Plant,landscape,and fungi thread

[Imsobored152]

When I was in college I use to do landscaping/hardscaping during the warmer months. Now that I have some land I've been more focused on growing things to eat. I have a pretty large garden that I've had going the last few years. Everything I grow in it I start from seeds except for my Tomatoes. It's a lot of work but the end results are totally worth it. It's always nice knowing where your food came from! I also have quite a few house plants along with fully planted reptile enclosures ( i don't believe in fake plants!).

Prepping the garden last spring.
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I love hot peppers!

Ghosts
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Fatali
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Pepper mix
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Fall harvest right before the frost hit.
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My dwarf Persian Lime.
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I assume you dont have problems with wildlife eating your garden with that little fence. the raccoons here would destroy everything

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I assume you dont have problems with wildlife eating your garden with that little fence. the raccoons here would destroy everything

We have loads of deer around our property but they leave my garden alone because we are surrounded on 3 sides by woods and farmland. They do go after my fruit trees but ever since I've hung bars of Irish Spring soap from the trees they leave them alone. That fence is actually to keep my chickens out of the garden. They love to eat produce.

This is what they did to my pumpkins which are in another garden I have that isn't fenced in.

 

[Hendre]

I have a succulent collection that I'm soon moving from plants to a garden bed

 

[Imsobored152]

Suggestions wanted. Want something on both side. Something colorful, but doesnt attract too many bees or wasps. No big roots. Nothing I have to replant once a year. What you see is how much sun it gets. Only lasts maybe an hour, then its full shade. Ideas?

I ripped out the bushes that were there. Roots too large and the attracted ALOT of bees and wasps

 

[krichardson]

I would plant different types of Hostas in those margins and possibly some of the red leafed and non fruit bearing banana plants for height.

 

[Imsobored152]

Id thought about blue hostas under my oak, but they might work up there. How tall do these banana trees get? We get hurricanes, would rather not have a banana tree crash thru my roof. The giant hostas would look good under the oak tree

 

[krichardson]

Id thought about blue hostas under my oak, but they might work up there. How tall do these banana trees. get? We get hurricanes, would rather not have a banana tree crash thru my roof. The giant hostas would look good under the oak tree

Lol,the bananas that I use only grow to about five feet and the main trunk gets to be about the diameter of a silver dollar coin at the most.Look into the Princess Wu Hosta.It takes a few years but it grows pretty big like a bush.You could place one on either side of your door.

 

[Wailua Boy]

All grown via aquaponics. The water lilies were supplemented with ferts

 

[Vicious_Fish]

^ You just reminded me that I need to plant strawberries in the spring! I'm sick of buying them from the store.

I grow 3 types of blueberries, huckleberries, gooseberries, 2 types of goji berries, blackberries, 3 types of raspberries, honeyberries yet no strawberries. I'd like to try growing some pineberries too.

 

[krichardson]

I grow 3 types of blueberries, huckleberries, gooseberries, 2 types of goji berries, blackberries, 3 types of raspberries, honeyberries yet no strawberries. I'd like to try growing some pineberries too.

I have a tree in my backyard that bears some kind of berries.I think they are blackberries....no one else in the family eats them but I eat every one of them that I can reach lol.