https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 05:20:58 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-97959 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:40:17 +0000 BananaPancakes 97959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We typically do a spring veggie garden, but I'm super pregnant this year, so we decided against it. Besides the fact I can't bend over much anymore, I also use chicken poop, which is on the no-no list. But we do have citrus trees, blackberries and blueberries that pretty much take care of themselves. I always have herb pots going, as well. I have a decent butterfly garden on the side of the house that's fairly well established, so it doesn't take much to get it back going after winter, as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-97928 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:39:22 +0000 SugarplumsMom 97928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before I sound like a pro-gardener, I should add that I don't water anything but the tomatoes, peonies, and bleeding hearts. Everything grows on it's OWN! Other than the veggie garden prep, and mulching during the autumn, we basically just leave them all alone. Gardening in my part of Sweden basically means weeding. Once established, nothing seems to die even if you try to kill it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-97927 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:31:23 +0000 SugarplumsMom 97927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were fortunate enough to buy a house with tons of plants and trees, the original owner was a builder and had landscaping friends. Although we didn't see any of it when we bought the place during winter, imagine our surprise when we found a jungle when we moved in! The previous owner didn't take care of anything so we had a crash coarse in gardening our first summer here!</p> <p>We have a large Robinia that I absolutely adore! It's filled with white flowers during the summer that smells like sweetpeas. There's also a crabapple tree, cherry tree, apple tree, elderberry tree, a little magnolia, jasmine trees, a spindle tree, a line of little beach trees. </p> <p>As for bushes: a line of lilacs, a Korean spicebush, a few Magic Carpet Spireas, peonies (one of my faves), an azalea, rhodadendrums, our hedge is a sugarplum bush (Amelanchier). </p> <p>There's a ton of different flowers that were scattered everywhere (even in the gravel path) so I had to transplant a bunch of them. My faves are: the Columbines, bleeding hearts, a clematis vine.</p> <p>All those came with the house but we transplanted a lot of it. A few things we planted ourselves (hopefully they live): a Reine Claude plum tree, a bunch of tulips, tete-a-tetes, heucheras, spring snowfakes (Leucojum vernum from seed).</p> <p>What we have planned for this spring: sweetpeas (love them), heirloom tomatoes, lettuce, chili peppers, snowpeas, and sunchokes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96329 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:13:38 +0000 Ms.SK 96329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I couldn't live without my summer tomato's, they are the only ones I will eat. I planted a whole bunch of vegetables my first year but really they tasted the same as I could buy in the store except the tomato's. Last year I think I planted 34 tomato bushes and then I did herbs in the front. If you plant tomato's one trick my great-grandfather passed down (he lived in Brooklyn, NY and would grow an entire garden on his fire escape - I know dangerous but back then...) is to always plant some flowers that attract bees in between your plants. You want the bees to come in the spring to get more flowers on your plants. Also, if you have mosquito problems you can plant citrinella (sp) plants around the space to keep them at bay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96321 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:05:26 +0000 GreenThumb 96321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! We've had a raised bed vegetable garden for the past two years with potted herbs on the deck. We also spent a lot of time on the flower gardens at our old house in New York, so we even brought some of the the flowers with us to our new rental in Wisconsin when we moved last fall. I'm so excited that everything we brought seems to have survived the winter and is coming up this spring. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96319 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:01:19 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 96319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have flower beds. I'm not sure what all is in them besides roses. I am planning out a veggie garden. Last year I had one on the patio at my apartment. Since I have a house now I can have some larger beds. My bil is going I help me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96317 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:59:13 +0000 yoursilverlining 96317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: Tomatoes grow nicely in containers, so you could still do that even if you extended your deck, so not to take up more yard space. We got so lucky with our downstairs neighbors. Its just us and them in our condo association, and they are both super handy (we are not), and love to garden! I will miss them when we move. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96315 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:58:59 +0000 looch 96315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am hiring my dad to be my gardner when the time comes. That man can grow anything, while I pretty much kill every plant I come into contact with. I don't want anything too complicated, but I would like cooking herbs, lettuce, cucumbers, grape tomatoes and kholrabi. Nothing that gets too huge. