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Took my camera for a walk around my yard and gardens this AM....dial up warning! (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 OP
Thank you! Enjoyed the colorful insects too. mia Jun 2014 #1
Your hay bale tomatoes look great! alfie Jun 2014 #2
Hey alfie - thanks... NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #5
K&R. Truly beautiful photos n/t friendly_iconoclast Jun 2014 #3
pics taken hand held with a Canon SX30 IS (great camera - great macro!)...legend to pics NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #4
The first one looked like an Okra flower. alfredo Jun 2014 #9
Wow! You've put a lot of work into that. Arkansas Granny Jun 2014 #6
salvia guaranitica black and blue NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #8
Those are just ohheckyeah Jun 2014 #12
Yup, gorgeous Helen Borg Jun 2014 #24
Bugs! I love bugs! Solly Mack Jun 2014 #7
Gorgeous photos! femmocrat Jun 2014 #10
Everything looks great Worried senior Jun 2014 #11
That made me smile. Curmudgeoness Jun 2014 #13
very nice handmade34 Jun 2014 #14
K&R! Wow! Beautiful garden and photos! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2014 #15
Well, NRaleighLiberal Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2014 #16
LOVE these. My wildflowers are going CRAzee! Something new each morning. joanbarnes Jun 2014 #17
Absolutely beautiful garden hosts and asjr Jun 2014 #18
Delightful! Thanks. JDPriestly Jun 2014 #19
Thanks, I needed that. . . rickyhall Jun 2014 #20
What's your address? I'm hungry. DamnYankeeInHouston Jun 2014 #21
I haven't seen jute tie for a long while. bayareaboy Jun 2014 #22
Ohhhhhh. Thank you for the intense pleasure of seeing these pics. DesertDiamond Jun 2014 #23
What are those gorgeous blue flowers? Aerows Jun 2014 #25
Great pics, thanks for sharing them! Lifelong Red Sox fan here! DrewFlorida Jun 2014 #26
thanks - me too - joined their bandwagon in 1967! NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #27

alfie

(522 posts)
2. Your hay bale tomatoes look great!
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:55 PM
Jun 2014

I may try that for 1 or 2 next year. What did you use for fertilizer? How long did you prep them before transplanting into them?

Love all the pictures.

NRaleighLiberal

(59,922 posts)
5. Hey alfie - thanks...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:21 PM
Jun 2014

I am working on a how-to book for bale gardening for Storey - I pretty much followed what was in the Karsten book, but also did a few variations - it takes about 2 weeks to prep them prior to planting. Easy...and thus far I am really impressed with the result.

NRaleighLiberal

(59,922 posts)
4. pics taken hand held with a Canon SX30 IS (great camera - great macro!)...legend to pics
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:15 PM
Jun 2014

flowers: Hibiscus Abelmoschus manihot (Sunset Hibiscus, from a seed pod at a local arboretum years ago - now winters over easily), Torenia, Salvia Guaranitica Black and Blue (hummers love it - our favorite perennial!), a chartreuse and brownish zoned leaf geranium we've had for years - similar to if not the same as Occold Shield, Lantana that we took cuttings of on Ocracoke many years ago, a Dahlia I grew from seed last year that somehow wintered over - I dug the tubers this spring and potted them up!, Buddleia (butterfly bush), leafhopper on a geranium leaf, our deck garden - including Diva cukes we are growing in a large pot and having climb, Diva cuke tendril


Eggplant Skinny Twilight (a project of mine - dehybridizing Orient Express and have several promising new named ones), tomato Saucy Mary (one of our new Dwarf project intros - this is F4 generation, should be a green fleshed medium oval tomato on a 4 foot tall plant), sweet pepper Royal Purple (another dehybridization project selection - this time from Islander - I've got 5 new named varieties in development), our first ripe tomato - in 37 days - Mexico Midget, baby Diva cuke on our deck, cluster of Lemon Drop cherry tomatoes in a large deck pot, mix of Genovese and Red Rubin basil, our blueberries that the cardinals and bluebirds didn't manage to eat yet, Bush Bean Cosmos (just about ready to start picking - yum!), Livingston Favorite and Livingston Golden Queen tomatoes in a bale (both from the late 1800s), and tomato Arkansas Traveler in a large pot at the bottom of our deck stairs.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
12. Those are just
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:01 PM
Jun 2014

amazing. I've never seen those flowers or any flower that was that blue.

You have some beautiful pics from a beautiful yard.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
13. That made me smile.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:02 PM
Jun 2014

So beautiful.....I didn't realize that you did so many flowers as well as all the 'maters. I am in love with it all.

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
16. Well, NRaleighLiberal
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:05 AM
Jun 2014

Looks like the Garden of Eden to me. Just spectacular. And how cool that besides being a knowledgeable gardener, you're pretty good with a camera, too! Thanks for posting.

K&R

joanbarnes

(1,715 posts)
17. LOVE these. My wildflowers are going CRAzee! Something new each morning.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:00 PM
Jun 2014

Box of seeds best $5 winter blah cure I ever splurged on.

bayareaboy

(793 posts)
22. I haven't seen jute tie for a long while.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:51 PM
Jun 2014

It does work well though.

Out here in Newcastle the first year I did big cans and enough plastic totes and so on because wherever I dug was full of big rocks. So this year I did the strawbale thing and it has worked out well. I do a weekly watering in with fish after some topdressing with organic to get the strawbales going, this Spring.

I will look for for your book soon.
 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
25. What are those gorgeous blue flowers?
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 04:39 PM
Jun 2014

The look like birds almost!

EDIT: Never mind, I should have known someone would beat me to asking that question!

Absolutely GORGEOUS, though!

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