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:) Anyone interested? I have a small vegetable patch, a few flower beds (around the front of the house type thing) and a bunch of fencelines I have to fill this year, and I REALLY want to know how to get rid of tomato rust. I HATE tomato rust!
sure, why not. no time at this momnet, hafta earn the daily bread and all that crap (as well as get past newbie status).
I just started my peppers & tomates, inside, planted some brocolli (maybe they'll beat the heat) & can't wait for some fresh salsa.
The chives I stupidly planted last year are popping up and spread everywhere AARGH! Starting my seeds this weekend, here we can't plant outdoors because of frost until May two-four, so now is about right I think. Peppers, beans, peas, tomatoes, pumpkins cause they're fun, and cucumber. Haven't done peppers before so this will be a first. Some of my flowers from last year are blooming because of the heat wave. :D
I've got 3 or 4 clumps of onion & garlic chives. They are easy to divide, so let 'em spread.
Our target date is 05/15 but I usually wait until 06/01. Kentucky Pole beans, Diva cucumbers, Annie Oakly II okra, Jackpot zucchini get planted right after the tomatoes & peppes go in. I missed the spring pea planting, but will try them in fall.
If you like HOT peppers, about a month before harvesting, mistreat them- little or no water & they'll get hotter & vice versa.
Originally posted by Gonz
If you like HOT peppers, about a month before harvesting, mistreat them- little or no water & they'll get hotter & vice versa.
Thanks for the tip!
I haven't done the big garden centre shopping trip, don't know what I'll select as far as breeds, gonna get the biggest honkin' sunflower breed I can find though :D The max 3 foot ones grew to 6 feet last year, I'm curious to see how big the really big ones get!
Last year I went straight from seed to garden, haven't started from seed before, decided to do it this year to get a longer harvest period. Hoping it works out. Think I might try an herb garden too (the legal kind), it'd be nice to have fresh parsley and oregano.
Okra is one thing I've never had. Have to make a point of trying it sometime.
Furtilizing is an important aspect of gardening, isn't it?
So, what is your favourite furtilizing technique?
unclehobart
4/17/02, 01:33pm
Simple Miracle Grow plant food for fertilizing. It works on eyerything and fairly cheap as well.
I'm just a houseplant boy. The only garden I have is a windowsil box with dill and rosemary.
Oops, I misspelled fertilizing!
I outed myself as a darn auslander! :)
btw, my post was meant as a daring sexual allusion!
Oh well, it didn't work, but that's not a problem, since I'm asexual anyway! :rolleyes:
greenfreak
4/17/02, 02:13pm
*ahem* Unc, you have more than just Dill. You should rephrase for fear of giving your beautiful Coleus a complex. ;)
I have lots of stuff, mostly flowers in the house. I just cut 8 of my orange and purple tulips this morning and they're on my desk next to me now. Such happy little flowers, tulips are. :D
unclehobart
4/17/02, 02:23pm
I separated the concepts of garden vs. plants. The theme this was taking seemed to focus on edible stuff. We can leave the coleus farm for another day.
greenfreak
4/17/02, 02:34pm
Ah but Coleus is edible my friend. It is technically an herb and has been rumored to have medicinal purposes. :cool:
I see I can learn a lot from you, greenfreak :)
This was just a general thread, I mentioned flower gardens and sunflowers so if the coleus is crying, it could be cited here.
Make that 2 for Miracle Grow. Zoo Poo is neat, too. :cool:
greenfreak
4/17/02, 03:11pm
Oh yea I forgot about fertilizer. I just bought some for my Canna Lillies that I'm trying to grow for the first time and it was a general bulb thingy. Used it for my tulips too, we'll see if it works.
I also use Miracle Gro for the houseplants. My Coleus, Pointsettia, Impatiens and Pothos Ivy love it.
Btw Leslie, thanks for that compliment about learning from me, but I don't know all that much. I make sure I know as much as possible about what I have and grow, but as far as anything else, I'm clueless.
A good gardening message board: GardenWeb (http://www.gardenweb.com/)
Justintime
4/17/02, 03:31pm
I got no garden to speak of :D
I haven't even got as far as learning about what I grow yet. The flowers blooming in the garden today I have no idea what they are (dug them out of mom's garden, she doesn't remember). I plan to go get a book.
I have lots I planted last year that ought to come up again, bluebells, primroses, 2 types of poppies, and I am hoping that the wildflower seed mix I sprinkled last year contained some that will come back.
