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larry_stewart

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When not growing veggies, Im attempting too beautify my yard with plants and flowers. I usually dont grow too many flowers, as I prefer growing things I can eat, but after visiting many professional gardens, Flower shows, and other horticultural events, I've been slowly easing in to growing more flowers.

The hardest part is not growing them, but keeping them look nice and not overgrown.

I still prefer things I can eat, but this keeps me busy.
 

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Very impressive Larry!
Slowly easing in? Looks more like you took a flying leap and ruddy well landed on all fours galloping!

Well done!
 
Gorgeous Larry,

When we first started gardening together, I grew vegetables and he grew marigolds, thousands of them. Then he decided after a few years, he wanted to grow vegetables and marigolds, saving seeds, etc. Then he decided no more marigolds, no flowers and only vegetables. So now I start flowers, poppies, yarrow, butterfly pea, sunflowers, and herbs, and he's taken over the vegetables. I do the canning and he gardens. I help on big projects like harvesting garlic, weeding, tending the lettuce garden, watering, he helps me on big canning projects like pitting cherries, staging tomatoes for canning, carrying cases of jars up and down stairs. Right now it takes both of us every day.


Next year I'll start more flowers by winter sowing, and we put them everywhere, especially in places where vegetables don't germinate or survive, so it's a little here and there.
 
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