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Get your garden growing
Gardening can be a surprisingly rigorous activity, made all the more satisfying by what you have to show for your efforts. Plant your favorite flowers, prune a tree, fertilize the lawn, or just pull a few weeds. Challenge yourself to connect with nature and expend some extra energy. _(When logging progress for this challenge, only log as many days as you participated in the activity within the 30-day timeframe.)_
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I have one lonely tomato, lots of basil and am starting to work with rosemary. I started all of the above in window boxes and just now put them into the ground. It seems that I pull weeds every day. I love to putter in the garden.
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A friend and I originally planned a community garden but when people realized that they had to work in it to earn their crops, they backed out. Instead, she and I have planted about a quarter acre of vegetables with hopes of selling some in a nearby city to recoup our costs and efforts. I am now getting a daily workout with hoeing, pushing a rotortiller, bending over to plant additional vegetables and pulling weeds. To be honest, I discovered muscles that I had forgotten I had and after getting all sweaty, it actually feels good to get this new exercise!! I hope this will contribute to my weight reduction.
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I am going to try and walk my dog longer and earlier in the morning before the 10 am heat wave and the daily tropical rains.
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JMBABS – I’ve been an avid herb gardener (tea, kitchen, and a few medicinal herbs.) If you have any questions, I’ll try to help! I’m sad that as soon as many of my herbs have really spread and look AWESOME this year, I have to start all over! Ah well, it’s a joy watching them grow from little ‘uns, too.
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Well, I’m going to do all this wonderful gardening, and we bought a new house. We’re moving in 3 weeks. I put all my new perennial herbs in pots (which seems pointless) and I’m staring down the task of splitting very mature herbs in late June and hoping they survive the move. Got my free granola today. It’s tasty!
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Today I finally got my herb garden in with 3 types of Thyme, 2 types of Rosemary, chocolate and orange mint, pineapple sage, lavender, Italian parsley and 2 types of basil. Still need some chives and normal sage, but the plants look beautiful and I cannot wait to start making my own lavender tea and using my own herbs rather than buying them. This is my first herb garden; it was an amazing experience buying the pots, the soil, the rock and the herbs and doing this myself!
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Purple beans, Kidney beans, 7 types of tomatoes, 3 types of hot peppers, 4 types of green and yellow peppers, corn, cucumbers, carrots, parsley, dill, basil, watermelon, and raspberries. Boy am I tried! But I am going to be eating GOOOD!!! It seems that the food always tastes better when I can pick it fresh from my garden. I still have a little space left. Any ideas whe should go there?
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Here in my part of Ohio, it’s been a bit too cold to get in the garden too much. A few herbs are in (parsley, pineapple sage, and LOTS of basil) but the cold nipped 2 basil plants. :( I don’t even have tomatoes in yet! COME ON WARMER, DRY WEATHER! I read some of your entires about flower gardens and they sound wonderful. I tried a flower garden once but it ended up a big mess. I’ve discovered that if I can’t eat it, I don’t plant it! HA!
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I enjoy gardening tremendously it is my release from stress. However this spring my flower gardens are beginning to become overgrown with weeds. My challenge is to get out at least a half hour every afternoon it is not raining and work in my gardens. It will get me some exercise but also help me relax after work. Plus it will help me get the yard ready for a big get together we are having in the middle of June. Happy Gardening!!
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We just moved into our new house in December and I know what you mean! My husband and I decided on an area about 12ft by 12ft for the garden and at first I was like, Thats it?!? Then I started digging out the grass and weeds and thought OMG maybe a 6×6 might be better! But I kept on digging and I am almost done! I am hoping the rest of the gardening process is not as hard as this! I’m just going to keep on going and looking forward to the finished products! I am planting beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, carrots and some strawberries.
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I just moved into a new house last fall and I wanted to put in some garden beds this spring. Digging out grass and weeds is so much harder than I could have imagined! I’ve finished digging out my vegetable beds and I’m working on a flower bed along the front of the house now…it’s really hard but at least I’m getting my exercise!
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I have spent every afternoon since last Friday working in the gardens. I have raked all of them out, weeded, and ordered 10 yards of mulch, which I am almost done spreading. Today I planted new shrubs along the front of the house and tomorrow I plan to plant 5 new rose bushes along the back where the other 5 are. Things are sprouting up more and more with each passing day. I also started a bunch of seeds (that I collected last fall) and they too are popping up like crazy. Who doesn’t LOVE this time of year? It is fabulous.
Happy Gardening—and here’s to achy and sore muscles coming out of hibernation. YAY!
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This sounds like a great way to knock out 2 important “to-dos” excersise and get my garden going! wish me luck i’m planting a new lawn…
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Today will be my first day of working in the garden and my flower beds. I am so looking forward to getting my hands in the dirt planting onions, lettuce and my Black-Eyed Susans. Tomorrow, I’ll take an extra allergy pill when I go out to mow the grass for the first time this season which means spring has finally arrived in far western MD! My hummers haven’t returned yet, but it won’t be long now.
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Well my trees are in, but the nights are still to cold for planting. I’m busy cleaning up the garden area and hauling in the composted horse manure to the garden area.
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