Hi! I'm Lin from Michigan, zone 5b. I love being outdoors and tending to my yard. I have an enclosed garden outside. 2 of the sides incorporate deep industrial gutters that I grow herbs, lettuces, strawberries, etc. in. I love growing tomatoes with a preference of heirloom. I prefer low acid tomatoes.
No grass in my yard. Instead, all plants & flowers. I have various sized planters around my yard as well.
Last year I started winter seed sowing using milk & water jugs. This year I'm winter sowing the following tomato varieties: Black Beauty, Pineapple, Chocolate, Mila, Black Strawberry, Black Vernissage, Golden Jubilee, Beefsteak Pink, Buratino, Sart Roloise, and Black Krim.
Really looking forward to learning.

hi lin,

and welcome to the forum.

i am a transplanted troll that grew up in detroit.
now i am in da U.P. living the dream.
where abouts are you?


keith

Welcome to the forum, Lin.
Looking forward to hear about your winter sowing adventures!

Welcome to the junction from Down Under @pondlady

Welcome from alaska

@pondlady Welcome to the Junction Lin. Your yard sounds lovely and I can't wait to hear more!

Welcome Lin.

No lawn? You'll fit right in, here.

Welcome, It's good to see you here. I love the layout you described of your garden, I bet it is very beautiful.

@pondlady Welcome to the Junction. I also have no lawn. My only ponds are habit for our native tree frogs. I can hear the chorus as I type.

Welcome to the forum!

I have my whole back yard (almost) dug up into a garden! I wish I could do the same on the side, and front, but they don't allow that around here.

Hey Pond lady, welcome. Also from MI, just south of Holly, where you at?

Hello from Livonia. We just moved this last fall to a house with a much larger yard. We need to install a garden in it. I have growing heirlooms for oh so many years, mostly at a community garden site and in containers. Welcome.

Greetings and welcome from the sunny South!

Welcome @pondlady from across the puddle in America's Dairyland; we have pals in Morley, (Mecosta County) MI

We've never had much yard (all plantings/shrubs/trees/bulbs/flowers, and literally TONS of rocks, mostly from Lake Superior) and I used to be able to push mow it in a 15 minute NFL halftime.

Now I can knock it off in a two (2) minute media timeout!

The Gotch

Greetings from a born Michigander transplanted to New England and now living in sunny North Florida.
I spent many backbreaking hours helping my parents try to garden in their solid clay backyard in Dearborn.
Not sure if that was more fun than dealing with rocks in Massachusetts. No lawn is awesome!

Welcome to the Junction!

Greetings from Central Texas.