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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 04 2008 : 11:58:29 PM
This afternoon I worked on getting all of the roses and a few daylillies,alliums,and a clump of iris, a couple spider lilies,a clump of bird of paradise, and a few other plants dug up and potted up.
These are a few plants that I wish to take along with us to a new home.
Sheew..it was so hot outside this afternoon though..88 degrees with heat index at 99 and humidity at 69 percent.
yuck..but..I managed to get quite a bit done.
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Hubby and daughter worked on cleaning up the strawberry bed and clearing out the garden bed of the items that are done with growing/producing this year...and working on converting the back portion of the yard back into grass.(have to do these things to get yard market ready/not everyone would appreciate our "farm style life style..so we have to make things look more "cityfied" again)
We wound up with a colander full of bell peppers, and a colander full of sweet potatoes.
The strawberries will be dug up soon and put into planters and the raspberries will be potted up into large pots ,as will a couple of small blueberry trees and a couple of small citrus trees.Then we'll seed the lawn area with a bit of grass seed and plant a few fresh flowers in the courtyard area and so forth, trim work on the jasmine vines..and trimming trees and hedges..and so on and so forth.
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So what have you been doing lately in your yard/garden?
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 9:00:24 PM
christine i am proof positive that having a black thumb with indoor plants doesnt always carry over to a garden! good luck with your first garden. i remember mine well (even tho it was about 35 yrs ago lol) peace connie in alaska |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 6:51:14 PM
congratulations on creating your first garden! way to go.
I hope everything grows real well for you.
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| Cheekyredhead |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 2:14:11 PM
I just planted my first garden! I'm starting small, but then again I don't have a huge area so it's going to stay small. I planted some oregano, thyme, 2 kinds of lavender and a few petunias. I'm trying overcome my black thumb (have a bad way of killing house plants).
I also stop at a couple of my local farmers market s to get some fresh fruits and veggies
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| Buffalomary |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 12:32:00 PM
(hehe) - so do I!! I guess if it doesn't, it will give the neighbors something to wonder about, huh??  If it works the way I hope, I'll try to post some pics.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 11:27:52 AM
Mary, your idea for the greenhouse sounds interesting. Hope it works out like you want it to.
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| Buffalomary |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 10:40:34 PM
Between the cold weather this spring, school, and work, I did not get my garden in as soon as I would have like, so things are going slow. But I do have a few tomato plants that are starting to show some small tomatoes, a small patch of leaf lettuce, as well as a few zucchini. I am also working on converting a dog run into a greenhouse. I figured the panels would work just fine for the side walls, all I have to do is fix a support for the top and cover the whole shebang with plastic. My daughter doesn't know it yet, but when she comes to visit me next month, I am going to expand her horizon and let her help me with it!! 
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 10:47:19 AM
weeding and hand watering. we dont have running water so use we use water jugs fromt he spring and a watering can. so far the season here has been quite cool so the garden has really struggled. it has finally warmed up enough that things (other than the weeds!) are actually growing! we cannot plant here until the first of june so i truly envy you laides that are harvesitng already! we lost most of our seedlings, from 7 - 72 pellet trays,when we transplanted them from peat pellets to 4 inch pots (dont ever use miracle grow potting soil for your seedlings!!) and lost most of the rest when they got a hard frost becasue we forgot to bring them inside the cabin one night *sigh* our cukes that we planted directly in the garden ahve never come up so i had to start them late in peat pellets. they are in the ground now and doing ok. this just hasnt been such a great year for gardening in alaska. thankfully the potatoes are doing great! they got a little bit of a slow start but are now all up and ready to be hilled soon. peace connie in alaska |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 11:28:46 AM
am really enjoying reading about everyones gardens.
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| Annab |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 09:54:59 AM
Abigail!
thanks for the reminder! wonm't be long and i'll have to start our collard and broccoli seed.
