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Wow and I didn't think we would have enough for part two. You all always suprise me.
I received my water-keep today but I'm going to wait until the ground dries out some before I mixed them into the shade bed. Hopefully they will help keep it moist enough that the christmas roses will be happy there.
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Well the tomatoes are looking very very happy. It is still raining and the back parking lot looks pretty much like one big lake with a landbridge to the dumpster. I hope that doesn't get submerged because I hate getting my feet wet when I empty the garbage.
The three tiger lillies I planted yesterday are looking very happy too. I never thought to have lillies but I'm glad I got these. I love the flowers.
Other than that one zinnia fell over from the excess rain. I proped it up against another one and hopefully that will keep it happy and alive. One of the miniature roses fell over too. It doesn't seem to be broken or anything it's stems are just way small compared to the size of the blooms. I'll keep an eye on it. I don't know how I would rescue it if it needed it. But I would probably try something.
now I have to see about the mums.
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All the mums are planted in this summers tomato patch. I'm not at all sure where I'm going to put the tomatoes next year. I think the spot I had mapped out for them got filled with something else already. Oh well, something will present itself lol. I guess it's time to watch some tv and then get ready for bed. I'll see you all tomorrow.
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The landlord decided that he wanted some tomato cuttings so I made some up for him this morning. I added the waterkeep to the compost I used for his cuttings so we'll see how much of a difference that makes to how much it needs to be watered.
The mums don't seem to be suffering from transplant shock at all. The plants were really really rootbound so I'm hoping they will be ok.
The old tomato cuttings loved the heavy rain we had and are looking great. I'm very pleased with them.
Hope you all have a good day today.
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Well the old tomato cuttings look just fine this morning. Two of the new ones look dead and two look like they are going to be ok. It's early days yet so we will see. I went out to mix the water-keep in with the shade flower bed I've been working on all year and wow what great soil. It's so soft and deep and crumbly I just love it. Without being able to do the chicken poo and cardboard it took much longer and I had to pull the weeds the hard way but I'm pretty sure that the christmas roses are going to be very happy there.
It's rather amazing that I can always use more compost/potting soil than I have but then I am reclaiming the garden one foot at a time. I have started to come across the rest of the shaded area of the second tier. I don't expect to finish that area until sometime in the spring but it is weeded and now I'm beginning to loosen the clay and move it towards the front of the tier and add grass clippings and partially decomposed grass clipping in the back. It finishes decomposing very slowly but I have time fortunately and I want to see how it will hold it's shape without any support.
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Well I brought two of the tomato clippings inside. We'll see if I have bleached the spidermites into non-existance or if they are going to munch my tomatoes into non-existance lol. So I still have 6 outside. Two that should be almost rooted and 4 that are pretty new. Those are for the landlord. Hopefully they will do alright. I know he has some kind of bugs in his plants down stairs I just don't know what kind they are. That's why I don't trade with him.
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Well I don't have a sunny place in back for them cause the building is in the way most of the day and I'm afraid it may get to cold. The east facing windows though should be good if the bugs are gone. Lord knows I've tried.
I'll keep you posted.
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Well it would be nice to have big sized tomatoes next year and supposedly this is the way to increase yield so I will see. I feel very fortunate that they rooted.
Cuttings are a very new thing to me and I'm just thrilled when they don't wither and die. I have a bunch of questions to research about what I do now that that part is taken care of. The first one being how do I restart my ticker for the cuttings I took yesterday? Can anyone help me with that? I am such a lost cause lol.
The barberry cuttings bit the dust without being the slightest bit shy about it. They just dropped their leaves and said no way. Grrrrrrrh.
I wish the guy that owned the variegated wieglia(sp) spoke a word or two of english but he doesn't so all I can do is hope that plant survives so I can see the pretty flowers. The druggies and malingerers are destroying his pampas grass and he is just letting weeds overgrow the rest of it. It is so sad. I've tried to communicate with him a few times but he is busy with the restaurant and doesn't appear to be interested in talking.
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Hey the timeline reversed itself that's great when it gets to day 8 I know it's time to let the tomatoes dry out and find their sunny location for the winter.
I planted another mum in the tomato patch this morning very early. I think it's going to be a bronze color but I'm not going to swear to it until one of them opens. I thought I bought white ones and got the violet ones so this time I'm waiting until it blooms lol. I love the mystery.
