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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 13:41:15 GMT -5
What i need to start doing right now is learning what i need to do to cut, transplant, propogate my plants so that i can take some pieces of them to our new house! I have so many perenials, etc. there is no reason to start over from scratch, i can take cuttings of all these things with me i think, but i need to start researching and figuring it all out... I would start to divide things as soon as you have water at the new house. A little plot to hold things until you can do your landscaping. They could have room to spread a little until then and then divide again as you find permanent places for them.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 14:37:51 GMT -5
Husband is putting in a wall and making me a bed that will be my transplant bed. I'll put everything there and then worry where it goes for 'real' later. But water! Definitely need that first! Hope I would have thought of that ... But thank you! For making sure I didn't! Cause up till now I hadn't thought about it...
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 20:30:28 GMT -5
A rain barrel? If you're not afraid of Zika .
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 31, 2016 7:34:07 GMT -5
We treat the water in our rain barrel to prevent mosquitos from reproducing. It's really important to make sure you don't have any standing water in your yard and around your house, even a small amount allows them to lay their eggs.
we've had so much rain that the farmers can't plant their crops. The fields are too wet. I hope it dries out soon, but they're expecting more rain all this week. Ugh!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 7:38:29 GMT -5
How do you treat it?
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Post by milee on May 31, 2016 7:53:34 GMT -5
Just put a screen over the top opening and the mosquitos can't get in to lay eggs. Then you don't need chemicals in your rain barrel.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 31, 2016 10:24:51 GMT -5
There's also a chemical you can buy to treat the water so the mosquitos can't lay their eggs. Indon'tremember what it's called though.
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Post by happyhoix on May 31, 2016 10:55:11 GMT -5
This is what i've been reading today! Thanks for confirming There is an old adage about perennials: “First year – sleep. Second year – creep. Third year – leap!” By planting them in the fall, they will sleep during the winter. So for their first summer, they would creep and by their second summer, they will leap. You are cutting out one year of required growth to reach their max by planting them in the fall. Fourth year - drop dead from mysterious, unknowable reasons.
Well, at least at my house, that's the progression.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 31, 2016 11:26:46 GMT -5
There is an old adage about perennials: “First year – sleep. Second year – creep. Third year – leap!” By planting them in the fall, they will sleep during the winter. So for their first summer, they would creep and by their second summer, they will leap. You are cutting out one year of required growth to reach their max by planting them in the fall. Fourth year - drop dead from mysterious, unknowable reasons.
Well, at least at my house, that's the progression.
Some perennials don't last too long; awfully picky about location. And then there are the biennials; no flowers the first year and then bloom, create seeds, and then die at the end of the second year.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 11:30:20 GMT -5
Anyone know what to do with this rose bush that is taking over my sidewalk? Just start lobbing off branches? It will look pretty ugly if I do I think since it will just be bare branches underneath, but not sure what else to do.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 31, 2016 11:37:59 GMT -5
My dad just whacks the hell out of his rose bushes when they get too big. They come back from. The lilac and snowball bushes, not so much.
I think Mom will be seriously pissed off if he touches the bridal wreath bush again.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 31, 2016 12:28:12 GMT -5
Anyone know what to do with this rose bush that is taking over my sidewalk? Just start lobbing off branches? It will look pretty ugly if I do I think since it will just be bare branches underneath, but not sure what else to do. After a good trim and in about two months, you just might have a second mass bloom. Many shrubs/rose bushes look terrible after a hard trim but they come back.
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Post by t-dog on May 31, 2016 17:45:45 GMT -5
I have started harvesting cucumbers and sugar snap peas. Eggplant, pumpkin, zuchinni, tomatoes and watermelon all fruiting but will be a few to several more weeks before harvest.
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Post by t-dog on May 31, 2016 17:46:43 GMT -5
Anyone know what the fruiting cycle is for a seedless grape? First year in my yard and its putting out lots of leaves, but no fruit. Extremely large bush across the street is fruiting already.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 1, 2016 15:43:14 GMT -5
I have started harvesting cucumbers and sugar snap peas. Eggplant, pumpkin, zuchinni, tomatoes and watermelon all fruiting but will be a few to several more weeks before harvest. Jealous of your cukes.
Some kind of squash beetle kept infecting mine with a bacteria that made the vines shrivel up and die. Poor cukes would just start going full speed, I'd get a few nice sized ones and then the whole plant would wither and die.
