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Post by catsareme on Apr 20, 2020 17:31:48 GMT -5
Since the Home Depot in our area is now limiting the number of shoppers in their store we are going to be there as soon as the store opens (6am) tomorrow. I want several more peonies for the yard and they just got them in stock. Also going to pick up some sections of decorative wire to fence off my tulip bed from the ravaging bunny rabbits. The furry varmints ate all the blossoms off my tulips last year.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 20, 2020 19:16:14 GMT -5
I want to get some impatiens for my front flower beds and some more knockout roses, but I need to wait for it to warm up more and stay consistently warm. We’ve had some 70’s days, but the temps have been fluctuating widely with some nights in the high 30’s to 40’s. My peas are now starting to really grow. I’ve put some sticks in so they can grow up them. It makes it easier to pick the pea pods. I have a few things coming up and I don’t know what they are. I don’t know if they’re leftovers from last year or something from seeds dropped by birds. I’ll wait a while to see if I can determine what they are.
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 20, 2020 19:27:44 GMT -5
How warm does it need to be to plant grass seed? We have an area prepped. This is in a valley in the PNW. Forecast this week is highs in the mid 60s lows in the mid 40s. Should we wait until the ground is warmer? Say mid May?
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 20, 2020 19:38:30 GMT -5
Well, I got a case of poison ivy, so it's official yard season again. Not yet. You need mosquitoes. [br I also got some kind of itchy welts on my arm, distinct from the poison ivy rash on my legs, and two weeks ago one of those big long legged winged bugs flew into my mouth, so I’m counting that. Yard season is here. Blech
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 19:40:31 GMT -5
lynnerself Depends on the kind of grass seed you have. We have fescue and those temps are perfect. If we plant new or overseed, we usually do it as soon as the fall temps cool off to about where you are. If you're planting fescue, don't wait because if it gets too warm, it'll germinate, look good for a few weeks, then die from the heat. I'd check with Mr. Google, Landscaper par excellence, and ask him. He knows all, sees all, all!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 19:47:49 GMT -5
@donethat I dunno about where you are, but down here if your tree overhangs a neighbor's property and damages it if it falls, they are responsible for their damage. Because we're good guys, when we had some trees taken down, we also had a big branch that hung over a neighbor's driveway cut off, too. It hung just where the neighbor parks his car. Instead of being thankful that his car wouldn't be damaged if the tree got uprooted in a storm, he was ticked because his car isn't in the shade anymore. What? He's the same neighbor who decided he didn't like the height of a hedge way inside DD's property line so cut a stretch of about 25 feet long down to a height of three feet before DD saw what he was doing and went out to remind him that he was cutting her hedge and to tell him to knock it off. The hedge is there so that we don't have to look at his year-round Christmas lights, his multiple cars, his trash cans, peeling paint on the trim of his house, general mess. Here a homeowner is not responsible for damage caused by their tree or a limb thereof UNLESS they have been previously notified in writing that their tree constitutes a dangerous condition. Otherwise, the person sustaining damage is essentially SOL. Similarly, a homeowner is entitled to cut off any part of a tree or other plant crossing the property line with the caveat that, should the tree or plant die, the dude that did the trimming is liable for replacement and/or other damages. This is a great state for lawyers and trees give them a lot of good business.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 19:50:48 GMT -5
Well, I got a case of poison ivy, so it's official yard season again. Lost a winged elm to the Easter tornado, and three Leland's blew over and had to be pushed back upright and spiked for support. I'll have to water the crap out of them to try to not lose them in the summer heat. Wasn't able to do the normal fall winter clean up I normally so I've had to spend the spring beating back the honeysuckle and wild blackberries. All I've gotten planted so far are some potatoes in the raised beds, just not feeling it this year..... Sorry about the tree loss and damage - that sucks.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 20:06:17 GMT -5
