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Gardening

intheflow

(28,899 posts)

5. That's what happens to me!

Reply to enough (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 02:39 PM

Feb 2014

I'm so starved to dig/plant/grow I really go overboard all through early spring and summer. Then by August, I'm looking rather disinterestedly at the raised beds thinking, "Wow, that's a large weed. I wonder if it's edible?"

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Your 2014 garden - what are you doing new or differently from last year? [View all] NRaleighLiberal Feb 2014 OP

What I'm doing differently from last year is the same thing I do differently every year. enough Feb 2014 #1

That's what happens to me! intheflow Feb 2014 #5

I've managed to start only about 1/3 of what I usually do - so that's progress! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2014 #6

I think Wendell Berry had it right. canoeist52 Feb 2014 #2

New and different Sentath Feb 2014 #3

How goes the aquaponics? Major Nikon May 2014 #22

Planting only one yellow & zucchini squash each! intheflow Feb 2014 #4

Duh. Curmudgeoness Feb 2014 #7

Bought a new house, new yard, no garden established yet. UGH. WCLinolVir Mar 2014 #8

I love my raspberries Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #12

I have a sixty five foot+ fence I need to hide. WCLinolVir Mar 2014 #13

I found a black raspberry patch last year. Fabulous. WCLinolVir Mar 2014 #17

Sounds like your backyard is going to be a lot like mine Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2014 #18

Just need a birdbath, and a compost pile. WCLinolVir Apr 2014 #19

caution about birdbaths lululu Apr 2014 #20

My second bedroom serves as seed growing area sadoldgirl Mar 2014 #9

Ugh, slugs are a pain. They are the biggest pest I have. WCLinolVir Mar 2014 #14

Yup. Most of the strawberries I lose, I lose to slugs. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #15

That's awful. I battle them on my pepper plants. Come fall it's the brassicas. WCLinolVir Mar 2014 #16

Biggest change... I get to have one! Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2014 #10

What's new this year? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #11

Changes 2014 giasroom May 2014 #21

Weather was funky so started late. This year I am ignoring my garden basically. glinda Jun 2014 #23

Dan Howitt here a newbie thanking everyone danhowitt1 Oct 2015 #24

Welcome to DU !!!!!!! glinda Oct 2015 #25