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96311 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:51:52 +0000 Maysprout 96311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: We're moving back to the house we own, so we planted a lot of the flowers years ago there, when I visited last year the people living there weren't really taming the garden so it was wild to see how much everything grew in the years we were gone. We had to move away for a few years and made a garden up here but the soil here was never quite as good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96279 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:23:09 +0000 chopsuey 96279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: We don't have much land for gardening here either. Can't wait to have a yard! Can't wait to garden with my LO too. :) I used to love seeing plants sprout when I was younger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96276 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:20:50 +0000 heffalump 96276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Maysprout: I wish we had flowers already here waiting for us! But the outside of this house was a mess when we got here. I look back at pictures of it when we first bought it and think, why did I ever buy that house? But I guess I saw potential, I was in love with it! </p> <p>@chopsuey119: I'm sure it's hard for you to do gardening with your husband travelling all the time and watching your LO. Maybe when she gets older you can plant one together! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96273 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:18:37 +0000 chopsuey 96273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't, but I've always wanted one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96270 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:17:27 +0000 Maysprout 96270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The house we're moving back to we have flowers out front and on the one side of the house. I made a trellis of morning glories a few times but those suckers are heavy they'd always knock the trellis over. Along the other side of the yard we have a veggie and herb gardens. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96266 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:14:33 +0000 heffalump 96266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: That sounds so nice! Thanks for the tip about dill.... one reason hubby won't let me have any fruit trees is because he's scared of fruit rats. I'm hoping one day I can talk him into a lemon tree though- I feel like it's such a waste to buy lemons when I can just grow my own! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96263 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:10:12 +0000 regberadaisy 96263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee:<br /> Aww that's so sweet about the roses.<br /> At the current house green/red/yellow/orange peppers do really well and so do beef steak and cherry tomatoes. We also plant a lot of different varieties of hot peppers. Those are our standards. In years past we have tried watermelon, pickling cucumbers, carrots, radish. this last season we started growing beans &amp; chinese water spinach. I'm excited to try baby bok choy next season when the garden at our new house is ready!</p> <p>FYI if pests are an issue dill works really well to keep them away. And herbs do really well in window boxes. We also started growing them with our aerograden indoors so we have fresh herbs all year long! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96260 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:06:29 +0000 heffalump 96260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: I forgot, another thing we want to do is extend our porch (in the very distant future) so that will also get rid of some of our backyard. And our backyard doesn't get much sun at all, we have lots of shade and trees. Your herb garden sounds so nice, and yay for having a neighbor to garden for you. Jealous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96256 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:58:52 +0000 yoursilverlining 96256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sort of have a garden. I don’t have a green thumb at all, but I want to garden! We also only have a big patio and no real yard, so that limits what we can grow. We grow cooking herbs (basil, thyme, spring onions, chives, rosemary, mint, and something else I think) and then we grow jalapeno peppers and tomatoes in containers on the patio. I tried peas once, but they didn’t really work, and I tried sweet peppers but only got 1 green pepper that was teeny – that was my whole summer bounty! :/</p> <p>The patio gets full sun all day, so tomatoes grow really well. The rest of my attempts are hit or miss. </p> <p>There are tons of flowers and plants in our front yard, but that's only because our downstairs neighbor tends to that garden and has a green thumb!! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96254 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:58:43 +0000 heffalump 96254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: That sounds awesome! What kind of vegetables do you grow? We have some roses out front, the previous owners planted them, that's the one thing we'll keep (the rest looks awful!). LO's name is Rose so it was a good sign that our house has roses when we bought it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96252 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:53:35 +0000 regberadaisy 96252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, in our current house we have flowers (roses, hibiscus, lilies, etc) and we also have a pretty big vegetable garden. There is NOTHING like vegetables from your own garden!</p> <p>At the new house we won't start landscaping/gardening till next season. Bu we'll definitely be building a decent size vegetable garden. We plan to till the soil and begin composting etc this year. We LOVE zucchini and squash but at this current house it just won't grow so we're hoping at the new house it will take! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-garden-1#post-96249 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:51:19 +0000 heffalump 96249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What do you have in it? Flowers, herbs, veggies and fruit, all of the above?</p> <p>We're finally going to start with the landscape of the front of our house, it will be all flowers and then we're going to plant a tree for LO's first birthday since we never got around to it when she was born. But I'm also thinking about what I want to do with the backyard. It's my dream to have an herb garden and plant some veggies back there, and when LO gets older I'd like her to be able to have her own little space for a garden of whatever she wants. But we also have to make sure to keep plenty of space for the dog and LO to run around, and we'll probably get a swing set when LO is older too. So much that I want to do.... and looking on pinterest doesn't help narrow things down! </p>