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I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone?
I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. I'm going to start seeds this weekend and pot some things up for sale to the nurseries and get seeds ready to trade. If anyone is reading this, do you think it is a good time to move the following: Mexican buckeye Evergreen Sumac Apple tree (yearling) Yucca (several different forms, completely pupped and ready to give birth) If not now, when would you move these? Would you wait it out till next fall? V-Happy New Year folks. |
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animaux wrote:
I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? On vacation perhaps? A cold place with snow I hope... :) I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red Ha! We have a water lilly with a brand new bloom in the pond, if you can believe that. admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. We've had our share of frosts, most things that freeze already have. Mexican buckeye Evergreen Sumac Apple tree (yearling) Yucca (several different forms, completely pupped and ready to give birth) Yes to all. Have fun! -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. snip |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. snip |
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I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City
is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: = "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyo= ne? = I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everes= t of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while= , but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bana= nas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I ha= ve salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly = a foot low for the year. = I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom,= some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There w= ere red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this = hill, anyway. = snip -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!echo echo echo echo...
I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City
is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: = "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyo= ne? = I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everes= t of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while= , but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bana= nas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I ha= ve salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly = a foot low for the year. = I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom,= some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There w= ere red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this = hill, anyway. = snip -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. snip |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... | I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? | Watching sulphurs, admirals, and gulf fritillaries. Also enjoying blooming paperwhite narcissi. The ones that do best are ones forced in pots long ago and then just dumped any old place, where they've divided over the years. There's been no hard freeze even yet, although lantanas in some corners have been burned. Pink oxalis is blooming and geraniums (pelargoniums) in pots are going to town. Thunbergia is in full bloom also. Lettuce is ready for the table. Bulbs are up, including Dutch iris and many narcissi/jonquils/daffodils (but not hyacinths yet). Anemones are showing leaves. Fall-seeded annuals are progressing. Old-fashioned trailing/climbing nasturtiums are in heavy bloom. Basil in pots has been toted in and out of the house a few times. Seed catalogues are arriving. Loquat flowers are full of honeybees most days. No signs yet of species tulips. |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:34:01 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:
On vacation perhaps? A cold place with snow I hope... :) We did that a few years ago. We drove to the Grand Canyon and spent Christmas there. It was magnificent with the snow, but 5 degrees during the day! Not much star gazing at night, unfortunately. Ha! We have a water lilly with a brand new bloom in the pond, if you can believe that. Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. Mexican buckeye Evergreen Sumac Apple tree (yearling) Yucca (several different forms, completely pupped and ready to give birth) Yes to all. Have fun! Great! I have to move things because, as usual, I over planted. Easy to do when you buy gallon plants which grow to ten feet or more! My evergreen sumac went from a 2 foot whip to an 8 foot tree(!) in one year! Next week I'm going to move them. Thanks. v |
HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!echo echo echo echo...
I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City
is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: = "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyo= ne? = I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everes= t of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while= , but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bana= nas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I ha= ve salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly = a foot low for the year. = I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom,= some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There w= ere red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this = hill, anyway. = snip -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... | I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? | Watching sulphurs, admirals, and gulf fritillaries. Also enjoying blooming paperwhite narcissi. The ones that do best are ones forced in pots long ago and then just dumped any old place, where they've divided over the years. There's been no hard freeze even yet, although lantanas in some corners have been burned. Pink oxalis is blooming and geraniums (pelargoniums) in pots are going to town. Thunbergia is in full bloom also. Lettuce is ready for the table. Bulbs are up, including Dutch iris and many narcissi/jonquils/daffodils (but not hyacinths yet). Anemones are showing leaves. Fall-seeded annuals are progressing. Old-fashioned trailing/climbing nasturtiums are in heavy bloom. Basil in pots has been toted in and out of the house a few times. Seed catalogues are arriving. Loquat flowers are full of honeybees most days. No signs yet of species tulips. |
