Are You Planting a Garden?

By DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
United States
April 12, 2022 6:37pm CST
Pretty and I have spinach and lettuce growing in pots on the front porch, bell peppers sprouted in our laundry room and tomatoes planted in our flowerbed. At the end of April, we'll be able to transplant the bell peppers into a couple of the pots on the front porch, too. Our lemongrass, pampas grass and fountain grass should have all sprouted by now but none of them are showing any new shoots. I'm worried about all of them. At the end of Arpil I'll also be able to take a lot of the houseplants out into the yard after hardening them off so the sun doesn't scorch them. Spinach. Photo is mine.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Am I planting a garden? No. I couldn't have a green thumb with a bucket of paint.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Oh, that's too bad. I love plants. We have them crowding the kitchen all Winter and all over the front porch and front yard all Summer.
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
13 Apr 22
It seems you have a good start to this year's garden. My missus is our family gardener and will start planting when we get back from vacation.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
I hope you have a wonderful vacation and a good garden this year.
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much2say
@much2say (55655)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Apr 22
We have a mish mosh of plants that are put together and I hope it can be called a garden . I know you have a super green thumb . . . enjoy the growth through harvest time . Our lemongrass did not survive period - normally they hang around quite well. Our houseplants just stay in the house all year round.
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much2say
@much2say (55655)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil I should . I actually would do a dance video and hope it would go viral . Yes, one dream o' mine . Ah, it's amazing that your pampas grass has been with you all these years! At that point, the plant is like an ol' friend - it's been with you through thick and thin. I expect the cherry tree to be fuller in a month or 2, but who knows - Mother Nature is being weird. I'll bet freshly picked cherries are awesome - and your moms pies too!!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
If you've got plants, then it's a garden. Thanks... Our pampas grass is 30 years old. We can't figure out why it isn't coming back this year. The two fountain grasses were new last year, so it's possible they just don't like where we planted them. *sigh* This would have been the third year for the lemongrass...
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@much2say You should film the dance and post it on your YT channel. I bought the pampas grass when it was in a five inch pot. I kept it as a houseplant for years. It's the only plant I took when I started getting divorced from Pretty's mom. I have no idea about cherry trees. We had two when I grew up on the farm that had delicious cherries every year. Mom made lots of pies from them. Thanks. I hope so, too.
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Greg
@xander6464 (44250)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Apr 22
I'll plant mine in about a month. I've never tried getting a headstart indoors.
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Greg
@xander6464 (44250)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil That's sad. I love green peppers.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@xander6464 So do we. We buy three to six of them every two weeks when buying groceries. We have a dozen plants sprouted in the house. I hope that will help keep us supplied for a while.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
This is the first year we've started bell pepper seedlings inside. We grew some bell peppers from seeds last year but they didn't have time to set peppers on before the cold killed them.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (106361)
• Marion, Ohio
13 Apr 22
We will plant towards the end of May
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Our garden plants should all be up around the first week of May. We tried to find some of the ridge gourds this year but Walmart didn't have any seeds. I wanted to see how they tasted.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@wolfgirl569 Thanks. I will...
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (106361)
• Marion, Ohio
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil Check Burgess seeds. They might have them
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Ric Angelo
@MrDenata (12248)
• Indonesia
13 Apr 22
My mom do that, our yard full of flowers, banana trees, lemon tree, and several plants that i cant remember their names.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
I love plants. My kitchen is crowded with them. We can't keep most plants outside year round. A lot of them will die when Winter starts.
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Ric Angelo
@MrDenata (12248)
• Indonesia
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil i can imagine that, lucky us we live in tropical country, we only know Wet and Dry Season. So, we can plant a lot of them in our garden. I love plants too but i dont have time for that, DE
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@MrDenata Yes, you're a lot luckier than we are in that regard. I'd love to have my entire yard nothing but fruit trees and veggies. I used to be really busy when Pretty was growing up but I still made time for plants, too. *shrug* Maybe my priorities weren't where they should have been all the time.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (167015)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Apr 22
I envy you. We just got a newsletter from housing today. No planting or plants except on our patio (which is nearly nonexistent.)I try not to think about it. I can recall many a raging back ache after a full day of planting strawberries, pancies, and all many other things. I miss it.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (167015)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil .......Same here.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
I remember the backaches. Most of the time now, I crawl around instead of stooping. I'd rather have my knees sore than my back.
