Hi my name is Timberley Valentine. My yard was destroyed by the tornado and the workers doing some of the clean up. I was wondering if you by any chance have some plants you don't want. I can't afford to buy many plants, and I desperately need some. The plants I'm maninly interested in are roses, gardenia bushes, any flowering plants butterflies love, and any vegetables. Please contact me at boyandgirlcats(a)yahoo.com. Thank you, Timberley Valentine
Hello everyone,
I am very excited about this list as I am completely new to gardening (moved
here in the last year and this is the first yard I've had in my adult life).
I imagine people here have different interests, expertise and skill levels
and it might be fun to see the range of interests and expertise listed.
Is your focus on vegetable gardening? Herbs? Water gardening? Roses? Shade
gardening? Something else? How long have you been doing it?
I'll start. I have absolutely no expertise as I've only been attempting to
garden for less than a year and am still working on identifying what is
already in the yard and figuring out how to care for it. ;) I have even had
horrible luck with houseplants in the past so know there's going to be a
huge learning curve for me.
Still, I've managed to keep a few vegetable plants (lettuce, kale, spinach,
snow peas) growing in some raised beds in the backyard this year.
My primary interests are in organic, edible gardens and native plants. But,
since a lot of plants already in my yard are non-native (and I am still very
much a beginner) I'm hoping to learn pretty much anything at this point. I'd
definitely be interested in a neighborhood garden tour (as mentioned in a
previous thread.)
Thanks,
Michelle
Glascock St
Hello,
We are really excited about this list coming together and getting some new insights on gardening and making some new friends in the neighborhood.
Right now we are growing vegetables, greens, herbs along with our flower beds and water gardening. We also started keeping chickens this year, eight of them, hopefully they are going to supply us with some good eggs in another month or two and help us out on the compost pile.
This is our fourth year on the flower beds and second on the vegetable gardening. We are very interested in heirloom vegetables and organic gardening. This year I am growing squash (never had much of a problem with bugs), tomatoes, peas, beans, radishes (just picked my first batch this morning), carrots, beets, watermelon, and broccoli.
One a side note, I am chef/owner of Globe restaurant on Glenwood avenue and would love to offer up some ideas for people that have run out of recipes for squash or peas or whatever they planted too much of.
Thanks
Gray and Greta Modlin
519 Barksdale
Greeting to all you soil diggers,
I just sent an email to Mark Turner regrading the squash and zucchini he is
growing and then realized that he started a list so I will repost the info
here and hope to hear back about how your garden's are doing:
Mark,
Let me know how your squash and zucchini turn out. I gave up on them two
years ago because they were tragically devoured from the roots up. The
plants would grow for several weeks becoming massive and start to bloom.
Then, the stalk near the soil would become brittle and start to collapse
effectively killing the plant. I have been told it is a cut worm that lives
in the soil and begins to eat the plant from the bottom up. So instead of
blasting the soil with pesticide I just decided to venture into non-squash
territory. This year it's Better Boy Tomatoes, Cantaloupe (would trade for
your watermelon), bush beans, jalapeno and sweet banana peppers (will also
trade for squash) and burpless cukes. Good luck.
Thanks,
Ryan Parker
A piece of private land in the ECAC where a large community garden might be
a possibility is the 3.45-acre property at 2210 Millbank Street, owned by
Bhola and Radha Gupta. There is a ramshackle house on this lot that was
badly damaged by the tornado; I'm guessing it will be torn down. Prior to
the storm, I had a conversation with Mr. Gupta about renting the property
for a nonprofit garden education project a friend and I were hoping to
start, and Mr. Gupta was enthusiastic. However, my friend and I ran into
difficulties getting necessarily permissions from the city, which scuttled
our effort. A community garden where the produce wasn't being sold would not
face the same problems we did, however. (Under Raleigh's current rules,
you're allowed to garden in a residential zone, but you're not allowed to
sell the produce you grow.)
Another thing that makes this property attractive for gardening is the fact
that it has its own working well, though I would note that the well house
was damaged in the storm. It is also a wide open piece of land with great
sun exposure. But it does drain to a stream, so using organic methods would
be essential.
It will be interesting to see what happens with this property now. There had
been a proposal a few years back to have Habitat build some 27 townhouses
there, but that deal fell through after the city raised objections to such
intense development there. There were also issues relating to the tree
ordinance.
Here's a link to the property tax information for the parcel:
http://services.wakegov.com/realestate/Account.asp?id=0033487&stype=addr&st…
-- Sue Sturgis
Hi all - great new list!
I started many flower seeds in the usual plastic flats, and have transplanted them in the ground. But probably due to some days of shaky childhood as sprouts (not great light, and a cold spell), they seem stuck -- into their second week now, and staying small, healthy appearing, but not growing. Any advice to give 'em a kick start? I've cared for the soil, neighboring plants are doing great, and last year's did well - so I don't think it's that.
Thank you!
Rick (King Charles Rd)
Hey all!
This is great that Mark has created a list. Every day when I walk my dogs I
am absolutely amazed at the number of people in our neighborhood who garden!
There are NINE gardens on my street that I can think of right now! There are
probably more that I'm not thinking of. There are different sizes, some are
in back yards, some in the front, they're at different stages of growth - I
love it!
I love it so much, that I think I should share the love! I had this idea a
while back, but especially since the tornado I think it'd be cool to have a
garden tour for our neighborhood so we can bond around gardening. There are
all types who garden and that is one thing that a lot of us have in common
(another thing is that we all eat!). It could be cool to get out and meet
more of each other and share our stories of gardening and how we do it.
We could have the tour at the end of the summer (maybe right before school
starts?) when the gardens are in full growth. It could be one day or a
weekend, we could have it just for our neighborhood or invite outsiders, we
could see if there's a way to involve Longview School since they have a
garden, there are many things we could do with it.
Is anyone else interested in this idea? We'd have to do a survey to see how
many gardeners would be willing to participate, but I have a feeling
there'll be a lot. If anyone is interested in making something like this
happen, please email me (gdeason(a)gmail.com) and let's start planning! It
doesn't have to be highly involved - or it can be! I just think it'd be fun
and would like help doing it.
Thanks!
Ginger Deason
2319 Stevens
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and
the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.
~ 19th century Cree saying
Hasta que el último árbol sea cortado, hasta que el último río sea
contaminado, hasta que el último pescado sea atrapado; solo entonces nos
daremos cuenta que el dinero no se puede comer.
~ profecia Indios Cree
Hi Gardeners! I have some purple bearded Irises in my front yard that have
finished blooming. Is the conventional wisdom that I should wait until fall
to divide and move them around or can I do it now?
