Customers are always looking for Agapanthus (Nile Lily?), too. I can only get it from FL and it does not ship well. :(
Posted on 05/21/2010 5:00:30 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good job on saving that tomato plant! You will have a few tomatoes to eat before I do. I got started a couple of weeks later than last year. I will have to start seeds earlier next year. Glad you are getting a little warmer weather.
I haven’t ever weighed my produce, but I think I’ll start a file and do so each week. It would be fun to know. :)
I read articles all the time that say you can grow thousands of dollars worth of food from your garden, but I’ve never tried to PROVE it.
The bean tower would be a great example. If I had had my act together, it could be filled with peas right now, but that was not meant to be...THIS season, anyway!
Thanks! It really works. :)
Fifty varieties of tomatoes this year; all have blossoms, and many have lil’ green tomatoes. Tumbling Toms are already loaded. Wife put in 96 seed potatoes today...
Wisconsin grows potatoes only second to Idaho. Carrots and onions, too. BUT...they grow best north of here where the glaciers turned the stone to sandy soil as they were passing through, so loose soil is a must.
This sounds like a good root crop fertilizer mix to me:
2 cups alfalfa meal, 1/2 cup kelp meal, 1/4 cup rock phosphate, 1/4 cup bone meal
Blend and use the same day.
http://www.gardenwiseonline.ca/gw/plants/2007/03/01/growing-root-vegetable-crops
Customers are always looking for Agapanthus (Nile Lily?), too. I can only get it from FL and it does not ship well. :(
Thanks!
Bats are another useful critter, right after my chickens, LOL! They can eat all the mosquitoes they want; all the less out there to bite ME!
Thanks!
Not so easily done here in the Northwest, where cool weather stuff grows like the dickens...
Makes sense, thought. I have a stand of carrots(about 12 or so) from last year that I am letting go to seed this year and these suckers (tops) are HUGE! Over two feet tall! Stalks that are more like celery than carrots!
A gardening neighbor of sorts told me he had trouble with carrots but put wood ash on his garden, and they came out great. And I was kinda suspecting the primary ingredient in wood ash they would like would be the potassium part.
It’s pouring again after 3 hours of lovely sunshine this afternoon...
Go to Google earth >Eureka calif + chester at harrison and use street view to see some grainy photos of the gardens at our Lutheran Church until I get another photo account...
Thank you Red, I am so glad that you enjoy the photos, it is my pleasure to share them. As far as the work goes ... a very wise gentleman once told me “do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”. Only now am I beginning to understand what he meant.
however,everything seemed to survive and if it weren't for the fact that I have a lot of weeds and some burnable stuff to get rid of from last season , the garden doesn't look too bad....good garlic, onions coming on, tomatoes small but surviving, as well as a few peppers I put in....some lettuce and brussel sprouts...and my leeks...
omg....that is amazing....my dream....
fad....and not a good one...
Occasionally -- VERY occasionally -- I see that at the garden center. Saw some at Stein's last week. But, I thought it would not grow here. Diana, are you telling me something new?
That plant is so tough it is used as street landscaping in all the medians and pocket parks in Oakland, CA. But, I have never owned (grown) it myself. I absolutely love it, but I don't grow flowers that have to be dug up for the winter. Are you telling me that the bulbs can be left in the ground over the winter?
Sorry, tubebender. That is the same reason that I don't grow dahlias either. I just don't have the energy, time, or help to dig the bulbs in the fall and re-plant them every spring. I enjoy the ones other people grow. It's just like some people are musicians and the rest of us are audiences. You need both for a symphony to flourish. I'm a dahlia, agapanthus, & gladioli audience.
No, the bulbs are tender and would need to be dug up in the fall. They sure are pretty, though!
I’m off to work. It’s going to be insanely busy today. I’ll be working the Info Desk. I wonder how many times I can answer the same question over and over again in one day?
*What’s wrong with my tree/shrub?
*Where’s the bathroom? (Or, my personal favorite, ‘Did you know the toilet is clogged up?’)
*Out of the 1,000 varieties of perennials you offer, why don’t you have the obscure one (that doesn’t even grow here) that I have my heart set on owning?
*How do I get rid of the mint I planted in the ground?
*What will kill gophers?
*Why won’t anything grow near my Black Walnut tree?
I’ll keep track, LOL!
Thank you, cherry.
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