Since our dopey governor has decreed that Georgia is going to be mostly open for business on Friday, I think I'm going to go to the garden centers and hope that the plants that I still want are available. At least until Friday, there are still rules in place. When the weekend gets here, the garden centers are going to be swarming with people and a 'Rona hitchhiking in on a lot of them. Besides, I still have about $80 left on two gift cards. Don't want it to burn a hole in my pocket.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 21, 2020 9:04:05 GMT -5
DH went to HD yesterday for a couple of things and brought me a bag of potting soil. Now I need to clean out some old pots and plant some things that are too big for their pots.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 13:34:45 GMT -5
DBF helped me repot my little baby plants yesterday, and a mother in laws tongue that I’ve managed to keep alive for several years now. I think a few plants needed pots larger than what I had. I hadn’t bought any new ones. Oops. So I guess I’ll have to do something about that soon. The baby plants have all been officially moved outside now, except for one rosemary, because DBF likes to use rosemary when he cooks sometimes. He seemed to think I would be bringing them inside at night. Uhhh.... no. They gotta sink or swim now. He said “you aren’t going to want to fool with them anymore now, because you’re scare it’ll be bugs in the dirt!”..... yup. I’ll probably put them in the garage in the fall if I need to. Y’all it’s so funny how he’s been fussing over these little plants. I didn’t expect that at all. I have 2 cilantros that aren’t really thriving. The smaller one looked mostly dead and I put it aside with the other stuff going to the trash. He refused to throw it away and last night he put it out on one of the windowsills on the deck. He just texted me from work to ask how his little buddy is looking today. It actually looks like it’s trying to come back to life lol. Well, not the parts that really are dead.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 14:23:51 GMT -5
DD and I went to the garden centers this morning, and I still have $35 in gift card money left. Home Depot had a new variety of Mexican petunias. I got one of them, got home, decided that I really need at least four more. Need. At $15 each. That's more than $35. I also need at least three society garlic plants. Lowe's had them for $10 each. Another $30, but the ones I have are bright pink, and the ones at Lowe's are blue. I need them.
Also got a big geranium that was on the clearance shelf at Lowe's for $5. No idea why it was on the clearance shelf but didn't ask because the others just like it not on clearance were $20.
Everything except the Mexican petunia has been planted, even the flat of 18 sunpatiens from last week.
@pinkcshmere I think it's cute that you decided to try a little gardening and DBF got hooked. BTW, pinch off the dead parts of the cilantro. You can avoid bugs in the dirt or on the plants with an organic bug spray. There's one that I like called "Safer." Lowe's usually has it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 19:25:46 GMT -5
Oh, my. I want need more Mexican petunias and want need the blue society garlic so bad. (insert whine here) Please please please?
Seems like when people started getting stimulus checks last week, they showed up on Wednesday. Tomorrow is Wednesday. I wish mine would appear in my account tomorrow morning. As my daddy used to say, wish in one hand, sh!t in the other and see which one gets full first. Sigh.
The whole amount has already been earmarked for something else. I have $35 in gift cards left so need another $60 or so. I'd be borrowing $60 from myself so interest-free.
It's still four weeks until my next Rocking Chair Money is deposited. (insert more whining)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 8:52:29 GMT -5
Oh, my. I want need more Mexican petunias and want need the blue society garlic so bad. (insert whine here) Please please please? Seems like when people started getting stimulus checks last week, they showed up on Wednesday. Tomorrow is Wednesday. I wish mine would appear in my account tomorrow morning. As my daddy used to say, wish in one hand, sh!t in the other and see which one gets full first. Sigh. The whole amount has already been earmarked for something else. I have $35 in gift cards left so need another $60 or so. I'd be borrowing $60 from myself so interest-free. It's still four weeks until my next Rocking Chair Money is deposited. (insert more whining) I had forgotten that saying!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 10:55:00 GMT -5
Since I not only couldn't get a consensus, I couldn't even raise any interest, I just went ahead and pissed away money I don't have, and maybe never will because I fell through some stupid crack somewhere in the system.
