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NRaleighLiberal

(60,500 posts)
Wed May 14, 2014, 10:55 PM May 2014

Updated progress on my garden, 2014 - pictures at the link....post your garden pics!

Last edited Sat May 31, 2014, 10:00 PM - Edit history (1)

I've been blogging my gardens since 2009 - it is a great way to keep a garden diary. Here are pics from the past few days - my side yard garden and driveway garden - and this year I am trying straw bale gardening....still in the prep stage.

http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/nctomato-and-garden-blog/pictures-tell-the-story-planting-continues

Edited to add pics from today - May 31

http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/nctomato-and-garden-blog/the-garden-was-photogenic-this-morningwhich-calls-for-pictures

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Updated progress on my garden, 2014 - pictures at the link....post your garden pics! (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal May 2014 OP
what are you planning with the straw bales? I love to see all your picture, how fun uppityperson May 2014 #1
I've been asked to try it out and research growing in straw bales... NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #2
It will be fun to follow along and see what happens. uppityperson May 2014 #3
Neat! Aerows May 2014 #5
Craig, you have a truly gorgeous garden Aerows May 2014 #4
beautiful libodem May 2014 #6
Aw, and you have one of your dog buddy. Curmudgeoness May 2014 #7
kicking - added an updated link to the OP....things are growing well, and fast! NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #8
kicking - how are your 2014 gardens growing? My latest update at the link below with some pics NRaleighLiberal Jul 2014 #9

NRaleighLiberal

(60,500 posts)
2. I've been asked to try it out and research growing in straw bales...
Wed May 14, 2014, 11:27 PM
May 2014

in the driveway, going to do tomatoes, peppers and eggplant...and in the big garden, squash, melons and cukes in addition to some tomatoes. It's going to be fun (I've been doing the recommended prep, measuring temperatures, real Mr Wizard stuff - my garden is my laboratory!)

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
4. Craig, you have a truly gorgeous garden
Thu May 15, 2014, 12:15 AM
May 2014

I'm a novice, and I'm pleased that I have some near flowers on my tomatoes. Gosh, yours is freaking awesome.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
6. beautiful
Thu May 15, 2014, 01:55 PM
May 2014

Pictures at the link. I'm so jealous. I have some Spring blooms, which were planted last fall. They look like onion blooms or giant chive blooms. They are pretty cool. I'm off to my photo hosting site. Be right back.


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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
7. Aw, and you have one of your dog buddy.
Thu May 15, 2014, 06:05 PM
May 2014

Oh, there were plants in that photo too? Everything looks great.

Let us know how the straw bale gardening goes....and if it works well, we will need details of what you did.

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