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Gardening since 2000
  • Name: Belinda Mansfield
  • Location: Rangeley, ME
  • Gardening experience: I plant something each year
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I love to garden..especially starting from seeds..there is something about seeing the first leaves pop out of the ground...turn into a plant and then into a vegetable that you eat, can, freeze or share...somehow it always seems to taste better when it is yours.
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Belinda's Secret Garden Rangeley, ME

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.... » more
  • Last updated: June 16, 2013
  • Garden type: back yard

Mother Nature's Garden & Guests Rangeley, ME

Have you ever looked at the colors of a forest in fall, or watched the water tumble down some rocks, look at a view and think wow...Mother Nature did this...or watch the wild animals and their beauty??? » more
  • Last updated: July 24, 2012
  • Garden type: forest

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...

Your Entomolo-Garden Oakland, CA

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jjs Cle Elum, WA

by JJS
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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...

One Woman's Gardening Addiction Greentown, PA

Organically grown veggies, fruits, herbs, a few edible flowers plus our backyard flock provide much of what our family needs each year.

Love Community Garden Muskegon, MI

For 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,...

Ricks Organic Bel Air, MD

Garden on granite Boothbay Harbor, ME

Not my garden...a splendid young public garden in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, located in the mid-coast region, where the glaciers scraped the granite clean and gouge north-south canyon spaced close together that give the...

All Around the House Evanston, IL

My gardens began in earnest in 1990. I began tearing up the backyard and over the years it has undergone many transformations, including a major renovation in the summer of 2011. I then began tearing up the front lawn...

Le Corone Otricoli (TR), Italy

by Tom
This is our farm. We bought it in June of 2005 and immediately started to work on it. This year (2012) I renamed Le Corone to Lisaland. Please visit there to see our garden this year. Happy Gardening!

Trailer Park Homestead Webberville, MI

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...

Garden Shanty Boone, NC

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...

Black Hills Garden and Greenhouse Hill City, SD

We 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...

KCMS Victory Garden Chestertown, MD

This 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...

Jeanie and Adam's Victory Garden Katy, TX

Adam and I have been together for over 4 years . When we met we hit it off immediately!  We decided to grow a garden together.  We both have experience with gardening.  We decided on vegetables because we both like...

~ Organic garden with Chicken moat~ Heron, MT

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...

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...

YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA

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Favorite gardening books: The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, The Garden Primer, Greenhouse Gardener's Companion
Favorite vegetable: How can you play favorite?
Favorite flower: too many to list
Favorite tree / shrub: Red Bud...
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Favorite park / arboreteum: Maine Botanical Gardens