Seems like summer just isn't long enough |
| abigailc1973 |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 07:37:00 AM
I weeded and fertilized. We've been finally getting rain here, so I haven't had to water much by hand. For a couple months now I've been baby sitting some potted trees and aloes for a neighbor who moved. He had to take a job driving truck out of state. So I trimmed up some rosemary growing in one of his potted red maples and ended up trying to start all of the cuttings, so there's like 30 little pots and yogurt cups out there all with rosemary in them, LOL. If they all take I will have a bunch for sure. I simmered up all the little leaves I pulled off the bottom of the stems on the stove. It smelled like Christmas.
Then I repotted one of my dogwoods and a golden chain tree. I need to repot two jacaranda trees I started from seed this winter but I ran out of pots. I started some more spearmint seeds in some hanging pots on my deck. I hear it keeps ants away and I've been battling some aphid herding ants on my camellias and discovered them on one of my gardenias this past weekend. So when it comes time to thin them I'll plant some around my affected plants.
I also was so excited when the blossoms opened on my magnolia. A friend rescued it from the trash and I've been nursing the poor thing. Someone hacked off all the bottom branches but it's recovering nicely.
I also started some perennial mix seeds in two tires. The seed packet contained purple coneflower, daisies, black eyed susans and other goodies. Hopefully they'll be sprouting within the next week.The packet said not to start them until September but I just couldn't wait any longer, hope it will be ok.
This weekend I'm going to plant my collards and set out my cauliflower I started. I also have to move some baby fennels. I don't think the rain lilies I started from seed will be ready to move yet. A lot of stuff won't be started here until August/September, and I'll have to move things around accordingly. It's tough fitting everything in such a small place. I play musical containers.
I'm also going to try out the "lasagna gardening" method in a couple small spots of the yard, hopefully this weekend. It's supposed to be a little easier on the back, my bad discs can't really take the digging any more. |
| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 07:10:51 AM
Still alot of weeding and watering here. I am headed out to pick peas this morning (my other choice was to haul firewood) and see what damage the moles did this morning. Everything is coming along nicely- beans are climbing, zuch is blooming, carrots are about pencil size, peppers and tomatos are blooming, and corn is growing right along. The garden is my favorite room of the house!
Tracy- Juicy Fruit doesn't work, but the dog loved it.
Lillian |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 05:09:48 AM
Aunt Jenny, I saw that same article. Rose gets that magazine and shares it with me. It's a great idea. If you need more buckets, try the grocery stores. I just got a whole bunch of 5 gal, 3 gal and 1 gal buckets from a neighbor who works at Albertsons. He says the bakery gets their frostings, dough, mixes and other stuff in them and they just throw them away. I was thinking of trying that system, myself. Now that I actually know someone who's tried it, and is happy with it, I'll just have to put that together for next year in my veg garden. Setting up soaker hoses the traditional way doesn't work when you have a bunch of raised beds as you would have to string the hoses across the walkways to get to each bed, losing water and inhibiting movement around the garden. But this other way, you can set up one bucket and one hose per bed. It'll work out perfectly.
Can you post pictures of your set up?
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| Annab |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 03:44:18 AM
since we really haven't gotten serious rain, the garden is struggling, but looks the best it ever has. no weeds can germinate so the ultra tilled paths look great! Zucchini and bush beans have done well thus far and for the watermelons--dought?? what drought!?
Started eggplant from seed that is well beyond needing transplanting but I'm kind of afraid since the ground is so dry
may put these closer to the house so they can be watered
A farmer friened planted his garden in April. It looks fabulous. He invited us to help ourseves to some sweet corn, so last night I hucked a sack of 25 pounds of unshucked corn over a creek and up a very steep hill back home Managed to eat 4 ears for dinner and had to stop there
hubby says we'll DRIVE over tonight and also pick some beans |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 7:29:26 PM
ooh strawberries..my most fave..and fresh green beans from the garden..nothing beats it!
I must say that we are now finishing up our garden with the exception of leaving in 2 rows of sweet potatoes and 1 watermelon vine.. and of course the pear tree is totally full this year. Everything else we got the current harvest off of and then..oh you gals are gonna scream at me....we yanked out everything! I still have the strawberry bed, but will start potting the plants up into a big planter to take with us.
