Your summer garden plans?

[carnation]

How will your garden grow this summer?

I've hardly started. I grew some zinnias from seed and tried to grow a bunch of morning glories and sweet peas from seed and only 2 of each came up. Dang! With this horticulture PhD, I know how to treat the seeds for maximum germination and I still can't get either to sprout. Bluebonnets either. I want sweet peas because my grandmother had lots growing in her back yard and they were soooo fragrant.

My husband has potted a bunch of vegetable seedlings. This awful drought isn't helping our gardens at all.

[BuckeyeTriDelta]

Since I'm moving (probably to a condo) I am looking at getting some nice hanging baskets since I won't have much of a yard.What are good flowers/plants for hanging baskets? I'm partial to pansies, but do they do well in a hanging basket?

[AGDee]

I've been trying to kill the morning glories in my yard since I moved in 6 years ago. They pop up everywhere and make me crazy. When I try to pull them, I find that the root is going all the way under the deck to the other side of the deck. What a nightmare. You might be glad that they won't germinate, carnation, seriously.

[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.

[susan314]

I've only planted the front yard. (We have a 1 year old dog who I'm not confident has been broken of his digging habit yet, so I'm not wasting any time/money planting flowers in the fenced in backyard yet. lol)

In the front yard, I have...portulaca, dahlias, impatiens, verbena, shasta daisies, dianthus (which I didn't plant this year - they came back from last year, oddly enough), sweet alyssum...there are a few more that I'm drawing a total blank on the flower name! Could give you a good description - ex. the orange daisy looking thing with the bluish purple center - but can't tell you the name. lol

(Note - the front yard has areas that are almost entirely shaded, along with areas that are almost completely full sun. Our front porch casts a weird shadow.)

I'm hoping to plant some red and buff roses somewhere this year - was recently recommended a climbing variety of buff rose, so I'm thinking perhaps I could put it along the fence? We'll see...

I'd also like to plant some lilacs, but probably won't get to that until next year.

[PrettyBoy]

I'm broke as hell and live in an apartment. No garden plans for me.

[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.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I've been trying to kill the morning glories in my yard since I moved in 6 years ago. They pop up everywhere and make me crazy. When I try to pull them, I find that the root is going all the way under the deck to the other side of the deck. What a nightmare. You might be glad that they won't germinate, carnation, seriously.

Ugh. That happened to me, too - I had mulch put down, and the morning glories came in with that. They've run completely amok, so much so that in my Christmas cards to my neighbors, I said that the boro had turned down my request to use napalm on them!

Carnation, if you want some, you can have ALL of mine!! It's killed so many of my other plants, I refuse to plant anything else until it's gone.

[aephi alum]

My neighbors recommended a great nursery where the plants are good quality and inexpensive - the only drawback is that you have to buy the whole flat. So I have a flat of cucumbers (!), and half a flat each of habaneros and bell peppers (we each bought a flat and then divided them). Also, I got a flat each of marigolds, impatiens, verbena, and some other pretty purple flower whose name I'm blanking on.

Elsewhere, I got basil, cilantro, tomatoes, mint, and some geraniums and petunias in hanging baskets.

I didn't get everything down in time, so a few of the plants died , but everything else is thriving. I am going to have so many cucumbers...! Cucumber salad, anyone?

[EagleChick19]

Carnation--I have a question for you. I live in an apartment with a patio. I try to grow things in long window boxes. My porch gets full sun, and I love to know what I could grow. If it helps, I live in Pennsylvania.