any gardeners?

“just planted 500 daffodils this morning! Its gonna look great come spring. CANT WAIT!”

“Tomatoes and houseplants. Some bulb plants around the grounds, but I live in an apt bldg and I'm not going to invest in a lot of bulbs and perennials.”

“Make sure to find a way to keep the voles and moles from finding the bulbs.

I planted daffodils for years in Maine, and only a few times did masses appear. The tried and true old fashioned yellows are the best. The minis and the ones with the colorful trumpets never did too well. Good luck, and make sure you have given them a good dose of bone meal or bulb food.”

“I was slave labor in my folks garden as a kid.
Killed my wish to ever have a garden myself.
To many farmer's markets around here to bother anyway.”

“if moles and voles can manage to burrow through our clay hardpan dirt then they are welcome to them!”

“i'm still getting fresh cucumber, tomatos, basil and summer squash. i love fresh veggis!”

“My wife and I both love gardening. Vegetable and flower. We're moving to a new home in November, so my wife spent last weekend digging up all her plants and moving them to the new house before we have our first frost.

We've always rented in the past, so it will be nice to start gardening at a home of our own.”

“My gardening season ends in July and starts up again now. I have 3 year old tomato plants that are still producing. The yjust keep growing and growing despite total neglect all summer. Pregnancy, gardening, and Florida heat are a bad combo.”

“I only have a Herb garden in my windowsill. Its hard to grow things in an apartment.”

“I've got a little space, here. Patio and garden.... no lawn.... I don't do lawn!!”

“Indiana congrats on being a home owner!

Mapleleaf, I can relate to the windowsill.

We bought a condo a couple years ago, so we have no yard just window sill and porch railing.”

“Hodgeman of BS...ain't it about BC Bud harvest time....:)”

“500 bulbs! Wow. I saw a bag of 150 at Coatco for 14.98. I want them, all through our lawn and around our little pond. Maybe next shopping trip.

We have 800 square feet of vegetable garden, but only planted half this summer.

Also have asparagus, strawberries, some raspberry and blackberry canes and a cherry tree, all too young to produce much. It's a treat to get even a handful of fresh blackberries though. The years to come will be more bountiful.

Also have some herbs and lots of perenials. I don't care much for the waste of annuals, if they don't self-seed, I don't plant them.”

“i was lucky i got this run down place with three cherry trees, a couple diffrent kinds of plumes and apricots, 4 diffrent peach trees, three apple trees a couple pears, a pomogranate tree and i just planted some dwarf citrus trees this year.”

“My favorite way of planting daffodils: clear the area where you're putting them stand at one end, and start tossing bulbs around. Wherever they land is where they get planted.”

“Yep... 'bout every 8-10 weeks, mountainmaster.... He He ;-)”

“yeah i scattered them near my stand of sweet-gum trees where i have my hammack hung”

“Amen to pereniels Sasafras. Annuals are a waste of time and money. At least most.”

“Yup! Gardners here. Just put in five raised beds in a futile effort to keep the fur kids out of the veggies. raised beds and then had to put in a sort of bamboo decorative fence to keep the dogs our. Sigh... We did get some great tomatoes and okra.”

“check ductape's driveway....”

“Dahlias...do I dare dig them up and share with friends, or allow them to multiply?

Strawberries...do they grow back next year? (perennial?)

Are zucchini squash easy to grow?

Cosmos....will that grow again next year on it's own?

Chrysanthimums....will they grow again next year?

Snapdragons...?

Roses...big bushes with tons of flowers all summer. Will I need to cut it back, or let it grow even bigger?

Honeysuckle... draws the hummingbirds. Just let it grow?

Japanese maple...only a little thing...how many years will it take to be, say, 6 feet high?”

“I am a memeber of gay gardeners of America. I live on a chicken farm in Eastern TN. I love to grow my patunias and sweetpeas in manure.”

“Depending where you live you may have to dig up the dahlia bulbs for winter.

Yes

Very easy


They are annuals but often drop seeds, and you can collect the seeds yourself.

Yes, perenials.

Same as the cosmos. But they don't drop seeds as well, may need more help from you, (collect the seeds and drop them where you want them)

Prune off dead wood, find directions online

I would let it grow crazy

Don't know.”

“Japanese Maples grow really, really slow. It will take years for it to get 6' tall. That's why the taller ones are so expensive.

A really cool tree is a Smoke Tree. They grow real fast and look cool as hell with all those wispy puffballs all over it.”

“What ever happened to spirt coyote (she's the one who started this thread)?”

“Dahlias- most of the country has to dig them up. Go ahead and do that, and share the divisions with friends.

Strawberries are perennials, but put a nice little pile of straw over them to protect them and it will also prevent weeds.

Zucchini are very easy. There are many varieties, so you can choose based on available growing area, size and quantity. I recomend some of the Italian types.

Cosmos can reseed, but you might want to add some more seed come planting time just in case.

Chrysthanthemums should do ok for most of the country, but mulch just in case.

Snapdragons are annuals but do reseed.

Roses need to be cut back and covered with mulch and burlap. How far you cut back depends on the type of rose. Go to a real nursery garden center and they can help you.

If it's Japanese honeysuckle, it's an exotic invasive. If you can keep it controlled and cut back, and you really like it, then do that.

Most Japaese maples are slow-growing. There are varieties that get a little bigger though. Take a twig with leaves to a garden center, they might be able to i.d. it for you, so you know what to expect.

There's always a trip to the bookstore for information, too.”

“Honeysuckle... mmmmmm.”