Got the garlic. Got the Mexican petunias. Find me in the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2020 7:57:14 GMT -5
Y'all will have to entertain me with your gardening stories today because it raining here. I just saw animals marching up the street by twos, carrying lumber and tools.
The garlic and the Mexican petunias got planted, and they are gorgeous. Gorgeous, I tell you.
Now tell me what you're doing.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 23, 2020 10:30:15 GMT -5
No gardening stories, but Ella the cat was sitting by the front door when a squirrel came up to the front porch. You should have heard the noise when she tried to get the poor squirrel! I thought she might scratch the window!
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Post by finnime on Apr 23, 2020 11:11:09 GMT -5
I don't have garden stories but garden ambitions. These include: rake out old mulch, spread Preen, reinstall old mulch and top with the 10 bags of mulch just delivered (mulch sale supports a local high school athletics program). Also, dig out the hostas and replace them with a heavenly bamboo that was planted in an odd place by the landscapers who put in the garden last August. And pound in the garden edging where I didn't get to it last fall. Big effort: cut out and bag up the runaway trumpet weed from over the hot tub. This vine has gotten all the way down the side fence. My neighbors have been nice enough to not come gunning for me with pitchforks. And cut down the grape vines mixed in with the trumpet vine.
Someday, I'll get all this done. Or hire someone for some part of it. It's daunting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2020 12:16:20 GMT -5
finnime Keep in mind that a job well thought over is half done. See? You're halfway there That's the easy part.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 23, 2020 13:48:41 GMT -5
Since I not only couldn't get a consensus, I couldn't even raise any interest, I just went ahead and pissed away money I don't have, and maybe never will because I fell through some stupid crack somewhere in the system. Got the garlic. Got the Mexican petunias. Find me in the garden. Sorry, since my outdoor space is limited a a (decent sized) balcony* I don't read this thread often but I would totally have told you to go ahead and just buy those plants.They are medication for your mental health and thus absolutley a need not a want!
Not complaining about my view though as I look out on a lot of mature trees (including redwoods) with many birds, squirrels, etc. Quite a few waterways (while artificial) with ducklings as well. And when I sit inside behind my computer the hummingbirds are feeding just a few feet from me
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2020 10:13:52 GMT -5
NastyWoman You're right. I need flowers for my mental health. I actually need impatiens but it's overcast and cold out there, and it's already too late to go to the gardening center. This is Free For All Friday in Gerogia so the place is probably swarming with people and their hitchhiking viruses. Yesterday I mentioned that the trufulla need to be moved. Cold. Gloomy. I don't wanna, but I don't want them to rot or drown, either. ETA: the sun came out for a little while and it got warmer (but only 70) so I rescued the trufulla. Poor things! When I dug them up a couple of them were actually sitting water. Shame on me. Tomorrow impatiens will go in that spot. They'll be happy there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2020 11:51:55 GMT -5
Completely by happenstance I found red hot poker roots in a bin at Walmart. While DD was buying groceries, I went to the garden department looking for fungicide. They didn't have what I need, but hidden in the back of the department there were bins full of bulbs and roots. I've been hunting these things since forever and couldn't even find any online. Score.
It's too cold and windy to mess around out there today, but see if you can guess where I'll be in the morning!
It might be that a bigger bed with red hot pokers is so much to my liking that it'll get even bigger, joined by yellow and orange milkweed.
Before I quit working I used to say that I'd probably be found face down on a client's stairs with a hand vac in one hand and a whisk broom in the other, deader than a doornail. Now I'll probably be found face down in the dirt with a trowel in one hand and a packet of seeds in the other, deader than a doornail.
Where are all the other gardeners? Isn't anybody doing anything in the garden yet? It's not as though y'all can go to a movie or out to eat. Well. In Georgia you can go bowling, and starting tomorrow you can go to a movie or out to eat. This is today, though. More fun in the garden than in a bowling alley.