Jenny...your drip irrigation set up sounds good too.Amazing how much time and money it saves.
I have a lot of ideas and plans for the new home...oh when we get to that step...hubby and I both were talking that if we had our way we'd have moved already..last week..ha..but of course things just don't happen that fast.
The house needs some painting done and some yard work done before we can put it on the market yet.
I have a kitchen to re do..painting all cabinetry.
And a few other things yet...so although it would be nice to have already been moved and settled into a new home ..it's gonna take a little while..and may take a little while after it is on the market.
but no more gardening here at this place except to pot up the things I am taking with me..and to make sure that I can keep the things I pot up alive.
Then planning out a new garden for the new place.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 7:17:38 PM
Ours is just getting going really well...the peppers all look like healthy plants now and the tomatoes are growing huge and putting out lots of green ones and lots of blossoms. The onions and garlic look good and I wish I would have planted lots more!! The herbs are taking off and the squash and cukes are finally growing and looking nice. The kids and I did alot of mulching with straw,and weed pulling today. Husband helped me make two little 5 gallon bucket drip systems that I saw in a magazine (Backwoods Home) this month...LOVE THEM!!! So my cukes and five big tomato plants are on an "okie drip system" (I can say this since I really am okie on both sides...haha. I only had to pay $3 for 1/4" drip hose and used 2 old 5 gallon buckets and some old holey hose that I saved the good part of ...since I only used about 1/5 of the 1/4" hose I can make lots more..and I will too..as soon as I can locate more buckets!!! Yay!!!
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| SusieQue |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 4:45:16 PM
We have been eating squash and cucumbers for a while, just started getting a few tomotoes. We did have fresh green beans today for dinner and they were so good ( first picking of those). No corn yet but hopefully soon. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 11:11:11 AM
The lettuce is finally done and the spinach just bolted. But I got a lot of both. I have all this great energy now! Still picking snow peas and shell peas and strawberries. Tomatoes are just starting to bloom. Watermelon, pumpkin, corn and cukes are all going nuts. Canaloupe and peppers are holding their own after the frost June 10. They don't look great, but they're coming along. Beans are growing again after I replanted them. Dill, parsley, cilantro and chives are all huge this year. Beets are doing well. I don't really have much work to do now other than watering every few days. The grass clippings keep the weeds down really well and hold the moisture in so that I don't have to water every day.
I still have to finish putting dirt in my herb garden, but it's hard to get motivated when I don't really have anything to put in it yet. I know, that's the time to get it done so the plants are stuck in pots waiting for it. I'll get it done before summer's over.
I also won another piece of ground from dh. He's so attached to his grass. I convinced him that if he wants to continue to eat the strawberries and still have enough for me to do something with, that I need a bigger strawberry bed. He relinquished a large spot in front of my veg garden! Yay!
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 10:43:30 AM
I'm enjoying reading about what is going on in everyone's garden's.
Tracy ..we planted one watermelon vine of a type that makes the smaller round basketball sized watermelons..and we got our first watermelon the other day off of it..we'll enjoy that this evening.
But that one vine took off for sure..I can't imagine what 30 vines would have done to my yard..haha.
Hope the little gopher keeps traveling and travels on out of your yard.
Jonni, the tomato variety sounds nice..I'll have to look that name up. Oh I bet those onions and garlic and potatoes and peas are terrific. When you mentioned the potatoes and onion I remember that many a morning that's what my mom or granny would make for my dad for breakfast before he headed to work..eggs and then some thinly sliced potato with onion. Certainly made the house smell good in the mornings..like good old down home cooking.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 09:02:06 AM
I've been harvesting potatoes and peas, still, and onions and garlic. I'm planting some hostas that Miss Wilma gave me yesterday, so that will take some time tonight. I need to completely overhaul my shade bed.
I took two tomatoes off last night, and I need to stake them up as they're getting wild now :) I'm really loving this Mountain Spring type...it's oh so sweet, and a beautiful ruby color.
