2 weeks I had a bit to spare. I'm not going to be a patient waiter for three years whilst they grow big enough to flower. Thanks for your help, once again.

[Cearna]

Frances and Elen I am in awe of your beautiful creations , thank you so much for sharing with us my heart is lifted !

Sadly I have no space to grow anything , just a small back yard that gets little sun and no spare cash to spend on it so I just enjoy looking at what others can do .

Cearna , As a child I spent many happy hours sitting with my dog at the bottom of my family garden which was wild and beautiful , I knew the fairies, elves and pixies were there with me , I could feel their prescence and we had many happy conversations , of course my mother thought I was talking to myself or the dog !

My secret garden !!

We bought a caravan next to a wood and I found my tree where I could sit curled up and safe in the branches watching others go by but they could not see me .

My tree made me feel safe and protected I told him all my secrets and feelings and never worried about being alone in the woods ,I could see the beach and watch the waves from my vantage point .

Happy days , that was over 50 years ago , sadly I don't think children these days would be allowed to sit alone in the woods with nature . How much they miss.

:garden::swing:

What a lovely story, I understand how you must have felt, and I too , wonder what small children are missing as they sit watching TV or playing with their technology, I wander how many of them found what an amazing thing a cardboard box is, it can take you anywhere your imagination can take you, however, you tree sounds just right. I was saying about the God of the Soil, well the Tree God is responsible for the growth of the first trees on Earth, you would love to have a natter to him. I do, he reminds me of Treebeard in Lord of the Rings.

[Kitsune]

My youngest son (he's 10) loves being outside. He loves every creature, he can spend hours just watching ants. He finds all of nature interesting and amazing.

Children aren't allowed to just be kids anymore..

[MaryMay]

Don't forget my very favourite little people, the fairies, elves, gnomes and pixies, and the nymphs. We live next door to a nature reserve and we have teaming numbers of little people about all the time. I kid you not with this next story, I was grieving after the death of my mother, and upsetting other people with the vibrations I was putting out, so my Ivan, told me you need to go to meet the little people, they will help you.

My friend and I duly set off with no knowledge of where we were going, just directions to me by ESP, and we were told when we got to a golf course, go in here. We stopped by a gully before you get to the club house and I was told go down into the gully and there was a tiny rivulet of water running through it which I was told to stand over. Next I heard a voice telling me to hold out my hands, facing one another and about a foot apart. Then I heard, welcome, I am the king of the fairies and I welcome you to my home, he gave me a gift and my hands began to automatically move to the full shape that he was between my two hands, then one after another some one would come and say, I'm a pixie, or an elf, or a gnome and each gave me a gift, I don't see, but for each one my hands move to surround their shape and my friend could see them, so I wasn't imagining it. They told me to place my grief into the ground, which I did, then I felt wonderful. I have called on them many times for healing and they make a fairy ring above me till I no longer require it, some have stayed with me permanently, and one called Jacaranda, will clean out the house from any unwanted visitors of the evil kind. They spend a lot of time in my garden, they have a name for me of big mumma. If you visit one of their spots you may find something really strange happening - we were at a reserve area in the Blue Mountains near a small waterfall on a very clear windless day, when I spied one tuft of grass going in circles, when all else were still - it was one trying to catch me eye, and when I pointed it out one of the people saw a pixie twirling the grass like crazy.

These loved us and have never been anything but wonderful to us. One of my friends told me once, you have 6 elemental diamond fairies with you - green in colour, gold in light, and they have always been with me. If I feel down, they start dancing and singing and chucking a party till I feel happier. These and the others chase away any of the nasty type of elementals who have a habit of getting into your head, and creating mischief, sometimes worse than that, so I wouldn't like to think of you trying to be nice to them, for they are bad news.

The animal Divas are another story, we often had stories told to us by our Homeopath, who also worked on race horses, and he would come to help heal some of them, and quickly told the horse off if it was about to kick, my friend, which some liked to do.

Wow! That is so wonderful! I love it thanks for sharing!!!

[Tribe]

Francis your garden is looking beautiful here back in 2015 , how is it now and have you got any lovely bird visitors?


My youngest son (he's 10) loves being outside. He loves every creature, he can spend hours just watching ants. He finds all of nature interesting and amazing.

Children aren't allowed to just be kids anymore..

my son is 16 and he is a avid gardener , he also loses himself watching the bees and bugs and keeping a score on how many different species he can spot ! its lovely :)

[Catsquotl]

Tribe :smiley hug:

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[Tribe]

Tribe :smiley hug:

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Aw Darling catsquoti , felt that thank you :love2: