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Gardening friends list - are you interested?

  • Apr. 25th, 2006 at 9:09 PM
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Augh, the gardener I hired to help me with spring clean-up and gardening advice had to cancel out indefinitely because of medical problems. I'm sad for the gardener, of course (hopefully it's nothing serious) but also sad for me because this means I have to do garden spring clean-up by myself and I'M TERRIFIED OF KILLING OUR GARDEN. Pulling up things I'm not supposed to. Cutting things I'm not supposed to.

Rather than bore non-gardening types, I'm going to be posting pleas for help and also specific gardeningstuff only to those who are interested. If you don't mind seeing my gardening posts, could you please post below? I'll make a special Gardening Friends list. I'll also be posting gardening-related LJ user icons to the list that anyone is free to use (yes, this is a blatant bribe). Thanks in advance!!!!

(fingers crossed that at least a few people post below)...

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[info]victoriae wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:16 am (UTC)
I'd be happy to help where I can :)
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[info]ladyat wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:20 am (UTC)
I'm happy to post to your gardening list. I love to garden, and I won't be doing much of it this summer until the cast comes off.
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[info]filkerdave wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:23 am (UTC)
Yes please!
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[info]artbeco wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:36 am (UTC)
Me in. Also we can consult my sister who has a degree in Plant Science. :)
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[info]allisona wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:46 am (UTC)
I'd like to be added to the list, but don't expect much useful advice to be coming from this direction :). I am getting impatient, though, for the weather to clear up enough that I can begin year 2 of my balcony garden experiment.

If you're around and I'm free, I'd love to go to the Herb Festival with you this year, whenever it is.
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[info]fireskin wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:30 pm (UTC)
Count me in too! I'm not that good with most flowers but I know a lot about herb gardening.... and patio gardening in pots too.
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[info]braider wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:51 am (UTC)
I would love to read the posts, though I don't know that I would have anything useful to add.
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[info]cellio wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 01:53 am (UTC)
I have a brown thumb, but I like looking at pictures of flowers. :-) And who knows -- maybe I'll learn something that will help me not kill plants I get near!
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[info]mdlbear wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:09 am (UTC)
Me, too. I'm not much of a gardener, but my Mom is. And the [info]flower_cat is, too, though these days her arthritis limits her to giving orders to the hired help.
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[info]msminlr wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:10 am (UTC)
Add me to the list, too.
Maybe I can Mongol-Mail that book to you, that wouldn't fit in your suitcase back at GaFilk...
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[info]phillip2637 wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:11 am (UTC)
I'm willing, but the stuff I've figured out is mostly about edible things, so....
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[info]jhayman wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:18 am (UTC)
Love to. I may need to consult the Certified Field Assistant (Jenn) though.

I"m making devious plans to actually PLANT STUFF
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[info]lord_korak wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:33 am (UTC)
Looking forward to your gardening posts. Will try to offer useful advice - though it likely won't be mine but Trish's. :)
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[info]electricland wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:50 am (UTC)
I'd love to see your gardening posts! Although I don't imagine I'll be much help. But one of these days I want to get cracking on my garden...
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[info]spiritdance wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:53 am (UTC)
I'm in :-)

I might even manage to get something planted around here this year.
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[info]kchew wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 03:30 am (UTC)
If I can provide any help, I will. I love irises, peonies, and New Dawn roses. My garden is infested with bellflower, which I've been trying to do in for five years now, and I can usually tell a weed from something I want to keep. John is good at vegetables.
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[info]epi_lj wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 03:52 am (UTC)
I know absolutely nothing about gardening, so while I don't mind seeing the posts at all and would love to be apprised of how your gardening experiments are going, I can't say I'll be much of any help if that's part of the criteria.
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[info]tattercoats wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 07:56 am (UTC)
Please count me in! I don't *know* much, but can assert from my experience this year that most things seem to want to grow, whatever is inflicted upon them. I'm enjoying my first real garden, and burble about it on my LJ. I want to know!
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[info]vaurien wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 11:26 am (UTC)
Pish, dear. You know plenty even though it's all new and exciting.

