Posted on 06/17/2023 5:43:37 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/foliage/hosta/hosta-plant-flowering.htm
LOVE the vintage cards
Score on all the plants!
I have A/C - I just like to complain. And I still want a Summer Kitchen. Maybe with the barn re-model Beau is currently doing, I could have one?
Not sure how the health department would feel about me sharing it with the beef steer and the chickens though, LOL! :)
Wow! That turned out great! I hope it works just as planned. Love the Marigold border. Useful and beautiful. :)
Yes, thin your radishes to one per every 2” or so. Pick the biggest one and pull the others around it.
You are SO motivated these days, LOL! I’m so sick of dragging the hose around I could scream!
But, “as God is my witness...I’ll never be hungry again!” ;)
The 10-52-10 is MORE than enough nutrition for tomatoes. Just give them time.
Every season is different. My stuff all looks good, but it’s been so dry that things aren’t really as lush as they should be by now.
I have well water, which is second only to rain water - but RAIN makes such a huge difference, I’ve seen.
This is easily my 30th gardening season, concentrating on food crops and some cutting flowers. No two have been alike, even in the same growing zone.
Just caught your comment about the hail storm. Yeah, that would set things back a tad!
Thanks...I too grow easy to care for roses. My lovely wife buys these small $6.99 potted roses at the grocery store for me. I now have a garden set aside for these roses and they are beautiful! I have no idea or clue to variety. This year several of them has ‘shooters’ flying high loaded with blooms. Kind of unsightly, but I still hate to prune such beauty...
So here are the secret(s) to my “motivation” ... don’t laugh too hard!
#1 - have someone (my niece, who gardens) say they are visiting to see your ‘beautiful’ garden & can’t wait to see it. Projects due to impending visit (today, actually):
- log holder for fire pit
- shelf rehab/repurpose to organize garden ‘stuff’
#2 - buy really nice plants you do not have room for OR where they can go is a mess and needs cleaning up. Projects resulting:
- herb bed expansion with new raised bed (2 lavenders & purchased this morning, to keep the lavenders company of course: an echinacea, sweet basil, & marigolds
- weed horribly overgrown hollyhock bed (where the heck did all that ‘grassy stuff’ come from?). Project resulting:
- clean bed with baby Hollyhocks AND a home for a brand new “Pink Panther” foxglove (bought it this morning)
#3 - NOT RECOMMENDED: break your kneecap into 2 separate pieces & have surgery/be in a brace during prime spring planting growing season ... have your garden totally go crazy during this time (weeds, weeds & more weeds of the worst sort), have no vegetables except some late planted tomatoes & a few zinnias (once the brace was off & PT over - June/July). Be SO traumatized by the experience that “as God is my witness...I’ll never have a messy garden again!” :-)
LOL!
I wasn’t sure if you wanted me to mention your ‘trauma’ of last gardening season. ;)
So glad you’re back to 100% again. :)
It seems that Pink Panther Foxglove is sterile & not self-seeding doggonit). I might leave it in the new garden ... no kids/pets, so it would be OK there. Will have to do a different one for a companion in hollyhock bed (an excuse to buy another plant LOL!).
I’ve got BIG Hollyhock plans for after the barn is painted!
It would be lovely to have a big row of them up against the white barn wall. I would see it from the front porch - where I spend a lot of time reading and/or raising the current puppy. :)
Picked the first dahlia to take to a Father’s Day cookout.
It is so gorgeous ... the petals, near the edges, almost have an iridescent quality - hard to describe.
Regarding Father’s Day:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4161711/posts?page=11#11
We got a nice rain this morning. I just dumped 1.6” out of the rain gauge. It came over a fairly short period of time but the only part of it that ran off was what landed on a hard surface. Anything that hit land was sucked up with a quickness.
I watered all of the orchard trees and the victory garden yesterday so I’ll be off the hook for that until next weekend.
My task for the afternoon is to get the pond hopper boat out, deploy the aeration diffuser into the pond, and run a new mainline to the pump house. I should have gotten it running six weeks ago but the mild weather we’ve been having has made me lazy about getting it done.
I let my radishes grow in little clumps, and pick the individual largest ones over the course of a couple of weeks. I feel really guilty just culling, so I do my best to space the seeds while planting. Obsessive? No I like to think of it as focussed.
Possible Women Gardeners; Vita Sackville-West A gardener and a rather notorious woman! As keeper of the thread your choice to post!
https://www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk/vita-sackville-west.html
(Did Tolkien have her in mind when writing the Hobbit? (The odious Lobelia Sackville-Baggins ? I wonder?)
Well...I thought I was PMing and appear to have posted it instead. Shucks! My bad!
The Goldfinches are making me laugh! I have a large raised bed just outside of the ‘hummingbird garden’ where I have been growing sunflowers, mostly the giant ones - my dad loved the sunflowers & I planted them for him.
This year, I didn’t plant any, but a dozen ‘volunteers’ came up (surprised me, actually). What is so funny, the sunflowers have buds on them now that have not opened yet and the Goldfinches are already sitting in the sunflowers, checking things out & waiting. It’s obvious they know what’s coming!
I tried several times to germinate tithonia seeds this spring with no luck. The bed where I had tithonia last year is the zinnia bed this year and lo and behold ....I have volunteer tithonia coming up in the zinnias!
RE Marie Antoinette’s favorite: Virginia Tulip tree…
In the early ‘70’s, I built an icosahedron cabin, and for its “bones”, I found old (we thought they were about 100 years old!) yellow poplar 2x4’s. Whatever happened to junk yards, where you could find all kinds of used/reclaimed building materials? – I don’t see them around anymore!
Anyway, we were told that yellow/tulip poplars were the 1st tree to be logged because they were so straight (& strong!)
It was still standing when I passed through that area @ 20 years later...but when I went there in 2017 (for the eclipse) it had collapsed (we only used roll-roofing on it & it eventually wore out).
https://en.chateauversailles.fr/news/patronage-news/adopt-virginia-tulip-tree#lets-restorethe-queens-grove
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