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:24:49 -0600, "cat daddy" opined:
I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. We were down in town at Half Price Books on Guadalupe (can't pass their 20% sale) and I saw all those bags everywhere. Unfortunately, we were in my husbands Accord. Drat. I'm going to go out next week hunting for leaves. Then I will go to Zilker to get my tons and tone of pine tree shreds. I didn't see them mention a day when the public can start taking the free mulch, have you? V |
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"animaux" wrote in message
... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I'm converting a 60x60 area of sparse grass into a pond/garden. I've transplanted three desert willows and a pomegranate from too shady locations into the full sun with soaker hose buried under 6" of a 8/3/1 blend of hardwood mulch/composted cow poop/decomposed granite. I also have mutabalis and marilyn monroe roses, various salvias, lantanas, greg's blue mist, yellow bells, plumbago, mexican flame vine and passion flower on trellises and probably a few other things I can't remember. All this is around the 15x30 hand dug hole that will become a pond in the next month. It will also have a 6x6 raised veggie filter/waterfall in the middle of the plantings so I can easily drain the sludge onto the flowers. The excavated dirt has been used to raise the level of the surrounding yard, which is good because 24" down there is one solid slab of bedrock over the entire area of the pond, and presumably farther. The raised soil has been planted with white clover and wildflower mix. Because of the bedrock, the pond isn't as deep as I would like, but I have a small pond at that depth that hasn't lost any fish due to cold, so I'll live with it and hopefully the koi will too. Other than that, I haven't been doing much gardening. Happy New Year to all! |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:34:01 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:
On vacation perhaps? A cold place with snow I hope... :) We did that a few years ago. We drove to the Grand Canyon and spent Christmas there. It was magnificent with the snow, but 5 degrees during the day! Not much star gazing at night, unfortunately. Ha! We have a water lilly with a brand new bloom in the pond, if you can believe that. Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. Mexican buckeye Evergreen Sumac Apple tree (yearling) Yucca (several different forms, completely pupped and ready to give birth) Yes to all. Have fun! Great! I have to move things because, as usual, I over planted. Easy to do when you buy gallon plants which grow to ten feet or more! My evergreen sumac went from a 2 foot whip to an 8 foot tree(!) in one year! Next week I'm going to move them. Thanks. v |
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Victor Martinez wrote: animaux wrote: I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? On vacation perhaps? A cold place with snow I hope... :) Two weeks off, staying home this year. I've been busy doing other junk, organized the garage, getting ready for yard sale, built shelves, found the floor! :o) I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red Ha! We have a water lilly with a brand new bloom in the pond, if you can believe that. I haven't done much to my garden except look at it and think about what's next. Is this a good time to relocate natives like big muhly, lantana etc? This'll be my 'xeriscaped' gardens 2nd full spring coming up and as things are filling out I see that I could have placed things better. admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. We've had our share of frosts, most things that freeze already have. We had a touch of rime the other morning, a few of the tender plants lost some leaves in the freeze a few weeks ago, but mostly doing well. I have a cherry tomato plant that is *still* bearing fruit! It's a "Tiny Tom" I got from the farmers market on S. Congress, I planted it last March and prettymuch ignored it- I've picked well over 200 little tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to grow it from seed. Thanks for asking :o) |
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:24:49 -0600, "cat daddy" opined:
I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. We were down in town at Half Price Books on Guadalupe (can't pass their 20% sale) and I saw all those bags everywhere. Unfortunately, we were in my husbands Accord. Drat. I'm going to go out next week hunting for leaves. Then I will go to Zilker to get my tons and tone of pine tree shreds. I didn't see them mention a day when the public can start taking the free mulch, have you? V |
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animaux wrote:
Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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"animaux" wrote in message
... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I'm converting a 60x60 area of sparse grass into a pond/garden. I've transplanted three desert willows and a pomegranate from too shady locations into the full sun with soaker hose buried under 6" of a 8/3/1 blend of hardwood mulch/composted cow poop/decomposed granite. I also have mutabalis and marilyn monroe roses, various salvias, lantanas, greg's blue mist, yellow bells, plumbago, mexican flame vine and passion flower on trellises and probably a few other things I can't remember. All this is around the 15x30 hand dug hole that will become a pond in the next month. It will also have a 6x6 raised veggie filter/waterfall in the middle of the plantings so I can easily drain the sludge onto the flowers. The excavated dirt has been used to raise the level of the surrounding yard, which is good because 24" down there is one solid slab of bedrock over the entire area of the pond, and presumably farther. The raised soil has been planted with white clover and wildflower mix. Because of the bedrock, the pond isn't as deep as I would like, but I have a small pond at that depth that hasn't lost any fish due to cold, so I'll live with it and hopefully the koi will too. Other than that, I haven't been doing much gardening. Happy New Year to all! |
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Whit wrote:
tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to grow it from seed. You don't need to dry them at all. We've had lots of tomato volunteers from damaged tomatos we just toss to compost. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Victor Martinez wrote: animaux wrote: I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? On vacation perhaps? A cold place with snow I hope... :) Two weeks off, staying home this year. I've been busy doing other junk, organized the garage, getting ready for yard sale, built shelves, found the floor! :o) I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red Ha! We have a water lilly with a brand new bloom in the pond, if you can believe that. I haven't done much to my garden except look at it and think about what's next. Is this a good time to relocate natives like big muhly, lantana etc? This'll be my 'xeriscaped' gardens 2nd full spring coming up and as things are filling out I see that I could have placed things better. admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. We've had our share of frosts, most things that freeze already have. We had a touch of rime the other morning, a few of the tender plants lost some leaves in the freeze a few weeks ago, but mostly doing well. I have a cherry tomato plant that is *still* bearing fruit! It's a "Tiny Tom" I got from the farmers market on S. Congress, I planted it last March and prettymuch ignored it- I've picked well over 200 little tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to grow it from seed. Thanks for asking :o) |
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animaux wrote:
Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Whit wrote:
tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to grow it from seed. You don't need to dry them at all. We've had lots of tomato volunteers from damaged tomatos we just toss to compost. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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"Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... | Whit wrote: | tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to | get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to | grow it from seed. | | You don't need to dry them at all. We've had lots of tomato volunteers | from damaged tomatos we just toss to compost. | | -- | Victor Martinez | Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) | Send your spam he | Email me he | We always do, too, plus melons and squashes, but in the shady location of our compost bin, the only crop that regularly succeeds to maturity is potatoes. The first shoots are up now. The red boiling potatoes are the ones that do best. |
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"Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... | Whit wrote: | tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to | get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to | grow it from seed. | | You don't need to dry them at all. We've had lots of tomato volunteers | from damaged tomatos we just toss to compost. | | -- | Victor Martinez | Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) | Send your spam he | Email me he | We always do, too, plus melons and squashes, but in the shady location of our compost bin, the only crop that regularly succeeds to maturity is potatoes. The first shoots are up now. The red boiling potatoes are the ones that do best. |
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Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, please
no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. I *will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring.......... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. |
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"animaux" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:24:49 -0600, "cat daddy" opined: I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. We were down in town at Half Price Books on Guadalupe (can't pass their 20% sale) and I saw all those bags everywhere. Unfortunately, we were in my husbands Accord. Drat. I'm going to go out next week hunting for leaves. Then I will go to Zilker to get my tons and tone of pine tree shreds. I didn't see them mention a day when the public can start taking the free mulch, have you? No, and I'm going to close my eyes now , so I won't find out......... I think I have enough. It is tempting to see all the bags in the other neighborhoods, though.... |
