Our Garden
and
Landscaping
2009
This section of our website will describe our gardening and
landscaping at our new home beginning Spring 2009.
We both love to garden -- vegetables, flowers, and landscaping
-- so -- when we built our new house we planned to put in a lot of gardens.
We planned the gardens during the winter of 2008-2009 and now that Spring 2009
is almost here, we started our gardening and landscaping.
When to plant
We live in Northumberland County, Virginia. A major
consideration for gardening -- especially for vegetable gardens -- is the
date of the last frost in the spring and the date of the first
frost in the fall. You need to know these dates because some
plants cannot be set out until after all frost danger is passed, and, if you are
planting late in the summer, you want your plants to be established before the
first frost can kill or damage them.
Our last frost date is 10 April and first frost date is 10
November.
What to plant
We planned to plant:
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Vegetable garden: tomatoes; beans; corn; peppers;
broccoli; Brussels sprouts; okra; and asparagus
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Trees: Flowering trees -- dogwood, redbud,
Japanese cherry, Japanese plum; Fruit trees -- apple, fig, peach.
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Flowers: Perennials; roses; iris; daylilies;
annuals
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Herbs: We plan to plant a separate herb garden
with 10-15 types of common culinary herbs.
How to plant
We plan to plant our herbs and vegetables in raised beds except
for corn and beans which will be in rows tilled in the lawn.
Trees will be planted into the lawn.
Flowers will be planted in beds separated by type, color, and
need for sun or shade.
Pictures and details of our gardens
These links will take you to pages with details of our garden.
As the gardens develop we will change the articles -- please come back and visit
often to see how our gardening is progressing (or not).
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