[Diana in Wisconsin]

Pinging The List!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

" No matter what, you won’t be flamed
and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked."

The best statement ever for learning !
Since some of us are in Springtime selection and seeding, now is the time to ask questions about our plans and plants.
Gardening is a surefire way to cut your food expenses
and gain another skill for financial independence.

[a little elbow grease]

I hate to ask a question regarding a loathsome plant, but I must. It is thistle.

How I hate this invasive menace.

I have raised acres of pachysandra here in the Pittsburgh, PA. area for around thirty years, and now, in a few beds I have an invasion of this SICKENING plant.

It's been sneaking in for around four years now.

I've been doing research on trying to kill it without killing the pachysandra.

I'm going to need something I can spray on.

I found a product:

MILESTONE --- a broadleaf herbicide for Range and Pasture control. It is noted specifically on their site that it can be used on large beds of pachysandra with no damage to the pachysandra. That sounds good.

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If anyone here has any knowledge of this subject please pass it along.

You would think that a guy who had raised Pachysandra for thirty years would have all the answers on this, but I DON'T. I think we all know we're always learning something about our plants.

Have a great spring and I hope I hear from someone.

[SaveFerris]

My seedlings are starting (indoors). The G/Y/O/R peppers always start good - even some tomato seeds are sprouting (right out of the tomato so we’ll see about disease).

NONE of the others are going - been about 3 weeks - SLOOOWWW - I think these are my sweet snacking peppers, jalapenos, serrano peppers, hatch peppers (never go good for me).

I hope I didn’t kill off my onion bulbs from Wal*Mart. They were so good last year, though planted too close. Survived two snows and temps down to 17F. The ones I put in the ground don’t seem to have popped through. Hard ground I think - heavy rain has kept it solid. I’m hoping they can break through (all holes dug with a planter - so the soil was broken up over them). But I put in Miracle Gro and Epsom Salts. The ones in pots seem to have done better - softer soil. It was 6 weeks before I saw good sprouts last year and it’s only been about 3 weeks (late start this year). So I’m gonna hope for only one harvest this year - much smaller, less than half of previous years.

[Califreak]

Thank you Diana.

I sure hope greeneyes and her people are ok.

[mythenjoseph]

The Magnolia trees are flowering like mad , everything is just entering its grow grow grow season here in Mandeville , La. We are getting the cool front one more time this evening and I have to say that this has been a very mild (temperature wise) spring . Having spent the last decade in Maine I find this area very uplifting . I hope all other weekly garden members dry out and get your plants kickin’ ...no need to worry about water this year I assume!