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Sep 14, 2007 | 2:47 PM PST
Tag: Rant

I've been surfing the internet for well over 10 years. Nothing really amazes me anymore. But when I look around some website, like this one, I get speechless.

 

Now, DO NOT GET ME WRONG, I LOVE gg. I think we all form a nice lil community based on something we all love to do and basic internet friendship.

 

But I do not understand some people posting in the forums and basically saying "I want seeds. Mail some to me!". I don't understand blogs saying "email me!"

 

Sorry, was just a lil rant. :)

I decided not to press charges for my batered eye... I mean walking in the door. yes... that's what I meant.
Sep 13, 2007 | 10:50 AM PST
Tags: Plant food , Daylies , Tomatoes

Thank you for all the warm wishes concerning my eyes! The swelling did go down during the day and evening and now, you can barely see it. 

 

To answer bloominnana, I decide to mutilate my bed of day lilies because they were packed under at least 5" of grass clippings and other things. No one really took care to remove the weeds, make sure no garbage was swept in by the wind, etc. So, it took me nearly two hours to cut the plants, remove the dead grass, remove the weed, trow out some pieces of plastic, etc. Now, it's been two or three days and I can see that the leaves have already started to grow (at least an inch from what I can see). 

It has a nice clean look to it and I am tempted to do this every year, but I most likely will not . I fear that it may weaken the plant and give me less flowers. To make sure that they do not overly propagate, I will dig a little and place some rocks or bricks or planks of wood.

 As for the potted daylilies, I haven't cut those. They are neat and without weed or debris, they are even making babies! I will keep those in pots till next summer, when I can plant them in a decorative basket outside.

 

The tomato seeds are growing nicely. they are in an old plastic donut container, with a lid. I place them outside, in the sun, during the day and take them inside the house. I know some people have very elaborate settings with light and heat sources when it comes to growing plants, but I refuse to fall into that. I will spend money for soil, plants, seeds and that's it. Being poor and cheap is a nice combo! :)

And yes that is a lot of seed. I did only pay 10 cents of all of them... So, going back to money, it seems to be even more economical to just grow your vegetables and fruits than to buy them at the store. What's your opinion? 

At any rate, If they all grow... Well, I'm SOL and PWF.  (#@!$ out of luck and pretty well f*cked). Heard that lil gem from Gorge Carlin on one of his shows and I'm making it mine! Sorry if the cursing offended anyone. :)

 So, yes, if they all grow, I will be in trouble, I know no one will take them so I will have to commit tomato genocide. and keep only 3 or 4 plants.

 

Plant food! I've had a bad experience. An out of date plant food was given to my pothos golden and my baby lemon trees. It smelt like cat pee, but hubby assured me that he purchased it a while ago and that it was actually plant food. Well my pothos golden stopped growing for a while! and it killed 2 out 3 of my lemon trees!

I've emptied the bottle, threw it  in the garbage and told it I would see it in hell. Screw that, I am not using cold coffee for my plants. I usually brew 4 VERY strong cups and mix that with a gallon of cold water. Pothos golden, lemon tree, potted daylilies and asiatic lilies seem to love it.

 

I wanted to take some pictures, but I seem to have misplaced the usb cord (SOMEONE needs to be a better housekeeper!... oh wait.... That's me!) I promes pictures as soon as that lazy house keeper find the cord!

 

Spousal abuse! Spousal abuse!
Sep 11, 2007 | 10:42 AM PST
Tags: Daylilies , Asiatic lilies , Tomato seeds

I'm being silly, hubby isn't using me as a punching bag, but I DID wake up with a very swollen left eye lid. It's not red and barely hurts, but it's very annoying.

At any rate. I went to take a look at the daylilies I've cut down yesterday and they are already growing leaves! The inner leaves have grown like .5". Now I cut the whole plant down to like 5". I may have to cut again for winter.

Now I'm starting a hunt to find big rock to use to make a neat and nice lil circle around them lil flowers.

I've also cut the spent flower stems of my Asiatic lilies. They are starting to gather up some energy for winter.

 

Last, but not least. I've planted about 90 tomato seeds (big red cherry I think). They are outside under the sun, because it's kinda cold inside.

Cleaning Daylilies
Sep 10, 2007 | 6:34 PM PST
Tags: Daylilies , Cleaning
So, I've spent the day cleaning a clump, BIG clump, of orange daylilies. I asked around if it would be better to cut them down or leave them be for the winter. The consensus was the leave them alone, BUT that cutting them down will not kill them. Since this clump has NEVER been cleaned up and that there is about 4 inches of grass clippings, I decide the cut the whole thing, to give me better access. So, now, everything is cut and everything is clean. I did find a whole brick in the soil that I am wanting to remove... an maybe use for something else, but that will have to wait till tomorrow. And the more I think about it, the more I might try to find nice big rocks to circle about that clump.