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Gardening since 2010
  • Name: Vanessa Stoner
  • Location: Fort Payne, AL
  • Gardening experience: I'm new to gardening
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Oscar & Mabel's playground Fort Payne, AL

I love trying new varieties & since I'm relatively "new" to gardening that is easy.  It is also easy to learn from your mistakes.  I named the garden after 2 of my kitties (my other passion) because they love hanging out there with me. » more
  • Last updated: January 30, 2013
  • Garden type: Grow It Forward: Heirloom

Oscar & Mabel's kitty playground Fort Payne, AL

I love trying new varieties & since I'm relatively "new" to gardening that is easy.  It is also easy to learn from your mistakes.  I named the garden after 2 of my kitties (my other passion) because they love hanging out there with me. » more
  • Last updated: March 13, 2012
  • Garden type: Grow It Forward: Heirloom

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...

The Cats' Garden Oswego, NY

My garden is cottage style.  Not too fussy, but I still have roses in my memorial garden.  I have different flowers in microclimates within my yard.  Shade gardens and full sun gardens.  Love to do it this way as...

Gidget's Garden San Diego, CA

We 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...

Millie's Heirloom Junction City, KS

Update: 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...

A Garden in Phoenix Phoenix, AZ

It's been a bit of trial and error learning how to garden in the Phoenix desert, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it! In addition to normal and raised beds, we have a small orchard with peach, apple, pomegranate...

Rookie in the woods Martinsburg, MO

Timber raised beds. Using a modified square foot gardening approach.

The Tomato Patch Rancho Cordova, CA

This year I am starting most of my plants indoors, some from seeds I saved myself, and I am focusing on tomatoes.  There will be 8-9 different types in my garden!  We will also have herbs and a variety of other vegetables....

East Texas Linden, TX

by 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!

Manoor Manor Marquand, MO

by Katey
This is our 3rd growing season. Our garden is primarily raised beds, built from cinder blocks and filled with branches, compost, rice hulls, and peat or coir. We use only organic material and methods, but are not USDA...

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...

Tallulah's Veggie Patch Columbia, KY

A community garden veggie patch, at the hands of an inexperienced city dweller! 

My Escape Upper Sandusky, OH

by PYehl
My 30'x70' piece of paradise.  Nothing makes me happier than to work in my garden and get lots of dirt under my fingernails.  I spend almost every day in the cold Ohio winters dreaming of how I will plant my garden,...

Clayton's Lazy Cats Acre Clayton, NC

This residential garden is on a 1 acre lot. In addition to a bit of ornamental landscaping, I have a bunch of raised beds, several row crop areas, a few fruit & nut trees, some berry bushes, and a couple of perennial...

Ramos' Disorganized Garden Floresville, TX

by 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...

Dr. Greenthumb's Rockwall, TX

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...

toppenish family organic garden Toppenish, WA

by 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...

Backyard Heirlooms Birmingham, AL

by katemd
I have several patches of backyard garden that have expanded over nearly 10 seasons that we have lived here. I tend to grow organic and heirloom varieties aof vegetables and flowers, including antique roses.

A Mountain Potager Ellijay, GA

The kitchen garden for a family of 5 in the mountains of north GA.

At the farm Thorhild County, Canada

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...

Gardening behind the Garage Pearland, TX

by 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...

Q's Fussy Garden Minneapolis, MN

We've been fussing about what Fruits, Herbs, Flowers, Vegetables, and Trees to grow in our organic urban garden for years now. [All of which are important parts of our garden] Once the snow melts we implement our not...

sss top spot White Swan, WA

We live in the Heart of the Yakam Indian Reservation in White Swan WA. on our family farm. I work at our local school as a Educational Assist and part time sub Teacher for children with special needs, I have worked...

slip sliding away Arroyo Grande, CA

My garden is on a SW facing slope and quite a challenge.  Sometimes I feel being part billy goat would help getting up and down the garden.  We have stairs and a path planned, but until then, I take it one step at...

Baker Creek special Arroyo Grande, CA

This garden is a part of my "slip sliding away" garden (I'm gardening on a hill).  Received my heirloom seeds today and am excited to get started

Sweet Heirlooms Hastings, MN

A Grow It Forward heirloom garden

Spy Garden Glencoe, MO

Our garden was planted in 2010 (and was much smaller then!). My son named the garden in 2012. The plan was to plant tall plants on the outside so he could "spy" out of it! The name has been quite apt as we are always...

Cypress Lake Ranch Bonham, TX

by 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...

Paula's New House Glen Burnie, MD

by 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...

Old Charm Forreston, TX

by Sophora
An organic garden that provides interest for all seasons and entices every sense.

Side Door Edibles Manitowoc, WI

I read an article by Rosalind Creasy in an issue of a Mother Earth News magazine describing her edible landscape garden in California. Because we recently removed 6-40 ft. spruce trees on the south side of the house...

Veebee's Kitchen Garden Davenport, NY

by 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. ...

Prince Snow Farm Mattapoisett, MA

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!!!!

Willowwacks Faerie Garden Rogue River, OR

When I moved here there was a small organic garden but most of the topsoil was washed away by gold mining and logging. I'm creating a food forest and learning permaculture practices. There is more life here now but...

House at Shepard Lane Hollow Rock, TN

by 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...

Feeding the Family the Old fashioned Way Fairbanks, AK

This is my above ground attempts at feeding my hungry house- since we're renting our current place, I'm doing my best to plant everything in pots in order to try and keep my lawn-mower-happy father from a.) running...

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