Well I didn't turn the compost today but I did rake up a bunch of leaves so it wasn't to bad. I still have to get out there and pick them all up and put them in the compost bin.
It's been a busy day.
Hope you all had a good day.
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The second set of tomato cuttings are comming along pretty good no wilting which is a good thing. They seem to enjoy doing this in the cooler temperatures.
The second shade bed got a dose of compost today which is a good thing.
Other than that I've just been admiring the mums.
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Well yesterday while I was waiting for a friend I planted some christmas rose seeds. Hopefully they will do well but from reading about them I'm assuming they are difficult to germinate. Hope you all are crossing your crossables for me lol.
So today is day one of their two weeks of 70+ weather requirements. After that it's 4 weeks of mid 30's temperature and then it's in the garden for the winter. that is one strange plant lol. Hope it grows for me. I have enough for one more attempt if this doesn't work.
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Well I planted some wild daisies in my garden today. They were growing in the mechanics weed patch this moring and so I took one clump for me. I doubt he would mind he never pays the slightest attention to the area so I got myself a small slice of them.
A young lady at church had mentioned that when she moved here her's had died and what I wanted was a clump of them for her. But the clump came out bigger than i expected so she got a clump and I got one too. I certainly wasn't just going to let it die they are way to pretty for that. I hope they don't mind the transplant.
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I took some pics of some wild flowers while I was out at my farm yesterday...have no idea what they are, and have never seen them before. Need to put them in Mystery Plants. I have a lot of wild flowers in my yard. I keep a little shovel in my truck all the time...for "those" occasions!
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tk...I wish you lived closer, sounds like you and I could really do some "garden things" together I carry a small shovel behind my truck set and tons of plastic grocery bags under the seat, never know when you just might need to dig something up! LOL
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Well I have a trowel but no truck are you sure I can join the club? I'm just teasing a little I do that. Sounds like a plan to me. But without a car or money you all are going to have to move closer to here lol.
I got the daisies that have the yellow centers last time but now I see there are some with purple centers that seem to hang down. I want to try and get some of those too for the garden. I'll ask him tomorrow if he minds.
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Wow! You and your landlord seem to have come a long way these days - didn't he hold up the shootin' match by not letting you use certain areas in the beginning of the season? I seem to remember you (or somebody else) talking about it.
Your landlord oughta' be done with it and build you a greenhouse - ha ha! I have fantasies of finagling to get a sun room built onto our apartment here at the back of the building. It gets lots of sun there in the mornings and would be a swell place to grow - also somewhere to sit reading in the winter as the snow falls all around me.
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Wow that sounds pretty Carly. I don't think I'll try and convince him of that though lol.
I did get some of the purple daisy type plants today. Some went in the garden I bet that's no suprise and I potted some up for a friend that loves daisies. Hopefully she will be at church today and I can give them to her.
Other than that all I did was shovel some dirt up into the space where I want to put the canna. I actually found one canna seed pod that had developed what looked like seeds. I gave it to the landlord to try and plant. My next plan is to take the finished compost put it over where I want the canna to winter mix it in with the soil that's already there and then transplant the canna. I hope the landlord will understand that I will put some of the canna back into the container next spring but that I don't want to leave them there during the winter because there is a chance they would freeze and die. Well I hope you all have a really great day.
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A lousy coupla' days here - Sat & Sun rain and cold. We might get a break from it Tuesday. The weather people are saying it all depends on what that storm is going to do - Wilma . . . it seems after she's finished with Florida, she'll be heading up the coast for Atlantic Canada. But first she'll actually join with Alpha.
Rain is about all we'll get in Ontario - I don't think we'll get anything that big in the way of a storm.
I want to get back out there cleaning my plots. The lack of light is making me sleepy.
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I got a set of the canna transplanted out back where the rain spout empties out. Hopefully that will be a good place for those and the tiger lillies.
I was teasing the landlord about needing more space. I don't think he was amused. But he did bring me another load of grass clippings so I need to be nice to him. Also I want some shelves made and he goes to lowes for me so I need to be really nice.
