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Post by azucena on Jun 3, 2022 8:45:57 GMT -5
Checked out rareseeds.com and feel like Drama does about her spice orders. Wowza, the pics on their homepage are gorgeous and make me want to buy the purple carrots and black sunflowers. And free shipping! Plus, they are only 3 hours from me, so I should get orders fast. Bookmarking for my next boring work mtg to browse further. Wondering what I can get away with ordering and planting yet this season here in StL.
I do the same type of tomato freezing that CCL does. I put them in freezer bags. One tip is to make sure you freeze them in batches that are the amount you typically need while cooking. Like 1-2 cups and not a whole full gallon bag that is too much to use at once.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jun 3, 2022 9:18:20 GMT -5
Very beginning gardener here. Not a food garden but flowers. I have space cleared for a bulb garden. How much do I figure that anything I plant will propagate and expand in the space I have? For example, if I plant say, 5 iris bulbs in an area, will those 5 multiply to say 15 or 20 in a season or two?
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Post by azucena on Jun 3, 2022 10:03:09 GMT -5
I love it when things in life intersect. Here's a podcast/youtube from Jen Hatmaker about gardening and mental health. It's easy listening with a slightly Christian bent. It's part of her latest series 'for the love of favorite pastimes'
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Post by CCL on Jun 3, 2022 14:07:28 GMT -5
Very beginning gardener here. Not a food garden but flowers. I have space cleared for a bulb garden. How much do I figure that anything I plant will propagate and expand in the space I have? For example, if I plant say, 5 iris bulbs in an area, will those 5 multiply to say 15 or 20 in a season or two? IME it's usually slower than that. Maybe +25% per year? It does vary depending on the type of bulb.
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Post by CCL on Jun 3, 2022 14:17:31 GMT -5
Checked out rareseeds.com and feel like Drama does about her spice orders. Wowza, the pics on their homepage are gorgeous and make me want to buy the purple carrots and black sunflowers. And free shipping! Plus, they are only 3 hours from me, so I should get orders fast. Bookmarking for my next boring work mtg to browse further. Wondering what I can get away with ordering and planting yet this season here in StL.I do the same type of tomato freezing that CCL does. I put them in freezer bags. One tip is to make sure you freeze them in batches that are the amount you typically need while cooking. Like 1-2 cups and not a whole full gallon bag that is too much to use at once. Yes! I was checking out all the black vegetables. I think they called it a "Goth" garden. I was thinking that's what empress of self-improvement needs lol. If I was only 3 hours away, I'd be making a trip. I'm still planting here in Indiana. I just ordered the slo-bolt cilantro, hoping they will hold up better once it gets hot and zinnias since they are fast-growing.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 3, 2022 17:53:59 GMT -5
Checked out rareseeds.com and feel like Drama does about her spice orders. Wowza, the pics on their homepage are gorgeous and make me want to buy the purple carrots and black sunflowers. And free shipping! Plus, they are only 3 hours from me, so I should get orders fast. Bookmarking for my next boring work mtg to browse further. Wondering what I can get away with ordering and planting yet this season here in StL.I do the same type of tomato freezing that CCL does. I put them in freezer bags. One tip is to make sure you freeze them in batches that are the amount you typically need while cooking. Like 1-2 cups and not a whole full gallon bag that is too much to use at once. Yes! I was checking out all the black vegetables. I think they called it a "Goth" garden. I was thinking that's what empress of self-improvement needs lol. If I was only 3 hours away, I'd be making a trip. I'm still planting here in Indiana. I just ordered the slo-bolt cilantro, hoping they will hold up better once it gets hot and zinnias since they are fast-growing. I never had any luck with cilantro.
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Post by cooper88 on Jun 3, 2022 18:41:27 GMT -5
migardener.com is having a sale. They don't have a huge selection but are reasonable priced. Coupon code is SPRING30 for thirty percent off. Free shipping after $12.
