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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 16:46:42 GMT -5
There are several rose plants in my yard, planted by the former owner. Despite pruning and feeding, they are thin and sickly and not the gorgeous rose bushes that come to mind when one thinks "rose bush". I MIGHT end up pulling them this year. I'm not sure what I would replace them with. I already have several lilacs. The kids are allergic to them, so I can't bring the blooms into the house. They bloom for such a short period of time and then are just...there. @empressspunkles: Did you get this Spring's Mahoney's Inspirations? There are a few things I am lusting after in there. I just have to figure if I have the right environment for them. Not yet. I usually do my lusting in person at the nursery. I can spend HOURS (and $$$) there dreaming.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 11:18:16 GMT -5
My uncle who is big into plants and gardening gave me a rose bush years ago. I have no idea what kind it is, but he said it would do well where I lived. Well, that thing has taken over. It's massive! It's probably 6 feet tall and 5 feet around and overgrowing the sidewalk that I planted it next to. I'm going to just have to hack a bunch of it off this year.
I do NOTHING with this thing, I am the worst flower gardener around, and it is always covered with roses. Definitely a hardy plant.
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Post by justme on Apr 29, 2016 13:34:19 GMT -5
The seeds I planted earlier this week are starting to sprout! Pretty excited about that because my patio faces north and there's a six story building to the west so it doesn't get a lot of direct sun.
Can I just store the seeds I didn't use in like a Ziploc bag until I need them again? In Florida so I'm hoping I can get most of the plants to survive the winter this year...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 20:11:34 GMT -5
Those cute little Knock Out roses I bought years ago are now taller than I am although I prune them down to about six feet every year. The "ground cover" rose I bought is now 2 feet tall. The shrub rose is now 4 feet tall. I don't fertilize them ever.
I have lots of little green tomatoes on both my Cherokee Purple and Patio Pal plants. The Thai basil keeps trying to bloom and I keep pinching it back. Jalapeno bush is covered with peppers, some should be ready to harvest in a week. Satsuma orange has lots of marble-size fruits-we'll see what drops over summer. I did fertilize the tomatoes and orange with organic fertilizer the other day.
Good friend a mile away got tired of trying to grow St. Augustine in unfavorable conditions so converted her entire front and side yards to decorative and edible plants. She planted rainbow chard along 15 feet of fence, put up a big sign saying "help yourself-pick off the outer leaves" and it's still going strong-so pretty with the multi-colored stems. She just posted on the neighborhood FB page that her sweet basil (about 25 plants) needs picking too so there's a lot of pesto in our future.
Silly me, I let the garlic chives flower this year and they are everywhere besides where they should be but they are tasty in salsa, pesto and chimichurri sauce.
Another neighbor just got a beehive through a collective. I want one but don't have the space in a sunny, secured area. We're all lining up to buy her honey; her 10-year old twins will use the beeswax to produce organic body products. You heard me right, 10-years old; they already have a line of organic bath salts selling at all the local farmers markets. Good stuff too.
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Post by bean29 on Apr 29, 2016 21:18:01 GMT -5
The guy that bought our last house moved the shed DH built. It was handmade 2x4 siding, door very solid-asphalt shingle roof. They may have had 4 guys move it, but DH said you can put PVC pipes underneath it and roll it where you want it. But he clarified mine was not 20x15 (we are thinking 12x10).
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Post by bean29 on Apr 29, 2016 21:59:37 GMT -5
I have successfully grown Knock Outs in several areas of our yard. We had 3-4 fuchsia (deep pink) Knoch outs by our front door. They looked like a hedge. DH shaped them every year so they didn't overgrow the sidewalk. Even on the wetlands side of my house which gets filtered sunlight through trees, I have no trouble growing roses. DH dosn't want the bushes growing up the siding so he prunes them back a lot. We try to deadhead the roses, they claim knockouts don't need to be deadheaded but DS says if you want them to keep blooming you have to deadhead them.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 30, 2016 15:50:39 GMT -5
I just planted some purple coneflower seeds and they're already popping up. We need to have our back yard regraded and then we're putting up white vinyl fence along the perimeter of the yard. I'm planning on planting bee and butterfly friendly plants along the fence.
