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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
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 Posted - May 06 2010 : 3:52:19 PM
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I just did a blog post on how we removed most of our lawn and made gardens. Since we did it ourselves, it took several seasons. Now I find myself removing flower beds and turning them into veggie beds. Nothing is constant in a garden except change.
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - May 06 2010 : 6:03:34 PM
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I am with you---This year we have now replaced our lawns with 7-raised beds and counting! I love the fact that I am growing fresh vegetables, herbs and cutting flowers instead of maintaining a useless lawn. I have created quite a stir on my street here in town. I do have a lovely picket fence that envelopes my beds but still I have cars slowing down to take a "peek" at whats going on over there!
Makes me smile!
I just checked out your blog and the gardens are AMAZING! Makes me want to get out and do more work on my own---They are calling for 10 inches of snow this weekend so I have to wait a little while longer....
Melody
Farmgirl #525
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - May 06 2010 : 6:08:53 PM
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Your yard is beautiful, Gloria. I am with you all the way on this. WHo needs a lawn to have to mow and keep up when you can plant flowers and veggies? My Dd and her fiance plowed up their whole front yard and have planted veggies and flowers. I am so proud of them. I just love it. And I have finally been feeling like doing some flower beds again myself. I have been out there working for a week now on flower beds. I am pooped but happy.
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
3259 Posts
Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
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Posted - May 06 2010 : 7:41:37 PM
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I bought my first raised garden bed. Have been contemplating where to put it- even though we have about 3/4 acre- so much of my back yard is shaded. The front on the other hand gets full southern exposure. So today I put together my raised bed on the front lawn. My husband nearly did a double take when I told him I was planting my veggie garden in the front yard! I told him to just wait and see how well its gonna do, because it will have the perfect growing conditions! He seems to think it strange that we will have tomatoes and cucumbers etc growing out FRONT! We'll see how this one plays out..LOL
Gloria- your gardens are awesome! Someday I hope to have the same!
Keep up the beautiful work!
~Laurie
Farmgirl Sister#1403
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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
103 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2010 : 9:25:05 PM
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Lauren, tell your husband that it is becoming very "in" to have a veggie garden in the front yard or anywhere it will grow. Todays newspaper, Rapid City Journal, had an article on how with economy and wanting healthier foods and wanting to be more ecofriendly to the earth people are removing lawns. We are so ahead of the curve!
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
2963 Posts
lisa
lexington
ky
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 03:55:17 AM
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know what ya mean gloria. I do a little each year. I am actually putting parsnips in the beds with the flowers. I wont be harvesting them till late fall and the flowers i can enjoy till fall anyway :) www.tribalhorse.blogspot.com I even planted 'random corn " in odd spots around the backyard .
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 05:07:47 AM
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Gloria, what an inspiration! Love your gardens. My DH and I are in the process of de-lawning too. I have 3 big garden beds, a small orchard and a back fence line of berries. This year I am adding a big squash and pumpkin circle. Thanks for sharing.
Why not go out on a limb, that's where all the fruit is! "Mark Twain"
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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 11:38:36 AM
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Tribalcime - parsnips in the flower bed! That is brilliant. You have me wondering where I will put them! Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog -Gloria
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 3:42:46 PM
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At our house I call it 'the major grass reduction program.' There must have been an acre of lawn-or what used to be lawn-here when we moved here five years ago. We've been in the process of making more gardens of all kinds-herbs, flowers and veggies, fruit trees and berries-and less grass. I say it used to be lawn because it hadn't been taken care of for several years. First by an older lady who owned this property for 55 years and then by a young couple who just didn't do anything, including water. The flower beds were non-existent and the grass was mostly weeds. We still have quite a bit of grass but less every year and at least what's here is grass and not weeds. I love my raised beds and we'll be putting in three more of them this year. Try some rainbow chard and eggplant too. They are both SO pretty in flower beds.
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other art follows. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Daniel Webster
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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 4:45:22 PM
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Celicheart, Wow I am impressed! You have done alot in 5 years. I love your "the major grass reduction program"! - My yard was similiar, a 90 year old lady lived in our house. I do plant chard in the garden. One year I used it in a window box. I am going to try eggplant in the front garden along with peppers. I love eggplant.
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - May 07 2010 : 10:59:50 PM
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Gloria, your gardens are beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I'll try to learn to use a digital camera this summer.
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other art follows. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Daniel Webster
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - May 08 2010 : 1:17:31 PM
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A friend I worked with once said the only thing a lawn is good for is keeping the soil in place until you plant a garden..I like that. MB
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 08 2010 : 3:37:40 PM
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great ideas girls. i should try the parsnips. what do their leaves look like? i have horse radish in my flower beds. the leaves are long and strappy. looks like a big day lily. only deep green. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - May 08 2010 : 5:29:09 PM
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Aren't parsnip leaves kind of lacy looking? My mom and dad grow them all the time but I don't.
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other art follows. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Daniel Webster
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