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As some of us put the gardens to bed
What is your favorite garden memory of the season?
Mine has to be discovering that an expensive daylily that I thought had died was alive and blooming this year. Back to weeding and other fall clean up C |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
What is your favorite garden memory of the season?
Hard to pick just one, but a few we * Bearded Irises, planted last fall, came up vigorous and beautiful this spring. * Okra, something I've never grown before, took off. Tall plants with beautiful (short-lived) flowers and lots of okra to eat. * Mistflower, thoroughwort, and goldenrod all blooming now. In this sense it is hard to think of the season as over. The fall planting season (perennials, mostly) is in full swing now that the really hot weather should be over. |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
best... finding that the peonies I put in the frig last fall (from
next door who ripped them all out) and forgot to plant until July not only came up, one of them put out a flower. worst.... the person who used to help my mother garden, who I hired to help me out pulled up my mother's aster (my mother died 3 years ago). Last time she pulled up all the arabis I had been bringing along to be huge spreads. sigh. Ingrid |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
What is your favorite garden memory of the season? Mine has to be discovering that an expensive daylily that I thought had died was alive and blooming this year. Back to weeding and other fall clean up C The best thing about this time of year in this climate is that everything blooms again. Heat stress shuts the garden down for a while, but the least bit of relief, even if it's only shorter days, brings it back loaded for bear. Flowering shrubs have a flush of new blooms, and tomatoes and peppers set blossoms after weeks of heat-induced dormancy. Sadly, few of any of blossoms will see fruition. Frost will kill them before that can happen. Daytime temps have been in the seventies and eighties here, a huge relief from 90 and 100 degree temps of just a couple of weeks ago. Night time temps range from the 50s to the 70s. The air smells like leaves. Strawberry plants are almost ready for cut back and cover. There is one lone watermelon left on a vine. Tender herbs want to move back home. |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
On 9/18/07 11:54 AM, in article
, " wrote: best... finding that the peonies I put in the frig last fall (from next door who ripped them all out) and forgot to plant until July not only came up, one of them put out a flower. worst.... the person who used to help my mother garden, who I hired to help me out pulled up my mother's aster (my mother died 3 years ago). Last time she pulled up all the arabis I had been bringing along to be huge spreads. sigh. Ingrid Sigh - I don't hire help in the garden any more. One pulled up 90% of my perennial ageratums. Cheryl |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
Sigh - I don't hire help in the garden any more. One pulled up 90% of my
perennial ageratums. I hear ya. But when the puller in question is your partner/spouse, it isn't quite that simple :-). The current method seems to be a tag and/or stake next to every wanted plant. We'll see how that works. Volunteers which we might want to keep will be the real challenge. |
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As some of us put the gardens to bed
She is also a friend and I pay 15 per hour. She is just so revved up
when she weeds. Ingrid On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:44:36 -0500, wrote: Getting good workers is difficult and I pay ten dollars an hour (which is pretty generous for what I ask people do). v |
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