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Post by oped on Apr 26, 2020 12:01:22 GMT -5
So a local greenhouse does 32 starter perennials for 39.99. And they will assemble your order and put it in your car for you. So i spent a lovely 2 days planning and plotting for this long bed above the wall in the front yard and picked up my 2 sets yesterday. And then spent a very frustrating 3 hours sorting them into the order I want to plant them in. Each plant had common and latin names listed and it seems whichever one I wrote down the label had the other one, or something completely different... gah.
But they are all sorted now. The bed is tilled, black paper down (its only flowers and necessary because weeds had taken over that bed...) and so Tuesday when the sun comes out the kids and I can plant and mulch it.
We also got 5 scoops of topsoil/mushroom soil mix so I can top off the new beds, well at least the bottom one and plant out the spring stuff finally... and fill my half barrels and bins I want to use this year. We will try to do that Tuesday as well.
Raining today and most of tomorrow.
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Post by CCL on Apr 27, 2020 3:05:55 GMT -5
Still too cold to do much here. Waitin on better weather.
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Post by plugginaway22 on Apr 27, 2020 6:03:23 GMT -5
I am so excited to get going but here in mid-Atlantic it is still cold and rainy. DH has mulched the beds. He also built me another raised bed that we need to fill with soil and get ready. My Dad gave me onions and lettuce that we planted a week ago. Other than pansies I have in some pots, there is LOTS to purchase. We also split and moved some gorgeous, large hostas to other beds. Can't wait because being in the yard/garden is my therapy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2020 7:43:54 GMT -5
I am so excited to get going but here in mid-Atlantic it is still cold and rainy. DH has mulched the beds. He also built me another raised bed that we need to fill with soil and get ready. My Dad gave me onions and lettuce that we planted a week ago. Other than pansies I have in some pots, there is LOTS to purchase. We also split and moved some gorgeous, large hostas to other beds. Can't wait because being in the yard/garden is my therapy. Yes yes yes! Therapy for sure. Pansies are a winter flower here, and pansy season is almost over. Time to put something else in my pansy pots. Two have already been emptied and globe amaranth seeds planted, one pot was seeded a week ago and one seeded only two days ago. They take 14-21 days to germinate, but I'm still out there scrutinizing the first pot every day hoping to see little green shoots. It's sort of like waiting for a baby to arrive! I learned the hard way not to plant pansies in the garden because the critters munch on them as soon as they're in the ground. The only way they survive the winter is to plant them in pots and kept close to the house. It's cold here this morning so what gets done is going to get done wherever there's sun. First on the agenda is planting the four red hot poker roots that I scored yesterday. Next there's one bed with hydrangeas and peonies where we've always used decorative black mulch. It's been a PITA to haul all that mulch back there, spread it, keep it looking fresh. As soon as the sun moves there, I'm going to weed, then put in blue star creeper that I stole from another spot where I put in a new bed last week. It'll probably take all summer to cover, but when it does there'll be no need for mulch. Yay. The older I get, the more I take into consideration what's going to be easiest to maintain.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Apr 27, 2020 7:51:57 GMT -5
I have a veggie garden year round....I'm so lucky!. Simple trip to the Fresh Market or Whole Foods and voila veggies.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2020 7:54:34 GMT -5
I have a veggie garden year round....I'm so lucky!. Simple trip to the Fresh Market or Whole Foods and voila veggies. You sound like my DD. When I suggested using half the garden for veggies, she gave the idea a big thumbs down because "that's what grocery stores are for."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2020 8:10:33 GMT -5
The bed with peonies and hydrangeas is half done. It's big, and I ran out of blue star creeper. Going to continue weeding today anyway even though there's no creeper handy to plug in yet. Mowing is gonna get done this afternoon.
Anybody else doing anything at all in their gardens? "Supervising" their DHs or kids doing anything at all?
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Post by jerseygirl on Apr 28, 2020 9:08:33 GMT -5
I’m going to put some deer resistant plants in a small area- ferns, vinca and penny worts
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