The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118665   Message #2614203
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
18-Apr-09 - 11:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening, 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
Good for you, Janie! It isn't just gardening, it's therapy, and cheap at the price (even with new digging and prying implements thrown in!) I tried digging more on my veggie garden today, but it's still too wet. I'll try again tomorrow. We had heavy rain showers on Friday and with the clay in this soil, there is a sweet spot a few days out from a heavy rain when digging is perfect. It lasts for a few days, then it's rock hard again.

My rosemary has "pegged" itself without my help. I thought I had just three plants out in one bed and was planning to move a couple, but last time I looked, several limbs on the ground had sprouted roots. Pegging is a good way to get the wild grapes growing here, and is something I've been planning to try on a vine on my far-back fence. It doesn't get enough sun to do much were it is, but if I can just get a sprig long enough to peg a few feet over, I think I'll be able to get some fruit in the yard. Right now I get my wild grapes from the trees across the road. I'd like something like that in my yard.

SRS