Altamonte Springs, Central Florida to be exact. (Zone 9) My name is Stephanie, or Steph, or Stephi, Im 28, a Student, soon to be vet tech, but at the moment I am a homemaker, I enjoy the time I have to work on my crafts & in my garden. I am a new gardener, so far I have a rose, shade & container garden, Id like to have a water, veggie, herb, & night gardens. well, Id like to have all kinds really. Lucky for me I have alot of property, so I can usually pick an area & make it what I want it to be, I already have an area picked for my veggie garden next spring. One of my many loves (besides gardening) is music, of all kinds, cooking & baking, my 3 dogs & 3 cats, & thrift store/yard sale/junkering, I love to find old things & create new pretty things out of them for my house and/or garden (usually my garden.) ....throw in the fact that I am "punk rock" with fire engine red hair & several tattoo's & I am a pretty weird mix, Most people would never think I enjoy planting seeds, instead of some form of criminal activity. Never judge a book by its cover, I am one of the nicest most honest people you will ever meet. I love seed trading & learning new & unusual ways to do things in my garden (I learned yesterday that milk kills black spot on roses.) which are 2 of the main reasons I joined. I hope to make some good trades learn some stuff, maybe teach someone something they didnt know (but I am pretty new at this so I usually am the one learning.) & meet some good people. well I think thats about it, any questions just ask! Have a beautiful day!
Hi Steph, welcome to GardenStew from north Texas. You need to start taking and post pictures of your gardens, we love pictures. Glad to have you with us.
Welcome to our forums Steph - so glad you decided to join us here. Pull up a chair and get to know our international community here at The Stew. :-D
Steph. So glad you joined us. I love thrift store junk as does Toni and others. Would really love to see pictures of things you have made over! I live in beautiful east Texas. I really am impressed as how you introduced yourself. Love it!
Hi Steph Welcome to Gardenstew from southern Ontario! Thanks for the tip on using milk for blackspot!
Welcome to Our Stew from Central Texas.I do love your intro. too and would sure like to see photos too.
Hiya Steph and a warm welcome to GardenStew. I agree, nice intro. I'm sure there is a hidden glee to be had from knowing you have a gardening secret which cannot be discovered from outward appearence. Don't forget to check out our blogs, member map and upload any plant images you have to PlantStew for all to see Details here: http://www.gardenstew.com/plantstew/help#3 // frank
Hi Steph....Welcome. I am a newbie on this group as well, they are a great bunch here, very friendly and helpful. I was interested to hear your tip about the milk on the black spot. Do you just rub it on the leaves, or spray? GG
Toni - Thanks for the welcome! I love Texas, my husband was born & raised in Austin & I lived there a long time, I miss it so much. I will get started on those pictures right away, I lost the cord to my camera so I have to buy a new one, but I will post pictures as soon as I can. KG - Thanks! my intro is my way of "warning" people I guess, I don't like people to think I pulled one over on them because people look at me & think "theres no way she is into gardening" when I LOVE gardening, not to mention scrapbooking, sewing, painting, etc. Netty - No problem on the blackspot tip, it worked for me but my rose garden smelled a bit odd for a few weeks! Frank - Thank you, I will check out those links! GG - you put the milk in a spray bottle & spray the entire plant, be sure to get the tops & bottoms of the leaves, I also spray a good few coats around the bottom of the plant incase of fallen leaves, the sugars in the milk some how kill the blackspot, I sprayed my roses down daily in the morning for 2 weeks after watering (because the water washed the milk off & it rains every afternoon here which washes it off also.) & poof the black spot was gone, it does tend to smell funky in my hot florida weather though, so most people mix it with half water, you don't have to do that though, I didn't because it works better if you don't, but if you cant stand the smell, then mix it.
Thank you SongofJoy I love NC, my mom & I are looking into some 3 state long yard sale she heard about in the Carolina's So we might be visiting soon! & Sherry, I have Family in Wisconsin & Michigan, we have a farm there somewhere, I've never been to the farm, but I was born in Michigan so I went to Wisconsin a lot, beautiful land, I just checked back here & saw your two welcomes, I love it here, feels like home.
