What Is In Your Plant Ghetto ?

[journey11]

We've had so much rain the past couple of weeks. The ground is too wet to work. This happens to me nearly every year, warm enough to plant, but too wet and messy to till. WV monsoon season.

I've got two blueberry bushes in 1-gal pots with little blueberries already forming on them...no idea where I'm going to put them. A sweet shrub. 3 lantana. A flat full of Ava's zinnias and other flowers and a few dozen assorted tomatoes and pepper plants that I've bought here and there along the way. The turmeric Hoodat sent me is in pots for now until I get a spot in the raised bed ready for them. They are already coming up! Oh, and a bag of mixed caladiums.

 

[buckabucka]

I have nothing waiting to plant. No ghetto here.

Mary

That's good, because I don't think plant ghettos are allowed in California! My sister there is not allowed to hang her laundry.

I have a bunch of daylilies that need to be moved back closer to the house. They were moved out when we had a foundation put in. Plus I have many seedlings that shouldn't go out until June 1st.

 

[Nyboy]

What no clothes line

 

[Larisa]

Oh, well, it's a nightmare. There are 3 apricot tree, plum, columnar apple, raspberry, rose bush 3 (why do I need them?). A neighbor offered me the hosts. I agreed to the 2 bush. 2 Bush, instead of 2 huge bags stuffed with hosts. Now, even the hosts.

And different cuttings for containers. But it is simple.

 

[Nyboy]

My ghetto is a lot smaller today thanks to planting. Now if I can just say out of nursery.

 

[digitS']

What no clothes line

I washed my Atlas and DW's Wells Lamont gloves, yesterday. When I hung them on the line, I made sure to put more than one finger in a pin.

✌

I believe in neighborly standards. I just discovered a full clothesline about 100 yards away. I had to look through one backyard to see into another to discover it, the closest clothesline to my home. What's that make it ... about 2 clotheslines out in about 20 backyards?

A lot of these things have to be left to the homeowners but I am tired of people trying to make some kind of statement with their trash and trashed cars. Fortunately, I don't have people like that too close.

You may remember me lamenting a couple of years ago about the amount of work that the lady "down the way" put in to cleaning her yard down to bare ground. It stayed that way until it was filled with weeds.

I wondered if she had moved. After days and days of work, including the building of a large brick planter, why was it just allowed to go? Not a petunia, not a shrub, not a grass seed planted!

Well, I think she came back - if she ever left. The yard was once again laid bare. This from several years of waist-high weeds - not kidding. Already, I recognize the quack grass coming up and there isn't a single blade of Kentucky Bluegrass joining it. I see it as a monumental waste of effort. I mean, it was a dozen hours, over several days, on the part of a woman and each of the 2 men working with her.

Okay, I suppose it represents fewer hours than would have been spent maintaining a lawn or something over that time. Still!

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My ghetto has my Mother's Day peony that is about to bloom, a King David phlox, pots of different kinds of marigolds, butterfly weed, nasturtiums, hollyhocks, bee balm, Shasta Daisy, coneflowers, Delphiniums, basil, squash, cucumbers, leftover onions, leftover peppers, leftover tomatoes, leftover collards, and plants I dug up for a friend waiting to deliver to her.

 

[canesisters]

Several lambs ears
Several dusty millers
A couple of catnip and a couple rosemary
One hydrangea that I snapped up before good sense got the better of me. I now have 3 "in the ground" and 1 "waiting to plant" hydrangeas that were all hot-house gift-plants who will survive but will probably never bloom.... I have no idea why I keep falling for that too-good-to-pass-up price for plants that aren't going to work out....

 

[Nyboy]

Too-good-to-pass-up price yep been there am getting better.

 

[Beekissed]

After planting today, all I have left in my "ghetto" is a flat of peppers, sweet and hot, some borage and some sweet onion plants. Before today I had flats of maters, peppers, a huge rhubarb, strawberries, chives, etc.