WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD APRIL 10, 2015

freerepublic | April 10, 2015 | greeneyes

[greeneyes]

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. This thread is non-political, although you will find that most here are conservative folks.

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[greeneyes]

Good progress on the construction front.

If she is using regular soil, that almost always has damping off issues.

Use the Esposa Organic Seed Starter, and make sure it’s not too wet, but don’t let it dry out completely.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the prayer and good wishes.

Good news on your garden.

[greeneyes]

Thanks. We also have short springs.

[greeneyes]

Sounds pretty.

[greeneyes]

Glad your bamboos are doing good!

[greeneyes]

Thanks. Hope your Hubby gets well soon.

[greeneyes]

Sounds good, I’ll be starting some corn and peanuts soon too.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the prayers.

[greeneyes]

I have written down that name to keep an eye out for it.

[greeneyes]

Thanks.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the prayers.

[greeneyes]

We don’t have any rhubarb. Our asparagus isn’t up yet either. It’s volunteer plant. We are newly classed as zone 6, but have always been zone 5, and I try to get zone 4 stuff just to make sure.

[greeneyes]

Thanks.

[greeneyes]

Very strange. The black berry from wally world is outdoing all the others from various places. Never could get the raspberries to grow.

[MomwithHope]

Thanks he went back to work Wednesday. Still on antibiotics.

[MomwithHope]

I have Huckabee’s every year nesting in my bluebird boxes. They love them. We are in the woods with plenty of predators too.

[Hot Tabasco]

I have Huckabee’s every year nesting in my bluebird boxes.

OK, I give.....what's a huckabee?

[MomwithHope]

I do not know how that happened - I typed in chickadee. LOL Huckabees would not fit!

[Hot Tabasco]

I do not know how that happened - I typed in chickadee. LOL Huckabees would not fit!

That's OK then, I thought you were trying to pull a fast one on me......LOL!

As a side note, I have a garden window above my kitchen sink and on the outside of the house I placed the bird house about 4 feet to the left of the garden window.

Since I didn't want to inspect the bird house again for fear of scaring the Huckabees away, I placed a mirror on an angle in the window so that I can observe the bird house thru the side window. I've been keeping an eye on the house for the past hour and there has been an increased activity in the Huckabees in bringing in the moss to build their nest..........That's a good sign!

[matthew fuller]

Here is their site. Go to SOILS and click architech specs, you will receive a PDF Spec sheet in your downloaded folder. (I do not know how to convert PPM to %). It is interesting.

http://www.vitalearth.com/?page_id=40