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Yes I would say you do need to be extra nice to the landlord...Is he into gardening or plants??? It sounds as if he is not totally opposed to what you are doing...LOL Hubby seen how gung Ho I have gotten over composting and finally he decided to put in the 4th post where my pile is, there was already 3 posts there is why I choose that location, it is behind a shed and a few feet away from my chicken pen. Tomorrow he says (my fingers crossed) he will put chicken wire around the post and then I can really work with my compost pile better. I finished cleaning the veggie garden today and hauled 3 large heaping loads to the compost pile.
quote:Originally posted by afgreyparrot: I freaked out today and dug my brugmansias up... ...and brought them inside.
Wow those look great! We're suppose to be having our first frost tonight, so I covered up what herbs are left and my rose bush, it still has some buds on it. So I totally understand the freaking out part LOL
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Well today I decided the chives had to come inside so now I have two pots of them in the kitchen window. And the tomatoes in the other kitchen window and I'm out of kitchen windows lol. And then I mixed the new green grass clippings into the middle of the brown grass clippings pile and piled it real high lol. Hopefully it will cook really good. I don't get over to that pile to often because the elbow gives me kiniption fits often if I shovel or use the pitchfork. And you know I'm still doing the compost bin every week at least.
I was reading some of Bill's fact sheets about what to do each month and thinking seriously about covering the zinnia, mums, portulaca, and roses each night. But that's a whole lot of work and I can't convince myself that I should so maybe next year.
The transplanted little dasies are doing good in one spot and not so well in the other. I hope they pull through. And that's about it for me and the garden today.
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Well today I planted 20 crocus and 20 daffodils and then mulched them all real well. That should give me some early spring color along with the snapdragons if I can get them the start indoors. Woohoo. I guess now I'm going to have to figure out what to plant for mid-summer. Most of my stuff outside the zinnia and portulaca went pretty much dormant during the heat in august.
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Well today I harvested grape tomato seeds out of the refrigerator crisper lol. But a month from now I'll be straining them through cheesecloth and next year I'll have grape tomatoes as well as the roma and cherry. that is going to be so cool. And yes I am still wondering where I'm going to put all of these plants lol. I definitely need to talk to the grease monkey next door about his unused space.
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you are busier and more industrious than i am! keep going, you are doing great!
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I transplanted the tomato plants today because they are going wild lol. I can't believe how they respond to compost but it's great. I used a combination of compost, peat moss, and water-keep polymer crystals. the tomatoes seem to like it so far. Only the largest one went into transplant shock and it got over it in less than 6 hours.
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good going... gives me hope!
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I can't believe I forgot to mention that I got some seeds from the miniature red rose bush. The hip has to go completely brown right down to the stem but there they were. I have 4 move blooms on the bush so I might be able to get another hip full before they go dormant for the year. How cool would that be.
And I think I finally have the right plan for harvesting the zinnia. I have to wait until they build that cone shape in the middle of the flower and then harvest the seeds inside that. I've been taking them from the petals and I don't think the seeds were mature. That means I'm going to owe many people more seeds next year.
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Well I harvested the zinnia, yellow mums, and yellow miniature snapdragons today. Maybe money I'll see how many seeds the pods have in them. I'm to tired today and the rest of this week is packed with stuff to do.
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We've had a couple of nice days - windy, but warm. In fact, if not for the wind, I would have been hot.
I've been raking, weeding, raking, weeding.
Yesterday I rescued some stuff from the compost heap - somebody discarded a buncha' plants with roots on them. When I started digging them in, I realized they're likely cyclamens - they look like them.
I just cut back two of mine and put bags over the pot - I'm leaving them on the retaining wall under the forsythia vines. I doubt if they'll make it back, but if they do then that's nature's gain.
The idea of raking right now is to feed my mulch sections - at noon today, my north lot was almost bald of leaves - that all changed, of course - within the hour - ha ha!
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The leaves around here are still trying to hold on to their leaves but pretty soon I should have a huge fall of leaves. Then I can build the compost pile way up. Of course I probably won't be able to get anything going really well without some fresh green. Failing that I'll have lots to work with next year when the grass starts growing again.
cyclamens are so pretty I hope you are successful with them. I haven't had very good sucess with them in the past. But chances are that I will try them again. They are just that pretty.
I went to wal-mart yesterday for one thing. That was a really bad idea lol. So the mums were out front and I couldn't resist getting some colors I didn't already have. They are now dotting the garden now lol. I hope they suffer transplant well because come spring I am definitely going to want to move them lol. In fact I'm probably going to want to move almost everything lol.
The funnist part was that while I was planting the mums I found 2 good looking tulip bulbs. So I found spots for them and hopefully they will do better next year than they did this year.
