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Gardening since 2012
  • Name: Gardening Nell
  • Location: Moline, IL
  • Gardening experience: I plant something each year
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Nell's New House Moline, IL

After several years of apartment life and container gardening, we have a real house and a real garden plot! This year I'm planting an organic heirloom garden.  I ordered almost all my seeds from Baker Creek this year.  (I love them!)  I'm excited to learn and... » more
  • Last updated: June 13, 2012
  • Garden type: Grow It Forward: Heirloom

new house Moline, IL

  • Last updated: March 16, 2012
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Our Grounds Des Moines, IA

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

Allotment on the dike Schellingwoude, Netherlands

by Claire
After years of being on the waiting list, on 4 June 2011 I finally got a garden allotment (known as volkstuin in Dutch). It's just a 15-minute bike ride from home, at the back of an old Dutch dike - and has a little...

Boston Fenway Victory Garden Boston, MA

by Kristen
In the early spring the daffodils and tulips start to poke out of the ground...the 2 lilac bushes begin their blooms soon after. During mid-May, I begin to add veggie, herb, and annual plantings. Also, my parents bring...

jjs Cle Elum, WA

by JJS
simple

The Green Gardener in Herald, California Herald, CA

Greetings from Herald, CA. Located just South East of Sacramento by 20 miles. Millions of grape vines cover the Herald landscape and vegetables grow well here with a good compost pile to nourish our Green Garden....

Patterns of Growth Fremont, CA

My garden is my art, literally. I grow plants so I can photograph them in new and interesting ways. There is such a variety of plants in the San Francisco Bay Area and I pluck not only from my yard, but along the trail...

JJS 2012 Cle Elum, WA

by JJS
Back yard garden

Veggie Newbie Newtown, PA

by amt27
This is the first time I'll be growing vegetables.  Unfortunately we live in a townhome community with an HOA, so to keep on the down low (because vegetable gardens are no-no's), will be putting up a 3'x6' raised bed...

A Beginner's Garden Grand Rapids, MI

by Krisden
When I was in the 6th grade, we grew cherry tomatoes in styrofoam cups as part of an in-class science project. There was something amazing and magical about that little green sprout popping out of the dirt and my sixth-grade...

MEG's Heirloom Kitchen Garden Indianapolis, IN

My garden is a tiny plot in the middle of suburbia, filled with a lovely array of heirloom veggies.  I love heirlooms, and am committed to sharing their beauty, superb taste, and rich history.

Tornado alley Louisville, KY

Moving  to Kentucky Spring of 2013 (Yay-tis a zone warmer!!)   High hopes that my Tornado Ally garden grows happy in it's new home.   Kentucky allows Chickens-Whoot Whoot!!

Snow White's Cottage Garden Mogadore, OH

Gardening is always on my mind. When I can't be in it, I'm thinking of it. Heirloom seeds with a story make me weak in the knees as well as old garden tools. We moved to our lil cottage in 2010 and have begun the garden...

Three Little Birds Market Garden Woodbury, NJ

A combo of flowers, vegetables, fruit, one bee hive, three chickens, and whoever else happens along (hummingbirds!!!!). Mostly heirloom, all organic. Although YourGardenShow wants to make me in Zone 6b, we're really...

Heirloom Veggie Patch Cedar City, UT

It is not a big veggie patch. Just a small piece of real estate that keeps us in Fresh vegetables and fruit come fall. This year I am trying to plant at least half the garden with heirloom plants and seeds

CompanionPlantingCowGirl Centerville, TX

My garden is 10 foot by 19 foot and has flax, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash, gourds, borage, onions and lettuce.  

The Dirt Mama's Garden Woodstock, GA

I inherited my love of gardening from my father, who plopped me down in the dirt next to him as soon as I was old enough to sit up.  This particular Dirt Mama's Garden has been evolving since 2003 when we bought this...

CompanionPlantingCowGirl Centerville, TX

My garden is 10 foot by 19 foot and has flax, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash, gourds, borage, onions and lettuce.  

YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA

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