Hello, greetings from Michigan
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Hello, greetings from Michigan
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.
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.
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
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
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
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Welcome to the forum, Lin.
Looking forward to hear about your winter sowing adventures!

Looking forward to hear about your winter sowing adventures!
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Welcome to the junction from Down Under @pondlady
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Welcome from alaska
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
@pondlady Welcome to the Junction Lin. Your yard sounds lovely and I can't wait to hear more!
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Welcome Lin.
No lawn? You'll fit right in, here.
No lawn? You'll fit right in, here.
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Welcome, It's good to see you here. I love the layout you described of your garden, I bet it is very beautiful.
In the spring at the end of the day you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood~
Still my favorite quote!

~Margaret Atwood~
Still my favorite quote!




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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
@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.
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
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.
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.
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Hey Pond lady, welcome. Also from MI, just south of Holly, where you at?
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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.
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Greetings and welcome from the sunny South!
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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
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
Madison WESconsin/Growing Zone 5-A/Raised beds above the Midvale Heights spade-caking clay in the 77 Square Miles surrounded by A Sea Of Reality
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
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!
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!
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Welcome to the Junction!
USDA Zone 9b, Sunset Zone 13
Average Rainfall 9.5 inches
Climate: Sonoran Desert
Average Rainfall 9.5 inches
Climate: Sonoran Desert
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Re: Hello, greetings from Michigan
Greetings from Central Texas.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.