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03-12-2007, 11:20 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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| Gardening I'm moving in a few months to a house with a small backyard (I live in a city). I haven't had any experience gardening before and I think I'd like to try it. Any suggestions of good books or websites I could read to get me started? Thanks!!
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03-12-2007, 01:31 PM | #2 |
All Dogs Go To Heaven Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: By The Lake
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| Congratulations on your new house. Here's a website that i've used http://www.bhg.com/bhg/gardening/ There's alot of good information there. Look over the yard and try and see how much shade and how much full sun you'll have in the summer. If you have a local garden center go in a couple of times and look at what they have. Usually, other than a few tropical plants for summer, they'll carry what is acceptable for your plant hardiness zone. Most of PA is the same as Michigan. Look for colors and shapes that are attractive to you. Check out the labels to see what the size when fully grown will be. The soil needs to be healthy to grow healthy plants so you'll want to figure out what soil type you have. Sand, sandy loam, clay... that will also help on what types of plants will grow in your yard. Ask your new neighbors, check out what they're growing. Usually people are willing to share when they have to thin out plants. It;s fun and relaxing. I love to dig and plant and move plants around. OH, it's my 500 post...
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03-12-2007, 04:32 PM | #3 |
Kyle Plus 3 Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington, DC
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| http://www.gardenweb.com/ I find Garden Web to be really helpful, as they have many many forums with different needs. They even have a specific forum (or two) for city and balcony gardening.
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03-12-2007, 06:19 PM | #4 |
Loves Hannah & Gracie Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: washington
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| I love to watch HGTV, it has alot of gardening ideas. You really can't go wrong with hostas, there are many types, some for sun and some for shade. I bought some gardening books from lowes and I always refer back to them. I have learned alot from them. |
03-12-2007, 06:32 PM | #5 | |
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03-12-2007, 06:40 PM | #6 | |
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Cottage Farms when he has been on QVC. I have several sites bookmarked and will be happy to copy and paste them to you by pm if you would tell me which are you interested putting in, a flower garden or doing a veggie garden? I planted Jack a strawberry patch for Valentines Day, it is doing great. I still have all my veggies to get put in. We have many a Rose Bush, as they love the sun and do so well here. I also have put in a lot of Canna bulbs, due to our living in a windy location, I lean more to the shorter varieties of all my plants. I have gotten lots of bulbs this year, putting in lots of Lilly bulbs, the one that is so hardy is the Day Lilly "Stella DeOro" and I am putting them all along our drive way, Philip said they are so hardy that one could run over them with a truck and they'd be back up in three weeks blooming again that's my kinda flower next to the drive way . Do you know the zone you are in? The soil preperation is really really important, that is the first step and also different plants require different soil types which also is important in starting, know what you are wanting to plant before doing your soil prep. I used a bag of flour to mark where I wanted what and then jotted down on paper a map of everything, so as it comes up I will know what is where Some plants are called companion plants and some shouldn't be put together, maybe they take after us people I must say that this computer has tons of information and just type in whatever you want to know in the search and whammy you will get tons and tons of information. Happy Happy Gardening, Patti and Baby Blessing I try to plant all perennial things, but will most likely plant a few annuals. Last edited by Baby Blessing; 03-12-2007 at 06:43 PM. | |
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