my mom used to have a really pretty rose garden, but ever since she changed jobs, she hasn't had time to take care of it the past few years. i live in an apt, so i can't plant a garden, but i do want to get 2 rose trees to put out on our balcony.

I would love to have a garden, but do not have the time since I run two businesses, sell on ebay and also am trying to set up a website. All non-sex related. YIKES!! I do cheat and buy from the stands and farmer's market, though.

I do grow a couple of things, but there's something I've noticed in your responses. The use of the term 'garden', I gather from your responses, mean 'a place to grow flowers and produce'. Is this correct? I'm curious because I was talking with another friend from the North American landmass, who thought it odd that I called his 'back yard' a 'back garden'. The picture he showed me was merely of a collection of trees and grass, which, if my definition is correct, would mean it wasn't a garden by US definition. However, a UK garden is just a piece of natural land adjacent to a house or homestead. Hence my confusion.

Anyway, I grow a few cucumbers, tomatoes, runner beans and cabbage.

I wish we could, but we live in an apartment.

I don't, but my mother does. It's not necessarily a "real" garden because she keeps everything in pots rather than in the ground, but she grows cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, and a few other things. Then she cans them all and we can enjoy them for a long time.

I currently don't because I live in a trailer and I don't own the property, but I've been thinking about keeping a few potted plants on the porch or making one of these awesome pallet gardens.

I've got big boy tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, green beans, summer squash, zucchini, garlic chives, butternut squash, basil, carrots, bell peppers, banana peppers, thyme and chinese sweet pea pods.

The lettuce wilted out when hot temperatures came, but I had a nice supply of that and spinach during the winter and spring.

Gardening is great because it excercises your body, relaxes your mind and gives you plenty to eat!

We have a garden every year. Typically we grow tomatoes, peppers (hot & sweet), green beans, peas, and lots of herbs. We try to plant something new that we haven't tried before too, but sometimes it dies or just doesn't work out. Last year we grew Swiss Chard and ended up hating it, but the experience was fun and the plant sure looked pretty.

This year, we ditched all the veggies and just grew a TON of herbs. We can get the fresh veggies at the farmers market, but they NEVER have herbs. It's been really fun and we have an endless supply of herbs. I do miss having veggies in the garden, but being able to have so many herbs is so awesome. Maybe next year we'll go back to veggies & herbs. Oh I forgot...we do have 5 strawberry plants this year too, but they keep growing into the ground. First year we've tried it, so we're still in a bit of trial and error with those.

We've done cucumbers, lettuce, and watermelon before but each of those were only for one year. The cucumber plants totally freaked me out because the plants were super fuzzy and had lots of spiders in them! Ewww, freaky!

Nope, I don't have a green thumb.

I thinking about making myself a mini garden out on the patio. I'm more of a veggie grower than a flower person, though.

Because of the early rainy season and some travel this year, I didn't get all of my garden plantred in time this year. The only items that I got in the ground were some bush beans, 5 zuccini(sp) plants, some tomatoe plants, and some red beets. the zukes are just now starting to develope fruit, and the beets won't be ready for a while yet. This has been a strange year, as the peach tree has all of its blooms blown off early in the year so there is no fruit this year, just have to wait for next. It is a free stone peach tree.
What gets planted each year in the garden varies depending on what I feel like planting, where it is going to go in the garden, and how it will be arranged. Some years are better than others, and this is not one of the best.

I really want to! My roomies and I would say every year that we'd plant one, and then we wouldn't. I'm renting on my own now and got the OK to plant one, so I want to do one raised bed next spring. I just started my own compost, too, so we'll see!

I have a few flower gardens and a vegie garden