Lizzie asks…
What plants are good for a garden in SouthWest Virginia?
I have a small garden this year and planted pole beans, peppers,cucumbers,roma tomatoes, pumpkin and egg plant.
The cucumbers, tomatoes & pole beans are growing, the pumpkins are in bloom too, but the two eggplants (bought already grown from Lowes) didn’t make it. The peppers, that were sprouts when I planted them, didn’t make it either.
Any idea what will grow best in South West Virginia?
I was wondering what I might have done wrong with my eggplants.
Also, does anyone know if watermelon will grow well here.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Tomatoes. South West Virginia is Hardiness Zone 7. Read the tags on plants at the nursery (Lowe’s, Home Depot also). If you are looking for veggies – those are annuals anyway, and most should grow fine. Peppers, Cukes, Strawberries, Sunflowers, Cantelope, etc. Your eggplants should do great – with some good soil, bug spray, and water. Watermelon will grow there! Yes indeed.
There are methods to improve your soil also. Consider learning how to compost your garbage. Mix leaves, sticks, garbage and dirt in layers. Next year it will make your garden fantastic. The more you do this, the better it gets!
From your comments, seems that you need to learn about watering (proper amount) and fertilizer. Also, bugs are plant killers.
John asks…
When should i plant my mini-garden? What would be some easy plants I can plant?
I am plant a mini-garden , a garden with few plants, and idk when i should start to plant them. I dont want to plant them to early or to late. Also, what would be some simple plants I can plant.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Go to a website like farmers almanac or hgtv, maybe. They should be able to help you find your zone for where you live and that will help you figure out when to plant. Also you can contact your local agriculture department, they can give you tips on when to plant and what varieties of plants work best in your area. (should be in the phone book) I have always found tomatoes to grow easily, you can get tomatoes cages and let squash or cucumbers vine up them, that way they don’t take alot of space. Bell peppers are easy. Herbs are supposed to be easy and don’t take alot of room, but idk I have never grown herbs. Agriculture dept can help with this too. Also go somewhere like home depot/ lowes. Thay can be very helpful, too.
William asks…
What are some low maintenance plants for my garden?
Hey so… I don’t have much time to spend on a garden, but I would like to plant something that looks nice for under the window in the front yard. I am looking for something that basically takes care of it’s self. Any bushes or flowers.. anything that would look pretty, but not be too much work?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Hi:
There are many evergreen low maintenance shrubs that will do well under your window in the front yard. Here are a few suggestions:
Mop Cypress – small evergreen variegated shrub – tiny and long yellow and green leaves – great looking shrub
Chinese Pizazz – Loropetalum – The Ruby is a dwarf and has purple and green leaves year around. Pink flowers in spring and summer.
Many soft leaf Junipers will do well – Blue Owl, Blue Star are just a couple.
Indian Hawthorn – pink or white flowers in spring
Golden Euounymus – variegated yellow and green leaves year around.
There are many more too. I will link you to the gallery of plants section and the variety of plants section of my website. These and other low maintenance shrubs are on these pages with photos, climate zones and descriptions. I hope this information helps, and good luck to you. Have a great day!
Kimberly
http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/Gallery.html
http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/Variety.html
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