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bonnie
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
15 Apr 22
Wow that spinach is looking good. It's going to be great . Smart growing some of your own ingredients. Wish they would consider it here at my house.
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bonnie
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
16 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil oh no. I don't know what you might do about that. Terrible
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
15 Apr 22
That's the same flowerpot that a squirrel buried walnuts in last fall. Pretty kept digging them up an throwing them away. We didn't want another walnut tree here. Now, the squirrel keeps digging up the dirt in that flowerpot... we think he's hunting for his walnuts. We just replanted all the spinach he dug up last night.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
16 Apr 22
@bunnybon7 I shifted the pots around on the front porch to see if he recognizes the pot by color or if he just remember which spot it was in. He was digging around in a pot we haven't planted anything in this morning...
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Tina Dalasinski
@Tina30219 (81944)
• Onaway, Michigan
30 Apr 22
No garden here in the summer we are busy never home to take care of it we do a lot of camping in the summer. I hope you get lots of yummy goodies from your garden.
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Tina Dalasinski
@Tina30219 (81944)
• Onaway, Michigan
30 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil I have not been to a motel in a while as far as to stay overnight or anything.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
30 Apr 22
Thanks. My idea of "camping" is spending time in a bad motel... I took Pretty "camping" twice when she was small. Once to the Scenic Overlook at Table Rock Lake to watch the April meteor showers and once at the Pacific Ocean so we could swim in the moonlight. Both times we had sleeping bags in the back of my Dodge Daytona Hatchback so we could watch things through the back window and nobody could bother us.
DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
30 Apr 22
@Tina30219 We haven't been in a motel since I worked as a night clerk at a Best Western in a city not far from where we live. I worked there for ten years. Pretty was ten or eleven when we camped in the back of my Daytona.
rebelann1949
@rebelann (112875)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Apr 22
It's odd to me that people put houseplants outside, to me the purpose of having living indoor plants is to make the indoors healthier for me and the kritters.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (112875)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Apr 22
Well, even so, the plants I have wouldn't do well outside anyway, it's much healthier for them inside.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Unless you've filled the entire house with plants, there's little purpose in having them to make the air healthier, or so the articles I've read have said.
Which houseplants should you buy to purify air? None of them.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Bringing plants indoors can provide a number of benefits, but cleaner air isn't one of them, say experts.
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prashu
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
19 Apr 22
oh i am so sorry your lemon grass , pampas and fountain grass are not showing any new shoots... what could be the reason I already planted a garden
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prashu
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
19 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil ahhh it's a secret wandering in the garden is also good but how does the pampas grass look like no idea and what is fountain grass
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prashu
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
20 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil what do you do with pampas grass its a waste grass
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
20 Apr 22
@prashu228 It's no secret that your mom can't get any work out of you... Yes, wandering the garden is good but doesn't help take care of the plants. Pampas grass. Photo is mine. Fountain grass is similar to pampas grass but fountain grass doesn't grow as tall.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471421)
• Switzerland
13 Apr 22
I am growing now tomatoes, hot peppers and bell peppers in pots inside the greenhouse. The tomatoes are already pretty tall. I need to move them to larger pots soon.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471421)
• Switzerland
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil - I should add a solar powered heating system in the greenhouse, at least I can grow plants even during the coldest months.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@LadyDuck I always have plants in the house but we don't keep it warm enough to grow veggies in the house.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
I wish we had a greenhouse so we could grow veggies all year round.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340200)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Apr 22
You have some really interesting foods coming along. I hope they do well.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Thank you very much. The spinach is just for me. Pretty won't eat it. The rest of it, we'll both eat.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
@JudyEv Pretty will eat a few leaves mixed in with lettuce but if I add spinach to noodles or an omelet, Pretty might eat some and might not. *shrug* It just leaves more for me to eat.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340200)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil Vince loves spinach. I can take it or leave it.
