The Endzone Garden Thread

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#527
vollygirl said:
This one is about 2 years old. View attachment 370948
I've got a limelight on the left of the porch, and a moonlight on the far right that didn't get in the pic.
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Ahh, love your house! I think that’s the first time that I’ve seen the entire front.

I don’t usually like green flowers, but Limelights are beautiful. Great accent.
 
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#530
#530
VolNExile said:
Well, the shed shows up in a few pics, so I guess you mean that one.

We call it a shed, although it was probably a garage* when built in 1923.

* a garage for a really small car. I think it’s 8x16, something like that.
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Not the tin roof. One with open fascia & soffits with wood/cedar siding. It's very cool looking
 
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Orange Sunset said:
Not the tin roof. One with open fascia & soffits with wood/cedar siding. It's very cool looking
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Right, that’s the shed. It matches the house.

I don’t know why I can’t find any decent photos of the house, but here’s a Google Maps street view of the side of the house with the shed to the right (old fence, pre-garden.) It’s a classic Craftsman with deep open eaves with exposed rafters. I wish the windows were three-over-ones instead of six, but I love it anyway. Asheville has a ton of Arts and Crafts houses, and the National Arts and Crafts Conference is held here at the Grove Park Inn.
 
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VolNExile said:
Right, that’s the shed. It matches the house.

I don’t know why I can’t find any decent photos of the house, but here’s a Google Maps street view of the side of the house with the shed to the right (old fence, pre-garden.) It’s a classic Craftsman with deep open eaves with exposed rafters. I wish the windows were three-over-ones instead of six, but I love it anyway. Asheville has a ton of Arts and Crafts houses, and the National Arts and Crafts Conference is held here at the Grove Park Inn.

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Nice!! Love the old homes for their looks, not to work on. Lotta WTH moments renovating. Are you free to do as you choose on the house without the clipboard lady down the street stopping by often?
 
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Orange Sunset said:
Nice!! Love the old homes for their looks, not to work on. Lotta WTH moments renovating. Are you free to do as you choose on the house without the clipboard lady down the street stopping by often?
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We don’t have a clipboard lady. I would never live in a house subject to an HOA.

We’re in a city neighborhood, 1/6 acre lots, sidewalks on all streets, and walkers and runners everywhere. There are zoning requirements that keep McMansions from going up, thank God, but it’s mostly original stock with some mid-century ranchers and new build that at least tips its hat to the existing early 20th century American four-squares and Craftsman bungalows. Wouldn’t live anywhere else!

lol, know what you mean about WTH reno moments. We took the downstairs kitchen and bath down to the studs, and yes, you find fun stuff. 🤪 But the second floor (refinished attic), full of drywall and tacky finishes, will be the challenge!
 
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VolNExile said:
We don’t have a clipboard lady. I would never live in a house subject to an HOA.

We’re in a city neighborhood, 1/6 acre lots, sidewalks on all streets, and walkers and runners everywhere. There are zoning requirements that keep McMansions from going up, thank God, but it’s mostly original stock with some mid-century ranchers and new build that at least tips its hat to the existing early 20th century American four-squares and Craftsman bungalows. Wouldn’t live anywhere else!

lol, know what you mean about WTH reno moments. We took the downstairs kitchen and bath down to the studs, and yes, you find fun stuff. 🤪 But the second floor (refinished attic), full of drywall and tacky finishes, will be the challenge!
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I’ve been sued by and beaten my HOA in court 3 times.
We’ve come to an understanding. Don’t start none and there won’t be none.
 
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VolNExile said:
We don’t have a clipboard lady. I would never live in a house subject to an HOA.

We’re in a city neighborhood, 1/6 acre lots, sidewalks on all streets, and walkers and runners everywhere. There are zoning requirements that keep McMansions from going up, thank God, but it’s mostly original stock with some mid-century ranchers and new build that at least tips its hat to the existing early 20th century American four-squares and Craftsman bungalows. Wouldn’t live anywhere else!

lol, know what you mean about WTH reno moments. We took the downstairs kitchen and bath down to the studs, and yes, you find fun stuff. 🤪 But the second floor (refinished attic), full of drywall and tacky finishes, will be the challenge!
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Why are you & slice assuming clipboard lady has some involvement with an HOA :cool:. HOA's are a joke
Is area between blue line & curb the sidewalk or somebody steal em?

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Orangeslice13 said:
I’ve been sued by and beaten my HOA in court 3 times.
We’ve come to an understanding. Don’t start none and there won’t be none.
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How did you avoid jail time or did you?
 
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Orange Sunset said:
Why are you & slice assuming clipboard lady has some involvement with an HOA :cool:. HOA's are a joke
Is area between blue line & curb the sidewalk or somebody steal em?

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How did you avoid jail time or did you?
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I won on summary judgment all 3 times.
No need to get violent when dealing with morons
 
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Orange Sunset said:
...Is area between blue line & curb the sidewalk or somebody steal em?

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Aha, you caught me! I had forgotten about that.

The city pulled out the sidewalks on one side (our side) of our short side street. Supposedly they were going to replace the 3’ walks on the other side with 5’ ADA-compliant, but somehow that never materialized. Nevertheless, the streets in our multi-block area do have sidewalks, sometimes the 3-footers on both sides with a grassy strip and sometimes new five-footers on just one side, all the way to the curb.

On the main street (and side streets), there is a battle to the death between the hundred-year-old maples and the sidewalks. Both sides are losing. The sidewalks are killing the maples, and the maple roots are destroying the sidewalks. For now, we have a giant avenue with huge trees on both sides, but that isn’t going to last. 😢

Zoom in on the pic at the foot of the young dogwood right by the street, partially covering the dining room triple windows, and you’ll see a little flag. That flag marks the gas line into our house. The contractor HIRED BY THE CITY to plant grass and new trees over the ripped-out sidewalk planted that tree 8” from the gas line. (Happened before we moved in. Grrr. 😡
 
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#542
#542
Since companion planting has come up several times, here’s a pretty good resource: Companion Planting from West Coast Seeds, a Canadian outfit.

Slowly but surely, I’ll keep adding herbs and flowers to the veg garden as a living mulch to help keep the soil moist and weeds down. I figure that anything they can also do to attract good bugs and repel bad is a win/win.
 
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Planted the bush beans (first planting, will add more every 2-3 weeks; lima, Cherokee Wax, Blue Lake, Purple Queen, French filet), ornamental gourds, pumpkins, carrots, and dill. Something else, can’t remember. Next come the flowers for pollinators and the herbs.

It’s really weird planting seeds directly in the beds after all the seed-starting and transplanting!
 
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