Member profile for veebee
 Gardening since 2010
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I have always wanted to be a country girl. After many moves & years of island/coastal living, while growing up a Navy brat, I bought my sought after country house...and now, I finally feel at home.
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Veebee's Kitchen Garden Davenport, NY
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. This year I am including the most variety yet...
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French kitchen Garden Titusville, NJ
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bugtussle
My garden started out a mess when we bought our home in 2005. I decided to make a kitchen garden in the french potager style. I spent one year studying all about french kitchen gardens before starting. It took me...
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Abington, MA 1850 Farm House Garden Abington, MA
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jenmurphy
We, recently moved into an old 1850 farm house 2years ago with an acre of land and no landscaping. These are my trials and tribulations in transforming this property from bland to grand. I recently enrolled back at...
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Bailey Farm North Franklin, CT |
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Square Ft Gardens Mitchell, IN
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Tab
Last yr. I fenced in my garden and made several raised beds. I love it! I put up trellises and arbors for some verticle growing. It is amazing the amount of veggies that can be grown in a small space. I grow annuals...
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The Peaceful Prayer Garden Goodview, VA
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linzelu100
We are a young family attempting to grow our food. It hasn't been easy, but has been rewarding to say the least. Last year was our first successful garden and this year we are expanding. We decided to move to a new...
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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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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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MEG's Heirloom Kitchen Garden Indianapolis, IN
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MEGarden
My garden is a tiny plot in the middle of suburbia, filled with a lovely array of heirloom veggies. I love heirlooms, and am committed to sharing their beauty, superb taste, and rich history.
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A Day in the Country Campbellville, Canada |
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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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A Beginner's Garden Grand Rapids, MI
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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...
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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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Ravis Retreat Winthrop, WA
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SolarBizzi
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...
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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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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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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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Peach House Yarden Irving, TX |
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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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The Cupcake Bandits Organic Heirloom Garden Bath, NY
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MommaCupcake
3 raised gardens and 3 in ground gardens. Crab Apple Trees, Maple Trees, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry plants were added in 2011. In 2012 we are expanding the in ground gardens as well as adding chicken and ducks....
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The Yarden Lakewood, OH
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tfacey
About 6 years ago, we started on a journey to sustainability within the confines of our own urban 1/4 acre. Hence the dawning of The Yarden where we practice urban yardening. Each growing season we are adding, changing,...
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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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The Dietz Family Homestead Nedrow, NY
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Garden4Glory
My garden really began in the summer of 2011. I had been reading about gardening organically and using heirlooms. I was desperate to have some sort of control over what I was eatting and feeding to my family. ...
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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 Rest of the Property Upper Sandusky, OH
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PYehl
This will follow everything BUT the veggie garden. Landscaping around the yard, patio, orchard, brambles, vineyard.
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Little Stone HIll Toronto, Canada
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Lorraine
For the past 15 years or so, I've been creating a series of garden rooms. The most completed, although a garden is never really complete, is my cottage garden. I'm a freelance writer, writing primarily in gardening...
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Let It Grow Gardens Whittier, CA |
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Side Door Edibles Manitowoc, WI
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MaryLarson
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...
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Spy Garden Glencoe, MO
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amaranth3
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...
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Oscar & Mabel's playground Fort Payne, AL
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vanna516
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...
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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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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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A Mountain Potager Ellijay, GAThe kitchen garden for a family of 5 in the mountains of north GA.
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A little bit of each Wethersfield, CT
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bigevilgrape
A community garden plot filled with mostly heirloom veggies. I'm taking a risk and planting everything from seed. Hopefully I'll get some decent crops and have surplus for canning.
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Healing the Earth Vancouver, WA
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starr3333
My garden has moved 3 times since February 2011 - now to a patio....a 40 yr old Trillium, Wild Currant, dark purple Lilac, a rare Ivy, Anemones, Phlox, Sedums, Peony Trees, & Roses along with the stones - collected...
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A Little Piece of Countryside Mcpherson, KS
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Agrarian
A Kansas (mostly) heirloom vegetable and herb garden. The garden is being started indoors at my home and will then move to a plot at Countryside Community Garden just down the street.
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Less is More Union Pier, MI
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krandolph
This year we're going for quality, not quantity. I started six varieties of tomatoes, but only six of each (we'll see how that works out; so far none have sprouted)... also three types of eggplants, six of each, Some...
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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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Willowwacks Faerie Garden Rogue River, OR
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puckamok
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...
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Melissa Clark's Garden Oasis Oakdale, CT
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Midnightmw
I have been playing in the dirt for as long as I canremember. My first experience was aMcDonald Happy Meal (see they aren’t all bad) that included marigold seeds anda bucket to grow it in. We also had aplay...
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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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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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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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Gardens far and wide Des Moines, IAThe story: I have visited and photographed gardens all over the U.S. for thirty years, an invaluable bonus of my work as staff editor of Organic Gardening, editor of Fine Gardening magazine, founder and editor of Garden...
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Gwen's heirloom garden 2012 Layton, UT
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Gardenmom47
This is my year to grow as much produce as possible and to use the savings to pay down my debt and rebuild my family emergency fund. We eat a lot of fruits and vegetables; I have spent up to $80 in produce for a 2-week...
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Gwen's family fruit garden Layton, UT
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Gardenmom47
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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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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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Jeanie and Adam's Victory Garden Katy, TX
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BeeGuiled
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...
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garden 2012 Westland, MI
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flower_lady
It's been really hot and dry here, way to dry. I know some of you are experiencing the same thing. I've got blossom rot with some of my tomatoes, yet some are green and a couple ripe ones going on. Bush beans are finally...
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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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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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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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Flight 272 Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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MartinKempff
I took over this allotment garden near Halfweg to escape the daily noise in my house in the centre of Amsterdam.After some time I really got interested in gardening and the beauty of plants and flowers.I like my...
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Feeding the Family the Old fashioned Way Fairbanks, AK
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hippiemama
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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Jessie's Mid-Atlantic Veggie Patch Wilmington, DEEach year I grow at least 15 new varieties while hanging on to tried and true cultivars I cannot live without. This garden story will focus on new additions, most notably heirlooms.
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Austin Vegetable Garden Austin, TX
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bertski
We bought our house six years ago. After years of staring out the back window at the wasteland that was our yard, we finally took the plunge and started a garden. The soil, if you can call it that, was in terrible condition....
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YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA
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The-Busy-Bee
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| Favorite gardening books: | Four Season Harvest, The Complete Compost Gardening Guide, Secrets of Plant Propogation |
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| Favorite vegetable: | Nearly all of them...Peas, Spinach, Tomatoes, Parsnips to name a few. |
| Favorite flower: | Lilac, Peony, Virburnum, Hollyhock, among soooo many others. |
| Favorite tree / shrub: | Silver Maple, Sycamore, Elm |
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| Favorite park / arboreteum: | Kew Gardens |
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