So it's off to the garden centre this weekend to pick what I'm doing this year, and hubby has only till May two-four to get the soil turned. That's a not fun outside job so I class it as man work like the garbage :D
greenfreak
4/17/02, 03:48pm
Uh oh. BEWARE OF THE PRIMROSE. It's more invasive than weeds, I heard. I have only one, in a pot. I heard it's very hard to keep them controlled so I hope you like them! :D
All the information I know I learned online. Depending on the kind of sunlight you have and what you want, there's tons of advice on GardenWeb.
I personally love New Guinea Impatiens--the foliage is almost as nice as the flowers. But they're annuals unless you bring them inside when it gets cold. They dry out quick too so if you have a partially shady area, they would look gorgeous.
Impatiens (http://ohric.ucdavis.edu/photos/fullsize/New_Guinea_Impatiens.jpg)
Let me know what you get at the nursery. I love this stuff!
:eek: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ABOUT PRIMROSES :eek:
They're not spreading yet, I will watch them very closely though. Idiot hubby bought and planted hens and chickens last year when I wasn't here. :mad2: They will be everywhere too. His mom had them so apparently I need to have them too. :rolleyes: I looked at Impatiens last year, maybe will look on the weekend.
Thanks for the links, hubby and I (he likes this stuff too thank goodness) will look and learn together (ok it's sappy but after 14 years you have to really work to find stuff lol)
Originally posted by Justintime
I got no garden to speak of :D
To speak of - are you not speaking about the hydroponic one in your closet? (where is the suspicious smile when you need it) :D lol
Home-made fertilizer http://www.xibase.com/vB/images/smilies/fart.gif
:headbang:
:eek: not a joke - the farmers here are allowed with a permit to use human sewage as fertilizer - a couple of days each month it is absolutely unbearable. I knew there must be a reason besides the heat I was dreading summer. Blech! :(
no, and I repeat NO Miracle Grow...it's fine for houseplants but it leeches garden soils. NEVER EVER USE IT OUTSIDE, that's an order.
The only time you really need to fertilize is when you have a new bed. Otherwise, make & use compost-it has all the nutrients you need & improves the soil.
Last year we put ZooPoo on it 1 foot all over (the flowers and vegs), then Miracle Grow 1x per month. That was bad? Damn those old people on the commercials! :mad: Maybe that's why my peas died off.
We haven't made enough compost to use, only half a standard composting can, mind you I quit over the winter. So I think this year I will throw some more ZooPoo on top before I plant and leave it, if Miracle Grow is bad.
zoopoo is good and it keeps the lions & tigers & bears away
Justintime
4/17/02, 08:19pm
Originally posted by L. Summerton
To speak of - are you not speaking about the hydroponic one in your closet? (where is the suspicious smile when you need it) :D lol
shhhhhhhhh!!! :D;)
Speaking of gardening, my mom just went to a plant sale on Oahu and bought me 4 RARE native Hawaiian plants ... yippee!! I love my mommy.
Only problem, I'm scared she won't be able to keep them alive 'til she's able to board a plane in June and bring them to me :eek:
*crossing fingers*
*knocking on wood*
*praying to the gods*
Post us some pics when you get them, if they live that is! :)
Professur
4/19/02, 12:02am
Originally posted by greenfreak
Ah but Coleus is edible my friend. It is technically an herb and has been rumored to have medicinal purposes. :cool:
Most weeds are edible too. Dandilions and thisles make a dandy salad ... it you like that sort of thing. Cattails roasted taste like popcorn.
Is my boyscout training hanging out?
Originally posted by Professur
[quote]Most weeds are edible too. Dandilions and thisles make a dandy salad ... it you like that sort of thing. Cattails roasted taste like popcorn.
Is my boyscout training hanging out?
well, I wish the damned vegans would come invade my yard. I have all the dandelions & thistle they could eat. never tried 'em & with the thorns they possess, don't wanna.
Professur
4/19/02, 12:33am
You drop them into boiling water for a minute. Then the outer skin peels off easily, taking the needles with it.. Don't boil 'em too long. If they go off crunchy, they're beyond disgusting. Like boiled cabbage.
Is cooking it a better way than raw? The stuff in mesclun mix is awfully bitter. Doesn't make me want to go out in the lawn and bring in a salad.
I have only one plant. It's a diffenbachia. A diffenbachia that's growing like something out of a bad sci-fi movie, even though I don't take that great of care of it--I just water it when I remember, and move it into a bigger pot every year and a half or so. Until I mentioned this to greenfreak, I never knew that the plant's poisonous, or that it can grow to be five feet tall.
CoffeePotUnit
4/29/02, 03:33pm
only one word: asphalt :headbang:
i just wanted an excuse to use the headbanging smilie again... :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
ciao,
pj
my garden sux...there's a tree in the middle of the yard holding everything hostage..should i chop it?
chainsaw its ass - when your toe is better that is
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