“I cut my shrub roses (rugosa? & Explorer) to the ground in July, hoping that the stress would kill them, and by September they were almost as tall as me, and flowering again. I don't know if cutting them completely back in winter is a good idea; if it isn't too cold where you are, then try thinning: cutting half the bush aprox halfway back , and the rest to the ground. Mind the thorns!!Repeat opposite way next year. Check info in books like 'pruning simplified' by Lewis Hill.”

“someone gave me a bonsai tree while i was in the hospital but im afraid i havent been giving it the attention it needs”

“Mum's grow back. They're hardy late bloomers.
Roses should be thinned out but not cut back till springtime I thought. Every species is different and honestly I don't know what I got since most of them are transplants/clones. I know the base of them should be mulched in colder climates. Is there a winter time fertilize one should be putting down?

I've already split some hostas and yanked some peonies for spring transplant, hope they make it thru the winter. My bulbs I rarely touch. If I do need to move them I do that in early spring.

Tall grasses cut now or wait till spring? I've heard that once they have been cut back to burn the base a little to stimulate growth.

Do potted geraniums survive the winter if transplanted and mulched in the ground?”

“Well I guess everyone else answered the questions.”

“My favorite! I just love those frilly little faces. Do you think CMB will dance through the pansies with me?”

“My favorite! I just love those frilly little faces. Do you think CMB will dance through the pansies with me?”

“you moron i never even spelled out "two"”

“Grasses don't usually get cut back until the end of winter. Every few years you need to dig the whole plant up and divide it, as the growth is from the middle, not the edges. You don't have to be gentle, they're hardy. Wear gloves, those blades are sharp!

As to the others, my mums grow back every year, and multiply quite well. The local garden column said not to prune the roses until spring.

With Zuccini - don't plant too many as they are really prolific. We had problems giving them away after a while. Also, we ended up with cucumber bugs and had to pull them up, but I was just as happy since it meant we weren't eating zukes with every meal.

Along those lines, small tomatoes grow more easily than large tomatoes - I like the Italian tomatoes. But again, after a while they may be hard to get rid of. We had three plants this year and were pulling a dozen tomatoes a day.”

“Geraniums are very tender; they die down in the winter, unless you bring them indoors.”

“Some of the flowers I did collect and replant seeds. Was I supposed to plant the seeds in the spring, or was it ok to plant in the fall? Cosmos & lilies & snapdragons & other unknowns.

I bought a house this year primarily because of the incredible flower garden. Unfortunately, I don't even know half the names of the 50 or so types of flowers and plants.

I do have a purple clematis which I have to keep trimmed away from the roof to prevent damage. I guess that's all it takes as far as care, but I could be wrong. (?)

I'm contemplating getting sweet peas next year as I see them flourishing wild along the highway.

Anyone grow wysteria? Is that easy to start and maintain?

The frost killed off the begonia real quick. Those won't come back by themselves, right?

Frost killed off much of my fuschia planter, but I brought it indoors and it's coming back to life happy to report.

Gladiolas, azaleas, rhodies, roses, hasta, camelia, tulips, crocus, iris, one little lupine, lilacs, pansies.

All my roses have some disease attacking the leaves with black spots which eventually kill off the leaf. I tried an Ortho spray which seems rather ineffective. Any suggestions?”

“Look for organic gardening websites, master gardening websites and find the cause of your rose spots, (probably a fungus but what do I know) and the solution. Get yourself a good perenial guide book and you'll soon know what's in your garden.

Plant the seeds the same time the plant would...fall mostly.”

“Well I planted spinach a couple weeks ago and they are growing already. Zuccini was just planted last weekend. 10 seeds in a dollar package. That's a better racket than greeting cards. Crocus were beautiful a month ago. Cherry blossoms just finished. Daffodils and some azaelas are in bloom now. Tulips are about ready to pop. Pansies are already looking good. It's going to be very strawberry year.”

“Do you realize how productive zuchini is?”

“No.

I'm not sure how well they will grow in the plot of soil I have.”

“twignut came home last night from Holland and gave us some gifts. She got me 200 Garden Bulbs of every kind of flower!

OMG 200, yes I can not wait to get them into the ground.
that was a very very cool gift from her. It will make me smile for years to come.”

“Crazy Mike and Free and way into gardening.”

“me too!”

“I'm starting one this year.

I'm thinking about having two areas of growing veggies and such. I have an area in my backyard that faces directly south and has full sun for at least 3/4 of the day in the peak growing season. I haven't added up the total sq footage, but I should be able to get a pretty good variety out of it.

The beds will be raised. I'm going to use pressure treated lumber, to raise the growing surface up about 8 inches or so. The inside of the timbers will be covered with heavy-duty sheets of plastic, to protect the soil from arsenic nasties from the timber. I also am concidering using some sort of stone in place of the timber.

Should be fun. I've been waiting to do this for quite some time now.”

“wow when your done can you come over and help me?
LOL

i have a little veggie garden
8x6 feet.
and a little Herb garden 3x4
looking forward to getting things in the ground!
it was the hardest work i have ever done, trying to get the garden tilled (sp)”

“The stone would look pretty sharp.”

“oh i got my scarecrow up this past weekend.

funny thing is i was looking at it this morning and guess what was perched on its head?


damn birds”

“We're moving at the end of June and the thought of not planting a veggie garden this year has me bummed. I'll probably put a few tomatoes in tubs so I can move them. I’ll be leaving behind some well established blueberry bushes – I’m going to try to root a few cuttings from my best producers.

On the positive side, my new yard will be about 3 times larger and has nice sandy soil - perfect for an asparagus patch!”

“I'm a gardener.”