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turbo
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We're getting 1-1,5"/ hr here. We don't need all this rain.
Looks like you're on a 5 year cycle.turbo said:We're getting 1-1,5"/ hr here. We don't need all this rain.
Amazingly, given the almost daily drenching that we've been getting for weeks,...
I garden defensively, but sometimes weather gets the upper hand.dlgoff said:Looks like you're on a 5 year cycle.
Andre said:There are no veggies in my garden anymore. Oh sure I had them for many years, onions, green peas, peppers, carrots (lots), etc.
It meant continious struggling with weeds and pests, disappointments, but most of all at the time of harvest, the same veggies were a lot cheaper in the grocery stores, than the equivalent of the effort you'd put in them. Seed, dung, area, watering, not even counting the work done.
So then I scaled back to interesting veggies only, mainly cherry tomatoes and snow peas, which were relatively rare and expensive. But that changed over time too.
So in my garden you find roses, fuchsias, Japanese maples, etc, no veggies.
OmCheeto said:Story of my life, er, I mean my garden.
I got lots of Ghost seeds from Rhody. I gave them to my young (periodic) neighbor from Mass and she sprouted them and started them with heat-mats and grow-lights. Unfortunately, it has been so cold and damp for so long here, that the chilies are doing nothing. Maybe she is having some success with her garden in south Boston, but I haven't seen her for a couple of weeks to ask.OmCheeto said:I hear that people have been trading pepper seeds... :grumpy:
ZapperZ said:Besides the garden all in full bloom or about the bloom right now, my indoor garden is also joining in the fun. In particular, my orchids all decided to bloom at the same time.
We have one of those in the garden & tried if a few times.turbo said:BTW, if anybody here has a garden, you deserve to treat yourself to a scuffle-hoe (also known as a stirrup-hoe).
About the scuffle-hoe: you have to get the hang of it. Then it will be your favorite weeding tool. The head pivots so that the forward edge cuts weeds on the forward stroke and the rear edge cuts on the backstroke. I tend to use mine while walking backward so that the weeds remain on top of the soil to be dried out, and I don't stomp them back into the dirt to get another foothold. Take your time, and you might learn to love that weeding tool.Ouabache said:We have one of those in the garden & tried if a few times.
Guess I never got the hang of it though. I prefer a standard hoe.
I recently side dressed rhubarb with chicken manure. I wasn't sure if it might
burn them. Seems the manure was aged enough, the rhubarb are leafing out like
crazy!
Edible podded peas are bearing like crazy right now. And garlic scapes were a
fine addition to the picnic barbeque. Squash & cukes are coming along
fine. Just waiting on more summery weather. Kale & chard are also leafing out nicely.
Our plums had a fair amount of black knot on them this year.
The cool damp weather encouraged spread of the fungus.
I pruned out as many black knots as I could find. Hope the trees will bounce back.
lisab said:Good God, it even creeps onto wedding cakes!
http://www.beardsleecastle.com/weddings-f/cake-3tier-ivy.jpg
What the...seriously?
Monique said:Zz, I really like the milkweed as well. I first saw it in Portugal, the color variation in the flowers is really beautiful.
Do you have any secrets for your orchid care? My orchid keeps shooting out flowering stems, but the flowerbuds always fall off before they open.
It might be this.ZapperZ said:This one, I know nothing about. It came with the house, and I rescued it and moved it to a different location, right next to the patio, before we had the landscapers came in and redo the backyard. It has been growing well ever since, but I don't know what it is.
Zz.
ZapperZ said:When you see that they are about to give off the flowering stems, you need to start feeding it with fertilizers once a week, and do it "weakly". The common rule-of-thumb of fertilizing it "weekly weakly" actually works here.
And contrary to the instructions, phalaenopsis actually do not mind direct sunlight if it is behind a glass window. So make sure it gets plenty of sun.
I think it might be sun scald peng. Do they get a lot of direct sun?Pengwuino said:My garden has a giant fail growing! I planted some bell peppers and they seem to be doing this...
My first pepper had this problem to a much larger extent and I already see a third one developing this. They are bell peppers but they are starting to look like bell peppers giving birth to mushrooms :(