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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 12:42:03 GMT -5
CCL Mums are perennials here. Not there? I'm already as done as I'm gonna get for today. There wasn't as much that needed doing as I thought there would be. Sprayed the cannas, watered everything else. Later this afternoon I'll mow the lawn hay field.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 18:20:55 GMT -5
Got myself on the business end of what one of my brothers used to call the mow-grasser, and mowered the grass. Anymore it's almost as much weeds as grass, but it's green.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 26, 2021 18:32:28 GMT -5
Okay, then. Is everybody else "done" gardening for the season? We are getting close. I dead headed the lily and got the bulbs covered back up. I dumped my dead herbs from their pots. I pulled the annuals that were dead. The perennials are still going so I'll leave them alone. I planted a few more pansies in the now empty boxes. They should live through winter and into spring. Might not come back it gets too warm here for them to be perennials but we'll see. I bought a pretty purple kale to put in the other box cause why not. I'm going to try to do more perennials next year. Less work. I want to work on the backyard and make a bigger herb garden.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 26, 2021 18:52:06 GMT -5
Got myself on the business end of what one of my brothers used to call the mow-grasser, and mowered the grass. Anymore it's almost as much weeds as grass, but it's green. I keep saying vacuuming. I am definitely NOT vacuuming my yard!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 19:01:40 GMT -5
A self-propelled mower like a Roomba...there is such a thing, but it's spendy and really not very effective. BTW, empress of self-improvement, if you played in the dirt over the weekend, did you finish up unscathed? I'm gonna get some of that stuff that "kills the weeds, not the grass" and wait for it to work, then try to reseed. Again. I really would like to live long enough to see a really pretty lawn for a couple of months before the fungus attacks. Again. The fungus usually starts by July and kills off a bunch of grass just on one end of the lawn.
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Post by CCL on Sept 26, 2021 23:00:26 GMT -5
CCL Mums are perennials here. Not there? I'm already as done as I'm gonna get for today. There wasn't as much that needed doing as I thought there would be. Sprayed the cannas, watered everything else. Later this afternoon I'll mow the lawn hay field. They're usually not. Some will say perennial, but they never do well. Most folks pull them up and replant them every year. Potted mums are also popular.
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Post by CCL on Sept 26, 2021 23:02:05 GMT -5
A self-propelled mower like a Roomba...there is such a thing, but it's spendy and really not very effective. BTW, empress of self-improvement, if you played in the dirt over the weekend, did you finish up unscathed? I'm gonna get some of that stuff that "kills the weeds, not the grass" and wait for it to work, then try to reseed. Again. I really would like to live long enough to see a really pretty lawn for a couple of months before the fungus attacks. Again. The fungus usually starts by July and kills off a bunch of grass just on one end of the lawn. You sure it's fungus and not grubs or some other pests?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 5:52:52 GMT -5
CCL It's fungus, and it's a PITA. Mostly it's on one side of a river birch that doesn't get as much sun as the rest of the lawn. Last summer I trimmed off the lower branches up to about 20 feet off the ground, and that has helped. After not finding much to do in the garden yesterday, I guess today will just be yanking weeds. Did I mention that the 30% vinegar has done away with unwanted vegetation? It appears that it's permanent or at least permanent for this year. Guess I'll know when spring comes next year.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Sept 27, 2021 7:13:35 GMT -5
We get potted mums this time of year then plant them in the garden. They come back next year. Trim off the buds until July and they will get full and flower in the Fall. Last year the rabbits ate every bud. This year looks like they are leaving them alone so far.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 7:28:06 GMT -5
We get potted mums this time of year then plant them in the garden. They come back next year. Trim off the buds until July and they will get full and flower in the Fall. Last year the rabbits ate every bud. This year looks like they are leaving them alone so far. Holy cow. There are rabbits everydamnwhere in my garden, but they've never bothered mums. Maybe PA rabbits prefer northern mums over southern ones?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 7:46:54 GMT -5
Our mums are taking damage from moles.
Very little rain this month and the water is attracting them to the mums as we water them.
The one daisy mum we have in a pot bloomed fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 7:51:29 GMT -5
Our mums are taking damage from moles. Very little rain this month and the water is attracting them to the mums as we water them. The one daisy mum we have in a pot bloomed fantastic. I learned the hard way that mums won't grow for me when planted in the ground. Mine are all in pots so no problem with moles. Wish I could say the same for the lawn!
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Post by azucena on Sept 27, 2021 9:48:50 GMT -5
Just finished delivering the 65 mums that DD13 sold for fundraising for her DC trip. Don't want to look at them again for a long while, but I guess I should plant the two that I bought.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 13:35:40 GMT -5
DD is going to take me to the garden center tomorrow morning. I'm so excited! Gonna get some of that stuff that kills the weeds, not the lawn, and get some snapdragons if they have them. It doesn't take a whole lot to please me
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 10:22:53 GMT -5
We cut the old flower heads off of the big daisy mum in the pot, and now one week later it's completely covered in buds again ?
That's never happened before.