I had knockout roses at our old house and I kept them trimmed back. Because I kept them trimmed, they bloomed all summer and were gorgeous! I just planted some Iris corms I got from my MIL when she moved into assisted living. I put then in a planter so they wouldn't die over the winter and the started to sprout. I don't know what color they are and can't wait until they bloom next year or the year after.
I still need to get tomato plants, but that will have to wait for the yard regrading.
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Post by justme on Apr 30, 2016 16:27:44 GMT -5
Some idiot above me cleaned their balcony with bleach water. It soaked my plants, including those that just sprouted and those that haven't. Any idea of that will kill them?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 21:24:55 GMT -5
Some idiot above me cleaned their balcony with bleach water. It soaked my plants, including those that just sprouted and those that haven't. Any idea of that will kill them? The plants or the neighbor? If you wipe down your plants, leaves and sprouts, you should be ok. The neighbor, oh the list of ideas is long, but incriminating so can't help you there. Sorry.
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Post by justme on Apr 30, 2016 21:26:41 GMT -5
Some idiot above me cleaned their balcony with bleach water. It soaked my plants, including those that just sprouted and those that haven't. Any idea of that will kill them? The plants or the neighbor? If you wipe down your plants, leaves and sprouts, you should be ok. The neighbor, oh the list of ideas is long, but incriminating so can't help you there. Sorry. Lol! Ok I'll wipe them down, I'm just worried cuz I have no idea how much water the idiot used, but my plants and patio were soaked and it was like 89 and sunny out so it's not like water didn't evaporate quickly
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 21:30:08 GMT -5
I've done some bleach on mine as well and they seemed to be fine. the cat pee, on the other hand! I lost a batch of basil because a cat decided to use it as a litter box.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2016 15:00:35 GMT -5
Got my garden tilled. ok...not really a garden. I rented out my hayfield for corn this year and they chisel plowed it. They also did some "work" on the road going to the back field and I about cried when I saw it today. It used to look very park-like with a grass road and overhanging trees, well, they went through it with bobcats and knocked down trees and scraped up the road making it wider, now it's just mud with broken off trees. It looks like a tornado hit it. They needed to do this to get machinery through, it was getting bad enough just for haying. I'm sure in a year or two it will recover, but damn...
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Post by justme on May 1, 2016 15:11:21 GMT -5
Apparently they weren't done. I moved them to where the water wasn't coming down but it eventually did over there strong enough to remove the dirt from three pots and uprooting the sprouts. Grrrr
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Post by happyhoix on May 2, 2016 7:28:23 GMT -5
I have successfully grown Knock Outs in several areas of our yard. We had 3-4 fuchsia (deep pink) Knoch outs by our front door. They looked like a hedge. DH shaped them every year so they didn't overgrow the sidewalk. Even on the wetlands side of my house which gets filtered sunlight through trees, I have no trouble growing roses. DH dosn't want the bushes growing up the siding so he prunes them back a lot. We try to deadhead the roses, they claim knockouts don't need to be deadheaded but DS says if you want them to keep blooming you have to deadhead them. I have maybe six knock outs that up until this year were doing well, but this year, about 3/4 of one of the bushes failed to leaf out, and parts of two other bushes also failed to leave out. One of them leafed out and then about 1/3 of the plant started dying back - leaves got yellow green and are shriveling while the rest of the plant is deep green and covered with roses.
I do have a reputation for killing things, but up until now this knock outs were indestructible. I don't know what the problem is, although some other larger plants in the same area (a mundo pine, for example) seems to also be dying. It's an area where we had to bring fill dirt in after the tornado, and DH asked the contractor for 'dirt' rather than for top soil, and I'm beginning to wonder if we didn't get some dirt that was contaminated with something else - something deeper rooted plants can't handle (the smaller rooted plants, like phlox and dahlias, seem to be doing well).
