Member profile for SolarBizzi
 Gardening since 1972
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Greetings!
My footprints began making tracks in my parents garden when I was a toddler. As I grew older, I learned to pull weeds and harvest. My favorites were the raspberries (eat 2, put 1 in bowl, eat 2), peas popped right from the pod, rhubarb and radishes. When I wandered the property and hillsides, I was driven to take apart and study most any flower, leaf, and seed head I came across. I learned about poison ivy very early. When grown, living away from home, I began developing my first gardens. My addiction was strong! Expanding beyond what I could turn over with a shovel. Canning vegetables followed my desire to put up fruits for storage. Decades have passed and my husband has generously helped me with setting up raised beds, drip systems, deer fencing, gates, and clearing brush with the tractor. The gardens are new to this property, and the last couple of years has been greatly challenged with hands watering, hungry deer, rattle snakes, black widow spiders, and loads of buried rocks! It is coming together, and this 2012 season I expect more organization, routine watering, deer hedged by the 6 foot fencing, and timing. Will report back as the weeks progress! Cheers! ~ Avis
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Ravis Retreat Winthrop, WA
Heirloom plants were first iintroduced to our garden during 2011 growing season. The existing pictures are from that harvest.Growing season 2012 is expected to be more heirloom plants than the previous year, but I will not know until I talk with the local growers...
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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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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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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
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