I gave up trying to grow them. Don't want to use pesticides and didn't know another way to keep the damn bugs off my vines. I grow potatoes now. None of the local insects seem interested in them. (Hopefully I won't have the Irish Potato blight).
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Jun 1, 2016 16:15:19 GMT -5
I have started harvesting cucumbers and sugar snap peas. Eggplant, pumpkin, zuchinni, tomatoes and watermelon all fruiting but will be a few to several more weeks before harvest. I love that you are harvesting while mine just now get to go in the ground. Sent from my SM-G920T using proboards
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 1, 2016 16:19:48 GMT -5
I can't plant mine for another week or so, I may have to just do pots this year. with all the landscape stuff we've been doing, we haven't gotten around to building the stackable planters. I do know that I'll be planting strawberries (from pots) and a couple blueberry bushes this coming weekend, but those are going to be purchased already flowering. I don't expect much this year, but I want to get it done for next.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 17:01:08 GMT -5
I've harvested radishes and broccoli so far, nothing else is even close... It will be a month before i get a zuchinni. They need to test the septic tomorrow and husband was like, ok i need to take the big water tank (forgot we had one of those) and then i'll leave it there for concrete and stuff... yeah, 'and stuff'
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 16:25:03 GMT -5
Living in jalapeno hell here! My bush is bearing extremely well and I got 24 of those hot puppies in this week's farm share. There are only so many I can use in recipes or even stuffed and grilled so ideas welcome. Can you freeze them?
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Jun 3, 2016 7:37:08 GMT -5
Living in jalapeno hell here! My bush is bearing extremely well and I got 24 of those hot puppies in this week's farm share. There are only so many I can use in recipes or even stuffed and grilled so ideas welcome. Can you freeze them? You can pickle them in the fridge! I have diced them and frozen them before. Sent from my SM-G920T using proboards
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Post by yogiii on Jun 3, 2016 7:40:46 GMT -5
Living in jalapeno hell here! My bush is bearing extremely well and I got 24 of those hot puppies in this week's farm share. There are only so many I can use in recipes or even stuffed and grilled so ideas welcome. Can you freeze them? I freeze them and then use them in stuff that is cooked like taco meat or chili.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 7:41:15 GMT -5
Or dry them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 12:27:20 GMT -5
That's what I do with all the jalapeno and habenero peppers. Then either freeze like that or grind them up right away and put in shakers.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 12:31:27 GMT -5
I don't think I'm going to have a garden again this year. I'm working all this weekend and next week is booked solid. I have tomato plants that have way outgrown their little pots that need to go in the ground and I spent $40 on fence to keep the rabbits out. I hate that I have no time ever. Going to check my retirement accounts to see when I can quit....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 12:36:01 GMT -5
Can older kiddo do the planting?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 12:47:39 GMT -5
Can older kiddo do the planting? That is a possibility. It needs to be retilled first though and he has no clue how to run the tiller, plus I think the fence is going to be a two person job...the rabbits are so awful now that are dog is gone. Maybe I'll see about getting that done tonight if I can, and he could get the tomatoes in at least when I'm at work tomorrow. I haven't bought any other seeds or plants yet.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 3, 2016 13:10:08 GMT -5
I don't think I'm going to have a garden again this year. I'm working all this weekend and next week is booked solid. I have tomato plants that have way outgrown their little pots that need to go in the ground and I spent $40 on fence to keep the rabbits out. I hate that I have no time ever. Going to check my retirement accounts to see when I can quit.... If you use a high quality potting mix and put gravel in the bottom for drainage, tomatoes will do reasonably well in pots 5 gallons or bigger. Just be sure to spread the pits out around your patio or near the house. That might save you the tilling and fence building and save the tomato plants.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jun 3, 2016 13:15:02 GMT -5
Lettuce porn from our little garden.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 13:15:27 GMT -5
I don't think I'm going to have a garden again this year. I'm working all this weekend and next week is booked solid. I have tomato plants that have way outgrown their little pots that need to go in the ground and I spent $40 on fence to keep the rabbits out. I hate that I have no time ever. Going to check my retirement accounts to see when I can quit.... If you use a high quality potting mix and put gravel in the bottom for drainage, tomatoes will do reasonably well in pots 5 gallons or bigger. Just be sure to spread the pits out around your patio or near the house. That might save you the tilling and fence building and save the tomato plants. Well, then I have to go buy pots and potting soil and replant them. Seems easier to just stick them in the ground.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 3, 2016 13:20:06 GMT -5
Has anyone grown tomatoes in the upside down hanging planters?
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