Mother Earth's Garden

Don’t forget to check out the sidebar, and vote in September’s garden poll. We have a different question every month.
This month’s poll asks where do you get your produce? Do you get most of your produce from your own garden, and can it yourself? From a small local grocery, or farmer’s market? Or from a chain supermarket?
Hop on over and vote, and let us know the details in the comment section below.
Have a great weekend!
Pumpkin patch image (c) L Gerlach
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The results are in and it looks like most of you grow a little bit of everything in your garden (42%). Which didn’t surprise me one bit. When you have gardening in your blood you can’t help yourself (I try to explain that to my husband).
25% of you are practical and only grow fruits and vegetables in your garden.
17% of you go for beauty and only grow flowers in the garden. None of those ugly vegetable plants in your flower beds!
13% started with flowers, but now you’re seeing higher prices at the grocery and adding some fruits and vegetables …read more

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There are only a couple more days to participate in this months garden poll. I’ll be changing it the first of September. If anyone has a good poll question, or something gardening they’d love to hear everyone’s opinion on I’d love to hear it. I’m still working on a question for next month.
Hop over to the side bar to take the poll, and let us know what you grow in your garden? I grow a little bit of everything. We have flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruit trees.
Don’t forget we’re giving away 2 children’s garden sets, check it …read more

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If you get a chance check out our garden poll in the right side bar. I usually change the poll each month, but not many have voted yet, so I decided to leave the poll up through August.
We’d love to know what you grow in your garden. It will help determine what’s covered here at Mother Earth’s Garden in the upcoming months. If there’s a subject you’d like to learn more about but it’s not in the poll let me know in the comment section below.
Lily Image (c) L Gerlach all rights reserved.
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What does your garden grow? I would like to know what everyone’s growing in their garden this year? Do you love herbs? Are you a flower fan? Are you growing some extra vegetables to help offset your costs at the grocery store? Or are you like me, and grow a little bit of everything (including weeds).
I would love to hear from you. Please take time to vote in the poll midway down in the right sidebar. You can also leave a comment here letting everyone know the details of your garden. Better yet create a post on your own …read more

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In June I asked you what garden zone you were in, to help me target what information I should be covering here at Mother Earth’s Garden. Here are the results:

13 % of you are up North in the 3-4 hardiness zone.
31 % of you are right there with me in zones 5-6.
19% of you are in hardiness zone 7-8
6% are getting warmer in zones 9 and 10
6% are very tropical in zone 11
We also have some Canadian and Australian readers.

Any other countries out there represented? Please let me know in the comment section.
Thanks to all who participated. …read more

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Don’t forget to vote in this month’s garden poll, check it out in the right sidebar. You have a couple more days to get your votes in.
What garden zone are you in? I’d love to know what garden zones you’d most like to learn about here at Mother Earth’s Garden.
You can also leave a comment here, or here detailing your garden zone and conditions.
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Our new reader poll question is, what USDA hardiness zone are you in? If you’re not sure check out the USDA Hardiness Zone map.
If you’re not in North America, where are you located? I’d love to get a handle on where my readers are located, so I can come up with information relevant to your growing season.
Go vote in our poll (in the right sidebar), and leave a comment here detailing the climate where you’re located.
Have a great weekend!
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Our garden poll question in May was, how many hours a week do you spend in the garden? Twenty seven percent of you spend 0 to 5 hours in your gardens, forty percent spend 5 to 10 hours there, thirteen percent spend 10 to 15 hours, seven percent 15 to 20 hours, and thirteen percent of you live there, or at least spend 20 hours a week in your garden.
Thank you for participating in this months poll.
So of the hours you spend in your garden, how much time is weeding, planting and working? How much of that …read more

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Have you voted in this month’s poll yet? How much time do you spend in the garden each week? Just take a ball park average over the gardening season (spring, summer, and fall). There are only a couple days left, then I’ll set up another poll for June.
Do you have a burning garden question you’d like to ask everyone here at Mother Earth’s Garden? Just email it to me or leave it in the comment section here. I’m always looking for interesting garden poll questions.
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