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  • linzelu100 replied about 1 year ago
    Wow! Your garden is amazing! Like a scene out of a good book :)
    mainegarden replied about 1 year ago
    @linzelu100:You are too kind.  Manley built it for me and I do love it.  The little pumpkin in the picture with you is one cutie!
    linzelu100 replied about 1 year ago
    @mainegarden: Thank you :)
    BeeGuiled replied over 1 year ago
    CONGRATULATIONS...! You do have a lovely place. I'm happy you received editor's choice.Jersey Giant looks good, but I am in Texas and not sure how it will tolerate the heat.  I'll bet it would do well for you, in Maine. Good luck...looking forward to seeing more of your beautiful garden.
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @BeeGuiled:Thank you, I love my garden, Manley did a wonderful job...all the gardens on this site are amazing!  I will have to look into Jersey Giant..I appreciate the tip..
    Slate prairie paradise replied over 1 year ago
    BELINDA!  I just heard that you won editor's choice!  Congratulations...!
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @Slate prairie paradise:Thank you, I was very surprised..but happy for Manley...he did such a good job....but EVERYONE did a great job!!!  You especially....I have missed you.  I know that you are really busy Angie.
    Slate prairie paradise replied over 1 year ago
    @mainegarden: I am finally done, and, miraculously, ended up on the Honor roll!!  I have a break until January 9 and I am savoring it.  I just read this incredibly inspiring and enjoyable book caled "The Dirty Life" by Kristin Kimball--you should check it out for pleasure reading!  It's about a couple that starts a farm from scratch.  It was just what I needed to get out of the science-and-policy-minded reading I have been doing for school!  It sparked my interest in having a dairy cow again, but my husband says no. :)
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @Slate prairie paradise:Angie, Of course you were on the honor roll...you are a smart cookie...I'll have to check that book out.  Have you ever read "The Good Life" by Helen and Scott Nearing?  I love animals and having them but I can't raise anything to eat.  I can't kill/eat anything I have raised.  What am I saying, I can't kill ANYTHING...
    BeeGuiled replied over 1 year ago
    Have you gotten the catalog from Baker Creek Seeds yet?  I must say it is the BEST seed catalog i have ever had.  It's like a magazine!  I spent the afternoon today planing the garden for spring.  I'm going to try successive separate planti... of rare tomatoes this year, to keep from cross pollination. Jersey Giant sounds delicious!  Hope it grows in the south. The seed catalog has instructions for saving tomatoe seed.  And if you but their book, you get 12 issues of their magazine for free. Sorry, sounds like a commercial.  I don't work for them, just enjoy their seeds.  Jersey Giant is a GREAT paste tomato!
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @BeeGuiled:Thanks for the info, I appreciate ANY and ALL recommendations.........  I'm pretty loyal to Fedco and Johnny's for the majority of my seeds...because they are both in Maine. (You have to try their catalogs) However I order catalogs all the time and get a pkg or two of 'odd' things from others.  I Just enjoy "experimenting" and I'm not always successful...for instance blue poppies.  I do have a Baker Creek seed catalog, you are right it is wonderful...I'm on the hunt for an indeterminate, disease resistant, great tasting paste tomato...I'll have to check out your Jersey Giant....
    Entomolo-garden replied over 1 year ago
    Hi Belinda - Glad to find your profile, and to learn your passion for the garden.  I am helping spread the buzzzz about this weekend's Bee-A-Thon 2011 encore - please tell your friends! Thanks.   www.yourgardenshow.com/bee-a-thon
    BeeGuiled replied over 1 year ago
    Hi Belinda, I saw your post on another garden asking her where she gets her seeds.  I buy mine online at several different sites. Baker Creek heirloom seeds are terrific!  I do buy from other sites also. They also sell larger quantities.  Go to Rareseeds.com.  They have a lot of unusual varieties.  I bought purple artichokes to try this spring...and lots of others.  If you find a better site, would you please let me know.  I always like a bargain!That's my grandson and daughter in the pic you commented on.  I hope they will both be gardeners on their own.  Right now they just help Grandma.
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @BeeGuiled:Thank you for the info..I just ordered a catalog.  I like getting the catalogs but I do try to buy fairly local (in Maine)...although if it is something special, I go outside...I tried to grow Blue Poppies once...not successful..I am on a mission to look for a paste tomato that can grow inside a greenhouse...thank you again
    Slate prairie paradise replied over 1 year ago
    Belinda, your garden is so beautiful!  I see your husband has spoiled you much like mine has...when I get compliments on my garden I always say it is only through his hard work that I can even have a garden!  I am sure you spoil him right back! :) Gardening from seed is absolutely the best way to go; the rewards are so much sweeter when you were involved from the very beginning.  This year I am saving my first seeds.  I look forward to seeing more!
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @Slate prairie paradise:I haven't done the 'seed saving' yet...thank you for the comment on the Gardens...he has done a beautiful job...I plant/maintain but he built them...we spoil them by just being 'us' right LOL.
    kathymccown replied over 1 year ago
    That is so funny about you remarrying your ex.  I did the same thing.  You know the deBeers diamond commercial, "it says he'd marry you all over again?"   We don't need the diamonds, they DID marry us all over again!
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    @kathymccown: We didn't re-marry..that is where we got in trouble last time...maybe when we are in our 80's LOL
    kathymccown replied over 1 year ago
    @mainegarden: Ya, we had said we would get married when the kids finished college, but we did it anyway.  I kinda feel like it's in the heart and why do we have to have this dumb government contract, but the insurance people are just now recognizing "domestic partners."  Personally, I don't consider myself very domestic, as I would rather run wild in the outdoors, but go figure.....  Love your garden and the "wood art" you have.
    mainegarden replied over 1 year ago
    Thank you Tom, I feel fortunate that Manley built the veggie garden for me...we are both economically conservative (cheap) so the greenhouse was bartered for cords of wood, the windows were ones replaced in the house.  The sink came from the transfer station.  Etc.  The rain barrels behind the greenhouse that we use to water the greenhouse came from an orchard...amazing what people discard....guess I carried on a bit...more than you wanted to know...LOL
    Tom replied over 1 year ago
    @mainegarden: I think the things we 'tame,' i.e. discarded things that are re-used, are usually more precious as opposed to just buying things new. Yours however ... especially nice IMHO as it was recombined with a great sense of whimsy, style and design. Who wouldn't want to hang out there?
    Tom replied over 1 year ago
    It looks like you live in a fairytale! Great ideas in your garden. A big welcome to YourGardenShow and I look forward to following your garden. Tom