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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 27, 2020 11:08:46 GMT -5
Could you scatter some annual rye grass seeds to protect the earth from any winter erosion? Would the rye grass survive your winter? I could probably give it a try. DD's mower guy suggested rye, too. It thrives here in the winter and would at least be green. I have no idea if the fungus would bother it. I'd still have to do some ground prep, though. Not feeling it today even though it's a lovely warm and sunny day before the rain and cold start for the rest of the week. And...DD is spending the afternoon getting the last of DGD's stuff from the exBF's place, which means she's not available to take me to buy grass seed. I wouldn't do anything more than scaring the bald spots with a rake, scatter the seed, and then water it in. Do it on a dry day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 11:12:56 GMT -5
I wouldn't do anything more than scaring the bald spots with a rake, scatter the seed, and then water it in. Do it on a dry day. You meant scarring, right? I don't wanna scare the soil. It's already traumatized from the fungus Scarring like just raking it enough to loosen it? If DD gets done and home before Home Depot closes, I'll go over there and get some seed.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 27, 2020 11:19:42 GMT -5
I wouldn't do anything more than scaring the bald spots with a rake, scatter the seed, and then water it in. Do it on a dry day. You meant scarring, right? I don't wanna scare the soil. It's already traumatized from the fungus Scarring like just raking it enough to loosen it? If DD gets done and home before Home Depot closes, I'll go over there and get some seed. Well you can scare the earth to make sure it is friendly to the seed ("or else you will be pavement!") but yes, I meant scarring. Yes-just enough to loosen it up and then water it after seeding to settle the earth.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 15:34:45 GMT -5
Tennesseer Okay. Done. It's going to be nice again tomorrow. Rain isn't supposed to start until Tuesday so I will sit outside and watch for grass to sprout tomorrow. I had a little fescue seed left and threw that out there, too.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 27, 2020 16:58:40 GMT -5
Tennesseer Okay. Done. It's going to be nice again tomorrow. Rain isn't supposed to start until Tuesday so I will sit outside and watch for grass to sprout tomorrow. I had a little fescue seed left and threw that out there, too. Good idea on the fescue. I have some shaded areas of lawn and Bermuda grass doesn't do well there. What I have done in the past is to first sow annual rye grass, let it grow, then sow partial shade grass seed into the rye grass. The rye grass keeps the partial shade seed from washing away when it rains. It then sprouts and sets roots.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2020 17:36:15 GMT -5
I sort of had a plan for the garden today before I chucked it and decided that if I wait long enough it'll get cold and rainy so I won't have to go out there.
DD's mower guy showed up today with a helper. Helper blew 90% of the seed somewhere else but didn't bother blowing off my patio or DD's. Thanks a heap.
Oh, good, the weather dude just said rain tonight and tomorrow, and by the time the sun comes back on Wednesday it's gonna be cold so I won't go out.
It's becoming more and more obvious that I need an attitude adjustment.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2020 17:53:39 GMT -5
Well, the first pyracantha is cut way back and I think I'll keep what's left. I made progress on the other, which will need less work. I've filled up 4 more lawn/leaf bags in addition to the 2 yesterday so I think another trip to the composting place will be on the list tomorrow.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Sept 28, 2020 18:07:11 GMT -5
Lowes has Scotts 20# Landscapers mix grass seed on sale for $30. 21% off. I'm getting it tomorrow to seed some bare areas.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 16:47:24 GMT -5
ken a.k.a OMK I wish I could use that kind of grass seed here but alas, can't be done. I guess it's the climate. We can grow rye here in the winter and just overseed a regular fescue or Bermuda lawn; the rye dies back as soon as the weather gets really warm in the spring...usually by the end of April...and whatever kind of grass is usually there comes back. The fescue stays green all year, though, and the rye just sort of covers up any bare spots. I just took a turn around the garden. It's in very sad shape, and the @!#$%^&*! moles dug under one of the Mexican petunias so that it fell over. I'll go out tomorrow when the sun comes back and fix it. Glad I planted so many perennials, but next year the annuals are going to be a little more plentiful and a lot more colorful. All I seem to have blooming now besides the Mexican petunias are red and white sunpatiens. Along one side of the garden there are knockout roses and cannas, still in bloom, but they're kind of boring now. Yawn. Mostly I guess I'm just tired of gardening and am actually looking forward to putting the garden to bed for the year. By the time spring gets here again, I'll be more enthusiastic.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 29, 2020 16:51:28 GMT -5
ken a.k.a OMK I wish I could use that kind of grass seed here but alas, can't be done. I guess it's the climate. We can grow rye here in the winter and just overseed a regular fescue or Bermuda lawn; the rye dies back as soon as the weather gets really warm in the spring...usually by the end of April...and whatever kind of grass is usually there comes back. The fescue stays green all year, though, and the rye just sort of covers up any bare spots. I just took a turn around the garden. It's in very sad shape, and the @!#$%^&*! moles dug under one of the Mexican petunias so that it fell over. I'll go out tomorrow when the sun comes back and fix it. Glad I planted so many perennials, but next year the annuals are going to be a little more plentiful and a lot more colorful. All I seem to have blooming now besides the Mexican petunias are red and white sunpatiens. Along one side of the garden there are knockout roses and cannas, still in bloom, but they're kind of boring now. Yawn. Mostly I guess I'm just tired of gardening and am actually looking forward to putting the garden to bed for the year. By the time spring gets here again, I'll be more enthusiastic. Ornamental grasses everywhere. Plant them and forget them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 18:09:57 GMT -5
Ornamental grasses everywhere. Plant them and forget them. Yep, I'm headed in that direction, and am making sure the ones I add are native to the area and don't require a chain saw to cut back in the spring. Heck, I even saw a garden of grasses in a show on Netflix, near a fancy French chateau. They called it a "Jardin des Plumes" (feather garden).
