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- Oct 28, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Compagnion plants for hostas - help needed
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2429
Re: Compagnion plants for hostas - help needed
If you are looking for something spiky and grass-like that will tolerate some shade, I recommend variegated carex Ice Dance. I like as an edger along the path through my hosta. I am on the line between zone 4 and 5 here and this carex seems perfectly hardy. It does get good drainage (sandy to loamy ...
- Sep 27, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Woody Plants
- Topic: It looks sick - do you think it's dying?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3342
Re: It looks sick - do you think it's dying?
It looks like poor drainage to me. Whether it is crappy ball and burlap stuff that has not rotted away, overwatering, or mulching too close and high, something like that, but I have seen a lot of stuff like Chris mentioned first, twine aroung root or wire that is not girdling the main roots, or some...
- Sep 09, 2008 10:58 am
- Forum: Woody Plants
- Topic: Orchard maintenance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1959
Re: Orchard maintenance
From what I have know 3 times with dormant oil at 10 day intervals, around here definitely done by the May 20th or so. It is cold enough here the curculio (what is the spelling on that!) isn't prevalent. It can't live over. The WI University Extension office here has done some amazing testing and su...
- Aug 31, 2008 11:23 am
- Forum: Woody Plants
- Topic: Orchard maintenance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1959
Re: Orchard maintenance
I am struggling with the whole orchard tree care issue, too. I have been trying to maintain my few trees with organic methods. Luckily, I planted dwarfed stock, so I don't have the overgrown issue to deal with. I can, if I desire reach the entire tree. Also on dwarf stock the trees begin bearing fru...
- Aug 11, 2008 9:54 am
- Forum: Annuals, Tropicals, and Houseplants
- Topic: Zinnia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1713
Re: Zinnia
Nice color! I am so often dissapointed by the actual colors of zinnias. They always seem to end up that garish pink or an orange. THis year I picked out the reddest red I could find only to have them flower a sort of orangey-red.
- Aug 11, 2008 9:45 am
- Forum: The Herb & Veggie Forum
- Topic: Pumpkins?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3760
Re: Pumpkins?
As a teenager I spent way too much time out in cucumber fields harvesting cukes. Pumpkins and melon and all their ilk can de easily trained to go where you want them to go by pushing and lifting against the sides of their vines with no harm done. Jusst try to keep the leaves right side up as to not ...
- Aug 11, 2008 9:33 am
- Forum: The Herb & Veggie Forum
- Topic: Bell Pepper question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2048
Re: Bell Pepper question
Sometimes they grow peppers here commercially. I think they like hot weather and sandy soils. I know bud count/drop is affected when temps at night drop below 50 degrees. My jalapenos I planted in limestone scree off my driveway and never get water look great and are loaded. The heirloom Chinese Red...
- Aug 02, 2008 1:15 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Would the real Little Wonder please stand up?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2297
Re: Would the real Little Wonder please stand up?
My Little Wonder is a fairly evenly concentric circle maybe 8" wide by 3" tall, with scapes 6" to 8" tall with darker purple flowers.
- Jul 31, 2008 9:42 am
- Forum: Daylily Forum
- Topic: Virus?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1352
- Jul 31, 2008 9:37 am
- Forum: Perennials
- Topic: Aster Yellows..
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1794
Hmm...
Hmmm. That sorta looks like poor pollination. What with the bee shortage, I believe the cones and petals on coneflowers only develop completely correctly when properly pollinated. A county ag agent mentioned it to me as well when we were looking at something similar. Not sure though. I'd keep checki...
- Jul 26, 2008 11:07 pm
- Forum: Daylily Forum
- Topic: Virus?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1352
Virus?
Is there a virus that visibly attacks only the flower on daylilies? It gives the bloom a mottled look very much like the virused toad lily blooms have. IT doesn;t seemto affect the leaves, or at this point, plant vigor.
Anybody seen or heard of anything like that?
Anybody seen or heard of anything like that?
- Jul 16, 2008 12:54 am
- Forum: Garden Discussion and Gallery
- Topic: I've Been Planting!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1807
Spruce
Spruces?
Spruce.
It's like two deers in the headlights
I planted a 5 footer five years back and it is over 20' tall.
Spruce.
It's like two deers in the headlights
I planted a 5 footer five years back and it is over 20' tall.
- Jul 09, 2008 12:00 am
- Forum: The Herb & Veggie Forum
- Topic: Veggie Garden
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4195
- Jul 08, 2008 11:58 pm
- Forum: The Herb & Veggie Forum
- Topic: Veggie Garden
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4195
- Jul 08, 2008 11:23 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Unknown gold... ID?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2329
Dee's
When you said Dee's Golden Jewel...I though no, that's not right and thought I have seen this hosta before! I thought immediately "Dee's Golden Goose" or just "Golden Goose". And I could have swore there was such a hosta, but alas, not in the hosta library. It does look a bit like Golden Waffles, th...
- Jul 05, 2008 9:44 am
- Forum: Container Gardens
- Topic: This year's annuals
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6577
This year's annuals
Is it the plants or the weather? Everywhere I look the annuals just seem to be "sitting." Usually the petunias are starting to looklike guerilla warriors and marigolds normally would be in full flower. This year annuals sem to look just about the way they did when planted; mine, my neighbors, the on...
- Jul 03, 2008 12:39 am
- Forum: Garden Discussion and Gallery
- Topic: stinging nettles
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3271
nettles
I had them in a raspberry bed and surprisingly used a 6" layer of mulch on April 1. When the nettles finally broke through about June 1I put down another 6" layer of mulch.
Raspberries lived. Nettles did not.
Didn;t think that would work!
Raspberries lived. Nettles did not.
Didn;t think that would work!
- Jun 22, 2008 11:54 am
- Forum: Garden Discussion and Gallery
- Topic: When do you like to mulch your garden?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2099
mulch
I mulch continuously, whenever free mulch is available! I usually wait until the ground temp has stabilized for the summer and prefer to mulch after heavy rains. I mulch my untreated lawn clippings into the garden as well as any non-perennial weeds, plant clippings, and non-seed head weeds. It's pre...
- Jun 19, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Who Else Has These......
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2139
?
Yellow flower and leaf shape says ranaculus to me, but I can't be sure from the picture.
- Jun 15, 2008 8:41 am
- Forum: Digging in the Dirt
- Topic: Mushroom and mulch!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9198