Re: A little gardening

Hope your birthday is a happy one and all your gardens are doing well.


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 11/13/2007 12:43:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] A little gardening
>
> Hi, Cyndi--Your bay tree. Is it the Greek one, Laurus nobilis, or the 
> California one, Umbellularia californica? I grew both in Sacramento and 
> found the native much more drought tolerant. Flavor is nearly 
> identical.
>
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
>
> > I did actually get some gardening done over 3 days...not much, but 
> > some.
> > All the patio plants are in the greenhouse now.  Did I mention that I
> > managed somehow to fry the bay tree again? I think something went wrong
> > with the automatic watering, maybe a couple months ago, and it really
> > dried out before I noticed. Poor thing, almost all its leaves are
> > crunchy, but it doesn't look as bad as the time it got cooked in the
> > greenhouse, so we'll see if it recovers. It's been a little while, and 
> > I
> > don't see signs of regrowth yet but it is fall, and the stems are still
> > green and flexible.
> > One of the geraniums lost a number of big branches when I pulled it in
> > through the greenhouse door, so I am going to take cuttings and start
> > those.
> > I did a little clean-up in the veggie garden too, couldn't do too much
> > because once again we filled up all the debris containers cleaning up
> > after the horses and sheep. So I dug up what's left of the pepper 
> > plants
> > and tossed them. We still have not had a frost, so the plants are 
> > alive,
> > but since I let the chickens out into the garden there is not much left
> > of them. I left one jalapeno there, had a thought that I might try
> > cutting it back and digging it up to put in the greenhouse.  If it's
> > still there next weekend I probably will.
> > I might go to the garden store and see if there's anything pretty to 
> > put
> > in there over the winter, but I'm feeling broke.  It cost us over $100
> > to put gas in the pickup and we had to buy hay, oh my. Ouch. We'll keep
> > the sheep through next spring when they lamb, but since we have no
> > grazing we have to buy hay, I'm not sure it's worth it.  Same with the
> > chickens although there we might be able to let them roam more, they
> > could pick up some food from the horse pens.
> > Anyway back to gardening. The dry garden is still looking okay. A few 
> > of
> > the penstemons have died. They are pretty short-lived for perennials 
> > and
> > I'm getting a little bored with buying replacements so I might go for
> > something else next spring. Salvia greggii and germander sage are
> > blooming happily, some of the Russian sage too.  The front still needs 
> > a
> > bulldozer and the teahouse garden is doing okay except for whatever is
> > killing off the creeping thyme. I would like to rearrange some plants
> > in there as well, but I can wait on it. My rhododendron doesn't look
> > like it will recover. Husband refuses to believe that one week without
> > water could have killed it, and I agree it doesn't seem like common
> > sense...but it was fine before we turned off the sprinklers, and
> > completely wilted the next week. Maybe something ate all its roots.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
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> Island Jim
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> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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