How many woodworkers are also gardeners?

[Viking Mountain Tool Works]

I was just curious to see how many woodworkers are also gardeners?

[George Bokros]

I am a gardener

[Lee Reep]

I am a gardener. Also a birder. I have planted over 100 perennials in the past couple years to attract birds. Last year we had over 25 species visit our yard.

hey, maybe I ought to make some bird houses!

[Mike Hollingsworth]

I'm looking forward to making some furniture from the tree that grew in my back yard.

[Art Mann]

I'm a gardener. Early spring planting is only 6 weeks away!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Grow habaneros and green beans every year. My wife has four flower gardens that I assist with. Like Lee, we enjoy watching the birds that they bring into the yard.

[Allan Dozier]

I get great enjoyment from gardening. This time of year I like to putter around in my greenhouse almost as much as my workshop.
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[Rod Sheridan]

I was just curious to see how many woodworkers are also gardeners?

I am, and I suspect that the majority are.

That's why Lee Valley sell garden tools................Rod.

[Rod Sheridan]

I'm a gardener. Early spring planting is only 6 weeks away!

Thanks for making me feel bad Art!

6 weeks from now the temps will still be negative here.................Rod.

[Tom M King]

We had a garden for years. For the past ten or so, people have found out that we have large quantities of composted horse manure, and I can load it by the scoop. I don't charge, but just ask to bring us some of what they grow. We get more than enough, and it seems to work out good all around.

[Jim Koepke]

I like growing and propagating plants almost as much as I like working wood.

I used to do a lot of bird watching. Now I do not actively go out and spend the day birding, just watch as they come to our feeder(s).

I do occasionally build bird houses.

jtk

[Art Mann]

Thanks for making me feel bad Art!

6 weeks from now the temps will still be negative here.................Rod.

Rod, you can gloat next July or August when our temperature hovers in the 90's for day on end and the relativity humidity is 80%. I have to stop working in the shop because the A/C won't keep up. Working in the garden isn't even an option most of the day.

[Ted Calver]

I spend more time gardening than woodworking and enjoy both. Gardening helps me relax after spending a day measuring once and cutting twice:)

[Randy Red Bemont]

I too am a gardener. I do the typical veggie garden like most. My passion is cactus. I have some cactus indoors but many outside that stay in the ground year round.

Red

[Erik Loza]

More carpenter and DIY handyman than ww'er but "yes" to gardening and birding.


I too am a gardener. I do the typical veggie garden like most. My passion is cactus. I have some cactus indoors but many outside that stay in the ground year round.

Red

What kinds of cacti do you have naturalized, if I can ask? That's an interest of mine, too.

Erik Loza
Minimax USA

[Dave Zellers]

Yes to gardening here too! I usually have about a hundred pepper plants both hot and sweet.

+1 on bird houses. I have a couple but would like to have many. Shame on me because they are so easy to knock together.

[Viking Mountain Tool Works]

This is my winter garden that I just tried this winter for the first time. I planted lettuce, spinitch and carrots proven to grow in cold climates. We have had tempratures down to 2F and it is still in good shape. Supposed to get down to -11F tonight so we shall see! Even a bit of woodworking in this one. The frames are made with pocket hole screws, and straight line ripped deck boards. The raised beds are PTL with plastic liners inside to keep any chemicals from leaching into the plants.

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[Bill Rhodus]

Garden over an acre of produce for the local market and have something going on year round. Getting ready to expand asparagus beds now.

[Randy Red Bemont]

What kinds of cacti do you have naturalized, if I can ask? That's an interest of mine, too.

Erik Loza
Minimax USA

I have lots of prickly pear and some cholla that are hardy in my area. Some of my prickly pear are the purple variety. Very cool.

Red

[Dave Ray]

Woodworking, gardening and birding along with hunting a fishing, just all seem to go together

[Jim Becker]

Mostly herbs...I cook, too.

[Mel Fulks]

I've grown food ,but this lot is not well suited for that. Love landscaping, though I thought I would hate it and avoided it for years. I will make sure my grandchildren are taught early to appreciate its complexities. First ornamental plant that I felt I had to have was the Japanese anemone "Honorine Jobert" and it is still a favorite.

