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Posted: Jun/26/2009 1:15 PM PST
Birdie, do you plant lobelia seed or buy plants? Wondering how easy they would be to grow from seed. Trying to switch to mostly seeds instead of plants from nursery. also trying to root rose cuttings, plumbago cuttings and Japanese honeysuckle (pink and orange with red stem). |
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Posted: Jun/26/2009 3:11 PM PST
Michigan, Just wrote you a very long reply... it got lost when I added a photo of my Herb vegie plot. Just now I haven't the courage to begin it all over again, so I will just say welcome to Garden Guides and that I am very impressed with what you have done. I will take a break and maybe I will find the courage to rewrite the whole #% thing. Gimpy2 Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jun/26/2009 4:02 PM PST
QUOTE:MICHIGAN I have: several varieties of tomatoes including cherry and several types for canning bush pickles zucchini leeks onions green and colored bell peppers cayenne peppers I've also got several planters of flowers, petunias, coleus, vinca, dusty miller, lobelia, snapdragon, spikes, gerber daisy, marigold. Two of the planters are the hanging variety with coco mat liners. I cut holes in the bottom of these and shoved tomato seedlings up there (I said I wasn't willing to let any die!) They are DOING GREAT... so far. I hope there's enough dirt in the planters for everything. Here I go again Michigan. The photo in my other posting was an old one of one of my 5 raised beds. there are now boardwalks all around them and the covers have been changed. Those old ones flew away in the wind! Anyway, back to your pots. Very ingenious your ground cover pots! I am on dial up... I am sorry to say, too slow to permit me to go see your video. Here is an abbreviated version of my last posting to you which got lost in the ether... Zukes and cukes take up much too much room with their creepers etc. to do well in a pot unless you incorporate some sort of a climbing trellis and even then...they are heavy vegies.. ditto the pickles. You aren't the only clever one with inventions.... I took a wood trellis, framed it.. cut 6 well spaced holes in it. Attached an 8 in high 4 inch square foot to each corner. Laid it on the soil. Scraped a mound under each hole, planted a zuke or a cuke in the hole. They grow up and on top of the trellis. That way the vegies don't lie on the wet ground and don't rot.. less bugs too.. easier to harves cuz you can see what's growing. Leeks are harvested the following spring so would be better protected from winter frost if they were planted in the ground. All bush type vegies will do well in pots as they do not get too big. Cherry tomatoes, bush beans of all varieties, bell and hot peppers should all do well. I have had experience with upside-down growers for tomatoes. I had the bought variety. They did well, but were a pain to water and fertilize in this format. As for the flowers in pots.. BRING 'EM! The only exception is the vinca. It's a creeper and very invasive. Best in a garden bed, and even there you have to spade them back once or twice a year to keep them from choking out everything else! I am a lazy gardener so don't like single petunias as they have to be dead-headed daily to keep them from going to seed, after which they die off. Double petunias don't need that much attention. Cut back rigorously after the first flowering they will double production and flower happily all summer.Pansies, though lovely also have this need to be dead-headed daily.. not for me. I won't start naming all my stuff as this would run to 10 pages, instead I invite you to click on my name in this posting.. that will take you to my profile. You can read all about my gardening and see many albums of photos. When you click on an album you will see thumb-nails of the photos in each one. Click on any photo and you will see an enlargement, as well as names & details about the plants in the photo. One more note.. my experience with the coco-mat planters is that they dry out awfully fast. You have to be religious about watering them. I would have lined them with geotextile to slow the drying process. That's all for now. Congratulations on your creativity and courage. Happy gardening. Gimpy2 |
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Posted: Jun/27/2009 7:14 PM PST
I'm looking to grow the expensive varieties in my container garden. I've tried snow peas three times and have had no luck. Fall, Winter, Spring, all grew 10 inches turned white and that's all folks. Anyone try snow peas, what's the secret? |
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Posted: Jul/08/2009 7:12 PM PST
Hanging Gardens in Arizona. Your problem with the snow peas.. I am in zone 3a north eastern Canada. They grow fine here.. probably too hot where you are.. try setting the pot in a dappled shade, water often, not just the soil but the whole plant, and never when they are in the sun.. either water just before dark or very early in the morning. Watering in full sun will burn the plant. Good luck! Gimpy2 |
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Posted: Jul/12/2009 7:49 PM PST
Hi new member here, glad to be here!!! Ihave alot of flower containers in my front yard!!! In a barrel up front I have red white and blue petunias. Ihave red ruffles petunias, with white and purple petunias. I have a basket of red nurituriums. I have a nix of jewel and Alaska mix nurituriums. I have cosmos daisys, I have purple, orange and purple/yellow mini pansies. I have red and pink mumbo, with white double ruffled petunias in a wishing well. I have three baskets of multi colored nimulus. I have a mumbo pink petunia/pink million bells basket. I have a container with blue lobelia with yellow marigolds. I have another basket with a mix of blue,and lavender lobelia with orange and yellow marigolds. I have a container with pink/red snowball begonias,mixed with hot pink, speckled red geraniums. I have two baskets of cocktail begonias (red, pink, and white). I have basket of red million bells. And last but not least a basket of dusty millers with colleus in it. 
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Posted: Jul/13/2009 3:18 AM PST
Welcome, Tammy! We're glad that you're here, too! Your containers sound heavenly! |
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Posted: Jul/13/2009 11:24 PM PST
Thanks very much I take alot of pride in my garden!!!! I have a digital camera, and my husband just got a computer, when we figure it out, I'll send pictures!!!!! |
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Posted: Jul/14/2009 6:02 PM PST
couple on the front porch and window box. Weird summer here in northern minnesota, the peonies are still blooming Attachments:    |
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Posted: Jul/14/2009 6:05 PM PST
Love this one Attachments:  |
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