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dawn shireman z6 OH commented on Garden-Share's group 'Vegetable Gardens'

robert the lil creed is great...except one thing...."I am perfectly willing to forego any necessities of life such as food for my children in order to have it."<-- i would NEVER EVER EVER DO THIS!!! take that part out...thats just wrong!

Aug 4, 2009

dawn shireman z6 OH commented on Garden-Share's group 'Vegetable Gardens'

UHHGGGG!! im having troubles with my tomato plants!! ive got TONS of tomatoes but they all seem to be getting black spots on the bottom...and my topsy turvy tomato is well um...the tomatoes are GREAT but the plant looks dead...whats goin on?!! any…

Aug 4, 2009

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I have green bean blossoms! ::Mama Bear:: This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless! To learn how you can snap pictures and capture videos with your wireless phone visit…

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Diane Hewitt Z7/GA commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's blog post 'fruits of my labor!'

So glad to hear of your great veggies!!! Just enjoy the ones that are doing great and don't worry about the rest! Is there any food in the world as great as a home grown tomato??? How do the topsy turvey's taste in comparison?

Jun 17, 2009

fruits of my labor!

Im so excited!! tonite i made a salad from the lettuce in the garden and arugula in the herb garden! it was SOOOOO good! and i found a radish...yeah just one for now...it was little but DAMN was it GOOD!! sorry i din get to share it...all the rest of them are straight...no roundness to them at all. its been over 29 days like the package said but ill give them a lil more time to develop because i didnt thin them out. I also round some grape and cherry tomatoes starting! they are so cute!! lol my…See More

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Sherry left a comment for dawn shireman z6 OH

Your pictures are great! I love the pond of course. I have one myself and keep it running year round. Iam a big water feature nut anyway. I missed veggie gardening this year...aargh! However my flower beds are doing wonderful this year. Where Ilive…

Jun 4, 2009

Vickie Estep left a comment for dawn shireman z6 OH

Hi Dawn, thanks for the invite. I think you have a bit of green there on your thumb! You new garden looks great. You'll have lots of yummy veggies to share with your son soon. Good luck and keep in touch and keep taking lots of pics. :)

Jun 4, 2009

dawn shireman z6 OH left a comment for ellen*cherry

sorry i was just checking the comments on my pics...takes forever! thats y i dont do it often...but i had some 4 gallon buckets in the garage and i drilled a whole in the bottom...put the plants in with some plastic over the whole that the plants…

Jun 3, 2009

dawn shireman z6 OH commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's photo

one of the three plants died...i think it was getting too much water...so i stopped watering it for a while...it has TONS of new leaves!! GROW LIL CUC GROQ!!!

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dawn shireman z6 OH commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's photo

RIP! this one died and i put a new one in...sorry lil guy! he was started from seed....

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dawn shireman z6 OH commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's photo

and the new ones are coming up! hopefully itll get warm sometime soon so the rest will come up too!

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Jun 3, 2009

dawn shireman z6 OH commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's photo

its amazing...everything is 4 times that size now!

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Jun 3, 2009

dawn shireman z6 OH left a comment for Alice Tengler

yeah we have moles too really bad...its usually every other year that we get em...stupid lil things! they dont seem to bother the garden too much...jus the yard...and i can handle that! lol

Jun 3, 2009

Diane Hewitt Z7/GA commented on dawn shireman z6 OH's photo

Wow...you'd better have an appetite with all those veggies coming up!!! Growing things is so infectious. Everyone is going to catch your enthusiasm:-) Good job Dawn!!!

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Skill level: Beginner

What kind of gardening do you like to do?: veggie, flower beds and planters, water gardens, rock gardens

How much time do you spend a week on average in your garden when weather permits?: LOTS

About me and whats going on!

My name is Dawn and i just stared gardening this year! ive had herbs and flowers...well helped with for a few years now. Im still learning how to use alot of the herbs I have! I moved back home with my mom and dad about a year ago with my 2 yr old son. He LOVES to help mommy and mama plant flowers! When he was little i wanted to have a garden and make my own baby food, but i didnt have that option. So now i will have a garden and hopefully my son will eat what comes from it!