They do sell a cilantro substitute for those poor people that taste soap when they eat cilantro. It's called culantro. It also grows pretty well in the heat when the cilantro dies off.
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Post by azucena on Jun 3, 2022 18:51:24 GMT -5
Planted 40 lilies, most were sprouted in the packages. Took a few hours break and will head back out to finish in a bit. Working in the shade at about 80 degrees. Will add an adult beverage.
Feeling pleased with myself about how the various beds are looking. Five summers of hard work are paying off with places starting to fill with flowers and plants.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 3, 2022 19:35:15 GMT -5
The hosta now has three extra heads. I've never seen anything like it
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jun 3, 2022 19:49:17 GMT -5
The hosta now has three extra heads. I've never seen anything like it Apparently my hostas have/had a fox. Neighbor texted me to tell me it came out of the north clump. Got home, looked out the window and found the bed it made. Dug up a den too but I have no idea if it has any kits. Not planning to find out. I would love a Goth garden. Maybe next year i'll save a couple of my beds, aka sandboxes, to do one. I planted black tulips last fall and only got one this spring. I think the tree rats ate the rest of the bulbs.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 3, 2022 20:35:38 GMT -5
I have really deep dark purple petunias in one of my boxes. You can mistake them for black.
They are so pretty. I know they are annuals but it was so worth the $6. They grow like crazy well into fall here with the weather changes.
My snapdragons came back as the weather has warmed up. I have at least five colors possibly six. Not bad for a random Walmart purchase.
All the prennials came back. Three of the lilies from Alidi bloomed. One Fuschia survived after I moved it into the yard.
One daisy survived when I switched containers. . Moved it where my bee balm was and gave the balm the planter. It's getting big I may need to move it again.
My herbs are doing really well too. My rose bush has 21 buds on it. I think it's supposed to be white we will see.
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Post by CCL on Jun 3, 2022 20:50:15 GMT -5
Yes! I was checking out all the black vegetables. I think they called it a "Goth" garden. I was thinking that's what empress of self-improvement needs lol. If I was only 3 hours away, I'd be making a trip. I'm still planting here in Indiana. I just ordered the slo-bolt cilantro, hoping they will hold up better once it gets hot and zinnias since they are fast-growing. I never had any luck with cilantro. I love my cilantro! I even grow it year-round in my little indoor garden. It grows bigger outdoors on my patio but always bolts on me after a couple months.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 20:54:58 GMT -5
Planted 40 lilies, most were sprouted in the packages. Took a few hours break and will head back out to finish in a bit. Working in the shade at about 80 degrees. Will add an adult beverage. Feeling pleased with myself about how the various beds are looking. Five summers of hard work are paying off with places starting to fill with flowers and plants. Pics, or it didn’t happen.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 20:59:41 GMT -5
Very beginning gardener here. Not a food garden but flowers. I have space cleared for a bulb garden. How much do I figure that anything I plant will propagate and expand in the space I have? For example, if I plant say, 5 iris bulbs in an area, will those 5 multiply to say 15 or 20 in a season or two? I've found irises to be pretty easy to grow. Splitting them is difficult; though not as difficult as the time I tried to split dahlia tubers that were at least five years out.
If you're planting tulip bulbs, make sure you check the acidity of the soil. I did not even acknowledge that once, and killed 100 tulip bulbs. I was really sad about it that spring and still annoyed with myself even now several years later.
I plan early spring, late spring, and fall bulbs int he same cutting beds.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 21:00:09 GMT -5
The hosta now has three extra heads. I've never seen anything like it Imma need another picture!
