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Sage’s Garden

Miranda — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:48:24 +0000

Here are a few pictures of my garden. I grow herbs, lettuce, tomatoes, bok choi, kale, cabbage kolrabi, okra, and stringbeans, almost all of our greens come from our garden.

The huge white and lavender plant is a white-throated mullien which is a good herbal plant for lung ailments. There is also elderberry* which i make champagne from the flowers.

I especially enjoy growing herbs, and my granddaughter Kailen already understands the energy of this garden as she loves to be in it.

I make herbal remedies and have a Web site called www.wrensongfarm.net and a blog called www.wrensongfarm2.wordpress.com.

Thank you for allowing me to share this.

Sage (in Alachua)

How does your garden grow?

Miranda — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:40:07 +0000

How does your garden grow? Email me your stories and photos and I’ll post ‘em here!

Miranda’s Garden

Miranda — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:02:01 +0000

Gardening is a labor of love, an endeavor full of trust and hope, one that laughs in the face of instant gratification. This is my 3rd spring here in Gainesville and some of the plants I have purchased from EPP over this past year or two are beginning to flourish.

I planted a little EPP prickly pear 2 years ago. It took a whole year to get established and this year is taking off in a major way. Loads of new nopales and two flowers. Very exciting.

Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear Flower

More about the prickly pear …

The blueberries are plumping up nicely. I’m wondering whether I need to protect them from the birds.

Blueberries

Blueberrie

I planted this loquat 2 years ago at under 2 feet tall. Last year I pruned out the central branches – and a ton of small branches up and down the main trunk. I want it to make a beautiful umbrella shape with the branches accessible for me to pick the fruits. It’s brilliantly healthy and I’m hoping that it will flower/fruit next year. I planted some cabbages at its feet and they are growing like gangbusters – way better than the ones I planted between the bluberry bushes.

Loquat

Here are my seminole pumpkin and zucchini patches – at the feet of an orange and lemon tree.

Pumpkin/Zucchini

How does your garden grow? Email me your stories and photos and I’ll post ‘em here!