Member profile for kimbakerink
 Gardening since 1995
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I am an 18 year old gardener. My earliest memories of gardening take me back to when I was 2 or 3. My dad had a garden in the backyard of our house. The main things I remember are cherry tomatoes, rhubard, and eating ants! haha. I am strictly organic and non-GMO when it comes to gardening and food. I buy most all of my food from local sources, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, dairy. Last summer season I grew vegetables on 1/4 of an acre of land to sell at my local farmers market. At the moment I have a small home garden. I have been an apprentice at a local farm and food store since September 2010. My dream is to one day create my dream homestead. I currently live in Murphys, California. I have been with my boyfriend for four years. (He is a firefighter.) I believe I have a vast amount of knowledge that needs to be shared with everyone. Gardening and cooking are my passions. They will be part of my life forever.
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Building my Dream Angels Camp, CA
I just moved to this house in November. The zone is 8b even though it says 7a. I can tell that the garden beds were not organic because of the undecomposed particles of blue here and there. I have been working on the beds since I moved here. Adding mycorhizzae and...
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Kim's House Angels Camp, CA
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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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Narrow St. Garden Atlanta, GA
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USilly
I want to get so good at this so I can really rely on my garden more than the grocery store. Gardening is complicated & easy, definitely interesting, full of rewards, & Peaceful.
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Dalmau Garden Pioneer, CA
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Nicolle
My garden was built when we received our stimulus check 4 years ago from Uncle Sam. We bought some deer fencing, top soil, lumber, and concrete. Our Uncle had some some extra wood left over from cement forms from a...
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Arthur Avenue Fresno, CA
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ArthurAvenue
I have gardened all my life, food and flowers. At my current address, I used to put food out back, flowers up front. Now due to water shortage, I only grow things I can eat along with some native drought tolerant...
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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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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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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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Tabby's Balcony Decatur, GA
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Strayer
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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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GMO FREE Garden Littleton, CO
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mbkahler
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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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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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Our Village Garden in France France
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Lynn
I'm an American living in a village in rural Burgundy. The garden at the 15th century stone farmhouse we renovated is 3 years old. Come on over to the Southern Fried French blog,http://www.southernfriedfrench.com, to...
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pride and joy Guyton, GA
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sharper092
I have blueberries, blackberries, figs, loquats, apples, pears, pomegranates, asparagus, horseradish, vegetables, herbs, ornamentals.... and always trying something new.
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Fertile Turtle - Charlotte NC Charlotte, NCA turtle topiary inspired the name of this backyard raised bed organic salad vegetable garden. We have 6 4'X8' beds, a few half-barrels, compost, etc. The garden was started beginning in 2010. I first built the compost...
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Fluffy's Garden Forest Datil, NM
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Jonille
My garden is in raised beds as we have so many different critters waiting to taste it every summer. It has to be totally enclosed to protect it from Elk, deer and birds. Every summer when I plant I look out over the...
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Heritage Harvest Communal Garden Hastings, MNLocated on the grounds of an historic 1860's limestone mansion, the Heritage Harvest Communal Garden is a place to showcase heritage varieties of food plants, teach gardening through first-hand experience, commune with...
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Heritage Harvest Communal Garden Hastings, MNLocated on the grounds of an historic 1860's limestone mansion, the Heritage Harvest Communal Garden is a place to showcase heritage varieties of food plants, teach gardening through first-hand experience, commune with...
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Stoney Slope Johnson City, TN
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groovylu73
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Pacific Northwest Mercer Island, WA
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bdestro
Initially my garden was jam packed with anything I could get to grow from seeds or starts, vegetables, herbs & flowers. I had quite back yard space for growing until we decided to keep chickens. Fencing wars...
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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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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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Suburban Homestead Kyle, TXWe began with a 4 X 8 bed, constructed of posts and 2 X 10s. Two more appeared through the diligence of my spouse. Compost constructed of old pallets and rigorously used. Fruit trees recently planted to the tune...
