Re: Today in the garden

The only decent bagged stuff I've found are earthworm
castings, except for a product made and sold only by a
local company in Grass Valley, Ca  ( forget the
specific name right now).

Theresa
--- Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Sounds like you did accomplish something tho! Seems
> the older I get, the
> longer it takes to do 'stuff'. I am wondering if it
> is due to moving
> slower or taking more time thinking about design or
> doing more pre work
> before actually planting something.
> 
> 
> In my continuing saga of neighbors - I had to reduce
> the pile of my
> compost to keep the complaints down- ok read get rid
> of it! So now I am
> hurting for compost alternatives. I thought they
> sold something bagged,
> but when I looked for it, only found cow manure and
> mushroom compost.
> Thoughts on either of these bagged items or
> alternate items I buy/could
> use?
> 
> 
> My goal for this weekend was to work on the garden
> railroad.... but ma
> nature isn't allowing that. It has been raining
> since Friday here. A few
> good storms, but for the most part raining just
> enough to keep me
> inside. The weather map tells me today for the most
> part isn't going to
> work either. We needed the rain, and I am sure the
> weeds will love it :(
> 
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Petersen <chris@widom-assoc.com>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:10:14 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Today in the garden
> 
> 
> It's 11 PM and I just got out of the shower after a
> very long day in the
> garden. The strangest thing happened.  My left thumb
> cramped and locked
> itself against my palm! I frequently get cramps in
> my toes and calves, but
> this is my very first thumb cramp!  I had to
> literally pry it away from my
> palm! While I was performing the unclamping, I
> noticed that I forgot to wash
> my feet!  Due to the extreme heat, I left my socks
> and gardening shoes in
> the house and wore an old pair of sandals.  Talk
> about dirt- I had to use
> the ultimate nail brush that I got from last year's
> daylily convention.  It
> worked like a charm!
> 
> Well, back to gardening- my goal for today was to
> fill my patio containers.
> I do at least twenty 20" containers and about the
> same amount of smaller
> ones! I must be out of my mind! I've been doing more
> and more containers
> every year.  Most years, no one sees them besides
> family.  But, I really
> enjoy the riot of color that they provide and I get
> to try out all sorts of
> unusual annuals. 
> 
> Anyway, about mid-afternoon my husband replied that
> the nursery of plants
> didn't look like it had a dent in it! The only way
> that I can do my
> containers is to arrange all my plant material by
> color; then, I make
> choices that I hope will be pleasing. Some of the
> plants are cuttings that
> I've wintered over, so they are still small. The
> containers look out of
> proportion to the plantings for a few weeks!
> 
> It takes me so much longer than I think because I
> have to dig out the
> zillions of seedlings in the pots before I decide
> whether to discard or
> reuse some of the soil. Today, I potted up flats of
> 2" and 3" pots of
> agastache. I also repotted some of the houseplants
> that are coming outside
> for the summer. My indoor jungle is slowly
> disappearing, so I'll have to
> dismantle the temporary shelving and move the
> furniture around to fill the
> empty spaces that held hibiscus, geraniums and
> containers that I brought
> inside for the winter! 
> 
> Tomorrow there are more containers to plant and
> annuals to add here and
> there to the garden beds. Then, I have to take
> cuttings from the coleus
> plants that are looking straggly after spending the
> winter indoors. There
> are perennials to plant, grasses to cut back (I
> didn't get to all of them
> yet), the 200' of hedges need clipping, leaves are
> smothering a couple of
> shade gardens, etc. I have soooo many perennials
> that need to be thinned
> out!  There will be lots of things to pot up to give
> to gardening friends!
> Oh yeah, I'll have to drag the hose around to the
> places in the garden that
> get no irrigation (how do you get those sprinkler
> people to answer your
> calls or actually come to the house?)
> 
> The columbines are glorious right now. The azaleas
> are still beautiful. Some
> of the clematis are blooming profusely. The only
> daylily that's blooming is
> H. middendorffii.  H. dumortieri should be in bloom
> soon. I'll have to check
> my other EE's for scapes.
> 
> Chris Petersen   
> Northport, Long Island, New York
> Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00)
> 
> chris@widom-assoc.com
> My garden: http://photos.yahoo.com/chrispnpt
> 
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