Full sun? Verbena would do nicely. I've also had good luck growing herbs in window boxes - but don't put basil or mint in a box with anything else - they're both pretty aggressive.

I'm trying square foot gardening for the first time this summer. I'm planting herbs and flowers among the veggies for natural pest control.

Plants fear me
 

Admire all of you who can get your garden to grow.
At one time, I had house plants all over apartment. I took a vacation, and while I was gone, a buddy was to water the plants. I came back, and the plants were gone, and left on the coffee table was a note saying the plants had been rescued. :confused: I called my buddy, and he told me he had to save them. He re potted them all and were happy at his house.

In our vegetable garden we have currently growing:

Three different kinds of lettuce
Basil
Oregano
Cilantro
Tomato
Cherry Tomato
Green Bell Peppers
Cayenne Peppers
Banana Peppers
Jalapeno Peppers
Habanero Peppers (my husband makes his own hot sauce/chili powder)
zucchini
Cucumber
Yellow Squash
Sunflowers

The opposite side of the yard has the now lone grape vine. We planted four vines originally--2 niagara, 1 concord, 1 red--but three of them were killed with the last late freeze :(

Regular flowers we have:
Roses
Dianthus
Ivy
Day Lillies
Columbine
Hosta
Lavender
Marigolds
some yellow flower i dont know the name of
(Irises, crocus, and hiacinths have come and gone and the Gladiolis apparently wont be back this year)

We've planted a lot this year. We did Hostas in front of our Boxwoods at the front of the house. Our side garden has Tiger Lilies, a Butterfly Bush and an Azalea. We've added a Lilac, Hydrangea, Bleeding Heart, Peonies, and Irises. It's a lot of work (especially for someone who never gardened before this year!) but it's looking awesome.

So what did you accomplish in your gardens this summer?

The drought about did us in. Some plants were watered every day and still suffered, particularly the 3 pink pieris shrubs in front. They'll have to be moved.

I finally had good luck with zinnias and have had enought to cut every day if I want! We had our usual surplus of peppers, bell peppers and cucmbers.

While I didn't get a garden in, I'm feeling terrible for the people on the other end of our town. They had several floods this summer, and have been told not to eat ANYTHING from their gardens! I can't even imagine working so hard on a garden and not even being able to compost it!

Ack! That happened in Georgia after some awful floods a few years ago. No one wanted the melons from south GA because you would cut into them and dirty water would pour out. (No telling what was in the water either.)

Sadly, I do know what was in that water - blech. :p BTW, did you know that melons are the most likely to carry disease? People rarely wash the melons before they slice them, and the ick from the rind contaminates the rest of the fruit. Double blech.

Divided and transplanted hundreds (or so it seemed) of bulbs and rhisomes this weekend. Our latest water bill reflected our very hot, rainless summer.

I realize this is old, but for the two of you with morning glory problems...

I've heard that if you take a bucket or jar of weed killer and either put the head of the flower/stem in it, or part of the root [that is still attached!] in the weed killer, then it will go throughout the whole plant through the connected roots and kill them all.

Worth a try?

May you have a blessed day! I will definitely try this, while I still have some landscaping left!

It's that time of year. Recently I went to the local nursery for cucumbers but the ones they had been damaged in a recent frost. Here's what's been planted so far.

Veggies
Green and red peppers
Celery
Tomatoes
Green beans

For flowers I was thinking hydrangeas but I'm not sure what else to put with it.

In the yard:

2 Blackberries
8 grape plants
3 raspberries, one of which is fall gold raspberries
3 blueberries
strawberries
nectarine
peach (we will probably lose this tree)
barlett pear
plum
cherry
hydrangea
japanese maple
hemlock
10 bradford pears
mammoth sunflowers
mixed sunflowers
two assorted wildflower beds
knockout roses
a white rose that i forget the name but smells like honeysuckle
mock orange


herbs:
lavender
2 oregano
italian parsley
thyme
dill
sage
rosemary
marjoram & tarragon are planned

Flowers have not been bought yet or decided on.

garden:
tomatoes
cucumber
squash
3 kinds of lettuce
spinach
carrots
5 kinds of peppers
zucchini
beans
peas

Bumping because we are back to that time of year again!


What is everyone planting/planning this year? Is anyone having any garden themed parties?