RE: A little gardening

Island Jim, I forgot to tell you, I got the pepper seeds, thank you very
much! I'm not sure how big my veggie garden will be next year but I just
gotta have peppers.

Cyndi


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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:30 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] A little gardening

I don't know. I never noticed much difference in flavor, but a marked
difference in intensity--with the native somewhat bland when compared
with the Greek. [All this reminds me that I need to dry some more
leaves--seems every time I dry some, Ms Fatma finds another relative to
send them to.]



On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> It's Laurus nobilis. I have tried leaves off the California one - my
> stepmother used to give us plenty of them - but while they smelled
> similar I found the taste different. Weird huh.  Could have been that
> particular tree I suppose.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of james singer
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:41 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> 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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