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"grubber" wrote in message gy.com... "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I'm converting a 60x60 area of sparse grass into a pond/garden. I've transplanted three desert willows and a pomegranate from too shady locations into the full sun with soaker hose buried under 6" of a 8/3/1 blend of hardwood mulch/composted cow poop/decomposed granite. I also have mutabalis and marilyn monroe roses, various salvias, lantanas, greg's blue mist, yellow bells, plumbago, mexican flame vine and passion flower on trellises and probably a few other things I can't remember. All this is around the 15x30 hand dug hole that will become a pond in the next month. It will also have a 6x6 raised veggie filter/waterfall in the middle of the plantings so I can easily drain the sludge onto the flowers. The excavated dirt has been used to raise the level of the surrounding yard, which is good because 24" down there is one solid slab of bedrock over the entire area of the pond, and presumably farther. The raised soil has been planted with white clover and wildflower mix. Because of the bedrock, the pond isn't as deep as I would like, but I have a small pond at that depth that hasn't lost any fish due to cold, so I'll live with it and hopefully the koi will too. Other than that, I haven't been doing much gardening. Yeah, hardly a thing to do in the garden in Winter........ I have a pond in my future, as well, and have slowly used dirt from the hole as fill elsewhere. I really need rain to soften the sandy loam, though. The trailer rental place that has baby backhoes relocated a couple of blocks away, so I don't think I'll be hand digging any more... |
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"grubber" wrote in message gy.com... "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I'm converting a 60x60 area of sparse grass into a pond/garden. I've transplanted three desert willows and a pomegranate from too shady locations into the full sun with soaker hose buried under 6" of a 8/3/1 blend of hardwood mulch/composted cow poop/decomposed granite. I also have mutabalis and marilyn monroe roses, various salvias, lantanas, greg's blue mist, yellow bells, plumbago, mexican flame vine and passion flower on trellises and probably a few other things I can't remember. All this is around the 15x30 hand dug hole that will become a pond in the next month. It will also have a 6x6 raised veggie filter/waterfall in the middle of the plantings so I can easily drain the sludge onto the flowers. The excavated dirt has been used to raise the level of the surrounding yard, which is good because 24" down there is one solid slab of bedrock over the entire area of the pond, and presumably farther. The raised soil has been planted with white clover and wildflower mix. Because of the bedrock, the pond isn't as deep as I would like, but I have a small pond at that depth that hasn't lost any fish due to cold, so I'll live with it and hopefully the koi will too. Other than that, I haven't been doing much gardening. Yeah, hardly a thing to do in the garden in Winter........ I have a pond in my future, as well, and have slowly used dirt from the hole as fill elsewhere. I really need rain to soften the sandy loam, though. The trailer rental place that has baby backhoes relocated a couple of blocks away, so I don't think I'll be hand digging any more... |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:05:10 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:
animaux wrote: Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine. Yeah, but the water has been 60 during the day and we have a heater in there to take that sharp cold off. It never gets below 50. When Mark does give them pellets, he makes sure they are very active, physically, and before he gives them the pellets, soaks them to make them expand before the fish eat. |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:05:10 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:
animaux wrote: Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine. Yeah, but the water has been 60 during the day and we have a heater in there to take that sharp cold off. It never gets below 50. When Mark does give them pellets, he makes sure they are very active, physically, and before he gives them the pellets, soaks them to make them expand before the fish eat. |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:05:10 GMT, Victor Martinez opined:
animaux wrote: Holy cow! My 'Baby Doll' lotus is starting to grow. The fish have not stopped eating, and, well, I hope for the sake of the plants we don't get hit too badly. After the water temperature drops below something (45F, I think?) you're not supposed to feed fish anymore. Their metabolism slows too much to digest food. We've never fed our fish during winter and they do just fine. Yeah, but the water has been 60 during the day and we have a heater in there to take that sharp cold off. It never gets below 50. When Mark does give them pellets, he makes sure they are very active, physically, and before he gives them the pellets, soaks them to make them expand before the fish eat. |
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In article , Whit wrote:
I have a cherry tomato plant that is *still* bearing fruit! It's a "Tiny Tom" I got from the farmers market on S. Congress, I planted it last March and prettymuch ignored it- I've picked well over 200 little tomatoes off this little plant since! Is it possible to dry a tomato to get the seed? I'd love another of these and it would be fun to try to grow it from seed. For it to come true from saved seeds depends on if it is a F1 hybrid tomato plant or open pollinated. In a hybrid two parents that differ at any number of genes were crossed to produce hybrid seeds (plants). This is called the F1 generation (what you can buy). The different parental genes in the seeds produced from these plants will segregate in the second generation (your saved seeds). So each plant that comes up will have varying traits of the parents. You may or may not care for what grows. How different they are depends on the nature of the parents. If you like what comes up you can try and "fix" the desired trait in subsequent generations. Since your plant is alive you can also propagate it by leaf cuttings. In an open pollinated variety, the flowers will self fertilize if you have adequate isolation distances (10 feet between varieties for home users and much more for commercial seed producers) and the seeds from these will come true and be identical to the parent. I do not know if Tiny tom is open pollinated or a hybrid. A casual google search reveals something called micro tom and tiny tim. I do not know if either are related to what you have. If you want to save seed, there are several web sources for open pollinated tomato varieties (usually whatever you can buy at Home Depot, Lowes and garden stores as plants tend to be F1 hybrid although a small number of open pollinated types are sold). Roland |
