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on spring gardens and orchids




Category: Garden @ ECO | Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:33 pm

early march and 70 degrees.. makes a fellow want to work the soil. i got my garden tilled this past weekend. it is looking good, this is my third year working this plot. after cover crops, composting and organic fertilizer, its is now looking more like good garden soil, rather than the red "martian" clay i turned over 3 seasons ago. I have a friends' greenhouse i use to start the early items. I have a few lettuces, tat soi, red onions, and heirloom variety of purple cauliflower ( Violetta italia) and an experiment of spring brussels sprouts , of which i do not expect much, as it gets too hot too fast around here. but hey i got 300 seeds so why not try 10 or so.



and now for something completely different........
my orhpan orchid has fully bloomed. 8 flowers this time!!! I would have never believed i could have gotten so many!!





happy gardening!!


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Comments

 

eileen wrote on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:40 pm:


WOW I love your orchid Tod!!

Your garden is looking good and I hope that everything you plant in it comes up strong and healthy for you.




 

glendann wrote on Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:14 pm:


Your orchid is so pretty and you do have great looking soil to get all planted up.
Good luck.




 

Droopy wrote on Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:34 pm:


Woohoo, you've got soil! Aren't you the lucky one. Love your Phalaenopsis orchid.




 

cajunbelle wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:33 am:


The orchid is so lovely. Your soil looks really good. We fight clay soil too, forever amending




 

bsewnsew wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:32 pm:


Tod
That is the great orchid I have in bloom and love it. zone 5 of course inside.

How do you multiply it?




 

Todddumke1 wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:15 pm:


I'm sorry i have no idea, how to divide an orchid. i just put it in a window, feed it occasionally and it bloomed!!




 

Palm Tree wrote on Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:12 pm:


Wow - what a beautiful moth orchid.





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