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Kandase
@Kandae11 (55035)
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13 Apr 22
We have lemon grass on our property. I make tea with it at least three times a week .Planting some of what you eat is a very good idea.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
We've always grown tomatoes, even though Pretty won't eat them. I like fresh ones still hot from the sun. Pretty and I have a huge yard but can't plant veggies in a garden in the back yard. The neighbor's grandkids think anything in our yard is theirs to do what they want with... So we confine ourselves to our front porch and the flowerbed in front of the house. The kids aren't brave enough to bother anything out there.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (47332)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Apr 22
Of course I'm planting a garden. I'm a life-long gardener. I spent yesterday fixing up a garden plot that was in need (the old fence planks I used to surround it were starting to rot away). My rhubarb is showing its head, the chives are up, and the raspberries have leafed out. And I put a couple sprouty potatoes in the ground the other day.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (47332)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Apr 22
@DaddyEvil I hope everything grows well, too. Some carrots from last year seem to have made it through the winter. Thing is, I don't remember planting carrots in that spot.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
13 Apr 22
Of course you have a garden. I'd be very surprised if you told me you weren't planting anything this year. I hope everything grows well and you get a large harvest this year.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
14 Apr 22
@BarBaraPrz Mom and dad always called stuff like that "volunteers" and said they produce better than the ones that were planted on purpose.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Apr 22
Looks good. I harvested some snow peas on my balcony the other day and have some sunflowers, green beans, and corn growing on my balcony and at the preschool. We will see what happens.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
16 Apr 22
It's still too cold for most veggies until the end of April here. But the ones that can manage at almost freezing temps are doing well, so far. I hope all your veggies do well this year.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
14 May 22
@TheHorse Oh, nice! It's been in the 90s the last few days. It's hot enough that all my spinach has bolted, so it's no good now. A squirrel ate all the lettuce and the bell peppers we had planted. The tomatoes are blooming and the green onions look good.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 May 22
@DaddyEvil Today, the corn, snow peas, green beans, and sun flowers at the preschool looked OK.
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Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15149)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
27 May 22
My mom does it. We have large garden for tomato's, potato, beans, peppers.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
27 May 22
Very nice. When I lived with my parents we had a huge garden, too.
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Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15149)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
27 May 22
@DaddyEvil Now I am in small apartment but one day I will buy a house with small garden. This is our smaller front part with flowers.
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Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15149)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
27 May 22
@DaddyEvil Can't send image from phone. Maybe it is to big.
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Arya
@yoalldudes (35037)
• Philippines
30 Jul 22
I have calamansi (a variety of citrus like lemon, I guess), some peanuts, lemon, cacao (main component of chocolate). Moringa leaves always available and nutritions. I hope you have a a good harvest.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
1 Aug 22
Oh, those all sound so nice! Most of that won't grow here except in a hothouse but I wish I could grow those plants. Thank you. The harvest has gone well, so far. Lots of tomatoes and the bell peppers are still producing. It's too hot for spinach now, so we pulled it out.
DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
1 Aug 22
@yoalldudes Spinach does well in warm-ish but not too hot temps. Normally, it thrives here for the first two months of the summer, plenty of time to get a good crop before the heat makes it bolt and taste bitter. This year, it bolted as soon as the hot weather started. It was pitiful. Check the growing zones for your country. Maybe spinach will grow well for you.
Arya
@yoalldudes (35037)
• Philippines
1 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil I love the taste of spinach. They are not very common here. But they can thrive here.
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Jessa Arienda
@Hanbinandaeyo (3303)
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16 May 22
that's lovely.. Zymon used to plant his watermelon seeds from fresh watermelon.. He's kinda silly but I appreciate it since he's trying to plant at young age.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
16 May 22
@Hanbinandaeyo If the seeds are black, then they can be planted and should grow. It's getting too hot here for planting new seeds. We didn't have a Spring this year. We went straight into Summer with temps at 34C.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
16 May 22
Thank you. The spinach is growing well. I've been eating some of it. Little boys are supposed to be silly. Did any watermelon vines grow from the seeds he planted?
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Jessa Arienda
@Hanbinandaeyo (3303)
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16 May 22
@DaddyEvil That's great.. I try to plant more vegetable soon.. Unfortunately no.. Since the seeds came from the fresh watermelon he eats. I don't think it'll grow. but I'll buy him some planting seed so that he'll get in touch with planting
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Neil
@Neil43 (3313)
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26 Oct 22
Surely, I'd love to take on this kind of hobby when I am already back in the Philippines.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
26 Oct 22
We like growing some of our own veggies and flowering plants. I hope you enjoy it when you get back home.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
26 Oct 22
@Neil43 I really enjoy gardening and have a lot of potted plants in the kitchen year round.
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Neil
@Neil43 (3313)
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26 Oct 22
@DaddyEvil Yup. I saw some of your potted flowers before. You showed some of those different colors of one variety.
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