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It's an experiment. I'm putting a 6 inch layer on chips down on the
bermuda to see how well the fungus that forms on the chips restrict the growth of the bermuda. It's my understanding it will but I'm experimenting on how thick the chip layer should be. = I've always gotten dumps of wood chips. It saves the operator from making dump runs and increases field productivity time. I know what you mean about the leaves. I ground up 300 sacks in November and I still want to grind more. Between myself and my neighbor with his lot as a victory garden, I think we have enough for now. It's still a temptation as the leaves ALL fell in the last week or so in the Bayou City. J cat daddy wrote: = Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, please no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. I *= will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring......= =2E... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? = "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City= is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out.= It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not= knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) = J = cat daddy wrote: "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is ever= yone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Ever= est of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a whi= le, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the ba= nanas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I = have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedl= y a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloo= m, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There= were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on thi= s hill, anyway. -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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Whit wrote:
= = I haven't done much to my garden except look at it and think about what's next. Is this a good time to relocate natives like big muhly, lantana etc? No one answered this one. Your tomato inquiry threw them off. Yes, indeed, it is a great time to relocate the native plants this month. J -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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cat daddy wrote:
Yeah, hardly a thing to do in the garden in Winter........ I have a= pond in my future, as well, and have slowly used dirt from the hole as fill elsewhere. I really need rain to soften the sandy loam, though. The tra= iler rental place that has baby backhoes relocated a couple of blocks away, = so I don't think I'll be hand digging any more... I'm glad I don't drive past that place. I've been eyeing baby tractors since I've put in 2 smooth grades this past year on new landscape construction. -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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I don't want to rain on your parade, but I've experimented with as much as 2
feet of mulch and the bermuda makes its way up and through with vigor. On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:47:16 -0600, J Kolenovsky opined: It's an experiment. I'm putting a 6 inch layer on chips down on the bermuda to see how well the fungus that forms on the chips restrict the growth of the bermuda. It's my understanding it will but I'm experimenting on how thick the chip layer should be. I've always gotten dumps of wood chips. It saves the operator from making dump runs and increases field productivity time. I know what you mean about the leaves. I ground up 300 sacks in November and I still want to grind more. Between myself and my neighbor with his lot as a victory garden, I think we have enough for now. It's still a temptation as the leaves ALL fell in the last week or so in the Bayou City. J cat daddy wrote: Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, please no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. I *will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring.......... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. |
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I don't want to rain on your parade, but I've experimented with as much as 2
feet of mulch and the bermuda makes its way up and through with vigor. On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:47:16 -0600, J Kolenovsky opined: It's an experiment. I'm putting a 6 inch layer on chips down on the bermuda to see how well the fungus that forms on the chips restrict the growth of the bermuda. It's my understanding it will but I'm experimenting on how thick the chip layer should be. I've always gotten dumps of wood chips. It saves the operator from making dump runs and increases field productivity time. I know what you mean about the leaves. I ground up 300 sacks in November and I still want to grind more. Between myself and my neighbor with his lot as a victory garden, I think we have enough for now. It's still a temptation as the leaves ALL fell in the last week or so in the Bayou City. J cat daddy wrote: Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, please no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. I *will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring.......... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. Everest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these cold mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips. I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're supposedly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. |
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Don't tell HIM that.
