This is a continuation of a discussion started here: (TRGC Part 1) http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qflz5
And continued here: (TRGC Part 2) http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytxn7j
Then proceeded to carry on here: (TRGC Part 3) http://tinyurl.com/6fw8c7
You can find Part #4 here: http://tinyurl.com/6pteb6
Part #5 can be located here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bekqml
Part #6 is here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bs5t45
Part #7 can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/2bajdru
Part #8 can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5rlq6ng
AV’s opening post:
My garden in Spring 2011
We don’t have a new garden post. Boxy! We need one. I can’t post it because I’m having technical difficulties.
Anyways, this year I’m going to have a special garden. This is the first year I’m going to try to grow wildflowers from seeds and get them to take in my environment. Its going to be a real challenge because the wildflowers are from Colorado, but I’m going to grow them in New Jersey. I’m talking about Columbines, Coneflowers and alot of flowers like that, but all from seed.
I have a few different areas that I am going to try, but I’m also going to try to grow them as container plants. Don’t know if I will be successful, but I’m doing it anyway.
We’ve had the worst of winters. Its been beyond awful here and I’ve felt like I lived in Maine instead of New Jersey. I’m not knocking Maine, but I wouldn’t choose to live there because its so cold and snowy.
I still have my potato bags from last year. They survived the winter, amazing! This year, I’m only planting red potatoes. They had a much better yield than the Yukon Gold potatoes last year.
I’m going to plant lots of lettuces. The lettuces flourished in the planter beds. I buy Gurney’s Red Sails and Mixed Greens and they were very prolific last year.
Also prolific were the Early Contender green beans. I’m using last years seeds and have done that in the past. They are still good.
AV