Member profile for Queen_of_Green
 Gardening since 1977
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I LOVE plants! I especially like growing plants from seed and cuttings and watching all of the different stages they go through to become mature.
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Susan's Plots - Franklin Park Community Garden Tacoma, WA
This garden is part of Franklin Park Community Garden in Tacoma, WA. I adopted and built up this part of the garden on an unusable space. It was full of 4 foot tall quack grass and weeds and 2/3 of it under water during the winter. I have built the soil up over...
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The Heirloom Garden of Eatin' Tacoma, WA
I redesigned my vegetable garden last year at Franklin Park Community Garden with the Vegetable Garden Planner on Mother Earth News. I am implementing the full plan this season and it will be a lot easier to tend and maintain with this new plan. I grow lots of organic...
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Our Grounds Des Moines, IAOrnamental, 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...
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UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
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Allotment on the dike Schellingwoude, Netherlands
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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...
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Boston Fenway Victory Garden Boston, MA
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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...
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Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CAWelcome to the Insect News Network on YourGardenShow! The I.N.N. travels the globe to learn how people think and feel about our 6- and 8-legged friends. The I.N.N. is a non-stop, multi-media interdisciplinary plunge...
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The Green Gardener in Herald, California Herald, CAGreetings 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....
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Patterns of Growth Fremont, CAMy 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...
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Garden Shanty Boone, NC
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riverwood27
Our garden started in the spring of 2004. The same time the house was started. The first order of business was to start the asparagus bed, which now heavily produces in early spring.The grounds consist of several...
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Steven's West L.A. Bio-intensive Urban Mini-Farm Los Angeles, CAThis is the story (in pictures and words) of the transformationof my 3,000 square ft. childhood backyard in West Los Angeles, from a shadedfield of weeds and 50 foot trees into a sun-soaked, Bio-intensive, urbanmini-farm....
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KCMS Victory Garden Chestertown, MDThis is the only vegetable-producing public school garden on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is maintained by middle school students and serves the needs of low income children and families in the community. Established...
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Beautiful and Bountiful Woodacre, CAI've been working on my garden for 20 years. After raising 3 sons, it's changed from a play yard with lawn to an edible landscape, with native plants, bee and hummingbird gardens and a vegetable garden camouflaged...
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Working Mom's Vegetable Garden Wilmington, DEI grow food to feed my family and teach my kids. We preserve as much as we are able for the winter months when average grocery store veggies taste like card board.
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Chiz Gardens Monroe, MI
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Liz
Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...
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Love Community Garden Muskegon, MIFor the people and by the people in downtown Muskegon, Michigan. We deliver food to home bound seniors while also having 12 families who grow all natural food for home use. We have started a fruit crop with strawberries,...
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Gardenerd Test Garden Los Angeles, CA
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Gardenerd
This is my 12 x 17 foot garden where I test out new varieties and experiment with new growing techniques. In recent years, I've grown popping corn, quinoa, garbanzo beans, brown mustard seed, "coastal" tomatoes, Cavolo...
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One Woman's Gardening Addiction Greentown, PAOrganically grown veggies, fruits, herbs, a few edible flowers plus our backyard flock provide much of what our family needs each year.
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Belinda's Secret Garden Rangeley, ME
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mainegarden
My ex-husband and I got back together...while I was selling my house, he built this beautiful veggie garden and the greenhouse/potting shed in lieu of a diamond....
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Trailer Park Homestead Webberville, MI
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ThriftyMama
I don't let just having a trailer park lot to plant on stop me from having an impressive garden. I use a combination of containers, square foot gardening, and planting in small plots throughout the entire yard to...
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Gidget's Garden San Diego, CAWe are an urban garden in the historic district of Golden Hill near downtown San Diego. Gidget is a cat, it is her garden and we are just the caretakers. We grow the majority of our own vegetables and offer extremely...
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Black Hills Garden and Greenhouse Hill City, SDWe started in 2008 with about 100 square feet of raised beds and since we have expanded to about 500 square feet of garden space and 100 square feet of greenhouse space. The garden lies at 6000 feet elevation and...
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Raritan Campus Employee Garden Raritan, NJ
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5ue
Our slogan is "Growing a Community at Work". We started our employee "community" garden in June 2010 with 16 garden plots. By 2011, it had grown to 31 plots with 60 plus gardeners. It has been hugely successful...