animaux wrote: = I don't want to rain on your parade, but I've experimented with as much= as 2 feet of mulch and the bermuda makes its way up and through with vigor. = On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:47:16 -0600, J Kolenovsky op= ined: = It's an experiment. I'm putting a 6 inch layer on chips down on the bermuda to see how well the fungus that forms on the chips restrict th= e growth of the bermuda. It's my understanding it will but I'm experimenting on how thick the chip layer should be. I've always gotten dumps of wood chips. It saves the operator from making dump runs and increases field productivity time. I know what you mean about the leaves. I ground up 300 sacks in Novemb= er and I still want to grind more. Between myself and my neighbor with hi= s lot as a victory garden, I think we have enough for now. It's still a temptation as the leaves ALL fell in the last week or so in the Bayou City. J cat daddy wrote: Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, pleas= e no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. = I *will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring...= =2E...... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the C= ity is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it o= ut. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the gree= n stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept = not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) J cat daddy wrote: "animaux" wrote in message ... I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is e= veryone? I had hoped obsessive compost building had ended with the Mt. E= verest of heaps, until I happened upon another 75 bags of leaves. It took a = while, but I now have Vesuvius going in the backyard. Pretty cool on these co= ld mornings.... The ground was frosty this morning for the first time, only the= bananas are damaged, and the wild iris and others are putting up new tips.= I have salvia blooming and butterflies... I watered a couple of days ago, as well........... We're suppos= edly a foot low for the year. I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to b= loom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. Th= ere were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all stil= l blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on = this hill, anyway. -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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animaux wrote: I don't think it's been this quiet in here in years! Where is everyone? I had to water my garden today. The bluebonnets are wanting to bloom, some irises are blooming and my redbuds are budding and blooming. There were red admirals at the mud puddle and on the lantana, which is all still blooming. I don't think we've had a frost up here in NE Round Rock. Not on this hill, anyway. I'm going to start seeds this weekend and pot some things up for sale to the nurseries and get seeds ready to trade. If anyone is reading this, do you think it is a good time to move the following: Mexican buckeye Evergreen Sumac Apple tree (yearling) Yucca (several different forms, completely pupped and ready to give birth) If not now, when would you move these? Would you wait it out till next fall? V-Happy New Year folks. Right now at the COLDEST time of the year is the BEST time to move a plant. considering our SUN is not as unpredictable as it has been since 1991( actually 1962), the natural weather patterns are returning and probably will be pseudo normal for the next 100 yrs or so...GOD only knows WHAT will happen in the interim! The Blue Bonnets finally started again as they should. For a while they came in the fall only and the Red corn Flowers came in the early Spring which was BASS-ACKWARDS from normal. LONG story here if you're interested?? We're just LUCKY to be here instead of vaporised as we should have been had the SUN NOT been ameliorated at a critical moment in time..(1997). We'd have been soul Spirits wondering what hit us. See second Peter ch 3 verse 10 for the answer also mentioned in the next two books in a similar fashion! Long and amazing story here! B-0b1 -- "Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon. |
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Great, now you've got me eyeing Davey trucks........... I hadn't
considered it would be more convenient to dump the chips nearby. On a related note, I did skip leaf trawling for one whole week, but couldn't resist 6 bags that the city didn't pick up. I mulch mowed them and spread them directly on the flowerbeds, since I missed spreading the finished compost that's buried under four feet of leaves....... The big pile is still going great. Since I cover it, the top 1 ft. layer is damp and black, and underneath is hot, dryish, and covered in a white fungus (like ash). I still worry if I'm getting enough water (there are still pockets of dry leaves) and air to the center. There is a slight ammonia smell. Turning more than the top layer is not an option, so next time I think I'll put in vertical PVC drain pipe to see if that helps. "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... It's an experiment. I'm putting a 6 inch layer on chips down on the bermuda to see how well the fungus that forms on the chips restrict the growth of the bermuda. It's my understanding it will but I'm experimenting on how thick the chip layer should be. I've always gotten dumps of wood chips. It saves the operator from making dump runs and increases field productivity time. I know what you mean about the leaves. I ground up 300 sacks in November and I still want to grind more. Between myself and my neighbor with his lot as a victory garden, I think we have enough for now. It's still a temptation as the leaves ALL fell in the last week or so in the Bayou City. J cat daddy wrote: Wow, how'd you get them to do that? No, no, don't tell me, please no........ I actually drove past three bags of leaves this morning. I *will* wash and wax my car and not carry leaves on the trunk 'til Spring.......... How are you using woodchips on the prairie? "J Kolenovsky" wrote in message ... I had Davey Tree dump a free load of wood chips by the prairie the City is letting me establish. Had to take a hired hand and go spread it out. It was charring on the inside night after it rained and got the green stuff wet. Didn't want some uninformed person calling the fire dept not knowing what's going on. (that HAS happened once before) |
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