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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: The Sandman Date: 25 Mar 09 - 02:15 PM carrots like leaf lettuce and chives,when you have harvested your carrot,do not store them near apples. tomatoes are aided by stinging nettles |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:13 PM We don't have nettles but we have plenty of blue gill and one of them under a tomato plant is like the real deal... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:36 PM Blue gill as in fish? We're getting our rain. It's coming down inside a drum, based on the racket outside from the thunderstorm overhead. Of course my irises are now out and get tested by the wind and pelting rain. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Mar 09 - 07:20 PM Found my periwinkle in flower today, the clematis is indeed flourishing, with buds on and everything, the violets have survived living under a pile of rubble for 3 months and the bay tree is in full bloom... Still no daffodil flowers though... strange that. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 25 Mar 09 - 07:50 PM Yeah, Maggie, like in a fish... What ya do is plant the tomato right over Mr. Blue Gill and that fish will feed it for the best part of the season... Honest... It works.... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 25 Mar 09 - 10:29 PM If I cut down a dogwood and put a raised bed on the town right-of-way right by the road, I think I might can get one spot that gets pretty darn close to 6 hours of sun a day. Not big - maybe a 10 or 12'x3' bed. If so, that would be the one place I might be able to grow tomatoes and/or dahlias. (Gawd, I love dahlias, hard as they are to keep sufficiently fed and watered.) This year, I'm going to grow a couple of tomatoes in containers in that spot and see how they do. If they do well, then dahlias would also do well. It occurs to me that tomatoes and dahlias have similar water and fertilization needs, and I'm wondering what it would look like to alternate tomato vines with large dahlias, especially varieties with those lovely dark red leaves. Either really good or really-ahem- "interesting." What do ya'll think? I'm not sure if they are susceptible to similar deseases and pests. Never had much problem with disease with the dahlias, but earwigs were pretty hard on the blooms. Have had nothing but problems with disease and pests in the tomato department. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Mar 09 - 11:39 AM I've grown dahlias only once, and they came up and were pretty, but I didn't know much about gardening back then and the pests got them (including one small child with no adult supervision as a pest). I dug up a large spiderwort in the woods across the road from here when I first moved into the house. I put it in a garden and for several years it was swamped by weeds but kept coming back. I was afraid I'd done it in last summer when I dug up that bed, but I knew where it was and I kept the roots in place. And voila, it is coming up again this spring, unfettered by all of the weeds! This is so nice! I wish there was more than one. My across the street neighbor had one, but I think he finally killed it off. This is when I need to go poke around in the woods (that are left after the development was put in) and see if there are any more. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Mar 09 - 11:28 PM My son bent over the garden and was poking around the onions while I unlocked the side door this evening. "Wow! Look at all of those snails!" They were all over, so I got a beer and put a couple of bowls out. And I removed and stomped probably 30 of the buggers. Beer trap. The snails didn't get all of it. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: SINSULL Date: 27 Mar 09 - 02:10 PM The tulips are poking through the ground where the snow used to be. There is hope... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:30 PM Hurray, Sins! Two days of rain, and a third one on the way. Won't be gardening any this weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:46 PM Hic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:04 PM lol! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:47 PM Calmari!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: The Sandman Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:49 PM slugs,and presumably other Gastropods,do not like copper,if youlay copper pipes around your plants it keeps the slugs away. they dont like it up em |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: The Sandman Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:52 PM beer traps,yes I tried that,it kills them,but just attracts more,copper is better,and you can save the beer for yourself |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:15 AM At the price of copper to keep snails away, I could go buy all my veggies instead of growing them! After a little while we'll run short of snails. It happens every year. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: MMario Date: 30 Mar 09 - 12:43 PM It was trying to be Spring out this weekend; the tree peonies are leafing out - but today we have snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 30 Mar 09 - 10:45 PM I drove past the small but quite wonderful arboretum on the UNC campus Sunday, which I haven't visited in years. Didn't have time to stop, and was peering over low stone walls from the driver's seat of the car. Nonetheless, I felt the stirrings of inspiration. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Mar 09 - 05:47 PM A couple of weeks ago I cut and took a bag full of chard in to the office. I had extra, and thought I'd see if there were any takers. Most of them looked at me like I had two heads, but one woman took all of the leaves. I had several colors. I told her several ways to use it. I paused in her office door today to ask if she'd had an occasion to try the chard. Her face broke into a huge smile. "We'd never eaten chard before, but I steamed it in a pan with a little water and put lemon juice on it and WE LOVE IT! It's so much better than spinach!" I often steam it, but I prefer it with vinegar. Enthusiasm for a new food is always nice. :) And the fact that chard is easy to grow is good news for her--I'll take some more in tomorrow, but I'm willing to bet she'll get some bedding plants or seed. I cooked up a big pan of it last night and have it as leftovers for a couple of days. (One of my favorite recipes: I cut up lamb into bite-sized pieces and brown it in olive oil, add garlic, some herb and allspice, add pine nuts and when it's cooked, put a big heap of cut up chard and cover it with a lid until it's wilted and give it a good stir to combine the flavors. Serve this over rice with big dollops of good yogurt.) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 01 Apr 09 - 10:58 AM Tulips blooming. There is a little skirt of yellow and red darwin hybrids that was planted around one tree in the back yard. There are patches of bluets springing up all over the front yard. There is a cat asleep under one of the bird feeders:( |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 01 Apr 09 - 12:13 PM The dogwoods are blooming, though it will still be several days before they peak. Azaleas starting to bloom. Looks like most of them are pink, with a few reds. There are also a few that have not yet revealed their color. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 01 Apr 09 - 07:45 PM Right now, I'm sick of plants!!! Just returned from two days of drivin' a 26 foot box with a cab and steering wheel in the front and a trailer in the back from one wholesale nursery to another... I personally loaded, tied down and brought some 400 potted and B&B'd plants here to Page County, Va.... And I'm beat!!! But nevermind that... I'll get over it... Not much happenin' here yet... PJM in bloom but not much else... Peonies pokin' up... Slow going and no real "warmth" expected for several days... Could be a late spring here in central Virginny... Gonna try to get another couple inches of chicken manure down on the veggie garden tomorrow or the next day 'cause the tiller man comes down the holler the first week of April... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 01 Apr 09 - 09:10 PM Home all day with a bulging lumbar disc, loaded on flexeril. Did some research on what might be killing one of my largest oaks. I'm afraid it might be infested with Red Oak borers. Have e-mailed the county extension agent in the hope he will come have a look before I spring for an arborist. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Apr 09 - 12:29 AM Sick Tree Treatment from Howard Garrett, the Dirt Doctor. It works very well. I took the dogs for a walk this evening and stopped to talk with a neighbor who is working on a milkweed bed to attract butterflies. She asked if I could identify a volunteer tree in her back yard (all I could tell her is that it's in the dogwood family. It's a shrub that grows in the woods around here). While back there, my dogs were so excited. She has a swimming pool, and even the catahoula (who hates our little wading pool or the sprinkler) was all animated. The pit bull actually ended up in the water up to her front shoulders before I hauled her out, but that's because she wanted to chase the floating rubber duck (with a thermometer built in its tummmy, apparently). She was a stray, so we don't know her early history, and it may include swimming pools. Regardless, it isn't swimming pool weather yet, but she's fearless. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 02 Apr 09 - 07:47 PM 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~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 02 Apr 09 - 09:47 PM Both black cohosh and blue cohosh are on my list, once I ever get beds and soil prepared. Think I'll also try some goldenseal, and maybe even a little ginseng. Was looking around the web today for sources to buy thinks like cut leaf toothwort, carolina spring beauties, wood anemones, etc. Some things, like bloodroot, trilliums and trout lilies are pretty easy to come by. Others are not. I don't like to dig plants in the wild around here, being as how there isn't really a whole lot of wild here. It looks like my first priority, however, is going to be to figure out what to do to try to take care of the trees. It is looking like those with significant borer damage are going to have to come down. I took a sickly hickory out last fall that was hollow and full of sawdust, and am realizing that squirrels were not the culprits late last summer and early fall when numerous twigs and branch tips littered the ground for several weeks. The long and severe drought really stressed a lot of trees in this area and that has apparently made them very vulnerable. From what I've so far, insects like the red oak borer don't usually do too much harm, unless trees are already seriously stressed. Arkansas is experiencing significant problems with oak decline in forests since about 2000 because drought has made the trees much more vulnerable. I don't know a thing about trees, and have only recently started researching and studying about signs of problems, prompted by my concern about the big oak. I'm recognizing some things as indications of insect problems with hindsight. Late last summer and early fall, the ground under this oak and another was littered with the broken tips of branches and twigs. I thought the squirrels were doing it. Now I think they were breaking off as insect larva hatched and ate their way out. I'm hoping to get an e-mail response soon from the county extension agent to let me know if he will come have a look-see. I'm afraid the trees may turn into a budget breaker. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 02 Apr 09 - 09:49 PM Sorry about the redundancy in that last post. I thought I had edited the first part out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Apr 09 - 11:19 PM Janie, Go look through the Dirt Doctor site. He is here in Texas but he gets questions from all over the place, and I think you'll find some useful information. One of the things that has come to light lately is that if trees are planted too deep in the ground, so the butt swell is under dirt instead of showing, that the tree is already compromised. You can wash or brush dirt away from that area and see a significant difference. (Nurseries tend to dump more dirt on top of the roots when trees are in pots if it looks like the trees don't have enough roots. But you're better off shaking off all of that pot dirt and treating them like bare root trees). There are good natural fertilizers, there is the sick tree treatment, a mix of fertilizer and aeration and foliar feeding. I had a redbud that was looking awful a couple of years after I planted it, but I did the sick tree treatment and it came back like gangbusters. You need some sun for planting other stuff, but this is getting it the hard way, losing trees to disease. Maybe a good arborist can help you select which ones to rescue and which to take out. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:36 AM Well, I finally did it. For 4 years now I've been saying I'll cut the buddliea down to size.. I'm just now in from doing that. What was a 15ft, lopsided and top heavy bush is now a 5ft trunk with lots of side shoots to flower this year. I'm pleased with the resulting light, the fence is still intact, it needed to be done for the good of the bush (snow broke a branch off) and the rest of the garden, but I feel a complete cad because I discovered in it, 2 tit nests I hadn't previously seen and made a lime hawk moth caterpillar temporarily homeless. I'm leaving the cuttings to wilt down a bit, give the other creepies a chance to find a new home in the ivy, before dragging them through the house to be taken to the tip over the Easter break. I'm off to the garden centre later this afternoon to see about some bedding plants. My primroses were decimated by cats digging, and I just buried my little blue bulbs (possibly scillia but I can't remember) under buddliea cuttings. On the plus side, my tulips (which I don't remember buying) are in bud, with the merest hint of colour around their lips... yellow in this case... having survived the snow and cat maulings. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Apr 09 - 01:30 PM I took today off, and it's gorgeous. I'm headed out to the garden this afternoon. I did some garage sales this morning, and at the last one I talked at length with the guy who in the two years he has been here has done great things with his yard. He's across the creek from me and up a ways, I can't see his place from here, but he provided treat inspiration to keep working in my yard. I would love, over time, to have the back planted all the way back with interesting plants and patches of turf so that when I finally get around to replacing the fence with a wrought iron-style fence to see through that it looks like a vista into a secret garden, all the way down to the creek. :) Dream on. Maybe I'll win the lotto. But anyway, it was a nice morning. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 03 Apr 09 - 05:40 PM Yeah, Janie, the drought has taken a toll on alot of the older established hardwoods from Georgia north to Maryland... The trees are definately stressed out and that is why every time we get a somewhat normal t-storm, trees come down... And the bugs are loving all of this... But some good news... Seein' as I really don't get paid for the work I do on my old hotel it's nice that the P-Vine sold a small job to someone who came to the center last weekend and so tomorrow I'm off in the truck to plant 5 five foot cryptomeria yoshinas for one of her customers and am going get actaully get paid for doing it... Hooray!!! B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 03 Apr 09 - 08:52 PM Maggie, I see why you like the Dirt Doctor. I book marked the site a long time ago when you first referenced it, but had not ever gotten around to actually going to it. I'm going to look for an organic arborist to see what needs done to mitigate against the damage already done, and then try, at least in part, Dirt Doctor's sick tree treatment. My yard is big and there are so many trees that I don't know if I can afford to treat the whole place. I'll have to price the materials. But it doesn't look like it makes sense to not treat the whole yard. Maybe the arborist will suggest a somewhat different mix suitable to this region. It would make me very happy to have an arborist tell me the big trees do not have so much damage that they have to come down. How's yer back, Bobert? Glad you are getting some paid work, but that be hard work! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 04 Apr 09 - 07:25 AM The back is protesting a little this morning... (Yer only as young as yer back, Bobz...) Nevermind, I'll be okay... As for large oaks... Once you see that they are sick they are sick... Small plants are alot more treatable than towering ones... The problem with dense woods is that with the draught there isn't enough water to support all the trees... There might be enough to support half of them but not all... I have about 4 acreas like that and I have slowly been thinning it out... It will still be woods but I'm taking the weedier of the trees out, like the locusts and maples and poplars and persimmon... I'm going to have to take out a couple oaks as well because they are competing with others... Fortunately for me, I have a good hillbilly buddy who was born with a chainsaw in his little hands and he sells firewood so he's taking them out (with my help) for free... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:43 AM I used the sick tree treatment on my injured redbud several years ago and it came back like gangbusters, but there still seems to be damage it hasn't completely healed. I have been working around that tree this week and it isn't doing well. I'll try a surgical approach to remove the damaged part and see if the rest can fill in. That was the case with a tree at my last house, it came back full strength. Meanwhile, I'm putting down a no-till ground cover (scalped the turf with the weedeater, wetted it, put down layers of newspaper and mulch on top). If the tree goes, I'll use this area to plant other things. I'd still like a small tree here, but I know my neighbors are concerned that it might be close to their sewer line. Trees only bother sewer lines if they're already broken, and I think theirs is fine, but if I put in a new tree I'll move it over a couple of more feet. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 04 Apr 09 - 08:42 PM Between basketball games....there is something that looks interesting beginning to emerge over on the east side of a tree where there are also some lilies coming up. The leaf looks vaguely familiar, but I can't yet place it. Some other interesting plants with flower stalks coming up from a rosette of hairy, somewhat warty, oval shaped leaves with red veins that I think may be some kind of terrestrial orchid. Will have to wait until it blooms to know. It is not the native rattlesnake plaintain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:12 PM I'm tired, after finishing that work with the mulch. I picked up another large load this afternoon, so I'm set for finishing another bed out front. This no-till bed is one of those things that looks so dopey until you finish and can't see the edges of the newspaper or the scalped dirt any more. I have some bedding plants and seeds both to put in tomorrow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Apr 09 - 12:37 PM Frost/freeze warning tonight. Gotta go out and cover the tomatoes. Some stuff is in pots still and I'll move it in. I also have straw that I can pile up around stuff and spread it around in a day or two. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Apr 09 - 07:25 PM Hopefully a bit of planting tomorrow, if I can summon the energy... today was a lovely day but a washout as far as doing anything constructive went. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:15 PM I really am beat... But a good beat... Today was in the mid 70s and so I worked all day on the various beds... Cut down the miscanthis... That is always a biggie... I tie last years grass up real tight and cut it with a chain saw... makes a 2 hour job a 15 minute job... Three years ago we bought what we thought was an umbrella pine... Problem is that it turned out to be, ahhhh, some dwarf umbrella pine of yew of some kind... Just doesn't seem to grow much... Healthy but slow... So it's been takin' up prime real estate in a container that I have buried in the ground... No more!!! Today I ooved it into a similar container (above ground) and have it next to the Thunderhead Pine... Looks real good and in the in-ground container I planted a small "black bamboo" that I ordered from Oregon three weeks ago... I think once it gets up to about 7 feet that I'll prune it and keep it there... Can't wait... Also dug up a rose bush that was planted in the wrongest spot it could have been... Dug holes for, but didn't plant, mugo pine (5'H-8-W), boxwood vestigiata, 2 Alaskan Pines... Oh yeah, got the fountain cleaned up and runnning for the season... Doesn't sound like much but it was... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:43 PM I worked on taxes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Apr 09 - 11:39 PM Bobert, make sure that pine wasn't buried too deep in the pot. That will slow down any tree. The butt swell should show at the surface. Scrape out all of the extra dirt, down to the real roots (not the adventitious sort that sprout when the tree is too deep). I've had to take dirt away from the bases of several trees here and it has helped. The nursery pots look like they must be okay, so you plant them level, or maybe a little low in the ground, but that isn't good for the tree, and nurseries usually shovel extra dirt on top of the real roots because folks will think there isn't enough root to fool with. You should actually shake off all of the dirt and plant it like it was a bare root tree. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:58 AM Thanks, Mag... Yeah, I always plant my stuff high enough to allow for settling... This poor thing has been moved 3 times now... The funny thing is that the needles look just like an umbrella pine... When we bought it it was with about 10 others which were also about 3 feet tall... The plant did not have a tag... I asked the saleperson iof it was an umbrella and he said "yes"... The nursery is a couple hundred miles from here so we haven't been back to inquire about the cultivar, if they even remember... The way I look at it is that even if I had known that it was a dwarf "somethin'-r-another" I still would have wanted it as a specimem plant... Gonna be cold this week here in central Virginny... Brrrrr... Gonna probably push back mushroom huntin' until closer to the 3rd week of the month... Grrrrrrrr... Have me a hankerin' fir some "mergals" (morelles)... Just looked out the great room window and discovered one miscanhtis that escaped the chain saw... Danged!!! The P-Vine sold about $1500 at the garden center this weekend... Not bad fir a Carolina gal... (lol)... (Watch it, Boberdz...) Okay, better get ready to go to work before I get in any serious trouble...) B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM Bobert, if you would enter the name without typos it would be a little easier to look them up. Miscanthus Do you have any more photos? We can put them up on the Google groups page again. Freeze warning again tonight. I'll wait it out. I left some bedding plants next to the house. Tomatoes are fine but the eggplant look unhappy. Plants in the ground look about the same as they did before. Go figure. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 06 Apr 09 - 06:31 PM Looks like we will have a freeze warning for tomorrow night. I moved the hydrangeas onto the carport, against the wall, and will probably do the same with a few other things. Pretty as the azaleas are, I am not about to try to cover all of them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Janie Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:26 PM Loos like at least 3 of the dogwoods have Dogwood Anthracnose. One of them I was planning on cutting down. It seems to take a good bit of work to try to control this disease and keep the trees healthy. Since none of the dogwoods here are sterling specimans, I may take them all out and replace them with a resistant hybrid, or something else entirely. Most of them are too shaded to do very well, and can't compete with the big trees for water. This world of trees and shade is a whole new realm. Pretty steep learning curve, but that's OK. Can't ever learn enough about plants and growing things. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Apr 09 - 06:47 PM Planted my rocket and lettuce although I don't expect to see any of them when I get back... the wall flower and the aquilegia stand a better chance, but I'm not holding my breath... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 07 Apr 09 - 07:54 PM Sorry, Maggie, but typin' and spellin' ain't my long suit... Throw im serious lexdexia and no matter what I type, or try to typ, looks right half the time even if it ain't... I really do the best that I can do... True story... I couldn't read a lick until I was about 13 years old... Like I said, some of the hillbilly stuff is intended but the rest ain't all that controlable... No, ain't got any new pics to speak of... The miscantis (grass) grows to 7 feet in late summer... I have several beds of it coming up the driveway... It is almost impossible to divide... You need a serious saw to quarter it... The P-Vine hates it but when you garden on such a lrage ***scale***, you need lots of big plants... Mr. Doval will be up next week to till up the veggie garden... The P-Vine just planted our veggie plant seed today... Yeah, we a re a couple weeks behind but she picked up a couple of tomato plants to stick in the garden so we'll ahve tomatoes in July from them... Mr. Clifford will have 'um a couple weeks before us and will bring us some the middle of July... Blew snow off and on all day today even though the temps were low 40s... 'Sposed to go to 60's by Friday... We're off to Montpelier, Va. to buy some Japanese Maples for the Coop... I used to live outside Montpeiler in the 60's on a farm so it's kinda cool going back there... Still the same as it was back then... Rural... Landed a nice little landscape job today... 18 Green Pillows and 1 Dee Runk boxwoods with lirope and hachnachola edgin'... 22 feet by 9 feet... Well known people in Luray... I was the thrid designer to come in and draw up my ideas and, frankly, the most expensive becasue of the plants I've selected but, hey, got the job... The people didn't show us the other designs so I don't know what the other folks had proposed but I'm real happy to have this job... BTW, hachnachlia (badly mis-spelled) is the plant of the year among nurseryman... Nice stuff... We have used it going back 6 'er 7 years but it is now in favor... The enounymous (sp) green spier has sold completely out the the Coop... That is another of my favorites... Nice vertical qualities... Does well with morning sun... Not too good if you have deer... Gotta spray fir scale 2X a year... But nice plant... Well, love talkin' plants and stuff but I've got only 2 weeks before my 1st festival so that means that I gotta get in a little music work... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Apr 09 - 08:57 PM I'm also dyslexic, and I have the spell check installed on my Google toolbar for just that reason. :) Cold air did in some tomatoes, left others alone. I'll replace the damaged ones later in the week. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: Bobert Date: 08 Apr 09 - 07:48 AM Spell check??? Hmmmmmm??? What is it??? How do you get it??? Ahhhhh, almost forgot to report on our own garden... Larkspur, Bleeding Hearts and Peonies all poking up... We dodged the bullet this morning... Only 32.4 degrees... Whew... That was close... Today oughtta be a complete zoo... At 9:00 this morning I'll have both a Bobcat loader and a small backhoe at the old train depot, plus two "stripers" (inmate laborers) and by the end of the day, with any luck, I'll have the final grading completed and the three creape mrytls in... They are monsters... B&B'd... 36", 300 pound root balls... Fun... Cultivar "Catawba"... Rather have this day over... Well, happy gardening... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009 From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Date: 08 Apr 09 - 07:50 AM 200!! Lettuce survived the attentions of the cats over night.. just have to hope someone will water them in the next 3 weeks. LTS |