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Small town,big garden(Hidden hare Homestead) Webberville, MI
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leera21
This is our second season gardening here,as we slowly build and complete garden beds,the garden will just get better and better.We currently have 2 3/4 done in raised beds surrounded with cinder blocks sides(we ran...
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Little House In Midtown Sacramento, CA
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Katrina
In 2008 we moved to our home in the middle of one of Sacramento's oldest neighborhood. The backyard was overgrown and unkempt. We began the slow process of removing old dying trees and weeds. A shovel at a time we leveled...
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In the Midst of Cornfields Rochester, ILI have both a small potager in raised beds and a front herb garden for medicinal plants. I also raise some tree and small fruits, shrubs and trees.
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My Very-dynamic-organic vegetables West Palm Beach, FL
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Italian1
Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers plantains,bananas,mangoes,papaya,anona ,avocados,limes ,yucca.and herbs. What we don't eat fresh we can. Started this garden back in 2005. Began with just a few plants from the local...
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My Beautiful SFG Potager Maynard, MA
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AmberP
I set out to prove that kitchen gardens could be beautiful as well as productive. I designed my space using traditional raised bed potager elements combined with the intensive Square Foot Gardening method. My garden...
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Our Rude Awakenings Alaska Garden Palmer, AK
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kathymccown
Our garden at this home started two years ago when we moved here. We can't use any poisons for bugs because we also have bees. So we plowed up the spot where the previous owners kept their horses, and we have not...
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Fats Green Garden Chambersburg, PA
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Tine
I bought my grandparents home in 2005 after they both passed away. The backyard was mostly grass and a few mature trees. Over the years, I've planted perennials, evergreens and flowers. Soon after, I started a small...
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Recession Obsession Union Pier, MI
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krandolph
No money to fix up the house, so we're using it as the best garden shed in town... saving seeds, trading plants and produce with friends, shoveling up manure from our neighbor's horse, harvesting bamboo for next year's...
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Nacton Farm Victoria, CanadaSmall market garden that specializes in all the things the big farms don't grow, including Asian greens, edible flowers, and year round vegetables.The best thing about keeping a garden, is all the fresh food one...
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Pastor Bob's hunger garden Des Moines, IAA new, young garden for growing vegetables to be donated to groups in Des Moines that help the hungry, especially children. No digging, no tilling. The first step was yesterday (Sept 6, 2010). Eight of us spread newspapers...
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Lilly of the Valley Cincinnati, OHCurrently I have two organic raised garden-beds in the backyard just about 20 to 25 feet down from where my fish pond sits with the pergola I built last year towering over it. Its a beautiful sight to see and hear when...
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Arkansas Kitchen Garden Clarksville, AR
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PapaD
We started landscaping with herbs and native flowering plants for a butterfly garden for my mother-in-law. Then we added a rain harvesting system off the front of the house which has proven to be very productive…...
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~ Organic garden with Chicken moat~ Heron, MT
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GardenGirrl
My husband and I built this garden 3 years ago, using mostly reclaimed materials.
The two chicken coops with seperate runs bordering the garden was designed to keep the grasshoppers (that were eating my garden...
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Susan's Plots - Franklin Park Community Garden Tacoma, WAThis garden is part of Franklin Park Community Garden in Tacoma, WA. I adopted and built up this part of the garden on an unusable space. It was full of 4 foot tall quack grass and weeds and 2/3 of it under water during...
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Verdant Paradise Mystic, CT
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Ian-Cooke
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My passion Randolph, NJ
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tinam
I call my garden my passion because that is exactly what it is. Gardening as been something I have been involved in in form or another most of my life. I am so passionate about gardening that I started my own design...
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Ramos' Disorganized Garden Floresville, TX
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Clenram
The success of our gardening has been great, with some disappointments due to the learning curve. We are learning what we can do when we have 4 months of temperatures over 100 and no rain. Our soil is all sand! We...
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Bohemian Garden Monroe, MI
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Liz
My vegetable garden is getting a makeover this year! Not only will I be growing more heirlooms, but the area where they will be growing will have a Bohemian flair.....colorful, artsy, fun, and perhaps a bit of the...
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East Texas Linden, TX
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RoriTx
We grow,can or freeze 90% of all the vegetables we eat. I've decided to start saving our own seeds so this year we will plant as many heirloom varieties as we can.Breaking News:Facebook you've been replaced!