We haven't done anything different to it this year vs other years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2021 11:00:55 GMT -5
@x Maybe it has something to do with the weather? I dunno. I have to pinch mine back all summer long until about now when it's time for them to bloom for fall. DD took me to one of my happy places, the garden center. I got the weed killer stuff and sprayed a little of the dollar weed to see if it works. The instructions says that it may need a second application in 14 days. Also got snapdragons and, silly me, asters. They're already planted. The snapdragons will do fine. The asters? In the past, they've done fine, then sort of pooped out the next season. It doesn't matter how much TLC they get. I guess I haven't applied the correct amount of benign neglect. All the pansies were in flats of the same color. Ticks me off...it's just a way to get people to buy more in order to mix up the colors. The single pots had three plants each, but those were all in the same color, too There weren't any dianthus Garden center one of my happy places. The other is my garden, of course.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Sept 28, 2021 12:28:59 GMT -5
I had to look up dollar weed. It is Pennywort. Is that inflation?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 6:04:22 GMT -5
With a nod to ken a.k.a OMK , dollarweed will forever more be known to me as Inflationweed. As soon as it's light outside, I'm gonna check to see if it's dead or dying before I knock myself out spraying the rest of it. There's nothing much else to do in the garden except for the weeds, the blankety-blank weeds. ETA: It's light outside. There doesn't appear to be any change in the appearance of Inflationweed Am I impatient? Yes.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 29, 2021 8:25:43 GMT -5
With a nod to ken a.k.a OMK , dollarweed will forever more be known to me as Inflationweed. As soon as it's light outside, I'm gonna check to see if it's dead or dying before I knock myself out spraying the rest of it. There's nothing much else to do in the garden except for the weeds, the blankety-blank weeds. ETA: It's light outside. There doesn't appear to be any change in the appearance of Inflationweed Am I impatient? Yes. Maybe you're impatiens?
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 29, 2021 8:26:43 GMT -5
I had one pot of mums start blooming in July. The other one is about to burst.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 29, 2021 8:27:45 GMT -5
CCL Mums are perennials here. Not there? I'm already as done as I'm gonna get for today. There wasn't as much that needed doing as I thought there would be. Sprayed the cannas, watered everything else. Later this afternoon I'll mow the lawn hay field. They're usually not. Some will say perennial, but they never do well. Most folks pull them up and replant them every year. Potted mums are also popular. Mine are potted and are on year three or four. However, I live on the coast, so it's a whole different climate.
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Post by weltschmerz on Sept 29, 2021 19:03:08 GMT -5
Okay, then. Is everybody else "done" gardening for the season? Today really is gonna be the day that I go out and tackle weeds, deadhead stuff and decide which annuals are done. Really. I'm really gonna do it instead of just talking about or thinking about it. Then I'm gonna hatch a plot, as my daddy used to say, for next year's garden. There are perennial seeds and bulbs that need to be planted as soon as the weather is cool enough, but otherwise I think that next spring only annuals will get planted. Our growing season is long enough that I can enjoy them from early April until the end of September/mid-October. ETA: Almost forgot...I'm gonna wear my new boots when I play in the dirt today! I'm done.....it's getting pretty cold here at night. I did get two crops of my black tomatoes, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2021 13:32:02 GMT -5
It's a nice day, but I'm stuffed full of a veggie bowl that DD brought me from Taco Bell and would rather take a nap than fiddle around in the garden. Maybe later. Or tomorrow?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2021 6:16:22 GMT -5
Welp. Later didn't come on Thursday. Or Friday. Or yesterday. Can you even imagine what the situation is with the stupid weeds and viney weeds? Oy. It's supposed to being sort of rainy by mid-afternoon and then rain all week long so there won't be any gardening done at all. Dear me. At least there are mums and other flowers blooming. Maybe it's time to just let the garden be for the season until it's time to put it to bed when the nights get cold...around 40 or so and just wait until then to clean up and plant my chionodoxa bulbs, larkspur and baptisia seeds. Unless, of course, I get my second wind combined with a wild hair and go out there and work like a whirling dervish to make it look like a winter garden ETA: Wut wo! I just saw on the national weather news that we're going to be inundated with more rain over just the next couple of days than we usually get in the entire month.
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Post by finnime on Oct 21, 2021 5:12:24 GMT -5
Miss you, Missrigby.
Have to do some clean-up weeding now that the weather's turned and put things to bed. Roses are blooming again, the last burst before the frost, whenever that comes. It's usually in late November. Having the lawn mown every 2 weeks now, which seems to be sufficient. Some color is slowly emerging in the trees. One thing I especially miss from New England is the bright colors of drop leaves. Here they change color, too, but it's more muted and spottier.
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Post by CCL on Oct 21, 2021 6:14:00 GMT -5
Need to go out and clean up my front flower bed. Even my marigolds are starting to fade. My trees and bushes in back are finally starting to grow for me. It's taken forever.
I've still got tomatoes for the picking. Definitely unusual for this time of year, but we haven't had a frost yet.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 8:17:22 GMT -5
Our marigolds are DONE.
Two of our mums have fully re-bloomed after a full first bloom and dead heading, one of them was a white with yellow center daisy mum.
Can't remember the last time that happened.
We planted purple heart vines along the edge of the woods this spring as an experiment.
They did quite well with a few blooms, little care.
Since our ground doesn't freeze I'm expecting them to return in the spring.
They like to spread out and that was the idea.
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Post by happyhoix on Oct 25, 2021 20:03:21 GMT -5
The reblooming azalea is reblooming.
Cleaned up one front flowerbed and took the hedge clipper to the giant hollies that always loom out over the sidewalk to the front door. Need to start clearing around the purple mully grass, that stuff spreads itself around. Lot of fall and winter clean out to do of the shrubbery this fall. Need to clean up the baby winged elm, it looks like a wild giant shrub, not a tree. Like a crazy homeless man who needs a trim to look respectable.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Oct 27, 2021 15:18:16 GMT -5
Got myself on the business end of what one of my brothers used to call the mow-grasser, and mowered the grass. Anymore it's almost as much weeds as grass, but it's green. I keep saying vacuuming. I am definitely NOT vacuuming my yard! Reminded me of that joke about vacuuming your yard. It's a sure fire way of keeping your neighbors from bothering you
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Post by CCL on Oct 28, 2021 22:45:56 GMT -5
Had a light frost couple nights ago, but didn't do much damage. My tomatoes are still going strong.
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