Gardening

folsom_lives · Mar 18, 2024

Did some tidying up of the plant shelf on the mezzanine this weekend. One of the kiddos managed to talk me into the small cactuses at IKEA. Not sure how to take care of them since I’ve killed every succulent I’ve ever owned.

MsLoganHenney · Mar 19, 2024

There’s a tree outside my front door that makes me happy to see it bloom. There are a few of them around my condo property. I love all the bees that come around because of the flowers. Get your pollen ladies!

Panera Ciabatta Diapers · Mar 31, 2024

I've got my irrigation set up for a work trip.

Here's hoping I don't come back to a plant massacre in 25 days.

folsom_lives · Apr 25, 2024

5 yards of premium topsoil/compost delivered yesterday. Time to get cracking on setting up some new beds.

kvetcha · Apr 25, 2024

folsom_lives said:
Did some tidying up of the plant shelf on the mezzanine this weekend. One of the kiddos managed to talk me into the small cactuses at IKEA. Not sure how to take care of them since I’ve killed every succulent I’ve ever owned.

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Love that lamp.

folsom_lives · Apr 25, 2024

kvetcha said:
Love that lamp.

I think I grabbed it from World Market ages ago. Never found a great place for it until I moved the table and plants up to a strange little catwalk/mezzanine to nowhere above our entry hallway.

cul8er · Apr 25, 2024

folsom_lives said:
5 yards

That is quite the haul!

I moved just one yard a week ago. 5 will make a bunch of new beds.

folsom_lives · Apr 25, 2024

cul8er said:
That is quite the haul!

I moved just one yard a week ago. 5 will make a bunch of new beds.

I probably did overbuy... but the shipping cost meant that I didn't want to run short. I've got places to hide it on nearly 1/2 acre.

Panera Ciabatta Diapers · Apr 25, 2024

Tortured Diaper Baby Dept said:
I've got my irrigation set up for a work trip.

Here's hoping I don't come back to a plant massacre in 25 days.

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I'm happy to say that after a month gone my plants did not die and most were doing pretty well. They were definitely getting water from that bucket as I left it full and came back with 3/4 gone.

blenoxsmith · Apr 26, 2024

I love this conversation @Tortured Diaper Baby Dept and @folsom_lives . I got 6 cubic yards of pure compost delivered a couple weeks ago, since I have a pile (maybe 3 cubic yards) of my own soil to mix it with, after digging for a gravel path I put in last summer. Also, I'm gonna be doing some serious Hügelkultur mounds, and giving them a nice top off of compost. I can't wait to get started.

Also, I chatted with the guy who runs the compost busines about the"overbuying," and having some laying around beyond this summer. He said to definitely make sure you turn over whatever compost you have remaining a couple times, maybe once before freeze, and another time post winter, just to keep it living nicely.

folsom_lives · Apr 29, 2024

First bed is topped off and planted with tomatoes and peppers. Blocked off a corner for lettuces and herbs. Going to try and do carrots, radishes, pole beans, pickling cucumbers in the other.

cul8er · May 4, 2024

A few spring flowers in my yard...

Allium

Iris

Rhododendron

folsom_lives · May 4, 2024

A sample of what the garden could hold this year. Plus the tomatoes and peppers as usual. Really excited to see how the pickling cucumbers do. This might be my gateway into canning.

Forgot I used all the chive seeds… so I’ll have some of those too maybe.

nolalady · May 7, 2024

folsom_lives said:
A sample of what the garden could hold this year. Plus the tomatoes and peppers as usual. Really excited to see how the pickling cucumbers do. This might be my gateway into canning.

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Forgot I used all the chive seeds… so I’ll have some of those too maybe.

We got some pickling cucumbers as well. I have canned pickles but it was a while ago. I think I want to go strawberry and blueberry (and maybe blackberry) picking and can some pie filling and jam.

folsom_lives · May 7, 2024

I'm really just hoping now that the two fake rubber snakes I put up keep the squirrels at bay. They have been going to town diggin all sorts of holes to nowhere in the bed with the seeds I just planted...

I didn't have this problem last year. So I'm wondering if a few of them got wise to my hiding spot. The thing is, we've had a coyote roaming around too and I was hoping he would have thinned the herd by now.

Anybody have success with sprays or other means of repelling digging pests?

cul8er · May 7, 2024

folsom_lives said:
Anybody have success with sprays or other means of repelling digging pests?

My solution is not very pretty, but it works pretty well to keep out critters. Plus once the tomato plants get tall enough, they poke out the top with the cage acting as a sort of trellis. Probably not a solution for a larger garden, though.