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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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Longview Hill Farm Ellington, CTAs a child I gardened with my family so it was no surprise that I started my own small garden when my husband and I bought our first house together in 2008. Each year my garden has expanded in both size and variety. ...
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Tallulah's Veggie Patch Columbia, KYA community garden veggie patch, at the hands of an inexperienced city dweller!
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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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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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Sugar Bee Shire La Verne, CA
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malcakes25
Our garden consists of multiple raised beds located in Sugar Bee Shire aka the backyard. Within our little wonderland you will find a variety of heirloom plants! Take a peek around, you never know what you may find!
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Stone Cottage Farm Garden 2012 Mayville, MIHi! I'm the Stone Cottage Farm Garden 2012! I was brand new two years ago when Farmer Dave and Farmer Christina broke new ground in what used to be the back farm yard. I'm hoping this year, now that they got their 2011...
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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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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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The Heirloom Garden of Eatin' Tacoma, WAI 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...
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The Heirloom Garden of Eatin' Tacoma, WAI 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...
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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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Snow White's Cottage Garden Mogadore, OHGardening 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...
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Williams Cinder Block Raised Bed Garden Williams, CA
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Davean
I started vegetable gardening in 1980 with long tilled rows...1/2 an acre. In 1990 I switched over to raised beds using railroad ties. In 2010 I changed over to cinder blocks and have fallen in love with them. ...
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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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Dr. Greenthumb's Rockwall, TX
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joeythejoe
II remember gardening as a child with my grandparents. As I go older I wanted to have a small garden of my own to grow different vegetables and enjoy the outdoors. I have 100Sq/ft garden that I try and grow anything...
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The Back Quarter Riverton, UT
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Gene
1/4 acre plot with fruit trees and a large garden with seven 10x4ft beds and 150+ spots for melons, squash and other large plants. I focus rather heavily on tomatoes, sweet peppers, watermelon, muskmelon, cucumbers,...
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An Heirloom Jungle Weldon, CA
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HorseLady
My garden started out just about 20 sq. ft. Eight years later it is closer to 5000 sq. ft. and gets to be about 10 ft tall in several areas. No chemicals or synthetics are used but the silty clay has been amended with...
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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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Go Green Garden Hastings, NE
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doggirl
My garden is a refuge for me to connect with nature and perform physical work that my body seems to crave especially in the spring and summer months. I love growing a garden and watching small things turn into large...
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Sunnypatch Bayou Westwego, LAThis is my very first garden and it is a work in progress. Sunnypatch Bayou got it's name because it is a little patch of sunshine in a marshy world. After working in the landscape nursery for so long I finally have...
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Gardening behind the Garage Pearland, TX
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julia42
We have an average sized suburban lot which is mostly dedicated to the antics of our three busy boys. The 15' x 25' area behind the garage was pretty worthless lawn, though, so I spent last year converting it into...
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Three Little Birds Market Garden Woodbury, NJ
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Jessaboo
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...
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The Skinny Hippie Heirloom Garden Holland, MI
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mdubs
Two years ago my family moved to a under-resourced community to help with community organizing and community development. Getting the neighbors to trust us was our first big obstacle to overcome. Even though I had never...
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2011 Flint Hills Kansas Junction City, KS |
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Sweet Beginnings Hastings, MNFrom an old, unused sandbox to 64 square feet of raised bed vegetable garden goodness. Est. 2010
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GMO's Butler, PAWhat better place to get informed than on yourgardenshow.com because we all live on this planet together ! A "Conspiracy Theory" isn't a theory if it's true ! We all have to make up our own minds. ☺
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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
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| Favorite gardening books: | The Vegetable Gardeners Bible, Teaming with Microbes, Mary Janes Farm Magazine |
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| Favorite vegetable: | melons and eggplant |
| Favorite flower: | Sunflower |
| Favorite tree / shrub: | Oak |
| Gardening organizations: | Local garden club and Other |
| Favorite park / arboreteum: | Taylor Mountain Farm |
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