gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use. Gardening is considered by many people to be a relaxing activity.
Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, and to container gardens grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a variety of plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry.

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  1. rascal

    What's going on in your garden (2024)?

    So the wifes weeding our old herb garden. Found a shoot of oregano after 3? Years. Transferred it to another spot. I wish she had found it a few days ago, I used store stuff when making 4x2litre pasta sauce . Still picking raspberries and strawberries. Beans new potatoes. Russ
  2. Burt Blank

    Gardening Quiz What the F is that.

    I grew this outdoors in North Wales. It is a very interesting plant. Well I thought so !!!! The answer may shock some of you. The two yellow dots are its first flowers What is it's name ?
  3. rascal

    Garden sheds.. Do you have one?

    We are lucky we have a reasonable size garden, it has a shed out the back where my wife keeps all her seeds and garden stuff. It's about 9ft square.? Pic to follow. Anyhow when it's summer she's always In there doing stuff. I told her I would get it wired for power and light. It's not urgent so...
  4. LadyBelle

    Novice Gardener

    For the first time I’m growing vegetables. This is more an attempt to manage my stress levels and auto immune disorder than anything else. I’m ridiculous excited about my potatoes - which seem to be growing!
  5. ElizabethB

    Tell me about your gardening methods

    I just visited this forum for the first time. I was wondering why I did not hear discussions of gardening from such wonderful cooks - especially since you all like to cook with fresh produce. What are your gardening practices? Do you row garden, container garden, indoor garden? I have...
  6. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    What have you grown in your veg plot or garden this year?

    I'm just at the start of the growing season here in the South east of Australia. I'm at an altitude of 800m so things are about a month behind many other areas such as Canberra (the capital of Australia). I've just sown the first round of runner beans, borlotti beans, peas, onions, garlic...
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