I also helped my mom install her pond and find plants that would look good in and around it. I hope she doesnt mind my opinion! LOL...we have a coi 3 goldfish a shabumpkin...and a fancy tailed spotted goldfish...thats what i call it any way. A few years ago we had a 3 legged frog...and we think it came back for a second year and we havent seen it since. last year we had another frog...actually i think a couple frogs. And this year we have seen SOMETHING jumping in as we walk out the door, and we think that is a frog! its funny they run from us...when the 3 legged frog was there, you could practically touch it b4 it would swim to the bottom! Also theres LOTS of plants in our pond. Some lilies a cattail and something else im not sure what it is, my mom could tell you!

I made some topsy turvy type planters out of 5 gallon buckets and im watching these plants closely to see how they progress. Im hoping they do good and maybe ill have more next year! They are pretty easy to make and CHEAP! My dad saves EVERYTHING so he has a TON of 5 gallon buckets in the garage...SOME PLACE!

We are starting a rock garden around one of the trees. So far all we have are the rocks. A local farmer offered his LARGE and i mean HUGE rock pile to us to take what we want! Now we need some dirt to fill it in a little bit so we have places to plant suckulants (im a horrible speller!) that like a lot of shade! We have a small rock garden around the pond but it only has one plant and its VERY SMALL!

Ive noticed lately as well that there are LOTS of people planting gardens this year. I thought that was a thing of the past, but alot of my friends have gardens. We all have different things and plan to share from each others gardens! HOW COOL! Im so excited for this year and my garden, I jus wish it would hurry up and GROW!!!! Im very impatient! Im also excited for next years garden...I already know what i want to plant...I keep telling mom I want a mexican garden! lol. I want to plant a few kinds of peppers and tomatoes onions corn...and the other day when i was at the garden place we have around here i saw okra! i want okra! and i dont know why...i just do!

Well i Think thats ALOT about me and whats goin on! ill keep a blog about my garden and update pics for everyone to see!

Thanx for being My Friend and if your not PLEASE add me!

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fruits of my labor!

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 7:38pm 2 Comments 0 Likes

AVOCADO!

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 9:01am 2 Comments 0 Likes

HA im going to grow an avocado tree! I was joking with my mom about putting the seed in my compost and maybe it too would grow! haha...and she said she had a friend that grew one...so she looked it up for me and now im in the process! says to grow more than one to have fruit...so maybe ill have 2. They grow to like 20 feet tall...but can be pruned to be MUCH smaller. Seems how we live in OHIO I cant have one full time outside, so it will have to come in during the winter. I will take up to 3 or… Continue

GROWING!!!

Posted on May 17, 2009 at 6:19pm 2 Comments 0 Likes

OH how exciting! i have peas!!! some onions...its crazy ive never seen seeds for onions...my dad always used the little bulbs...but i have onions!!! still no green beans...and no potatoes...hopefully they will be up this week...its supposed to be warm and sunny...I found a new place for my turvy things...in LOTS more sun...the leaves were getting a lil crispy so i decide it was time for a different place!

I will soon have pics of our pond plants in full bloom!

getting started

Posted on May 13, 2009 at 11:16am 2 Comments 0 Likes

I planted my FIRST garden may 4th. So far i have 2 green bean sprouts and one sugar snap pea sprout. My radishes are growing like crazy and my lettuce is too. I also just noticed that my spinach is coming up too...STILL NO POTATOES!!!! but its only been a week...i guess i gotta give em time! im so IMPATIENT!!! There are several tomatoes planted through out the yard because i ran out of room in my garden! lol...i also made my own upside down tomato growing things with 5 gallon buckets...one has… Continue