[Joe Mioux]

yes...owning a greenhouse business kind of makes gardening a natural fit

[Duane Meadows]

I'm a gardener. Early spring planting is only 6 weeks away!


And I am looking forward to it! Like Scott, I have to start inside though.

[Erik Loza]

I have lots of prickly pear and some cholla that are hardy in my area. Some of my prickly pear are the purple variety. Very cool.

Red

Nice. We have a small plot in the yard that I designated the "cactus patch", with native cacti and agave from the southwest. Gardening and working in the yard brings me lots of enjoyment.

Erik Loza
Minimax USA

[Larry Browning]

I am NOT a gardener. My lot is heavily wooded and with the exception of my slopped front yard there is no suitable place for a vegetable garden. When we first moved here I really wanted to plant a garden, but quickly learned 3 things. 1) I have no suitable location for a garden. 2) I really suck at growing things. 3) I hate doing it. (This is probably why I really suck at it!) I have come to the conclusion I would would much rather be in the shop cutting wood than digging in the dirt. There are several vegetable stands in the area that carry all the fresh fruits a veggies I could ever want (I am especially fond of home grown tomatoes). I have also found that buying from them is a much better way(and cheaper) for me to get garden fresh veggies than trying to grow my own. It also gives me a chance to support my local economy.
I also think a nice stick in the eye is preferred to landscaping and floral gardening. I was forced to work in the garden as a child, I hated it then and I hate it now.

Just thought I would throw in another point of view.
BTW: Just to prove my point, here was my last attempt at growing Tomatoes.
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[Julie Moriarty]

When summer comes around, I prefer to do things outside and usually spend my time around the house working on the landscaping - flowers, grasses, small bushes, etc. But I don't do food producing gardens.

[Jim Creech]

Veggie garden on a small scale. Usually grow heirloom produce: Okra, green beans (Dutch half runners are my favourite). Cukes (straight 8's and Poona Kherra), cherry tomatoes. Sugar snaps. squash and occasionally some melons.

[Mel Fulks]

Larry ,I can relate. When I was a kid every plant anyone gave me quickly died. My son got me interested in trying again.
Now I consider it one of the most important and enjoyable natural inclinations. And it gives you "a sure and certain hope"and personal vision of the future. I suggest pursuing the beauty of it and ...just buying your tomatoes.

[Val Kosmider]

If growing beautiful heads of lettuce, berries, squash, melons, spinach, beets, and carrots which the DEER hoover up with lust counts as gardening, then yes, I am a gardener!

[Larry Edgerton]

Thanks for making me feel bad Art!

6 weeks from now the temps will still be negative here.................Rod.

What he said..........

Guilty as charged.

[Larry Edgerton]

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If you like to eat fresh out of the garden, you need this song in your collection.

[Rod Sheridan]

Rod, you can gloat next July or August when our temperature hovers in the 90's for day on end and the relativity humidity is 80%. I have to stop working in the shop because the A/C won't keep up. Working in the garden isn't even an option most of the day.

Good point Art, thanks.

One year I foolishly scheduled some power system work for the end of June in Virginia, darn near died from the heat and huidity........Rod.

[Dave Lehnert]

I ran a retail garden center for over 20 years.

[Viking Mountain Tool Works]

I am planning to try to expand my season here by as much as possible. I live in NE Iowa and we can have frost into May and again starting in September. I am going to build a 20*36 hoop house this spring, and put raised beds in it. I am looking for low tech, low cost solutions to keeping it warm enough in winter. I planted cold tolerant lettuce and spinach that I was able to harvest until it got down below zero this past week. I have plenty of wood to burn, so something that put off enough heat to keep it above zero should do the trick.

[Randy Red Bemont]

I guess I'm pretty lucky for living here in the mountains of NC with wildlife all around on a daily basis, nothing eats my garden or my hosta plants. Maybe they can smell my dog? But there in the yard anyway. I do enjoy fresh veggies right from the garden and hopefully I can go with a larger garden this year.

Red

[Michael Yadfar]

I'm a woodworker and my college major is horticulture. I also have two gardens at home, a veggie garden and a woody plant garden. This is a good topic, I've always felt these fields both go hand in hand interest wise