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Was Poison Ivy:now walla wallas

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Hi everyone- Oi have wallas walllas in pots ready to go into the ground that
I planted late- 5-1 hope  will they transplant ok- should I just put them
into bigger pots? The bunching onions(!) are growing under the patty pan and
we are going to have them for dinner! I have a hummingbird vine-actually a
cardinal climber- an annual planted from seed that I thought I would slip
into the bed near the trellis to help increase pollination- is it too
late?Also have a huge bougainvillea(I know they are funny about
transplanting) that needs a home- do you think it would attract pollinators
if I planted it or moved the planter to the Veggie garden? I know that the
pictures take up a lot of space=- but they sure help me be able to visualize
what I can do. You are all so darn clever! Still waiting to hear what you
all think of the vine coming off  my patty pans that looks exactly like the
lemon cuke it is planted nect to. Anyone ever have this happen? Compost pile
is getting exciting- lots of loamy soil coming up Am using oak leac=ves
fround up in a metal trash can for topdressing to mulch with becasue it is
what I have and becaseu they dter sanil, Hope this is alright-= Thanks
alll-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Missen <billmissen@sprint.ca>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Poison Ivy


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Johnnie-  (sorry, have I got the name right?) Nice to hear from you and
> welcome to the best sqfter list on the net. Your garden sounds intriguing
> being in your front yard and on a slope. Care to scan a pic or two, upload
> them to a personal web site and share the address with us?
>
> You mentioned your parks whoppers. I have one (our first) that just barely
> survived the two weeks of heavy frosts here in June. It is just now
> beginning to grow again and I hope to taste them on my hamburgers later
this
> summer.
>
> Have a great day,
> bill missen.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald L Townsend" <titustwo4@juno.com>
> To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Cc: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Poison Ivy
>
>
> | Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> |
> | Hi Everyone,
> |  This will be my first attempt at communicating with the sqft gardening
> | list.  So please forgive the lack of lingo.
> |
> | I'm not even sure this is the way to go about entering in to convo. with
> | the square footers on this list.  I once considered myself computer
> | literate, but I haven't had a computer in two years and you know how
easy
> | it is to get behind the times in the computer world.  I had never even
> | been on a web site until a couple of months ago.  Hopefully I'll get a
> | little training or something to bring me up to the new millennium.
> |
> | This is my first year of sqft gardening, and it's going great.  I may
> | have over done a little, but I've down scaled quite a bit from my last
> | years garden.  It was something like 60' x 175', of course it was to
feed
> | 80 people also.  I lived in a community and we shared all the work and
> | benefits of a corporate garden. This year finds me living in the center
> | if Historic Hollister, Missouri.  With very little gardening space.  My
> | husband and son put in three 4'x4' blocks, two 6'x4' blocks, two 3'x8'
> | blocks, and one 2'x10' blocks.  There was already one 4'x4' block
> | existing in the front yard of cinder blocks. There were a few tulips
come
> | up in the perimeter of it, this year.  I planted strawberries in this
> | block.  Because of a shade problem, most of my blocks are in the front
> | yard and are raised beds because of a sloping front yard.  I haven't
seen
> | many level yards in this part of Missouri.
> |
> | I've planted at least twenty tomato plants, one in particular is Parks
> | Whopper, and I have several really large tomatoes ripening now.  We have
> | already eaten a few of them and they are ok but not as flavorful as I
> | expected of homegrown tomatoes, I guess they are the nonacid type.  In
> | another block I have a Parks bush tomato that has much smaller fruit but
> | the flavor is far superior in my estimation.  I have had red sails,
> | butter crunch, and romaine lettuces, that are finished now and I have
> | replanted the same.  It may be too hot now but this particular block in
> | the front yard only gets sun morning till around 1:PM so I thought I'd
> | try again. I planted a few bunching onions and garlic in this same block
> | as well as a couple of sweet pepper plants.  Only one of the pepper
> | plants have fruit and then only two peppers.  They are large though.
> | This is the block with the whopper tomato plant and it shades the
peppers
> | so I guess that is why I have so few peppers.  I planted nasturtium in
> | this block also, and they are so pretty.  This is really the first time
> | I've tried planting flowers of any kind other than the standard
marigolds
> | for beneficial purposes.  I really like the added color and we eat the
> | nasturtium in our salads.
> |
> | In my two 8'x3' beds I have planted corn and two different kinds of
> | crowder peas.  Most of the corn in one bed is about eight inches tall
now
> | and the peas are doing well.  The other bed gets a little more shade and
> | not as many of the corn seeds seem to have sprouted.  It was also a
> | different type of corn, so maybe that's the problem.  Time will tell.
> | I'm learning anyway.  I really like the way it all looks, though I still
> | have quite a lot of empty spaces to plant yet.  I'm planning on a fall
> | garden as well.
> |
> | By the way I'm trying to stay as chemical free as possible, but haven't
> | been in this location long enough to have any compost yet so I am using
a
> | water soluble fertilizer now and again.  Do most of the square footers
go
> | organic?  I do prefer to.
> |
> | By the way, I had ask a few weeks ago about veggies to grow in the
shade,
> | and thanks for the response.  I also contacted The Organic Gardening web
> | site and they were very helpful.  They send a list of quite a few
veggies
> | that may grow in the shade.  I'm going to try anyway.
> |
> | Also, would the colloidal silver would be good for chigger bites?  They
> | are really bad this year and my grandchildren look like they have the
> | chicken pox.  I get bit but they don't affect me the way they do the
> | children.  Does anyone know how to get rid of them?
> |
> | Please, anyone feel free to offer suggestions as I'm new at this type of
> | gardening.
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Johnnie M.
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