I actually used to. :] We have sorta have 2 gardens? One in the back and one in le front. Front one is bigger but because of the mango and banana trees it doesn't get much sunlight so we mostly to the planting in pots in the back. (Someone thought it would be nice to cover it all with cement)
Around an year ago I planted a Rose, Chili and a Capsicum tree. It actually went pretty well. The Capsicum tree gave us quite a lot of capsicum before something happened to it. My aunt says it got sick and died.. O.o I'm not sure if that actually happened or if she just wanted more pots to grow Chili murdered it along with the Rose tree (R.I.P I loved you.)
Yea... After my aunt took over it kinda went all.. Chili.. Needless to say, we a LOT of Chili at home!
I also planted this 'glue' tree. I'm not sure what it's called but its fruit could be used as glue! We also have a passion fruit tree. It's vines are started to cover up the whole house but it still haven't even given us one fruit! Same as the mango tree we have! 2 years and nothing! Flowers have started to grow but that happened last year too and it all died.
My aunt's current project is growing sweet potato and lemon. :]
I've been actually wanting to plant some carrot and tomatoes!

Last edited by malu (2013-06-25 12:20:31)

I love gardening! I have a flower garden, and until very recently had a vegetable garden also. Now my vegetables and herbs, or those of them that survived, have been moved into my flower gardens. (our backyard is a disaster right now since we're excavating to the house foundations to fix some basement water issues, so my veggie garden got covered in piles of dirt).

The flower garden that received most of the veggies and herbs. Today everything's already a lot bigger, and this was only taken 2 weeks ago:


The other flower gardens with their new additions:


One of my giant alliums. My sister gave me a bulb from it two years ago for my birthday, and this year two of them came up :)


I can't remember the name of this one...gazania, maybe?


I think this one's a zinnia?


Absolutely no clue on the name of this one, but I think they're so cute:



I love gardening - love getting my fingers in the dirt and seeing the progress of my little plants. I started a whole bunch of flowers from seed in the bigger front garden, and they're coming along so nicely - I can't wait to see all kinds of flowers in there! When we moved in, that garden was basically just a few ugly shrubs - so not my style!

snortmort wrote:

I love gardening! I have a flower garden, and until very recently had a vegetable garden also. Now my vegetables and herbs, or those of them that survived, have been moved into my flower gardens. (our backyard is a disaster right now since we're excavating to the house foundations to fix some basement water issues, so my veggie garden got covered in piles of dirt).

Those flowers looks amazing! :O I have to look into some flowers that grow in tropical weather. It's hard finding things that will tolerate sun all year round without many cold days.

Ooww snortmort's are so pretty!
Well, I have a garden too although it's mostly my mom who takes care of it. Inside the house we have some white and purple orchidaes on the kitchen window, they look so beautiful when they bloom and we also have basil for the summer meals.

On the front yard we have a huge daisy bush, a rose bush and something that looks like a Dahlia. Next to the outside walls, gates and the veranda we have some bushy trees and what we call "morena" (moraine/brunette) which gives green and yellow leaves. Along the garage path we have white jars (I think that's the name), lavender and cry babies. Oh and these silvester ones that give yellow and hot pink flowers!

On the back yard, the cement part has one of those silvester flowers and on the land part we have lemon, orange, clementine, tangerine, apple and persimmon trees and also a huge chayote. And then we try some cherry tomatoes, pumpkins, lettuce and cabbage, sometimes we're lucky enough and the chicken won't eat them ahahah!

I love gardening but apparently gardening doesnt love me. Everytime i tried to grow something , nothing happened. Anywho, my sister grew some vegetables in our backyard and my grandfather loves to grow stuff.
He visited when i was 6 and made a garden the length of our backyard. That was really fun ^^
We've grown
Garbanzo beans
Zucchini
Radish
Garlic
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cilantro
Mint
Onion
Eggplant
Green beans

Ahhh sunflowers are so pretty! The grocery lady next to me has a garden that follows the path to her store and when the sunflowers open up it is ssooooo pretty! It's so yellow and it gives that warm feeling.

Sunflower greens? I've never heard of it! It's good for salads?

Wow! It's looking good Harajukukiki! :D Can't wait to see it all bloomed!

I have started gardening this year big time, I have a few things growing. Here are some pictures. I will add more when I get the chance! Enjoy!!

Omo! Fairy's flowers have such a pretty color! -puns- Fairy is a gardening fairy! Is Harajukukiki her aprentice or something~?

I shall try sunflower greens someday then~!

fairykisses wrote:

I have started gardening this year big time, I have a few things growing. Here are some pictures. I will add more when I get the chance! Enjoy!!

How long did it take for the corn to get to that point? :O The only food I'm growing now is carrots. I'd try something bigger if I had the space.

Also, does anyone know what it means when a plant gets a purple stem?
I read it has to do with the plant being stressed. It's plausible since I just transplanted my sunflowers. My sunflowers aren't droopy but their stems have been purple all day and it's worrying me.

The top plant's stem isn't as dark as the bottom plant. I put them in the dirt under the mulch.

Last edited by harajukukiki (2013-07-08 23:05:23)

That is really fast for corn, or maybe it's a special fast-growing kind.  :-)  "Knee-high by the 4th of July" is the standard measurement goal for growing corn where I am.  It usually grows as tall as a person before cobs start appearing.