Your summer garden plans?

[carnation]

Well, these were going to go into a giant pot and be trained onto a tepee for the fair in the fall. Too bad! Two morning glories won't do that!

Good hanging basket plants include bougainvillea, petunias, portulaca, lantana, geraniums. Pansies can work but only if it doesn't get too hot. I use them every season except summer.

I seriously think there's a giant laurelcherry root under my yard because when I try to pull up the plants, they seem to be connected to something major and we have 80 zillion seedlings every year.

[cuteASAbug]

Well I would love to grow some pot to make brownies. j/k I'm the girl who kills cacti, so even if I did grow some, it probably wouldn't live long enough to make it into my cuisine anyways. But yea, no gardening plans of any kind, except to amire from afar and not touch anything that's green or alive.

[BuckeyeTriDelta]

Thanks for the advice Carnation! It can get hot and humid in Ohio in the summer, so I will leave my pansy-planting until next Spring.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

Well I would love to grow some pot to make brownies.

Or you could go to Arkansas and gather it wild...when I was in college there, my mother and her buddies came in enchanted with the beautiful weeds they'd found for drying. They wouldn't believe me when I told them it was wild pot. When they finally did, they were panicking and wondering how to get rid of it and my grandmother--who lived right off the campus of the U of Arkansas--insisted they should burn it in her incinerator! LOL! There would have been 2000 students in the back yard within minutes!

I have some jasmine I want to plant by the front porch this week. What a wonderful smell to sit on the porch and enjoy!

[AlphaFrog]

Just this morning, I was thinking I should get out the planters and plant some narcusiss and asters. Being that one's a spring and one's a fall, they should be able to go in the same planter, right?

[OneTimeSBX]

my mom and i are doing tomatoes, snap peas, cucumbers and broccoli. we do some of our plants in plastic laundry baskets. it works really well if you have limited sunlight in your yard, and you can move the plants to always have some sort of light. we just lined them with a black plastic bag poked with holes, and filled it with dirt!

[ForeverRoses]

My sons and I planted three strawberry plants along the side of the house about a month ago- and this weekend we were able to have our first harvest. So it was only 4 strawberries, but the boys were so excited!
We also planted gypsy peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, green beans, parsley and oregano- oh and my garlic chives came back with a vengance.