I may have to take a sample to the ag extension and see if they will test it for me. Although I don't know what I would do if it was, can't afford to dig up a bunch of yard.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on May 2, 2016 12:01:18 GMT -5
DH cleaned, mowed, and fed the lawn and spread Grub-ex over the weekend and today's steady rain is soaking it all in. He also spread grass seed on some bare patches, although I'm not sure if that will work in those areas.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on May 22, 2016 13:43:35 GMT -5
I just planted my container garden today. 2 tomato plants and 2 jalapeño plants as well as basil, oregano and lemon thyme. I have cilantra as well, it was the only thing i was able to grow from seeds
Planted several petunias as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2016 14:01:50 GMT -5
I have one more bed to plant. Everything is so slow and late this year. Maybe I'll get pics later.
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Post by Opti on May 22, 2016 14:36:01 GMT -5
Anyone have a big crop of inch worms by them? Some of them are landing on my small rose bush and eating the rose buds. The only rosebud that was on the miniature rose was chopped or eaten off between yesterday and this afternoon. (not an inch worm)
Squirrels don't eat flowers do they? Saw one right by the miniature rose and azalea bush as I came back from work today.
I've fed two inch worms to my lizard that I found on the yellow/pink rosebush. One had turned brown and the last one was just brown on the top with some remaining green. Any idea what that means?
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2016 18:10:31 GMT -5
Some roses are really hardy. The former owner evidently cut the rose bushes of the other former owner down to the ground and put in boxwoods. For roses, that's just pruning. The roses would grow up in the middle of the boxwoods every year and bloom. My husband loves to grow roses so we eventually pulled the bushes out over there. He pruned the roses for real last year, and they came back full force. I think they are what you guys are calling knock out roses. I know that is what a bush in the middle of the front yard is. Every branch has basically a wedding bouquet on it. That poor bush has had nothing done in the 12 years I have lived here, but DH says he will tackle pruning it next. Meanwhile he has planted three more rose bushes in that area and has three more in container pots. He has roses everywhere, which makes him really happy. He loves the yellow roses best, but he also has red and pink. The ones that survived my tenancy are all red. What is really cools is that we will have blue hydrangea blossoms for the first time ever. Every year the plants never bloom, mostly because we don't cover them. In Alabama, it gets cold, warm, cold, warm . . . and messes with the growth cycle. You have to have two-year-old wood evidently to have blossoms. We have always had to trim the woody part. But last year was mild (ugh . . . bugs). And the blossoms are everywhere. It is going to be gorgeous. I have a black thumb, but DH is like my aunt who lived to be 100. She could pick up a twig and grow a tree. We can't have vegetables because of the deer, but the neighbors have promised to share. They put an electric fence around their garden.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2016 18:12:44 GMT -5
The seeds I planted earlier this week are starting to sprout! Pretty excited about that because my patio faces north and there's a six story building to the west so it doesn't get a lot of direct sun. Can I just store the seeds I didn't use in like a Ziploc bag until I need them again? In Florida so I'm hoping I can get most of the plants to survive the winter this year... I looked this up on the internet because I have a back "garden" that I plant with wildflower seeds. But it is only one landscape timber by one-half landscape timber so I use about 1/3 of the seeds. Package them in freezer bags and freeze the extra seeds. Supposedly, they will be fine next year when you thaw them out.
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Post by happyhoix on May 23, 2016 10:50:46 GMT -5
I just planted some purple coneflower seeds and they're already popping up. We need to have our back yard regraded and then we're putting up white vinyl fence along the perimeter of the yard. I'm planning on planting bee and butterfly friendly plants along the fence. I had knockout roses at our old house and I kept them trimmed back. Because I kept them trimmed, they bloomed all summer and were gorgeous! I just planted some Iris corms I got from my MIL when she moved into assisted living. I put then in a planter so they wouldn't die over the winter and the started to sprout. I don't know what color they are and can't wait until they bloom next year or the year after. I still need to get tomato plants, but that will have to wait for the yard regrading. Will iris live successfully in pots?