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 29, 2020 18:12:28 GMT -5
Ornamental grasses everywhere. Plant them and forget them. Yep, I'm headed in that direction, and am making sure the ones I add are native to the area and don't require a chain saw to cut back in the spring. Heck, I even saw a garden of grasses in a show on Netflix, near a fancy French chateau. They called it a "Jardin des Plumes" (feather garden). It does make life easier. And go native!
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 30, 2020 8:57:37 GMT -5
ken a.k.a OMK I wish I could use that kind of grass seed here but alas, can't be done. I guess it's the climate. We can grow rye here in the winter and just overseed a regular fescue or Bermuda lawn; the rye dies back as soon as the weather gets really warm in the spring...usually by the end of April...and whatever kind of grass is usually there comes back. The fescue stays green all year, though, and the rye just sort of covers up any bare spots. I just took a turn around the garden. It's in very sad shape, and the @!#$%^&*! moles dug under one of the Mexican petunias so that it fell over. I'll go out tomorrow when the sun comes back and fix it. Glad I planted so many perennials, but next year the annuals are going to be a little more plentiful and a lot more colorful. All I seem to have blooming now besides the Mexican petunias are red and white sunpatiens. Along one side of the garden there are knockout roses and cannas, still in bloom, but they're kind of boring now. Yawn. Mostly I guess I'm just tired of gardening and am actually looking forward to putting the garden to bed for the year. By the time spring gets here again, I'll be more enthusiastic. Ornamental grasses everywhere. Plant them and forget them. I discovered pink mully grass several years ago - and it also spreads. It's gradually beating back the centipede grass in one of my flower beds, and the only work required is cutting it back in the fall.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 30, 2020 9:01:26 GMT -5
ken a.k.a OMK I wish I could use that kind of grass seed here but alas, can't be done. I guess it's the climate. We can grow rye here in the winter and just overseed a regular fescue or Bermuda lawn; the rye dies back as soon as the weather gets really warm in the spring...usually by the end of April...and whatever kind of grass is usually there comes back. The fescue stays green all year, though, and the rye just sort of covers up any bare spots. I just took a turn around the garden. It's in very sad shape, and the @!#$%^&*! moles dug under one of the Mexican petunias so that it fell over. I'll go out tomorrow when the sun comes back and fix it. Glad I planted so many perennials, but next year the annuals are going to be a little more plentiful and a lot more colorful. All I seem to have blooming now besides the Mexican petunias are red and white sunpatiens. Along one side of the garden there are knockout roses and cannas, still in bloom, but they're kind of boring now. Yawn. Mostly I guess I'm just tired of gardening and am actually looking forward to putting the garden to bed for the year. By the time spring gets here again, I'll be more enthusiastic. I love cannas but whenever I put any out they attract every june bug in the trip state area. They consume the flowers as soon as they bloom so they're just tatters. The only way to beat them is to spray with bug spray religiously - and I try not to use bug sprays. Do you have that problem?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 9:08:45 GMT -5
happyhoix I don't have a problem with June bugs; it's leaf rollers that won't leave mine alone.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Sept 30, 2020 9:58:16 GMT -5
Picked the last of the green beans last night. They weren’t very good and tossed some. I’ll pull the plants today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 16:56:06 GMT -5
I was productive in the garden this morning. Feel free to give me pats on the back.
There's a hydrangea in back next to the house that was planted when the house was built in 1983. Their lifespan is supposed to be around 50 years, but all of a sudden it started dying, not just the usual brown spot stuff that has to be tended to, but just up and dying. This morning I figured I'd just cut it all the way down to the ground, and found that when the branches were cut back, most of them were totally dead. What gives with that? We'll see if it comes back in the spring.
