Posted on 04/18/2008 8:31:09 AM PDT by Gabz
Get out there and go have some gardening fun!
Gardening Ping!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks much to Garden Girl for another great, and inspirational article!!!!!!!!!!!
I love gardening! I crossed a turnip with a Jewish bread and got a Rutabagel!.............
I’d love to get started on some gardening if the ground would ever dry out! It finally warmed up this week and started to dry some and then we had another big rain last night! I do believe we have seem that last of night time temps below freezing though.
We have a nectarine tree in full bloom and it’s supposed to freeze the next few nights - is there any way to protect it?
Hey there. Azalea question. I know not to feed them until after the blossoms are gone.
But when do I prune them?
It’s nearly that temp here as well and I’ve been in out of my kithen garden all morning!!!!
Spring is the resurrection of life—what a great time. I mudded a few items in 2 weeks ago here in the Midwest: onions, lettuce, peas, spinach, and broccoli. Tell me more about epsom salts—I need to acidify to grow blueberries. Any good info on growing blueberries in the midwest because the ones I put out last year don’t look healthy—I followed directions and acidified the soil but we had a warm and dry summer that didn’t help.
ROFL!!!!!!!!! That’s great!!!!! I’m stealing it.
I thought we were past that, and then we had the bottom fall out of the temps 3 nights in a row this past week..........GRRRRRRRRr
Help Ladies!!!!! We’ve got questions in posts 6 and 7 that I have absolutely NO CLUE how to answer.
My daughter and I took the Master Gardener course together and dig in the dirt frequently. We spent the last two days (almost) finishing spring cleanup in her garden.
The color is spectacular, but only creeping phlox and Halesia are in flower. The gold, green, purple, orange, white, red, and variegated foliage is breathtakingly beautiful. The sun on so many colors of heuchera is truly a sight to behold.
Hers is the most colorful foliage garden that I’ve ever seen.
Thanks for the gardening article. It’s one of my passions.
But when do I prune them?
Right after they are done blooming.
I think that you prune azaleas like most spring bloomers- after the bloom fades- before the plant begins to gear up for next year’s bloom.
By the way, only another gardener can appreciate my little Japanese maple that I grew from seed. The cat ate all of my seedlings except a red one. It survived the winter and is now almost a foot tall.
I would think that a mulch of oak leaves would help to acidify the soil for blueberries. I fed mine azalea and rhododendron fertilizer last year, but they don’t look happy now.
It’s in the 70’s here now, too, and the long range forecast (15 days) from Accuweather shows a very mild spell.
I got my peas and some lettuce in. I started some tomatoes way too early this year and they’re huge now; some are even flowering. I thought that they would go to waste except that now I can take the chance of planting them outside. We have plenty of buckets to cover them with if it gets cold.
If a freeze gets them, I have more back up and I’m no further behind that I would normally be. If it doesn’t I could have tomatoes at least a full month before I normally would have expected.
We’re planning on roto-tilling the garden tomorrow. YIPPEE!!
What a lot of clean up from the winter though!!!!
Any suggestions on raspberries?
I planted two kinds, spring bearing and fall bearing, and now can’t remember which is which.
Last year some of the bushes flowered late and got fruit late.
This year those same bushes are putting out leaves on the canes that fruited.
What do I do about pruning raspberries?
I meant, when can I feed them...
My peas, lettuce and spinach I planted a couple of weeks back are finally coming up. Sad part is they’re no farther ahead than if I’d planted them last weekend.
Slammed in some more early stuff. Had to work it by hand cuz the soil is still pretty wet. It’s almost impossible to get in between the rain.
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