Farmfresh
City Biddy
You want the African marigolds. Those are the big tall ones and great for keeping garden pests at bay. Plus they are hard to find. I would also consider extra herbs for sale.
Bee~ Journal of then...
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Beekissed
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Morel, non-pc = non-politically correct! 
2Dream, I planted marigolds last year around all my garden veggies, along with Nasturtiums, and they grew quite well just sewing them right into the soil. They were the last thing to be cut down in my garden, they were so bright and cheerful! I will probably do the same this year.
I have planted the following flowers, for my own landscaping/gardens and to give away and sell:
Pyrethrum~Painted Daisy (for bug repellency and for cut flowers...I would like to steep some and save the concoction for making my own bug repellent and insecticide.
Purple Cone Flowers
Black-eyed Susans
Shasta Daisy
Tickseed(coreopsis)
Gloriosa Daisy
Delphinium
Blue Sage
Calendula~for steeping into a solution for balms and salves.
Chamomile
Lavender
Sweet Woodruff
Lemon Balm
Since I wound up with more flats and more space, I just replanted all the flowers that I had originally planted....so I will have a great number of left over flowers and I hope to give them to my patients, my mom, and to sell some.
One of my patient's wives gave me a whole bag of large yogurt containers....so I will have plenty of pots to expand into for repotting.
I plan to expand my perennial plantings each year and each fall divide and separate them and have a perennial swap. Set up tables and invite folks to come and take one/leave one, sample some homemade lemonade, maybe buy some of my pumpkins, apples and other produce...who knows? It could become an annual event! Noone else around here is doing anything similar, so it may become popular.
2Dream, I planted marigolds last year around all my garden veggies, along with Nasturtiums, and they grew quite well just sewing them right into the soil. They were the last thing to be cut down in my garden, they were so bright and cheerful! I will probably do the same this year.
I have planted the following flowers, for my own landscaping/gardens and to give away and sell:
Pyrethrum~Painted Daisy (for bug repellency and for cut flowers...I would like to steep some and save the concoction for making my own bug repellent and insecticide.
Purple Cone Flowers
Black-eyed Susans
Shasta Daisy
Tickseed(coreopsis)
Gloriosa Daisy
Delphinium
Blue Sage
Calendula~for steeping into a solution for balms and salves.
Chamomile
Lavender
Sweet Woodruff
Lemon Balm
Since I wound up with more flats and more space, I just replanted all the flowers that I had originally planted....so I will have a great number of left over flowers and I hope to give them to my patients, my mom, and to sell some.
One of my patient's wives gave me a whole bag of large yogurt containers....so I will have plenty of pots to expand into for repotting.
I plan to expand my perennial plantings each year and each fall divide and separate them and have a perennial swap. Set up tables and invite folks to come and take one/leave one, sample some homemade lemonade, maybe buy some of my pumpkins, apples and other produce...who knows? It could become an annual event! Noone else around here is doing anything similar, so it may become popular.
2dream
Flibbertigibbet
Oh I love that take one leave one idea. I may have to steal that from you.
Farmfresh, thanks for the info - you saved me from having to go hunt that info.
Farmfresh, thanks for the info - you saved me from having to go hunt that info.
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I can't claim credit for that one....I read about it somewhere and it always appealed to me. The other folks were also doing the same with seeds...sort of a seed swap.
I like the idea of folks sharing what they have and don't need, instead of throwing them out when they thin their perennials.
It would also give me a chance to do some teaching about rotational grazing and alternative gardening methods...just in case someone asks about my setup here. I had many people very curious about my raised beds and permanent pathways last year, and it seems they are always curious about the chickens.
Another piece of evidence that I am where God wants be ? The old pump at the abandoned old house down the road on which I've had me eye? I met the daughter of the lady who owns it today during one of my patient visits....and she said the old gal would probably have no trouble at all with the notion of getting rid of that pump! Full price out of Lehman's catalog? That pump would be around $250.
Today is a gloriously beautiful day....blue skies and bright sunshine! God has so blessed me with eyes to see it all.
I like the idea of folks sharing what they have and don't need, instead of throwing them out when they thin their perennials.
