Show us your photos of gardens & landscaping

tomf · Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:58 pm

Any one that comes here knows I love photos, it would be so nice to see more photos of your gardens and landscaping. I love looking at garden pictures and as said a picture tells a thousand words. Many of us get good ideas from looking a pictures of gardens.
So please post more pictures, you could post some here, they could even be of a garden you have visited.

Dillbert · Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:04 pm

just took this photo of my garden a couple minutes ago.

I had a really good stand of snow going - but it melted. does that qualify as a "crop failure?"

tomf · Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:10 pm

No it is just early for you. It looks good and a nice area of woods behind you. This is a photo of the Oregon Gardens.

Dillbert · Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:02 pm

>> just early for you

nuts.
I was gonna' apply for a Federal emergency relief grant - failed schno-crop and all that . . .

Charlie MV · Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:51 pm

I would post more pictures but I dropped my hosting sight. It's so easy to post on FB and a few other places I go. I know Webmaster has this on his to do list so I'm just waiting. He's busy fishing.

Dillbert · Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:00 pm

>>but I dropped my hosting sight

ah, but with the upgrades you can now post pix directly to this site....

Charlie MV · Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:22 pm

Dillbert wrote:>>but I dropped my hosting sight

ah, but with the upgrades you can now post pix directly to this site....

How?

Dillbert · Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:45 am

see the pix attached - click the Browse button, select the file, click on Add the file.

size limit is 2mb I think....

Charlie MV · Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:32 pm

Test, hopefully new raised beds.

Edit: Got it. Thank you Dilbert. More to follow

Charlie MV · Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:59 pm

8 new raised beds . Potatoes, carrots onions in the two closer beds. The two in line furthest away are squash and zucchini. There are 4 more to the right that we'll plat bush beans in next week. Hope this makes picking easier. We laid cardboard, then the beds. Then we laid mulch around the walkways and I hauled 16,000 lbs of topsoil by wheel barrow to fill/

Charlie MV · Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:04 am

I do a lot of this. As soon as it's empty someone loads it up again.

tomf · Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:13 am

Nice neat beds, it should be easier to work. Hauling that soil looks like work, I like doing that sort of thing sitting down with with a tractor bucket. LOL

LA47 · Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:19 am

I am

with envy Charlie! I also wish I could get top soil that looks that nice. All the country around me is clay so that's all I can get. We didn't have the time to add anything to the top soil we bought last year but will be adding a lot of compost etc. this year.
My garden last year.

Charlie MV · Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:00 pm

LA, you've done something right. The soil and plants look lovely to me. I want privacy fencing. It's on the list.

Tomf, the topsoil is much harder on me and the burro than mulch. The burro in the picture has passed away. All of the bolts popped out of his belly and I got tired of blowing up his tire. He leans in reserve at the back of the barn. I replaced him with one that has flat proof tires. They are some kind of semi soft rubber.

tomf · Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:16 pm

I also got tired of flats on mine and put soilid tires on it.
if I get a new one it will have double wheels on it, I get tired of the tipping over.
yes some timesmI resort to working by hand.

LA47 your ground does look hard, but things look like they are growing well.

Charlie MV · Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:40 pm

Tom, it looked to me like the two wheel variety wouldn't maneuver as well or as easily nor get in and out of tight spaces. Am I wrong? And no I really can't imagine you with a wheel barrow unless you invented a hover barrow.

Why is it Saturday the 6th in South Carolina and Sunday the 7th on everybody else posts? Are we truly that backward?

Edit: never mind the temporal query. My time zone got set to Pakistan time.

LA47 · Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:29 pm

Mike changed the single wheel to a double wheel several years ago and it isn't as maneuverable but we both really appreciate the stability when hauling heavy loads on it. Has anyone had it loaded with bricks and had it tip over? I have!

If anyone is interested in how he did it let me know and I'll have him PM you.

Charlie MV · Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:30 pm

LA, single wheel trick. When you grip the handles, line your thumb up with the sides of the handle pointing forward. It will never tip.

tomf · Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:35 pm

When I move them is not the problem, it is when I am shoveling dirt into it.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:24 am

My wife and I took a short walk around the acres close to the house and I took some photos, a lot of them, here are a few; OK more than a few. We feel so lucky living in the country is so peaceful and being in the midst of nature. Here is an early spring walk, we like taking walks and hikes.

Front yard and driveway looking to the garden and green house.

The path in front of the house

More front yard.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:30 am

The west lawn.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:36 am

A walk down some of the roads I have made, most of our land is wild this is some of what I have tried to manage, and do fire control thinning on. I am going for a park like yard.

This green lawn past the trees is one of the SW meadows, there are 3 of them in that area.

Many of our ferns are waist high or more, photos below are in south east woods.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:49 am

Photos in the Rhododendron Garden. This was a thicket and over run by blackberries, I planted all the plants and landscaped this are, it is one of my favorite hangouts. Some of the early Rhododendrons are in flowers now, most will come out soon.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:03 am

East lawn near rhododendron garden.

Mole attack.

The garden behind the deer fence is waiting to let the soil get a bit more dry so I can till it.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:12 am

North road to the lower North West Meadow.

tomf · Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:16 am

The North West Meadow, this area was a blackberry patch.

In this view you can see the end of our land, it is about 2/3 up the side of the hill across the valley, you can see where the trees change, that is about it. It is close to 1/2 mile from where we are, I have not been on all of the land yet.

valley · Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:12 am

looks good to me. I saw the pitch of the greenhouse roof, must get a bit of snow there.

Richard

tomf · Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:07 am

Some times we get a bit of snow, I only plowed the road once this year. The nice thing is at this altitude we get very little snow but we live near Mt. Hood and it gets lots of snow, being a ski bum and all I like that.

Charlie MV · Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:01 pm

Mulch= less grass. I have my acre lot down to natural area, house, garage, driveways, sidewalks and natural areas. I grow the natural area each year to the size of the tree canopies. More pics as I finish this year's expansion. I'm working towards the lawn being one pass up, one pass down.

valley · Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:57 pm

Tomf, Being a ski bum is a good thing, we were at hood a couple times, you get some weather there, it was snowing both times. We are at 6800ft so we get plenty. The pitch on our greenhouse is 12X12.

tomf · Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:40 am

You need some plants in all that bark dust.

valley your name should be mountain top as high up as you are.

Charlie MV · Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:54 am

Tomf, the weeds are so prolific that I decided to spend a few years getting them dead before I add plants. 2 years ago I put plastic under the mulch. I pulled it from a small area this year and there was no life. I'll plant that spot because I do not plan to enlarge it. I am going to enlarge the mulch areas under the trees in the front two more times with plastic and mulch. So in 5 years I'll add plants. I HATE weeds.

When I have the mulch areas the size I want them, I'll leave the plastic one more year, yank it and then plant.