fuzzi is Transplanted in Eastern NC!

[fuzzi]

I'm fuzzi, a lady of almost retirement age who loves gardening as well as animals. My mother started me very young, helping her at age 5 or 6, and graduating to my own weedy 4'x4' area in her otherwise neat garden by 7. By then she'd made the switch to organic and I never knew anything but the natural methods.

Pretty, hmm?

Over the next 60 years I've dug and raked, pulled and planted, from New England to South Carolina, and now am happily transplanted in eastern NC, USDA Zone 8a.

I took a break from vegetable gardening for about a decade but am back, hands in the dirt of raised beds. I am a lazy composter, letting the worms do most of the work.

Looking forward to some discussion and fellowship here.

 

[ducks4you]

from Central IL.
Look up Brie Arthur, who also lives in NC. Also, please put your general (NC) location with your avatar bc I will forget where you live once you start posting.

 

[Branching Out]

Lovely to have you join us-- welcome to the forum!

 

[flowerbug]

welcome to TEG from mid-MI.

pictures appreciated.

what do you like to grow?

 

[Dahlia]

I'm fuzzi, a lady of almost retirement age who loves gardening as well as animals. My mother started me very young, helping her at age 5 or 6, and graduating to my own weedy 4'x4' area in her otherwise neat garden by 7. By then she'd made the switch to organic and I never knew anything but the natural methods.
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Pretty, hmm?

Over the next 60 years I've dug and raked, pulled and planted, from New England to South Carolina, and now am happily transplanted in eastern NC, USDA Zone 8a.

I took a break from vegetable gardening for about a decade but am back, hands in the dirt of raised beds. I am a lazy composter, letting the worms do most of the work.

Looking forward to some discussion and fellowship here.

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Welcome to the forum from the Pacific Northwest!

 

[ducks4you]

@fuzzi , Great looking raised beds!
It Looks like your corners and middle supports are "spacers" like I can get at Lowe's, which are the ~2ft long pieces of wood that they put between lumber for sale.
They are (or used to) free for the taking, often sitting in a shopping cart like somebody left them.
I haven't been to Lowe's for awhile, but I still have a few spacers and I was thinking about doing raised beds like this, too!
I also like how you are using row covers attached and around vertical poles and held on with clothespins.
I though the only way to use them was to purchase/cut PVC pipe, and I didn't want to go that route.

 

[fuzzi]

welcome to TEG from mid-MI.

pictures appreciated.

what do you like to grow?

Hmm. Anything that will grow?

If I could only grow one plant, it would be marigolds, especially the petite types. I had the tall ones in my first weedy garden, but moved to the small ones as an adult.

I plant perennials that can handle neglect, heat, drought, and torrential rains. My bird feeders are encircled by canna lilies, sedum, and coreopsis.

In that photo you can see a small patch of amaryllis to one side of the feeders, descendants of half a tuber I picked up on the road. It was dropped there when a neighbor ripped out the ones by their mail box. I planted it, and it survived and spread.

I have banana trees and crinum lilies near my little ponds, creeping Jenny competing with wild strawberries, violets, and vetch.

Heritage flowers, evening primroses. These are descendants of plants that were given to my mother by a neighbor back around 1970. Everytime I've moved I have brought and planted them. My eldest sister kept them going, too. When she lost hers I mailed her some slips, and when mine fried in South Carolina she shared back.

New garden I built and planted this year.

I encourage morning glories to climb my porch railings. I've not planted them in years, they self sow easily.

I like perennials that spread easily but can be controlled. I have thinned day lilies, iris, and canna lilies and placed them in areas needing color. Sometimes they don't thrive, but mostly they do.

Does that answer your question?

 

[fuzzi]

@fuzzi , Great looking raised beds!
It Looks like your corners and middle supports are "spacers" like I can get at Lowe's, which are the ~2ft long pieces of wood that they put between lumber for sale.
They are (or used to) free for the taking, often sitting in a shopping cart like somebody left them.
I haven't been to Lowe's for awhile, but I still have a few spacers and I was thinking about doing raised beds like this, too!
I also like how you are using row covers attached and around vertical poles and held on with clothespins.
I though the only way to use them was to purchase/cut PVC pipe, and I didn't want to go that route.

My raised beds are precut, easy assemble kits from Greene's Fencing, an online company. I invested in one when I decided to plant vegetables again, back in 2021. I do not have the strength to till, or dig much, and my spouse is disabled, so I wanted/needed raised beds.

I now have five, 8'x4'x14". Here are the last two, set up a year ago. They're made of cedar.

They fit together like Lincoln Logs.

I use cattle panel for trellises, but will use anything lying around that will do the job!

 

[flowerbug]

that looks like a lot of fun.

 

[fuzzi]

that looks like a lot of fun.

It's definitely therapeutic!