Down and out needing to garden for my grief

[flowerbug]

... Also you mention seed libraries ? Do you mean like browse through a catalog and order ahead of the season? I have an online acct with Boston Public Library; do you mean check out those resources?

some libraries will have a garden seed collection that people work with and maintain. free for people to use. if you are into gardening you can talk to your local library and ask them if they would let you start one. the idea is similar to a book reading library, but instead of checking out books you get some seeds of whatever you would like to try to grow and in return you can bring seeds back after they grow or you can bring in things they don't have to share or ...

you can use lime in gardens if the pH is too low to bring the pH up, but you may not really need it. corn not growing can be for more than a single reason so i would not jump to that conclusion from a single attempt.

 

[Jae]

@Jae I agree with the many experienced gardeners on this forum. It would be good to add your state and growing zone. What are some of your favorite plants , how big is your garden and what can we do to help you garden wise at this time.

Have you grown amaryllis ? Big box stores have many differnt varieties and brings colorful blooms inside during the cold winters. Also paper whites, and hyacinth are wonderful inside bulbs easy to grow to bring blooms inside.

Sending healing blessings your way.

Hi , i feel like i missed this message. I will be right back. I am trying to figure out where to put my zone and state but i can't find that thread/email...
Thanks from my heart for your kind blessings
Be back soon

 

[Jae]

some libraries will have a garden seed collection that people work with and maintain. free for people to use. if you are into gardening you can talk to your local library and ask them if they would let you start one. the idea is similar to a book reading library, but instead of checking out books you get some seeds of whatever you would like to try to grow and in return you can bring seeds back after they grow or you can bring in things they don't have to share or ...

you can use lime in gardens if the pH is too low to bring the pH up, but you may not really need it. corn not growing can be for more than a single reason so i would not jump to that conclusion from a single attempt.

Ho . I missed this too, i am not good with tech. Also my corn in KY was good !! Thanks for thoughtful response, i have to get a quick paint on my porch so i will be back--

 

[SPedigrees]

Hi , i feel like i missed this message. I will be right back. I am trying to figure out where to put my zone and state but i can't find that thread/email...
Thanks from my heart for your kind blessings
Be back soon

Here ya go: Just click on your profile picture at top right of The Easy Garden page

- then click on 'account details' in box that opens

- scroll down this page to "location" and add your details. (You can be as specific or as vague as you want, just a state, or just a growing zone would be helpful.)

(Ignore the over-complicated instructions I first posted with my apologies. This is a simpler path.)

 

[Jae]

Here ya go: Just click on your profile picture at top right of The Easy Garden page

- then click on 'account details' in box that opens

- scroll down this page to "location" and add your details. (You can be as specific or as vague as you want, just a state, or just a growing zone would be helpful.)

(Ignore the over-complicated instructions I first posted with my apologies. This is a simpler path.)

I didn't scroll down enough!!

 

[baymule]

A double fence will keep deer out. Keep the alley wide enough to mow. Deer can’t navigate the double fence and will stay out.

Glad you joined, no matter our background, no matter where we live or where we are in life, we are GARDENERS! I moved 2 years ago and haven’t cleared a spot for an in ground garden yet, and container gardening has been a bust. Sigh…. Oh well.

A little eye candy from this past spring. Triplets!

 

[Jae]

A double fence will keep deer out. Keep the alley wide enough to mow. Deer can’t navigate the double fence and will stay out.

Glad you joined, no matter our background, no matter where we live or where we are in life, we are GARDENERS! I moved 2 years ago and haven’t cleared a spot for an in ground garden yet, and container gardening has been a bust. Sigh…. Oh well.

A little eye candy from this past spring. Triplets!

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Oh my goodness, they're beautiful. To be honest, we live in such a rocky area that a lot of the times I plant in buckets and grow bags and I plant in the ground too. That's really interesting. How deer can't handle two fences. We have a place in New Hampshire and we are on a lake and we see bears before winter sets in we catch them on our video cameras you know placed on your house and you just see them strolling through the back of the house strolling through the driveway. It's really cool and they only come at like 2 AM in the morning or 1 AM.
We see Fox, no rabbits, possums, and a beaver we've seen and some more animals I just can't remember right now. I love to seeing the fox it was white and I didn't know that foxes change their color cause it definitely looked like a fox.

 

[ninnymary]

I'm sure this is rare but we have Little Book Libraries and Seed Libraries throughout our neighborhoods. They are little houses on posts. My husband and I always stop to see what they have while on our walks.

The seed libraries are stocked twice a year by the Alameda Backyard Growers of which I'm a member of. We have seed parties where we bag seeds to restock these libraries. We also pick fruits from people's trees and donate it to the food bank. It's fun picking fruit cause you get to bring some home too.

Mary

 

[ducks4you]

RE: Amaryllis, the big New thing for Christmas 2023 (and also for 2024), is "wax Amaryllis", which means that they chop off the roots, insultate the bulb in wax and claim that it will flower without any water.
My experience from last year is that our amaryllis Did flower, 4 of them. Ours was glued to a wooden board. After the flowering had faded we wrenched it loose, I put it in a shallow container (that had held cake frosting), and kept changing the water. It grew very nice roots. I kept it going all year, putting it downstairs in it's pot, in the dark and to dry.
I will need to send down help, but I believe it is probably waking up now and ready to have new soil and kitchen light and rebloom.
Dunno, I think treating bulbs like this is criminal.
Just MHO...

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

I have removed the wax from many waxed amaryllis over the last few years. It’s been my experience that basal plate removed was a rumor going round for years, or the roots - Not True . The bulb has enough moisture as is to bloom insitsu the same year it is waxed. Then simply remove the wax after the blooming cycle is complete and plant as usual in soil/ pots.

I get them every year . Some bulbs are from Africa the southern grown south of the equator which after the holiday bloom complete then plant in a pot of soil will rebloom June July. Other bulbs are from the northern countries from north of the equator and when potted in soil will bloom the next holiday in Nov/Dec.

There are a few local companies that grow Amaryllis bulbs on the warmer side of the US on the east coast. In my experience these bulbs are small and have not bloomed in the 4 years I have had them.

You want those huge big bulbs for holiday blooms. They will be the stars of the party. I have a collection of quite a few bulbs that are all under bright grow lite in pots sending up blooms buds for the holidays.

Every year a group of my friends take waxed amaryllis bulbs to a senior rehab/assisted living facility, then we retrieve them after the holidays to remove the wax , clean the bulb and replant in soil/pot for the next season blooms.