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Blue Barn Acres Merced, CA
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KellyB
We're trying to grow as much of our own food as we can. It's year 1 on this property. After an almost rainless winter, our small continuous harvest feels gratifying. But it's only the tip of the iceberg.
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toppenish family organic garden Toppenish, WA
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JMTKMS
We started this garden in 2010 and could not believe the harvest!!! We expanded in 2011 and now we are exhausted because the harvest was so much more. We are completely organic and feel that this is so helpful for...
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Lisaland Otricoli, ItalyThis is the continuation of the Le Corone garden here on YourGardenShow, renamed in Lisa's honor. We want to carry on her legacy of great gardening practices and it's going to take a few of us to do it. The team here...
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A bit of earth Whittier, CAUp until 2012, I have been gardening in pots and in flower beds. We have recently purchased a house and last weekend I dug out a 24 square foot bed which I intend to follow with 2 more of the same size for edibles...
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Millie's Heirloom Junction City, KSUpdate: We just moved into a new farmhouse. I'm hoping to make it a grand scale garden escape with fruit trees, vineyards, berry patches and flowers! Can't wait to play in my garden for the next 20 years!I started...
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The Dirt Mama's Garden Woodstock, GA
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TheDirtMama
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...
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The Brenton Arboretum in Iowa Dallas Center, IAThis spacious young public garden devoted to trees and shrubs is still a teenager but the trees (2,000 to-date, more to come) have taken hold and are growing strongly--their presence shows across the long vistas of...
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Garden Inspirations Monroe, MI
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Liz
I love to garden. Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens. Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden.
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Green Kathleen's Chicken Junction Arlington, TXMy garden began with one raised bed. I grew up in Ohio where you could pretty much stick a plant in the ground and it would grow. I now live in Texas where the "soil" is not soil. Its clay. I think they...
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Cypress Lake Ranch Bonham, TX
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sreece
This is my 4th year of gardening commercially. I use natural pest controls and organic fertilizer in my raised beds. This year I am trying out the Mittleider method of gardening in some of my beds. The production is...
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At the farm Thorhild County, Canada
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gailsgarden
Several of my siblings and I have a garden on my brothers' farm. I grow vegetables, herbs, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and saskatoon berries. I also have a Romeo Cherrie tree and an unproductive hazel nut...
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Prince Snow Farm Mattapoisett, MA
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PrinceSnow
Our garden is a true extension of our desire to grow healthy food for our family and friends without the use of chemicals. And this year, NO GMO's! Wahoo!!!!
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Paula's New House Glen Burnie, MD
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jupiter
I bought my first home in January of this year. I am so excited to grow all the things I was limited to in pots. I have had 4 raised beds built and am trying my hand at really growing for the first time without so...
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House at Shepard Lane Hollow Rock, TN
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knitowl
There are two main areas, one is established and the place most of our food is grown, the other is a new place to experiment with and learn about breaking new ground. We call them the 'fenced garden' and the 'west...
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Veebee's Kitchen Garden Davenport, NY
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veebee
This year 2012 will be the third season of my organically grown 20'x25' fenced kitchen garden. My garden grows primarily in raised beds and along vertical trellising, all surrounded with a diverse herb border. ...
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Little Piece of Paradise Christiansted, VI
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Solis
I came to St. Croix anticipating food shortages and global social unrest. Two years later, that is all coming true! Under the tutelage of a 72-year-old Puerto Rican farmer, I have learned to grow most of my vegetables...
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Phytopod Vertical Garden New York, NY
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phytopodia
One of two Phytopods I grew at the back of my apartment building on Riverside Drive
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Gail's gardens Fort Saskatchewan, Canada
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gailsgarden
My garden is always evolving and this year I am almost starting from scratch. When we sold our old house I split some of my perrenials and took them with me. As our new house was not ready until this year, I planted...
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Quite Contrary Paintshop 2013 Butler, PAWhere do the years go ? I'm excited for my new Michigan plants to grow this year, sent from a dear friend that I met here on YGS. ☺
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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
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| Favorite gardening books: | Sunset Western Garden book, Vegetable Gardener's Bible, Square Foot Gardening (1st edition), The Edible Salad Garden |
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| Favorite vegetable: | Tomato |
| Favorite flower: | Tall Summer Phlox |
| Favorite tree / shrub: | Doublefile Viburnum |
| Gardening organizations: | Local community garden and Local Garden Center |
| Favorite park / arboreteum: | University of Washington Arboreteum |
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