I have a modest Iris bed but it keeps getting taken over by weeds. Plus I planted them when the little plum tree was very little, and now it's become the moderate sized plum tree= too much shade for the iris.
I would really like to plant them in some pots and leave them there - easier to weed. I know they like sun on their roots so you're not supposed to plant them with other ground cover, but trying to keep them weed free is almost impossible. I tried using pebbles as much around them, but the weeds just laughed and pushed the pebbles aside and grew anyway.
Although one iris that accidentally got left behind in the old flower bed (which has since been overgrown by daylilies) bloomed beautifully, while I only had maybe 25% bloom in the new iris bed (too much shade from the plum tree, I'm guessing). Having the daylilies shade their roots didn't seem to deter THAT iris.
I need to dig up the current iris bed and either move to a sunny bed and keep fighting the weeds or put them in planters. I'd rather do the planters if that would work.
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Post by happyhoix on May 23, 2016 10:57:39 GMT -5
Anyone have a big crop of inch worms by them? Some of them are landing on my small rose bush and eating the rose buds. The only rosebud that was on the miniature rose was chopped or eaten off between yesterday and this afternoon. (not an inch worm)
Squirrels don't eat flowers do they? Saw one right by the miniature rose and azalea bush as I came back from work today.
I've fed two inch worms to my lizard that I found on the yellow/pink rosebush. One had turned brown and the last one was just brown on the top with some remaining green. Any idea what that means? No inch worms so far.
Something digs up and gnaws on the daffodil bulbs, but I don't know if it's squirrels. I don't think so because the crime usually happens at night. Haven't seen anything after my roses or azalea blooms except insects.
Something with rodent type teeth does like tomatoes, though. Last year some low hanging green tomatoes had some bites out of them by someone with two big front teeth - not sure it if was a rabbit or squirrel. Seemed like they took a single bit out of several tomatoes and then decided they didn't like them.
So far, my potatoes are doing really really well - the drip hose I set up seems to be just what they wanted. One of the three tomatoes is taking off (I'm trying to religiously keep it pruned so it won't get too shaggy) while the other two, while not shooting up, aren't dying, either. Peas are kind of puny, I think it got too hot too quickly for them this spring. Peas don't like hot weather.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on May 23, 2016 11:00:44 GMT -5
My wife went to Meadowview farms nursery in Southwick this weekend. She said she was in gardening nirvana. She came home with about $100 worth of herbs and flowers and various things.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 23, 2016 11:34:18 GMT -5
I just planted some purple coneflower seeds and they're already popping up. We need to have our back yard regraded and then we're putting up white vinyl fence along the perimeter of the yard. I'm planning on planting bee and butterfly friendly plants along the fence. I had knockout roses at our old house and I kept them trimmed back. Because I kept them trimmed, they bloomed all summer and were gorgeous! I just planted some Iris corms I got from my MIL when she moved into assisted living. I put then in a planter so they wouldn't die over the winter and the started to sprout. I don't know what color they are and can't wait until they bloom next year or the year after. I still need to get tomato plants, but that will have to wait for the yard regrading. Will iris live successfully in pots?
I have a modest Iris bed but it keeps getting taken over by weeds. Plus I planted them when the little plum tree was very little, and now it's become the moderate sized plum tree= too much shade for the iris.
I would really like to plant them in some pots and leave them there - easier to weed. I know they like sun on their roots so you're not supposed to plant them with other ground cover, but trying to keep them weed free is almost impossible. I tried using pebbles as much around them, but the weeds just laughed and pushed the pebbles aside and grew anyway.
Although one iris that accidentally got left behind in the old flower bed (which has since been overgrown by daylilies) bloomed beautifully, while I only had maybe 25% bloom in the new iris bed (too much shade from the plum tree, I'm guessing). Having the daylilies shade their roots didn't seem to deter THAT iris.
