What have you done today in the Garden?

Discussion in 'Fruit and Veg Gardening' started by razyrsharpe, Jan 20, 2014.

  1. carolyn

    carolyn Strong Ash

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    greenhouse stuff right now. geraniums are up, pansies are up, petunias are sprouting.... I found a clivia with ripe seed pods. I never even saw it flower. now how could that happen? maybe because it was tucked under a bench. now I see several more flower stalks coming up. Mealy bugs sure do like them and the amarylis.
     
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  2. Little-sister

    Little-sister New Seed

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    Here in Michigan, no gardening. Snow on the ground covers everything. We have been having freezing rain also closing schools for the last 3 days. So I have done some winter sowing in jugs. Mostly perrianals that I'll be able to transplant come spring.
     
  3. FloraPie

    FloraPie New Seed

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    Colour co-ordinated some of my herb pots to match the environmental grasses. I got the whole set of three hay coloured pots for only ten dollars AU. The dark green top pots are recycled oat containers. The insides of the pots have been left partially bare of dirt so that their colours can be seen :D
     

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  4. Cayuga Morning

    Cayuga Morning Strong Ash Plants Contributor

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    FloraPie,
    How did you do with your 4 'P's? Pondering Potting and Placing your Pomegranate?
     
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  5. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Not much done in the garden lately, rain and family to tend to but today is supposed to be nice and warm yet the soil is still soggy enough for me to do some trench digging.
    There is one (at least one) section of the front north bed that has been the bane of my gardening life for years. No matter how much time and effort I put into digging up the weeds (Randy has tried spraying them and yet they still live) they are there. I am going to dig a trench about 6 inches deep, 8+feet long and at least 2 feet wide. It will be lined with black plastic, topped with rocks and all the pots of Canna scattered around the front and back yards will be sitting in it.
     
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  6. FloraPie

    FloraPie New Seed

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    Cayuga Morning ~ Most excellent! :p Thank you for asking.. She loves her new pot, poor thing was so pot bound previously. It's the first time I've grown a pomegranate and yesterday I was wondering if I even had a fruiting one or not.
     

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  7. marlingardener

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    Toni, that is a brilliant idea! I have a section of our backyard garden that is a constant source of confusion and consternation. I think I may dig out some soil, line with perforated plastic, fill with pea gravel, and use it as a "pot garden" with herbs and annual flowers.
     
  8. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I figured the Canna would love it in a pseudo-rain garden since they are bog loving plants and in our summers I just can not keep them watered enough.
     
  9. Cayuga Morning

    Cayuga Morning Strong Ash Plants Contributor

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    Cool FloraPie. I have never seen a pomegranate "in the stalk" (ie in the flesh, so to speak). I imagine they are a warm weather plant. Where you are in Australia, is it sub-tropical? Do you get hard freezes?

    I do like this aspect of the Gardenstew. We all live in different parts of the globe with very different growing conditions.
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    18 mph winds out of the north and in the mid-40s out there so I shivered me timbers when I went out to feed the birds.
    I got some work done on the preparing to begin the creation of the trench on Friday and I must have done more than I thought cause I could hardly move yesterday and today every muscle from the waist down still is screaming at me.
     
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    cajuncappy In Flower

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    It's been raining for 3 days or so and we are very soggy here I have several chores planned but this aint been the weather for it. The sun shined some today but its gonna be a couple days fore I can do what I wanna. OUr Border collie puppy came through the doggy door this morning covered with mud from head to toe and tail just a wagging she had been standing in water digging around the compost pile. That was my job even before coffee washing the dog. Went good all day since we were up to play with her but now she is muddy up to the knees. At least its just that this time.
     
  12. FloraPie

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    @Cayuga Morning ~ I live in a state called Victoria which is down in the South East of our continent and yes it is regarded as subtropical. There's no snow or hard freezes in my garden, but drive just 30 min away (still Victoria) and Mt Bulla can be found every winter covered in snow. There's a ski resort there. And so it's a mixed bag really! One couldn't say that the conditions for growing Pomegranates are great in 'Victoria' because it depends on where in Vic one is exactly. If I lived at Mt Bulla for example, I wouldn't bother growing it nor expect it to grow very well.
     
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    Interesting FP. You have the best of both worlds.
     
  14. Kay

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    I'm with Mart- Ask me again in March. LOL But this last week, between an ice storm (quickly melted) and a snow today; I raked a whole bunch of leaves out from under the big Yew bushes, and along the drive where the Oak leaves like to settle after being blown around the area. It was great to be outdoors and pretending I was doing spring clean up. HaHa Not so fast. I have a feeling winter has just begun for us. Just watching the birds come to the feeders mostly.
     
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    Transplanted my mater plants into pots...started more radishes, turnips and red onions in pots this time! Have to start another tomato, poblanos and carrots probably tonight.
     

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