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 21:02:31 GMT -5
Very beginning gardener here. Not a food garden but flowers. I have space cleared for a bulb garden. How much do I figure that anything I plant will propagate and expand in the space I have? For example, if I plant say, 5 iris bulbs in an area, will those 5 multiply to say 15 or 20 in a season or two? IME it's usually slower than that. Maybe +25% per year? It does vary depending on the type of bulb. Oh, I. missed the multiplying part. Daffodils propagate on their own, but, at least where I live, tulips do not. I agree with cheesecake about the irises. Alliums propagate at 5x to 6x per bulb each year. That drives my husband batty.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 21:06:14 GMT -5
Planted 40 lilies, most were sprouted in the packages. Took a few hours break and will head back out to finish in a bit. Working in the shade at about 80 degrees. Will add an adult beverage. Feeling pleased with myself about how the various beds are looking. Five summers of hard work are paying off with places starting to fill with flowers and plants. Oh, I love lilies! I just had to leave behind four huge white Easter lily plants at the house we just sold. They bloomed for three or four months. I'd get over 50 flowers from them. I don't know that I can replicate that in our new climate. I also had little purple calla lilies. Oh! Dangit, I left behind my pineapple lilies. ARG! I'll need to find more of those.
Cheesy FL-Vol, lilies, at least on the PNW coast, propogate at 2x their size and blooms each year.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 21:08:50 GMT -5
So, I just came on here to tell you I've also jumped on the tomato wagon. While I was dealing with COVID the last week of May, DH bought two cherry tomato plants for me for our new house. I've had to go 12 years without any tomato plants because they just don't grow well on the PNW coastline. Anyhoo, I have two now at our new house. We're only spending weekends at the new house for another few weeks. We got here tonight, and there's already one little green cherry tomato on one of the plants.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 3, 2022 21:09:51 GMT -5
I love it when things in life intersect. Here's a podcast/youtube from Jen Hatmaker about gardening and mental health. It's easy listening with a slightly Christian bent. It's part of her latest series 'for the love of favorite pastimes' I love Jen Hatmaker! Do you have any of her books? Do you follow her on FB?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 21:11:36 GMT -5
Tennesseer made me aware that some master gardeners in the area are opening their gardens for public visits tomorrow. It’s a whole event, with opportunities to learn and get advice. That’s the kind of stuff that makes me hate working weekends. The more I’ve thought about it these last couple of hours, the more I’ve wished I could go. Picture me pouting. I didn’t do a real treasure hunt today, my day was too long. I did water my tomato babies though. The mistreated plant was looking crazy again. I didn’t expect that because they got so much rain yesterday and it wasn’t super hot today. Mister is on vacation after today. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s gonna be in charge of checking every morning to see if the tomato plants need water. And that mutant tomato, it’s still growing! I don’t have to even look for it on my treasure hunts, you can’t miss it lol. Today, I realized that it’s bigger than any tomato I’ve ever bought. It literally appeared and got big in ONE week. That’s why I started calling it a mutant. It was my very first tomato to appear, but it seemed even to my inexperienced self that it was odd how big it grew in just one week. And it’s still growing. None of the other tomatoes that have started growing since then, have grown that fast. They are all growing at what seems like a reasonable pace to me. I have no idea what caused the mutant to be a mutant lol.
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Post by jerseygirl on Jun 3, 2022 21:36:17 GMT -5
Planning on visiting the Peony Gardens tomorrow and next week hoping to go to the Iris Gardend I just learned about the Peony gardens but try to go to Iris gardens every year . It’s about 10 acres with interesting historical flower beds Iris means rainbow and the colors and beds really display this, 10,000 plants
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Post by CCL on Jun 3, 2022 22:35:04 GMT -5
I love peonies! Irises, too!