Shored up the Mexican petunia where the moles had dug their stupid tunnel right under it.
Raked up a bunch of dead leaves and stuff. Cut off the stems of cannas that have been rendered hopeless by the !@#$%^&*! leaf rollers.
So yes, feel free to give me pats on the back.
If the lord's willing and the creeks don't rise (as we used to say in Texas), tomorrow I'll dig up the phlox and put them in pots. It seems to be the only way I can grow them successfully and get lots of blooms without the fungus getting them.
There's a lot to do in the garden, but we're not expecting any rain for a week so there's plenty of time.
It was so cold here this morning that I actually had to turn on the heat for a little while just to take the chill off.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Sept 30, 2020 18:30:29 GMT -5
I received two beautiful grape vines today, they are seedless globes. I thought I read thoroughly but it says semi shade so going to have to plant them elsewhere. We are going to have to move the other two plants. I really think 4 will be enough, they are hardy to 10 to 20 below. I have strawberries coming, only 25 plants, so will expand my bed and straw them all.
I hope they will grow and be good next summer.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Sept 30, 2020 18:32:24 GMT -5
My zinnias have all kinds of beautiful butterflies on them, so hate to see everything die for the winter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 8:38:59 GMT -5
The garden is calling. For at least the next 10 days there's no rain predicted here, and I put out all that rye grass seed. Gotta do a thorough watering. Also have a flat of pansies to pot. A time or two in the past I've been silly enough to believe that the critters would leave them alone and have planted them in the garden. Now that I know better, they get planted in a pot on my teeny, tiny patio and on DD's patio. For whatever reason, the critters don't come up close to the house. At least so far. And then there are the phlox that are still begging to be dug up and potted. A gardener's work is never done
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 11:32:39 GMT -5
Okay then! The red hot poker plants have been transplanted to a very sunny spot from the sort of sunny most of the time spot where they were.
There's a lot more to do, but I'm tired. Maybe later.
While I was sitting on my patio minding my own business, I noticed tiny little shoots of grass coming up! I can't tell whether it's the rye seed that I scattered or if it's the leftover fescue that I tossed out there.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 7:04:33 GMT -5
Well, while drinking my coffee on the patio earlier I inspected as well as I could in the dark. It doesn't look like the Garden Fairy came during the night so it's back out I go this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 9:05:40 GMT -5
Yesterday evening I pulled a giant weed off of a high bush. It had lots of little round brown seeds that stuck in my hair. Burrs. The nastiest, most persistent I'd even encountered. I was afraid I'd have to cut out chunks of my hair because there were a couple of areas with a mass of them. Some patience with a comb, starting at the ends, and I got them all out. The pyracanthas are finally at a manageable size and I've got another delivery of bags of yard waste for the composting place.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 7:59:03 GMT -5
@athena53 Eek! Burrs on my clothes are bad enough. Getting them in my hair would probably make me just shave my head.
I got started in the garden yesterday, was invited to go grocery shopping with DD and DGD, and by the time we got back three hours later, I was in no mood to do anything more. I did get some phlox transplanted and the lawn and most of the flowers transplanted before we left.
I'll try again this morning. There's so much to do. Sigh.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Oct 4, 2020 9:26:12 GMT -5
Another cold night, low of 42*, has finished off more plants. Getting the Fall colors though. Zinnia's are putting on a show.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Oct 4, 2020 9:37:10 GMT -5
I have to plant my overabundance of tulip bulbs that I forgot about. Oops. Also need to transplant a rose twig, calling it a bush is too kind, and split and replant a shit ton of hostas. Cripes they grew humungous.
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Post by oped on Oct 4, 2020 9:44:18 GMT -5
Got a bowl full of peppers this morning and mr has to pick tomatoes. I get a rash if I pick them. My fall vine plants all got fungus or stunted. My cabbages and broccolis are going slow so we shall see. I have spinach and lettuce and radishes though.
This is the first fall that had felt like a fall in quite awhile.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Oct 4, 2020 9:48:41 GMT -5
I need to go pick up a milkweed plant someone is giving away then plant it. Today is cloudy and chilly. The weather guesser said no rain til next weekend, but it rained last night! I hate planting when it’s cool and rainy,
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 4, 2020 10:31:03 GMT -5
I have to plant my overabundance of tulip bulbs that I forgot about. Oops. Also need to transplant a rose twig, calling it a bush is too kind, and split and replant a shit ton of hostas. Cripes they grew humungous. FYI: there is no such thing as an overabundance of tulip bulbs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 10:58:44 GMT -5
And there's no such thing as too many hostas, either. I'd love some. Since moving the red hot poker plants, I have a good spot for them.
I worked my butt off out there, and it doesn't look like much of anything got done. What?
I'm making a chicken pot pie right now. When it's done, I may go back out because it's a really, really, really nice day.
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