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| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 11:22:59 PM
I have a nasty little gopher doing some "excavating" in MY garden! But I think he's after the WEEDS! He's tunneling around my tomato plants, but no damage has been done, so I'm not sure what he's actually doing. It's the same two plants I find his little mounds around. I have to keep digging the little trenches out so the water stays where it's supposed to, but as long as he's not eating the plants and tearing things up... I'll hold off on the juicy fruit gum (or whatever ELSE I have to do to KILL HIM! Hopefully one of the CATS will do the deed and spare me the "honor")
Other than that, weeds... Weeds... WEEDS!!!! I also have volunteer watermelons, squash and TOMATOES (like I didn't INTENTIALLY plant 30 of them to begin with!) ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! I haven't the heart to pull them out, they look so happy and healthy! So much for the tidy garden I had planned. **Sigh...** But it looks to be a really GOOD season, so I'll just try and keep up with the weeds and let everything else grow where it will!! ~~~ Tracy
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 10:14:41 PM
ooh yum..you know what tastes so yummy together is the cucumber and the tomato combined..chop a bit of each up then toss together in a bowl and sprinkle with a touch of italian seasoning and a little italian dressing and let cool..ooh yum so yummy and refreshing especially in these hot summer months..
sounds like you have been busier than busy Cathy..the drip irrigation set up sounds terrific.Asters and mums will look terrific come fall time. along with wonderful pumpkins and gourds!
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| cathy cobblestone |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 9:53:00 PM
Hi Tina, we've been busy as bees in the garden - our veggies are beginning to come in - some squash, cucumbers, a few tomotoes, onions and so on - love it - nothing like good ole' garden goodies. But what has been keeping us super busy is plantin' all our mums and asters - around 1,500 I suppose plus a couple acres of pumpkins and gourds - WHHHEEEwww. Best thing about it though, we went to drip irrigation this year for our mums - so watering is going to be a breeze compared to years past. I'm really excited about this lil' upgrade we have been waiting to invest in for years. Glad to hear everybody is loving their garden - Happy Plantin' my fellow farmgirls! Cathy 
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 3:19:18 PM
I figured that if I went ahead and potted the "keepers" up before January..that they'd have time to bounce back before they had to move again..this way they can start out in the pots again..and get going. and be healthy and established again before having to be carted into a moving van or trailer.
Oh I'm leaving a slew of things here..just mainly taking the roses and a couple of unique day lilies.
And yes it is a chore..but I have a lot of seeds that I'll be starting afresh with...and...I just joined the online Ocala Plant Swap group..ha..so..when I get there I can wind up finding a few native plants.
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| katie-ell |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 2:57:56 PM
Tina -- you are so busy in the garden! I can't imagine having to move my garden . . . but I certainly could not leave it behind. I'm sure that's what you feel, too.
I love the Fairy rose. Combined it with Russian sage and Calamintha in a planting this year. Quite lovely.
Hope your Fairies survive and THRIVE -- along with you and your family -- in the new homestead.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 12:18:10 PM
love your blushing bride hydrangea katie-ell.
Anne..I too have a fairy rose...but...waaah..my hubby ran over it with the lawn mower and it was doing well too..then he weed whacked..and I discovered his fiasco a few days later..and he was like.."oh..sorry"(somehow I don't think he intended to let me know what he had done..the little sneak..ha..but I love him anyway..but he's a menace near my plants sometimes..ha) and there I was scrounging around in the flower bed trying to find any remnants, any signs of a used to be rose bush..and yes..I found a teeny tiny sign of it, where there were only a few leaves starting back..so I dug it up and potted it..it had sent up a few more little leaves on a piece of the root runner, so I potted those up as well..if all goes well with it..I just "may" wind up with 3 extra plants from hubbies fiasco..that is if they don't all die after all that shock.
I'm hoping it is hearty enough to spring back from both his bush whacking and being transplanted.
I have 2 more rose bushes in the cottage garden to get potted up, then I'll start gathering seed from all of the gloriosa daisy and yellow coreopsis out there and some blanket flower.
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