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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 16:45:07 GMT -5
Hiya Emily welcome!!! Welcome Steve glad to have another Tennesseean onboard. What part of our fine state you from?? south east here
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 16:53:31 GMT -5
tomatosheriff: Thanks. =) Currently in Hermitage/Middle TN, close to Nashville. I went to college not too far from you, at UT-Chattanooga. Had a few friends from there who live(d) in Pittsburg.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 20:23:45 GMT -5
cool nice to meet you!! welcome
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 11, 2012 21:24:01 GMT -5
Welcome Emily & Steve to NJT, jump in anywhere you like and let us know about your gardens, and above all ... enjoy yourself!!!
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Post by stratcat on Jan 11, 2012 22:24:54 GMT -5
Hi, Emily and Steve. Welcome! Look forward to hearing about your gardening. And pictures...
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Post by coppice on Jan 11, 2012 23:24:46 GMT -5
Lookit all these new faces!
Who're writing!
Nice, very nice.
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Post by bluebonnets on Jan 12, 2012 1:27:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! Looking forward to hanging out here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2012 12:54:43 GMT -5
I am Deb, been diggin' in the dirt more than 50 years. When I have not had dirt, I had buckets and containers. If there is a will, there is a way. I am also one of Tom Cagle's seed fairies. Been lurking here for awhile, time to jump in cuz it's cold here in zone 5
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Post by stratcat on Jan 13, 2012 2:40:06 GMT -5
Welcome, Deb!
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 13, 2012 6:58:08 GMT -5
Hiya Deb and welcome to NJT!! We luv it when the lurkers join in, wish/hope more of them would join in, we'd love to to hear about your gardens, so just jump in anywhere you like and tell us all about it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2012 13:51:32 GMT -5
Welcome Deb!!!! glad to have you here!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 11:52:48 GMT -5
Hello all! Due to the Tornado type weather we have been having since Jan. I have not had a chance to pop in and say "Howdie!" or even start planting *sigh*. Some of you may remember me from the OG boards and Shelly's seed-saving forum but I dropped off the face of the earth for a few years.....now, I'M BACK ROFL. I was so sorry to see that we lost Dan, I will miss him terribly. I am compiling a seed list if anyone is in need - the only "want" I have this year is Giant Marconi Peppers and I will put this all in the seed swap area. I have a HUGE list of seeds so be on the look-out
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Post by stratcat on Mar 4, 2012 12:09:24 GMT -5
Hi there, Jackimac! Nice to meet you. Welcome.
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indigogirl17
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Blazing here again...90's and dry after aq period of 3 weeks of solid rain a few weeks back. .
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Favorite Vegetable:: sweet corn, collards, turnip greens, yellow wax beans, Cherokee purple tomatoes
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Post by indigogirl17 on Mar 5, 2012 12:42:47 GMT -5
Thanks again for inviting me to this forum. My name is Cynthia and I live in Bowling Green, OH. So wonderful to hear all your stories. I have been gardening since my early 20s (I'm now 59), off and on, at various locations: other's people's houses before I had my own homes, containers, postage stamp gardens, larger gardens, you name it, in Colorado, California, Michigan and now Ohio. i have returned to raised garden beds. I live in a college town, so at the twice a year "big trash" days, when the college students throw out all the stuff mommy and daddy bought them, I go out and pick up as many dressers and bookcases as I can find. I knock out the backs and leave the drawers behind, lay the dresser frames on their side, fill the squares with compost from my compost pile. Last year I spent $9.99 for seeds and tomato and pepper plants, and froze tons of summer squash and tomatoes in the form of ratatoulle and vegetable curry and had lots of fresh lettuce for salads. I just finished the lot of the frozen veggies a couple weeks ago. I had 8 raised beds, some bigger, some smaller depending on the dresser or bookcase. This was all done in the sunny back part of my sandy tree-filled backyard. I can't wait for spring to start again. I'm going to go out in May for another big trash day and add some "gardens".
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indigogirl17
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Blazing here again...90's and dry after aq period of 3 weeks of solid rain a few weeks back. .
Posts: 191
Zone:: 5b
Favorite Vegetable:: sweet corn, collards, turnip greens, yellow wax beans, Cherokee purple tomatoes
Joined: March 2011
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Post by indigogirl17 on Mar 5, 2012 12:43:42 GMT -5
Nice to hear from you, Jackimac
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 5, 2012 13:52:46 GMT -5
Howdy jackimac and indigogirl17, nice to have you back, pull up a chair and hang around as gardening is getting ready to start up again!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2012 0:02:01 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Sharon. I live in the northeastern area of Michigan's lower peninsula. Right now we have snow on the ground and I have a bad case of cabin fever. I can't wait to get out in the garden to play.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2012 0:07:43 GMT -5
hello and thanks for the invite...finally got back to the forum.....I'm a city gardener in St Paul, Mn and have been turning my front yard into a garden junk/veggie/flower garden....Never know what will happen each year when the winter snows melt, the sun warms the earth and I get to thinking....thinking this year of raised bed gardens and verticle gardening. I turned my boulevard into a flower and shrub space....with a min plum tree and recently added dwarf lilac bush that I added last year. and who knows what perrenial or annual will show up...I use rocks, boulders and fences to make it more than just a patch of grass.....I have a line of scrub trees that five years ago showed up in a gutter....trying to grow...so I transplanted them in a row and now they shade the city sidewalk.....and will be the supports for the verticle garden veggies on the yard side....or so my BF told me....glad to see such an interesting site.....and people.......hope to contribute as spring and planting time begins and I get more ideas from all.
