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NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:03 PM May 2020

The joy of a new yard - gardening during COVID - just posted my latest blog, lots of pics

Flower pics, dog pics, plant pics (and one "me" pic!)

https://www.craiglehoullier.com/blog1/2020/5/6/where-did-the-month-go-it-is-past-time-for-a-blog-garden-progress-seedling-sales-various-news

We are finding quite a difference between gardening in rapidly steamy Raleigh and quite cool Hendersonville NC - and it is all quite wonderful.

Social distancing is easy in a big back yard with endless stuff to plant!

We really got lucky being able to find a house, buy a house and sell a house all between early November and late March....

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The joy of a new yard - gardening during COVID - just posted my latest blog, lots of pics (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal May 2020 OP
Great! elleng May 2020 #1
Wow gorgeous! MLAA May 2020 #2
if you ever need tomato seeds, let me know NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #3
I will take you up on that next year! MLAA May 2020 #5
Lovely! nt tblue37 May 2020 #4
Very impressive! Bayard May 2020 #6
What a treat! Baitball Blogger May 2020 #7
Now I know to whom to turn for advice! DonaldsRump May 2020 #8
VERY nice! calimary May 2020 #9
Very nice! Thank you for posting this! LiberalLoner May 2020 #10
Your straw bale raised gardens are great! And so are your dogs. Vinca May 2020 #11
YOUR GARDEN IS WONDERFUL !!!! Hubby and i live on a Floating home.... (I GARDEN IN CONTAINERS) trueblue2007 May 2020 #12
Beautiful n/t hibbing May 2020 #13

MLAA

(17,165 posts)
2. Wow gorgeous!
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:17 PM
May 2020

I have my first garden. One raised bed with cantaloupe, radishes, onions and tomatoes. One raised box for sweet potatoes. I am enjoying it immensely. I’m on probation...if I do well with these two beds I may add another. My husband overheard me talking to the plants and now calls me the radish whisperer 🙂

https://imgur.com/dw5l6IR

NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
3. if you ever need tomato seeds, let me know
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:20 PM
May 2020

I've got a little selection of a few thousand varieties!



nice set up you have there!

MLAA

(17,165 posts)
5. I will take you up on that next year!
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:25 PM
May 2020

Everything is thriving after two weeks except one strawberry plant. It’s leaves at the bottom all turned white and brown. I might have over watered it. Though the one next to it is beautiful. I hope it holds on.

Bayard

(21,807 posts)
6. Very impressive!
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:48 PM
May 2020

I'm just hoping I don't have to re-plant my tomatoes and peppers for the third time. Seventies last week, back down to low 30's at night now.

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
7. What a treat!
Thu May 7, 2020, 01:26 AM
May 2020

Thank you for sharing.

My newest longshot is trying to sow the seeds from the sugar bomb tomatoes I purchased from the grocers. Any tips on growing tomatoes? Actually looked complicated based on the video I saw, which required bending part of the lower stem into the dirt.

Also, I did the bury technique with store purchased potatoes that I tried to grow and lost 50% of the yield. The plants didn't continue to grow once buried.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
8. Now I know to whom to turn for advice!
Thu May 7, 2020, 01:34 AM
May 2020

My wife and I are getting into permaculture, and I just bought our daughter a hydroponic gardening kit for her birthday.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
9. VERY nice!
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:13 AM
May 2020

That's you? Impressive! Love those hay bale arrangements - what a terrific idea!

Good gardening to you! Not growing any foodstuffs myself, but I put in a couple of lilac bushes, one in each of the past two years. And they are ALL happening now! Glorious!

My tulips did not do well. Only one set came up again. The rest, I guess, fed the moles and gophers over the winter... Oh well.

But my little magnolia tree that my daughter gave me for Christmas three years ago has doubled in height!

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