This morning is the last morning I can collect bricks so I will be doing that once the sun is up and then it's off to church for an event.
Hope everyone has a good day.
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I'm staying away from Wal Mart - and The Bay and Zellers - until I am assured that The Bay isn't going to be sold out and made into a Wal Mart, I'm boycotting department stores.
It's a Canadian thing.
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Anyway, don't worry about that - if those things I found in the discards are cyclamens, they won't grow back. Cyclamens are too hard to keep going - I don't know anybody who has luck with them.
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The weather here has been good all week except Monday it rained all day and made me depressed. But since then I have been busy as a bee. I rebuilt my compost pile, I planted some crocus bulbs, and my tulip bed is now double in size and the tulip bulbs are replanted all except the baby bulbs. I figure I will take a pocket full each time I go outside and poke holes around the edges of things and a drop a bulb in until all the babies have been planted..I have a large cool whip tube of them. I've drug limbs cut by the electric company to a big pile out back and cleaned up that mess and put up the rest of garden related tools etc for the winter.
Speaking of Wal Mart ....I am so upset with them, I wanted to get some potting soil, and one of those special mixes. There is not one bag of anything to be had at Wal Mart, Left over Halloween and Christmas stuff has taken over the garden center. There is no where anywhere close to get any dirt, Wal Mart is 30 miles away. So I don't know what I going to do, I guess I'll to settle for recycling some used potting soil outside, that had flowers growing in it earlier in the season.
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Well for me I just harvested some mums hopefully what I am collecting is seeds from them but it'll be next year before I know for sure. Wish me luck on this one.
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I finally feel secure that what I am harvesting is the mums seed so I'm very pleased with myself. I'll probably go out in a little bit and see if I can get some more. So far the portulaca are flowering and acting like they are happy indoors which is great. They are growing well and the stems are red so I assume they are healthy. The stems went pale and I gave them some fertilizer and that seems to have worked. I guess I should have thought about putting a time release dry fertilizer in the soil before I put them in a pot but it didn't occur to me. I'm thinking of making up some potting soil for my avocado seed and seeing if I can get it to grow. I would love to be able to start one. Well that's it for my gardening chores so far today.
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I don't work or have a family so I have a bunch of time on my hands. If I had to do what wives and mothers do I'd be wiped out before 9:00a.m. in the morning. I did get the potting soil made up and the avocado planted. I know they take like 50 years to bear fruit but that's ok I just wanted to start one even if someone else benefits.
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quote:Originally posted by tkhooper: ... I know they take like 50 years to bear fruit but that's ok I just wanted to start one even if someone else benefits.
tk, isn't that what being a true gardener is all about? the selflessness of it?
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tk, did I ever tell you I got the seeds? My head is still a little fuzzy - I think I did - sorry if I didn't. Anyway I got them and am thankful for my friends here on the forum. I thought you had a job - did I dream that?
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You must have dreamed I had a job. Maybe it will be prophetic and I'll get one. That would be great. I'm glad you got the seeds and I hope they bring you a bunch of happiness.
Hey Jiffy, That's a great thought. And it sure seems to be true. I think everyone is happier from a bit of nature to look at.
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About the avocado pit . . . one of the speakers at Canada Blooms (from Garden Depot) said that very few avocado's are actually females - yeah, that sounds funny, I know.
But it's not likely they'll grow.
I saved four last year and got nowhere.
I hope you have more luck.
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But since then I have been busy as a bee. I rebuilt my compost pile, I planted some crocus bulbs, and my tulip bed is now double in size and the tulip bulbs are replanted all except the baby bulbs. I figure I will take a pocket full each time I go outside and poke holes around the edges of things and a drop a bulb in until all the babies have been planted..I have a large cool whip tube of them. I've drug limbs cut by the electric company to a big pile out back and cleaned up that mess and put up the rest of garden related tools etc for the winter. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
....I am so upset with them, I wanted to get some potting soil, and one of those special mixes. There is not one bag of anything ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
to be had at Wal Mart, Left over Halloween and Christmas stuff has taken over the garden center. There is no where anywhere close to get any dirt, Wal Mart is 30 miles away. So I don't know what I going to do, I guess I'll to settle for recycling some used potting soil outside, that had flowers growing in it earlier in the season.![[kissies]](graemlins/kissies.gif)
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