It would also give me a chance to do some teaching about rotational grazing and alternative gardening methods...just in case someone asks about my setup here. I had many people very curious about my raised beds and permanent pathways last year, and it seems they are always curious about the chickens.
Another piece of evidence that I am where God wants be ? The old pump at the abandoned old house down the road on which I've had me eye? I met the daughter of the lady who owns it today during one of my patient visits....and she said the old gal would probably have no trouble at all with the notion of getting rid of that pump! Full price out of Lehman's catalog? That pump would be around $250.
Today is a gloriously beautiful day....blue skies and bright sunshine! God has so blessed me with eyes to see it all.
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Went out to the coop to relocate that broody to the broody pen and got a big surprise! Those little biddies are up on the roost with their mama! 
Now, folks, these roosts are a little over chest high on me and I'm 5'4"....these little chicks are just 4 weeks old and don't even have all their feathers yet...but apparently had enough wing feathers to make the height requirement!
Every star in the sky tonight and off in the distance I can hear spring peepers singin'......heavenly!
Sprouts are doing well and seem strong...I've been brushing them whenever I think about it and tomorrow I will thin the ones that have a few too many extra seeds. I don't know why I didn't think of grow lights and shelves years ago.....guess I've just been doing alot of extra reading and obsessing this year!
Isn't all this soooooo exciting? Growing things and watching creatures grow, building projects and trying new things...just to see what happens. I can't wait to put all these perennials around my home and all these herbs along side the house.
If they bloom this year, it will sure be a car stopper...along with the multi-colored hair sheep and a big black pig grazing in the yard. These nosey mountain folk will sure get an eyeful when they rubberneck this summer!
I'm telling you folks, very few people around here have flowers in their yards and certainly not many perennials. If I can show folks how nice it looks, maybe next year they will buy some perennials from me!
Now, folks, these roosts are a little over chest high on me and I'm 5'4"....these little chicks are just 4 weeks old and don't even have all their feathers yet...but apparently had enough wing feathers to make the height requirement!
Every star in the sky tonight and off in the distance I can hear spring peepers singin'......heavenly!
Sprouts are doing well and seem strong...I've been brushing them whenever I think about it and tomorrow I will thin the ones that have a few too many extra seeds. I don't know why I didn't think of grow lights and shelves years ago.....guess I've just been doing alot of extra reading and obsessing this year!
Isn't all this soooooo exciting? Growing things and watching creatures grow, building projects and trying new things...just to see what happens. I can't wait to put all these perennials around my home and all these herbs along side the house.
If they bloom this year, it will sure be a car stopper...along with the multi-colored hair sheep and a big black pig grazing in the yard. These nosey mountain folk will sure get an eyeful when they rubberneck this summer!
I'm telling you folks, very few people around here have flowers in their yards and certainly not many perennials. If I can show folks how nice it looks, maybe next year they will buy some perennials from me! 
justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
Oh Bee, you inspire me!! I want so much to put in flowers...just can't seem to find the time! We also have a bad problem with drainage...seriously, I think I could grow RICE! I planted a Weeping willow...it DROWNED!! :/ I have been researching the idea of putting in a Medicine Wheel garden. I think I will start with that, before I go with too many flowers.
freemotion
Food Guru
What is a medicine wheel?
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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Justy, Black-eyed Susans love wet feet! I've seen them grow in a continual bog before. Have you thought of doing some ornamental bamboos? I would love to have a bamboo patch so that I could harvest it and use it for fencing, trellising and other neat applications. And some of the bamboo is real pretty.....somewhat invasive if you let it go, but pretty and a great privacy screen that grows fast.justusnak said:
Tell me about the Medicine Wheel Garden? Have never heard of it before, unless its the configuration of gardening where they put corn in the middle, tomatoes all around, beans in the corn, cucumbers and squash at the foot of the corn and lettuces, onion, raddishes on the very outside. Sort of like that?
justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
Bee, a Medicine Wheele is a Native American thing.
Here is a great website, explaining it all. http://www.spiritualnetwork.net/native/medicine_wheel.htm
Here is a great website, explaining it all. http://www.spiritualnetwork.net/native/medicine_wheel.htm
freemotion
Food Guru
Bee, that sounds like a modern version of a Three Sisters garden, corn, pole beans, and pumpkins or squash.
