What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

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Call me crazy but I moved this rose, buds and all. Darn thing blooms even in winter and doesn't go dormantView attachment 18224 . I know it'll do just fine. :D
Roses can be TOUGH. I bought a lavender rose for my DD. For two years it sat it a big pot, outside in the summer, inside in a NORTH FACING WINDOW!!! in the winter, finally to my DD's south facing bed last summer. It flowered the whole time. I knew it would do well bc it lived so long being ignored.
I have had poor success with the cheapy roses, and many of them died with lavish care from me. I think this rose was a Jackson & Perkins rose that I bought from Lowe's garden center.
Don't forget, they LOVE straight from the horse manure during the summer Right at the roots. I learned this from my DH, who recanted his aunts who would grab their shovels whenever the milkman's wagon came by, in case his horse would make a deposit, and then put the manure straight on their roses.
 

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It was a good video even with the auto captions - although it was a little goofy with awkward word order and references to "lakes" ;). That's how I listen to tv and video, @ChickenGrass . I wonder if accent helps or hinders auto captions ...

Greedy leaks? They are! Feeding them with sidedressing and moving soil takes care. One season of doing it casually teaches the lesson that those straplike leaves catch and hold anything dropped on the plants. One difference in the presenter's garden and mine is that there must be a long season in that garden. Whatever the length, leeks can benefit from every day of the growing season.

Roses can be tough. The climber growing over my backyard gate was in the way of a new fencepost. I punched a hole down right beside it, within inches. Some of the vines died that year but the plant was self-rooted and sent up another ground shoot. By the 3rd year, it was a larger plant than at any time during the 20+ years I have lived here! I don't recommend my treatment but I'm happy how things turned out.

Steve
 

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Ducks, it is a David Austin rose that I was going to throw away because I wasn't crazy about the color. It was too pale and didn't show well from a distance. But I found a spot for it. Of course, now it will live and flourish!

Mary
 

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Roses can be tough. The climber growing over my backyard gate was in the way of a new fencepost. I punched a hole down right beside it, within inches. Some of the vines died that year but the plant was self-rooted and sent up another ground shoot. By the 3rd year, it was a larger plant than at any time during the 20+ years I have lived here! I don't recommend my treatment but I'm happy how things turned out.

Well actually Steve that's not a bad recommendation at all. Root pruning (in the ground) makes sulky growers get with it and put on better growth and bloom.
 

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I forgot to tell you that I am growing a red Amaryllis and Cupid's Dart
http://www.gardenersnet.com/flower/cupid.htm
I never heard of them when I bought the seeds last Spring, but I DID myself a favor and saved the package. They sprouted last summer in a pot and I kept them on the south facing windowsill of my porch. They grew a few inches and then just sat there...doing nothing...not dying. I moved them inside and put them by my kitchen sink, where they are getting indirect light from a south facing window. Now they are all about 8 inches tall, growing slowly, still..not doing much, BUT I can see the barbs on the leaves, so I guess that's SOMEthing.
Here is the best picture that I could find to show you the (soft) barbs on leaves.
http://www.actaplantarum.org/floraitaliae/download/file.php?id=296826
I pulled in the tropical hibiscus before the freeze and put it in my basement. For TWO MONTHS it sat neglected, sometimes watered, sometimes in the dark, sometimes in the pantry with the light on for 3-4 days straight, then darkness. Finally I put it on the old basement kitchen counter next to a south facing window. It has flowered.
Go figure.... :hu
 
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Beans, peas & pumpkins.

I'm already behind on getting my garden going this year ... which is going to be a REAL disappointment if I don't get MOVING since I ordered all those seeds...
But my focus right now is the pastures. One of mine was damaged by overgrazing through the fall & winter. I've overseeded with rye, barley, oats & peas. That's all coming up nicely. In that same field, there are 3 LARGE, DEEP pads of waste hay where round bales had been placed. Moving what would easily be a half ton of hay/mud/manure is beyond me. So I'm going to just toss in some seeds of things that the cows will benefit from and let the vines rush that decomposing along. Beans, peas & pumpkins going into the hay packs soon. Probably some sunflower and corn while I'm at it.

Searching for a cheap source for straw this year. I want to go from a 10bale garden to about a 25-30bale garden.
 

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Wow guess why we have 3/4 of an acre now ... did not want full fledged
farm and if there was the land you almost have to in my book :idunno
 
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