I Love to Garden

I bought two "Simple Garden" pots that I got on sale over the weekend.  I am going to try and grow carrots in one and cherry tomatoes in the other.  I haven't tried to grow anything since the Sunflower I planted and grew in elementary...

I have started a garden as a way to clear my mind. It makes me feel as if there is hope to becoming something.
Just watching my plants grow makes me feel happy.

I use working in my flowerbeds as a form of relaxtion therapy. Maybe its the warmth of the sun on my skin, the feel of the earth between my fingers or just the sight and smells of the different plants. For me its a way to let go...

      Painting my Garden

 I wish I had the words to paint
 Just what my eyes can see,
 While looking at my garden
 And what nature gives for free.

 Bronze and gold, blue and green
 Are colours that abound,
 And...

All my grafts did not take and even my cuttings did not make it!!! SIGH
What can I say???
My green fingers are definitely turning brown!

Here on the East Coast we have had 4 days of beautiful (even too hot) Spring weather.  My garden is beginning to burst and all I want to do is be out there working on it.   In addition to the limited amount of time is...

I'm not ashamed to admit that I love gardening, getting down and dirty doesn't scare me. One day, I'd love to start my own garden and grow flowers, fruits, and veggies - all organic.

I spent a day weeding and pruning and ended the evening pulling thorns from various fingers!!

However, I truly enjoy getting my fingers in the soil, feeling the plants and just being really tactile. Gloves seem to detract from the...

Gardening is one of the most difficult forms of art there is.  Unlike most art forms a garden is forever changing through the years, months, days and from hour to hour, minute to minute. 
 
Too be continued....
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This morning , whilst trying to photograph a shy native hen in my garden, I was overcome with the need to weed.  Weeding is a pleasant distraction from life and I often find myself weeding for a couple of hours when I've gone...

Yes the spelling was intentional.

My birth name is Timothy, so in my garden I grow Timatoes instead of Tomatoes.

A little bat guano and some other "Fox Farm" nutrients and we are talking plump, juicy, mmmmm mmmm mmmmmm Timatoes man...

I can't wait to get my tomato plants in, me and the girls just planted our seeds in little cups and put them in the sun room to start. They love to watch how well something can grow if you feed water and nurture it. It's kind of like...

If you live on a modest lot in the urban center, it may seem that gardening on any kind of large scale is outside your reach. Having said that, today's modern urban gardening greenhouse systems allow anyone to get healthy produce all...

Last May, I started a small garden. Actually, I was gardening in pots.  I am going to garden this summer, again in pots.  Last year was a disaster.  I planted carrots and cherry tomatoes.  I had my garden kicked off my balcony...

Yes, I love to garden too.  But having seen the avatar here, I wonder if my efforts could really be called gardening??!!