Debbie, please count me in too. I'll get some advance warning of what's about to happen this way. {;c)
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[info]kitespirit wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 08:27 am (UTC)
Please, add me too :)
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[info]aunty_marion wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 08:46 am (UTC)
Count me in! I have a teeny tiny garden, but I manage to grow some things - I have a prolific blackberry and raspberry, a couple of bonsai oak trees, freesias and a columnar pear tree in the back at the moment (I really should get out this weekend and plant up some seeds of something...) and lots of ground-covery-type things in the front - lily-of-the-valley, cyclamen, grape hyacinths, aubrietia, brodiae, Japanese anemones, Welsh poppies, crocuseseseses....
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[info]stevieannie wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 09:19 am (UTC)
Please can I play too? I love to garden, and along with [info]tattercoats I am making the first steps towards growing substantial amounts of my own food this year. Also just got a vast allotment and share in an orchard, so great gardening fun will be had this year :-)

I also recommend joining the Chlorofilk LJ community (don't know how to link communities, and am too lazy to look it up!) where there is much discussion of filkers' gardens along with general eco-chat. It's not a very busy community, (2 or 3 posts a week on average) so won't drown your flist reading :-)
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[info]janeg wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:01 pm (UTC)
Add me too please. Phil and I have a pesticide-free, natural garden so my recommendations will not include chemicals or involve having a perfect lawn. Every year I try to get rid of more grass.

And a news flash - anyone you hired, or get help from, will probably kill or pull up something you would have liked to keep. Stuff can be really hard to identify in early spring, and anyway one person's weed is another's favourite plant.

Best bet might be to keep down the most obvious weeds, plant annuals where nothing seems to be coming up, and wait and see what the rest turns into. Then make a coloured map (yours will be great!) to guide you for planting fall bulbs and planning for 2007.
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[info]pola_bear wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:03 pm (UTC)
I don't know how much help I'll be, but I'd like to know about what you're doing. And you never know what seemingly useless information may be stuck in your head!
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[info]gorgeousgary wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:37 pm (UTC)
Sure, count me in. Granted, I'm completely clueless about gardening, but one came with the house. So we at least have to figure out how not to kill it!
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[info]weirdsister wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 04:48 pm (UTC)
Yes
Please count me in!
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[info]andpuff wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 06:24 pm (UTC)
I'd be happy to help if I can. Although, way out here not killing things isn't as much of a problem as figuring out HOW to kill things.
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[info]jwordsmith wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 07:13 pm (UTC)
I might be doing more reading than posting, but I certainly enjoy a good hack about the shrubbery (in fact, have just come inside from doing so).
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[info]gnomedude wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 07:25 pm (UTC)
Count me in
I pretty much just play in the dirt and hope something comes up but enjoy hearing what everybody else is doing.
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[info]hvideo wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2006 11:50 pm (UTC)
Sure, add my name to the list
While I'm not much of a gardener myself, both my mom and my sister do very well with it and have experience with a climate similar to yours (upstate New York). So I'll mostly just offer general support, but if something seems to be stumping the rest I'll see if they can help. (I don't really expect to need to do much of that, however, as I see that quite a few people who know things about gardens have already signed up.)
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[info]meritmaat wrote:
Apr. 27th, 2006 10:07 am (UTC)
I´d love to be on your list!
I am a gardeners beginner myself but love it. There is nothing more relaxing than pulling weeds and nothing more rewarding than watching the rest grow.
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[info]vixyish wrote:
May. 1st, 2006 07:31 pm (UTC)
I'd love to be in on this list. I don't know how much help I'll be, because I've had a house with a garden for two years now and I'm still figuring things out, myself. But I can at least give you the benefit of my experience and the books I've been reading.

Plus I'd love the icons. :)
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