Nyboy
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Nice fence! here in southern Ny Daffodils just started to bloom.
Messed Up
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so lucky
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Beautiful rose, Steve. What is the name of it? Nice fence, too. Looks like a great job. You'll just have to be careful not to drive your lawnmower through it.
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digitS'
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No driving a lawnmower. The current one isn't even self-propelled. Those are kinda crazy on such a small amount of lawngrass.
I don't know the name of the rose. It was there when I moved here in 1995 - a legacy of Carl & Olive, who lived here since the 1930's.
I'm thinking seriously of taking their other rose bush out. When I arrived, it was where I now have a vigorous clematis. That rose didn't bloom the first year and I had a picture from the realtor's information which showed it, unblooming from the year before. The plant was huge but evidently not enjoying enough sunshine. I moved it and it was my best rose, out of about a half dozen I planted. Now, it's olde and had some real problems over this last, very mild winter.
Maybe I can blame olde age and the mild winter for the climbing rose's problems - rather than my clumsy, root-pruning. No, I gotta know that I'm sometimes clumsy and thoughtless ... remember that flat of onion seedlings I dumped over a few weeks ago?
Steve
I don't know the name of the rose. It was there when I moved here in 1995 - a legacy of Carl & Olive, who lived here since the 1930's.
I'm thinking seriously of taking their other rose bush out. When I arrived, it was where I now have a vigorous clematis. That rose didn't bloom the first year and I had a picture from the realtor's information which showed it, unblooming from the year before. The plant was huge but evidently not enjoying enough sunshine. I moved it and it was my best rose, out of about a half dozen I planted. Now, it's olde and had some real problems over this last, very mild winter.
Maybe I can blame olde age and the mild winter for the climbing rose's problems - rather than my clumsy, root-pruning. No, I gotta know that I'm sometimes clumsy and thoughtless ... remember that flat of onion seedlings I dumped over a few weeks ago?
Steve
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Last winter was hard on lots of roses. I just took 3 out that had been planted 3 years ago and were apparently healthy going into fall, but were inexplicably dead, or nearly so, this spring. One had a huge trunk, a good 5" in diameter, that had been blooming it's head off last summer.
Good for you for having an inherited rose live for another two decades on your watch!
Good for you for having an inherited rose live for another two decades on your watch!
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digitS'
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Interesting.
I feel like less of a mess-up, Thistle'!
I thought I'd piled a good amount of snow around them in December ... for our only especially cold weather.
Steve
I feel like less of a mess-up, Thistle'!
I thought I'd piled a good amount of snow around them in December ... for our only especially cold weather.
Steve
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What was so hard on plants last fall was that hideous cold we got for a few weeks in November with no snow cover.
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We got that first cold blast of sub-zero temperatures in October last year. No one and nothing was ready for that.
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digitS'
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It was 41ºf outdoors, yesterday morning at 7am. A little cool and risk-averse Steve was kinda drumming his digitS' about not turning on the space heaters in the hoop houses. That plastic film amounts to very little protection in those things. Still, the tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc. had all been out of the 60º comfort of the greenhouse for several nights, at least. Besides lending more room, the idea is to get those plants comfortable with lower temperatures.
Since they sit across the path of two covered garden beds, it isn't possible to water several of the flats that needed it. I'm SURE I didn't pull those plants out at 7am to run over them with the watering wand and leave them to drip in the sun for not-more-than 30 minutes:
Then this morning, it's 37º outdoors and one heater won't turn on! I've had the George Foreman grill in that hoop house with a fan for the last hour ...
Steve
Since they sit across the path of two covered garden beds, it isn't possible to water several of the flats that needed it. I'm SURE I didn't pull those plants out at 7am to run over them with the watering wand and leave them to drip in the sun for not-more-than 30 minutes:
Then this morning, it's 37º outdoors and one heater won't turn on! I've had the George Foreman grill in that hoop house with a fan for the last hour ...
Steve
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digitS'
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See the frost beginning to form on the roof of the shed?!
Shoot.
Steve
who confesses that he didn't set that heater upright on the garage shelf after its last use
. didn't expect that to permanently trip its shut-off switch ...
journey11
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I sunburned mine too. They'd been outside to harden off for the past 2 weeks and I thought I'd pull them out from the side of the house just a few feet so they could get just a little more sun. Too much. I potted them up anyway and they're already growing new leaves.