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At 7:38pm on June 5, 2009, Ann Tarpy said…: How exciting to be starting your first garden. I learned from my dad when we lived in Connecticut. That translates as 3 inches of soil above bedrock. That's why they have all those stone fences. When my kids were little they started gardening. My son's severe asthma short circuited his gardening, but my daughter and I have spent many hours in the dirt. She's now in Portland Oregon in her first home and starting her garden. The memories we have still make us laugh. When she was 4 I had to rent a public plot to grow veggies. One day we went to our garden after a rain. The garden badly needed weeding. Due to the clay soil the rain had made a large mud plot. We had to walk a long way to the garden. We went barefoot. By the time we got to our garden plot we had "mud moccasins" on our feet. My daughter couldn't stop laughing and dancing in her "mud mocs". It was one of the most wonderful afternoons. So 26 years later as she's planning her garden she calls me and says remember when.... I hope you and your son make wonderful memories too! I'll be anxious to read your updates! Enjoy the garden!

At 1:23pm on June 4, 2009, Sherry said…: Your pictures are great! I love the pond of course. I have one myself and keep it running year round. Iam a big water feature nut anyway. I missed veggie gardening this year...aargh! However my flower beds are doing wonderful this year. Where Ilive almost all the ground is clay and there has been many blood, sweat and tears to get the flower beds up and growing. They are really coming together very nicely this year.....so much growth!!!!

Keep your pictures coming!

At 7:58am on June 4, 2009, Vickie Estep said…: Hi Dawn, thanks for the invite. I think you have a bit of green there on your thumb! You new garden looks great. You'll have lots of yummy veggies to share with your son soon. Good luck and keep in touch and keep taking lots of pics. :)

At 6:05am on June 3, 2009, Alice Tengler said…: Your pictures of your garden look great and what a fantastic idea of hanging those buckets instead of buying them from t.v.! My neighbor bought those yet the buckets are just as effective and will probably last much longer. Your plants are doing so much better than mine. This year I'm having a real hard time keeping mine alive. I have moles but I always had mole so I'm not sure what it is...

At 4:32pm on June 2, 2009, Melody Leftwich z8 TX said…: Ladybugs and lacewing larvae go after the moth eggs that produce these pests as do trichogamma wasps.

Best deterrent is to hand pick them from the plants in a daily inspection.

They are discouraged by garlic/pepper tea sprayed on the stems and leaves of my plants--then later on the fruits. I don't spray blossoms though. Bt sprays will kill them. These sprays are a last resort for me because they also drive off the beneficial insects that are the most help.

Recipe:

http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/155/

At 11:26am on May 29, 2009, Melody Leftwich z8 TX said…: Mulching is practically a religion down here. If you don't mulch you might as well not plant because you can't possibly water enough with our heat!

You don't have to buy mulch. Partially completed compost makes great mulch too. I've been known to drive down alleys looking for discarded yard waste for my mulch LOL!

At 5:53pm on May 28, 2009, Diane Hewitt Z7/GA said…: You make me feel bad with all your hard work! I don't even have tomatoes in the ground yet. I'd better get busy! Good luck with all your veggies!!!!

At 9:36pm on May 24, 2009, Char Smith said…: Hi Dawn, SO HAPPY to be added to your frinds.... HOPE to get a change to learn about you pond and help you if I can and if you can advise me.

I grew up on a cattle ranh in Texas ans I had to plant and harvest gardens and can about the time I started to walk. I was in the 1est grade when I canned my first can of beets to be intered in the county fair..My mother stood over me every step of the way and I did win first place...

MAYBE I can help you and maybe you can advise me....

I am going to try to get more pictures on tomorrow.

Great to talk with you.
Char Smith

At 9:37am on May 14, 2009, Dinah Ault said…: Great pics..lots of work!! :D

At 9:35am on May 14, 2009, Dinah Ault said…: Sounds like you are busy!! ..that puts me to shame..I plan on doing more this summer. SO far the rains have made it messy! We have beenfocusing on planting more trees but I need more flowers and plants. And that's great you are there to be with and help your mom. What a blessing!! :)
~ Dinah