Posted on 01/17/2014 5:49:09 AM PST by greeneyes
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You might have grown up with the same garden rule I did: early garden on Valentine’s Day and the rest after Good Friday. Except here, it just hasn’t been working the past few years.
Sounds like you will be getting a room mate besides catz. I hope that it will be a good thing for you.
the vertical garden is a smart idea for someone with not a lot of space or not a lot of water
I always use fresh horse manure and haven't encountered any problems with burning young plants, unlike cow manure which I compost. I don't like cow manure because of the toadstools that grow from it in the garden.
The past several days have been perfect, just cool enough and sunshine. I went into the garden a bit ago to check on it and two climbing roses on the back wall are alive and growing new limbs and green leaves - they didn't die in the 2011 heat cooking 105-107 temp. every day for two months. The rest of them across that wall, were cooked to death. I'm wondering about using a tall cane to tie them to instead of using the lattice behind them. It's the heat of the lattice that cooked them. It's not quite so bad on that left side but every part of the two roses attached to the lattice died, so that would happen again.
Remember all my plants and flowers are in containers. Carrots and turnips in containers made it through the freezing weather because I covered them with moving blankets the two times I knew it was going to freeze out there. I also covered the 40+ strawberry plants and they look fine, all nice and green.
The blackberry sticks I got that looked dead, now look green behind the brown of the sticks - I can see that green. Two of those sticks are one stick but one has three limbs attached to the main stick.
The Lantana flower plant, I only covered it two nights, is doing fine - I think that is the best perennial to have among the food plants for pollination because it grew fast spreading out and up and had flowers from the time I got it in hot summer and through the fall and even Christmas had flowers blooming. The Humming Bird flower plant, also a perennial looks dead but I bent a limb to see if it broke and it didn't so I left the plant alone, maybe it recovers itself. I did not cover that plant.
Now, the plants under the grow lamp:
Every cup has plants in it now. I have six types of peppers growing - yes, I guess I overdid it getting that many, but I don't know which peppers would do best here and I like every one I got. I have five kinds of tomatoes growing, from cheery to larger, and I like every one of them. Every cup has too many plants in it, the tomatoes especially so I have to deal with that probably tomorrow. I'll leave a couple in a cup and plant a few more from the cup into a larger pot, 5 inches across and 4 inches deep. I have to do that immediately with four kinds of onions because they are definitely crowded. I'll have to do it with peppers in the not distant future but those are growing more slowly. I need to do that with celery fairly soon, too.
The family who lost the loved one asked me if I wanted something from the house that belonged to their deceased father. I said I would take the pepper plant as he was proud of buying that from the Ag county people who were growing non hot jalapenos. I have put that plant in the sun and will take care of it so it grows peppers.
I did cover Mr. Stevia plant those two cold nights and he is green with two new growth at the base of the plant which will be another two limbs growing. I haven't planted the Stevia seed yet and will do that tomorrow.
There are oak leaves all over the garden area, gobs and gobs of them. A lot of work has to be done out there to get things in order, pull up dead plants, put new potting soil in containers, etc., etc. I'm not doing it until I have to - where is Johnny when you need him to do manual labor?
'No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message at the beep. BEEEEEEP.'
/johnny
I suspect so! LOL!
It just seems to fit, in a sort of out of plumb sort of way! LOL!
The engineer did drill holes in the bottom of the child’s wagon so water could escape and I’ll put a couple of larger heavier containers in that so I can move them easily into shade when the sun gets to 100-107 this summer. In that all day is too much hot sun.
Wagons are ideal for your gardening situation. Might be good to add another or two for large or numerous smaller containers.
Ah yes, the Undead Walking Onions. The movie should be out by the end of the year. (I think I inhaled too much pollen today....)
I suppose that you saw the cedar pollen in Tx hill country posted up thread. That is serious pollen pollution. Right here where Marcella and I live, It is like the south, Al, Ms, Tn, Ga. Maybe that’s why my wife and I like it here, It reminds us of our Southern roots(and yellow pollen)
“Wagons are ideal for your gardening situation. Might be good to add another or two for large or numerous smaller containers.”
I hadn’t thought of that. I wonder how expensive wagons are these days - I’m talking cheap wagons if there is such a thing these days.
A wagon like I have costs $70 and up, and mostly up. There are no cheap wagons anymore. I looked at Walmart and Amazon websites and the cheapest was $70. That is ridiculous. I had no idea they were that high these days. Forget wagons.
All kitties do not respond to catnip do they? Certain kitties? Do they chew on it? I know nothing.
I had no idea children’s wagons had gotten so high, I knew metal garden wagons were $100 or so. I did find one at Tractor supply for $49 and one for $59.
Maybe after lockdown is over, you could find used ones at second hand stores; there are a number of those places around Conroe.
Harbor Freight has some flat moving dollies that hold 200 lbs for around $12.99, plus there are always 20* off coupons for their stuff at retailmenot, and on the Harbor Freight website, so if you found a kids wagon, or a garden wagon..they have two different garden wagons, with 20% off, it would be about 55 dollars, I think.
The one wagon says it holds 1,000 lbs.
You have a good idea, there. This wagon with 20% off is $44
http://www.harborfreight.com/bigfoot-panel-wagon-60570.html
It would take me $24 worth of wheels to build one, plus cost for other items.
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