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Post by azucena on Jun 4, 2022 6:35:53 GMT -5
I love it when things in life intersect. Here's a podcast/youtube from Jen Hatmaker about gardening and mental health. It's easy listening with a slightly Christian bent. It's part of her latest series 'for the love of favorite pastimes' I love Jen Hatmaker! Do you have any of her books? Do you follow her on FB?Yes, I've read several of her books from the library and her fb posts usually resonate with me from a parenting perspective. She's also given me lots to think about as a progressive follower of Jesus.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 4, 2022 6:57:40 GMT -5
Peony and Rose flowering is over here. A big windy T-storm Thursday knocked most flower pedals off.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2022 8:10:29 GMT -5
I'm slowly catching up on the weeds that accumulated during my trip. I attacked the hosta beds on the side of the house the last 2 nights and it appears the deer have already been there. I cleared weeds from around more of the hostas but have the sinking feeling that will just make it easier for the deer to find them. In the veggie garden I have one baby tomato, even after most of the 2 plants I bought were hurt by a frost after I planted them. A few of the pepper plants have blossoms and others have apparently been eaten far enough down that I don't know if they WILL blossom. Anaheim and Carolina Reaper plants look OK but the cayennes heave been eaten. Some critter is very picky.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 5, 2022 17:49:13 GMT -5
My tomato plants are growing with lush abandon, full of flowers, 3 to 4 feet high, but not setting the fruit yet.
Sigh. Might have to buy some at the fruit stand.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2022 18:32:35 GMT -5
My lonely lemon on my little lemon tree is starting to get lighter in color. But it’s still very tiny, smaller than my pinkie fingernail. I thought it wouldn’t change colors until it had grown and was almost ripe, which takes months, from what I’ve read. The tree itself is suddenly growing a lot of new leaves again. No signs of new flowers coming, just a lot of leaves. happyhoix, I started kind of shaking my tomato plants, holding on to the top of the cages. Short, quick movements to try to replicate the vibrations from a bee buzzing on the flowers. I read somewhere that that can help with pollination. It could be just coincidence, but I started seeing tiny tomatoes on all of my plants after I started doing that. The mistreated plant has at least 20 tomatoes growing, between the 4 plants, I have at least 40 tomatoes so far. They all still have flowers too, so there’s the potential for even more. I tried to take a picture of the mutant tomato, but it’s hidden by all the leaves, so I couldn’t get a good picture. All of my tomatoes are kind of in the middle of the plants, instead of on the branches that stretch out. That’s why on my treasure hunts, I would lose track of them before they got big enough to be obvious if I’m looking for them. I assume that they are better off in the middle, where the leaves hide them and protect them from the sun. Mother Nature knows what to do better than I do. I had one tomato resting on the metal cage, and it got “burnt” where it was on the metal, I ASSume because the metal would get hot when the sun is blazing on it. It took a couple of tries with me moving it away from the metal for it to stay away. I’ve started kind of struggling to keep up with their watering needs, especially the mistreated one, it seems to need more water than the others and starts looking crazy pretty quickly. It’s not just curling the leaves to protect itself from the heat, it always starts looking better after I water it. I am regularly watering all of them twice/day now. When the mistreated plant starts looking crazy, my little handy dandy moisture meter has consistently shown me that all of them need water. But that one is the only one that really looks pitiful, and one other is always starting to look pitiful. The other 2 still look normal, but they need water too. I made note of bookkeeper’s advice to put saucers under them. They are in fabric grow bags, but I ASSume the water would still wick up into the soil as needed, like it would in a real pot with drainage holes. Idk whether to go with that advice or try to rig up an inexpensive drip irrigation like some I’ve seen online. I definitely need to do something though. Imma try again to get a picture of the mutant.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 5, 2022 18:38:03 GMT -5
Pink, is the giant mutant tomato growing out of a compost heap or something?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2022 18:43:35 GMT -5
This is the mutant. The red circle is the tomato next to it, for clarity that it’s not part of the mutant lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2022 18:48:11 GMT -5
Pink, is the giant mutant tomato growing out of a compost heap or something? No, it’s in a grow bag on what I call my mistreated plant. I mistreated it by leaving it outside before the temps were right because when I was potting it, I realized there were bugs in the store bought compost I was mixing in it’s soil. I have no idea why it got so big so fast. It went from the size of a pea to almost as big as my fist, in ONE week. It is bigger than my fist now. The other tomatoes that started growing on that plant after that one, are growing at a much more moderate pace.
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