People where I live (CO, USA) “garden on hard mode” because of intense desert-y summers, cold winters, intense winds, hail, pests, hard clay soil. What place in the world is “gardening on super easy mode”?
by CharmingPeony
People where I live (CO, USA) “garden on hard mode” because of intense desert-y summers, cold winters, intense winds, hail, pests, hard clay soil. What place in the world is “gardening on super easy mode”?
by CharmingPeony
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As I wait for a late spring snowstorm to kill all my new buds on my irises and lilac bushes on Friday night, I’m just curious… RIP my first wave of iris blooms, I can see the color peak out already and it breaks my heart 😭
Great Plains and Ukraine :). Chernozem is great :). But it’s still on hard mode because you plant more and weed more and you’d plant in open ground.
the pacific northwest, the wet part anyway, mild climate, lots of rainfall. summers getting a bit hotter lately but winters are mild.
I find Georgia (US) to be easier than Colorado or New England. We get a lot of rain and there’s a long growing season. But the intense heat of the summer causes some problems.
I try to stick to natives but I do have a few non natives that do well here.
Basically anywhere in the UK. Mild summers and winters, tons of rain. Only problem is the soil quality.
Zone 5ish-6 in MI. I’m in a moist soil area with wetlands around and nearly anything I (or the critters) plant or split survives and thrives, as long as I protect it from the deer. So from that perspective its dead simple to get things going. Hard part is planning the plantings and taming or containing the growth, and removing unwanted invasives.
The Central Valley in CA, and the East Bay in CA.
Where I live in North Alabama. Most of my effort over the growing season is just trying to keep growth under control!
I look at the NoLa (new Orleans) gardening subreddit just to drool. Florida, too. Except the hurricanes
Coastal San Diego
The coastal Mid-Atlantic is pretty good. We get enough cold hours for many fruit trees and perennials but winter is mild enough to not kill everything outright. The soil is good in most areas unless you move into a subdivision with questionable fill dirt. We get plenty of rain but not too much. Most of us are in 7a or 7b so we have about 200 days frost free. The only things we really have to worry about have legs.
San Diego California
What a bizarre photo to include with this post.
New Jersey is the Garden State. It has its challenges like anywhere, but it’s pretty good.
May i introduce you to the Mediterranean climate
New Jersey is pretty sweet in the lands between the pine barrens and the mountains, good soil, summers and winters are pretty mild.
What are you talking about Colorado being hard to garden in? I get to experience whole new families of plants every year as I replace everything that was killed by second winter or tenth drought. Having to graft trees each spring with branches broken by a foot of wet snow two months into fruit production just makes my weekends wonderful.
The really hostile climates of Spain, Turkey, pretty much anything from around the Caspian, seem to survive reliably. And it’s pretty cool to jump on street view in rural Pakistan or Turkmenistan and identify plants, lol.
Most mild Mediterranean climates usually fit the bill. Think central Italy, northern Spain, Lebanon, etc.
High altitude climates can also be very good for this. The cut flower industry is huge in Ecuador because there are certain elevations in the Andes where it’s basically permanent spring.
hawaii. everything already looks like a garden
Florida. Nothing ever stops growing. It’s a constant battle.
I think the real hard mode of Colorado gardening is finding sources for native plants that actually thrive here. The big box stores carry so much that just isn’t going to make it here and it’s frustrating.
To answer your question though, I’d say the Carolinas and Georgia in the United States. I remember helping my grandmother plant seeds and they would kind of just take off on their own.
I’m from the wine country of northern California – gardening was stupid easy and I never had to learn the nuances of it. Everything just grew and did really well. Moving to Texas was quite humbling.
Everything grows in Michigan. We have a unique microclimate that fruit especially loves.
Habibi come to indonesia. I threw leftover chili sauce on an empty planter (that has soil in it), it grew into a chili plant.
Midwest, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
[Photo not representative of CO, USA] 😂