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Post by stratcat on Mar 10, 2012 0:54:18 GMT -5
Hi there, Gardentoad. Welcome to NJT! Looks like it's warming up this week. Welcome, Citycat. My kinda gardener; front yard and further. ;D
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Post by aqua on Mar 10, 2012 7:51:28 GMT -5
G'morning all from Northeast Florida- Jacksonville It's just little beds along the fence but OH sometimes it grows like crazy like laundry-baskets full of lettuce in the winter Neighbors think I'm tetched but the seed babies love me
strat- thank you for a place to say hello to people- and I am sorry I missed grunt- his posts show a deep-hearted fellow, God bless him
seedsaver, dirt-creator, composter, worshiper
peas to all
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Post by izitmidnight on Mar 10, 2012 9:48:06 GMT -5
Welcome to the family!
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Post by stratcat on Mar 10, 2012 22:05:57 GMT -5
Hi there, Aqua. Glad you made it. Welcome! A tip-of-the-hat to Daylilydude for starting NJT. If you look in Grunt's signature line, you can see the link for his blog. Lots of great info there.
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 11, 2012 7:22:04 GMT -5
Been getting behind with all the packing for the move... so let me welcome gardentoad, citycat and aqua, just join in anywhere you like and have some fun!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2012 9:15:34 GMT -5
Hi, this looks like a very informative site with plenty of friendly people, I`m in central Louisiana, I don`t garden to much anymore but I sure love to talk an read about it, happy to be here.......rick ...........
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 26, 2012 12:08:08 GMT -5
Hi, this looks like a very informative site with plenty of friendly people, I`m in central Louisiana, I don`t garden to much anymore but I sure love to talk an read about it, happy to be here.......rick ........... Well... welcome to NJT rickpaul , we are glad you joined! Yep there are some very knowledgeable people here, but as you know yourself, ya learn something new everyday, so we would love to hear all about your gardening experiences, so just jump in anywhere you like and tell us all about it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2012 12:23:56 GMT -5
Thanks a lot DD.......rick
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Post by stratcat on Mar 26, 2012 13:57:56 GMT -5
Hi, rickpaul. Welcome!
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 2, 2012 7:26:02 GMT -5
I'd like to welcome our 2 newest members countrykitty and ronmoor... y'all don't be bashful in here, we love hearing about different gardens and how well there doing, so post away anywhere you like!
PS, we love pics too...
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 26, 2012 23:44:48 GMT -5
Hi, everyone. I'm Laura and I live in Northwest Florida (Panama City, 8b). DH and I have 4 sons, ages 15, 11, 7, and 3. I first started gardening in '01 but sort of fell out of it. Now that my youngest is three and taking an interest in helping me garden, I am really enjoying getting back into it. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to having my own homegrown tomatoes again! I live on a lot in a subdivision that frowns on veggie gardens in the front yard, so I have a small garden in the back yard. I am constantly brainstorming how to make it bigger, but between the fruit trees, the pool, and the swing set, there's not a lot of room. (DH doesn't know it yet, but when the kids outgrow the swing set, I am going to have a nice greenhouse in that spot. ) Since I haven't gardened for a few years, all the work I did before amending the soil was undone by the heat and rainfall...I have sand again, ugh. So, I decided to start over with with raised beds and drip irrigation. I only have a few small raised beds and four Earthboxes so far. I'm growing tomatoes, peppers, okra, cucumbers, pole beans, long beans, yellow summer squash and zucchini, plus green onions and a few herbs. I am also trying the "bag trick" to grow some cantaloupes and watermelons. (I might try a pumpkin in a bag later...the 7 year old really wants to try to grow one for a Jack 'o' Lantern.) I also have two apple trees, a peach tree, a pear tree, a satsuma mandarin orange tree, and I am experimenting with two of the new low-chill cherry trees. All but the apples and orange are new this year. The two unusual things I am growing are pineapple tomatillos ( Physalis pruinosa) and red limes. I have grown the pineapple tomatillos before - they are a big hit with the kids - they can pick them and snack on them while they play outside. The red limes are new, sent by a gardening friend in Orlando. Right now, I have two teeny-tiny red lime seedlings juuuuuust peeking out of the soil, but I hope more of them will still come up. They are supposed to be hardy in my area when they get big enough. I hope so...I love the idea of a lime tree, and none of the other lime varieties would survive the winters here.
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Post by stratcat on Apr 27, 2012 0:23:58 GMT -5
Welcome LinFL! What is this "bag trick"?
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