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We have a lot of gardens here, nothing too crazy but I do have a little mission, trying to grow passion flowers (passiflora).
I saw a picture of one that my sister took at the botanical gardens (which I now have a cutting of and am growing) and was fascinated.
So I have 4, some of you may think they're common but to me, in a cold, cold climate they don't grow here.
So I had one (incarnata) planted in the garden that 'might' make the winter.
It seems the guys that do our lawn have little ability to pay attention while whipping and razed my incarnata to the ground.
aaaagh, can't buy another either so I will have to see if I can get cuttings to work.
Figuring it would be a cool hobby for the summer I decided to plant a few seedling trays. There were a ton of these things, and I'm no expert gardener, so I figured that I would make 6 trays (38 X 6=228 seedlings) and I would probably kill most of them through ignorance and end up with a few nice trees eventually.
Well, I guess Japanese Maples are pretty tough because it's now 3 months later and I have 217 healthy Japanese Maple trees that all need to be replanted into 1-gallon pots.
217 trees..... what the heck am I going to do with 217 trees?
From now on I'm sticking with 200-horsepower jet skis to relieve my frustration. They don't need to re-planted into bigger pots and water them is a hell of a lot more fun ;)
hahahaha, nice
I did the same with my cuttings this morning, if they all take I am not sure what I will do with 15 incarnatas
Your gardening and mine are somewhat different, of course, at least w/ regard to mission statements. I grow for food, not appearance. One day I may have that luxury but for the time being I'm only growing stuff I can eat.
Solutions I've found are containers... buckets, jugs, whatever... I can control soil, water, PH, everything actually... over 23 pounds of tomatoes from 6 plants so far this year... I also have 3 kinds of peppers, lettuce, cabbage, and well, some other stuff.
Never have had much use for flowers other than having them fedexed to my mom on mother's day. Maybe one day when I have that sort of financial freedom...
Or maybe not...
217 trees..... what the heck am I going to do with 217 trees?From now on I'm sticking with 200-horsepower jet skis to relieve my frustration.
Contact SuzyUK- she may need a friend for her tomato plant she's plant-sitting:
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I want to dedicate some garden space for vegetables but just didn't have time this year, a little more planning and I will get it for next year
we have cucumbers this year, some herbs, man I have had my fill of cukes at this point, these ones were rather prolific
Sounds about like a neutral carbon offset.
.... a wise guy, huh?
I'll have you know that it's a four-stroke and meets and exceeds all environmental restrictions ;)
I have a large house with a full basement that stays about 70 degrees all winter long. I think I'm going to put all 217 of those puppies down there under fluorescent lighting. However, I've been looking into growing plants in artificial conditions and it doesn't seem like an easy thing to do.
Oh well, If I didn't kill them outside I'm sure a few will bit the dust in the basement (no pun intended).
I think I'm going to put all 217 of those puppies down there under fluorescent lighting.
Fluoro's are good. I have a spare bedroom that's been totally taken over by banks of fluorescent lights, 6 bulbs per bank. These are shop lights bought from a major national retailer who I won't plug but shop at often... 7 bucks per fixture, 4 bucks for 2 bulbs.
Just make sure the lights are close to the plant tops.. that way they don't stretch to reach it...
And talk nicely to them.. play them music... stuff like that... It works...
wyweb, you could make a new site
wooingyourgarden ;)
Fluoro's are good. I have a spare bedroom that's been totally taken over by banks of fluorescent lights, 6 bulbs per bank.
I had a similar setup before I was arrested.
I had a similar setup...
;)
wooingyourgarden
And talk nicely to them.. play them music... stuff like that... It works...
Hmm...
I don't know if I'm comfortable with the idea of cuddling with plants.
Anyway Prince Charles does it - so it must be good!
I have a sort of baritone voice... fairly deep and tobacco stained... I sing along with sad country songs and classic rock tunes that I've complied on CD's. They like it. My dogs like it also. We dance in this house a lot... dogs, plants.. I dance with anybody if they can keep up.
This is foo, right?
I find it fascinating to see pots with nothing but soil just sitting there for months on end, no activity at all, and then suddenly to see shoots poke there heads up and produce flowers out of nowhere.
Over Autumn we had copious blooms from the Belladonas, Nerines and Blood Lilies. It is late winter now but I currently have Arum palestinium in full flower, with Scadoxus puniceus in the throws of pushing up a scape. The Palestinium is a family heirloom coming from bulbs grown by my Paternal Great Aunt. Oh, and there are the Daffs and Johnnies making their presence known as well.
>tomatoes - containers.
Hehe, I do the same here. The local soil is nothing more than dirty sand, absolutely gutless and water just disappears. So I sunk some large pots on the ground, filled them with good soil, and grew my tomatoes in them. Reduces watering, insulates the roots, seems to work very well. And there is nothing better than picking a ripe tomato off the vine and popping it straight into your mouth. [Homer Voice] MMmmmmmmghghghrhrhgrhhr.........[/Homer Voice]
Onya
Woz