I need to dig up the current iris bed and either move to a sunny bed and keep fighting the weeds or put them in planters. I'd rather do the planters if that would work.
I've had iris corms in pots and sometimes they bloom and sometimes they don't. I'm not sure why though. They seem to do better in the ground, but you need to divide them every few years or they stop blooming.
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Post by happyhoix on May 23, 2016 14:05:47 GMT -5
Will iris live successfully in pots?
I have a modest Iris bed but it keeps getting taken over by weeds. Plus I planted them when the little plum tree was very little, and now it's become the moderate sized plum tree= too much shade for the iris.
I would really like to plant them in some pots and leave them there - easier to weed. I know they like sun on their roots so you're not supposed to plant them with other ground cover, but trying to keep them weed free is almost impossible. I tried using pebbles as much around them, but the weeds just laughed and pushed the pebbles aside and grew anyway.
Although one iris that accidentally got left behind in the old flower bed (which has since been overgrown by daylilies) bloomed beautifully, while I only had maybe 25% bloom in the new iris bed (too much shade from the plum tree, I'm guessing). Having the daylilies shade their roots didn't seem to deter THAT iris.
I need to dig up the current iris bed and either move to a sunny bed and keep fighting the weeds or put them in planters. I'd rather do the planters if that would work.
I've had iris corms in pots and sometimes they bloom and sometimes they don't. I'm not sure why though. They seem to do better in the ground, but you need to divide them every few years or they stop blooming. Well, I haven't been dividing them, maybe that's the problem. When you pull them up, do you snap off the older part and just leave the newest end to plant?
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on May 23, 2016 14:59:19 GMT -5
Our Irises grew like weeds. The top of the corms were above the ground. I'd throw them into the woods and they'd grow. Stink bugs would eat a small hole in my tomatoes and ruin them. Three weeks of rain here in Md.
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Post by happyhoix on May 23, 2016 15:40:28 GMT -5
Our Irises grew like weeds. The top of the corms were above the ground. I'd throw them into the woods and they'd grow. Stink bugs would eat a small hole in my tomatoes and ruin them. Three weeks of rain here in Md. Apparently everyone's iris grow like weeds except mine.
I also managed to kill a good chunk of two Knock Out Roses, which are supposedly impossible to kill.
My weeds, on the other hand, are the handsomest, biggest, most aggressive things imaginable. If I could sell thistle and honey suckle by the lb I would make a fortune. I finally let the native violets take over in the front flower bed, I figure they do a good job blocking out all the other weeds that look more objectionable than they do, and to someone who isn't a gardener, they would look like ground cover. Plus they aren't able to stifle to the 'actual' plants like the daylilies and purple cone flowers.
My excuse is neither of my parents were gardeners and I've had to learn by trial and error fairly late in life. And, apparently, I have a big black thumb.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 23, 2016 18:20:23 GMT -5
When I divide my iris, I just dig them up, break off a chunk then replant the original piece and them plant the broken off piece(es) elsewhere in my garden. Mine seem to spread like crazy too. I pad a small patch of them that I dug up the first spring we were in this house (about 3 years now) and planted them in all my garden beds. In some places, it lookslikeI probably need to divide them again.
My daylily's are like that too. I planted 5 the first year and they've taken over one whole flower bed, so I need to divide them too.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 13:48:04 GMT -5
My wife went to Meadowview farms nursery in Southwick this weekend. She said she was in gardening nirvana. She came home with about $100 worth of herbs and flowers and various things. I went to Mahoney's last week and I think DH and I are still shocked I came home with under $20 of herbs. 3 basil plants and a catnip plant for the window box. I was looking for black petunias and pansies but they didn't have any. Looks like I have to go to Reading for those again.
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Post by chiver78 on May 24, 2016 13:54:31 GMT -5
I'm going to Mahoney's on Thursday, and probably the wholesale supplier that's nearby as well. I need ideas for the front garden beds, all I left in was a juniper bush dead center on either side of the steps. I already know that I am doing a strawberry patch in the backyard, right next to the fence.
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