The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118665   Message #2603547
Posted By: Bobert
02-Apr-09 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening, 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
Still chilly here in Virginia...

Spent the entire day moving plants around and setting up the P-Vine's garden center... I must say that I did a fine job of organizing it so that it looks like a real garden center...

We bought alot of somewhat unusual stuff for this area... The other 2 garden centers in the county carry the same boring stuff that landscapers use in every boring landscape design...

The P-Vine has mirrored our own gardens in plant selection with lots of different ferns, sarcacoka, pulmaneria, acuba (3 varieties), pieres (3 varieties), camellias, hydradgas (2 varieties), etc.

We have also introduced green spiril euronomous (great plant) and long needle pine (which Jnaie knows all about) and crytomeria yoshina which folks around here know nothing about... We have sold over 50 of the crytomeria to one customer to use as a screen at her farmette...

We also found "Catawba" creape mrytyl on our trip.... Big... 9 foot... and cheap... $70 dug with a hydrolic spade (36 inch ball) and have sold them to the Town of Luray for landscaping project we are doing at the old train depot... Gonna cost 'um... Oh, my poor ol' back...

Too wet to plow here and too wet to even get more chicken maure on the veggie garden before the tiller man comes... Right now the plan is to let it dry out a couple days after tomorrow's rain and then hope for no rain for another couple days so that we can get everything tilled in....

Geeze... Just another 12 days until the morell mushrooms oughtta be up... Yummmmeeeeeeee!!!

Oh yeah, we also bought a few pots (10) of black kohosh for the gerden center... Yeah, I know that you can go back in the woods and dig it up but townies ain't into that and for $4 a pot, hey, we just bought 10 pots of it, too...

'Bout it for now...

I am beat...

B~