Re: A Second Raised Bed
Hi Bobbi B.
I have what is known as a holding area. It is the same size as the end of my
garage where I build a cold frame facing east. Nothing I ever purchase ends up
directly in the garden. I always pot up and place in the holding area to watch the
plants for a while. Sometimes the plant may find a home in the garden within a few
months, sometime it will be out there for several years until it works into size,
or bloom or simply the "right" spot.
I am a collector at heart. Have my little lists of genus I am fascinated by
and then keep my eyes open for all the species / cultivars / forms I can find. I
then find a place for them in the garden.
My plants come from retail catalogs just like you order. I also make trades of
seeds and plants. Of course, wholesale as well. I try to grow things in my garden
for a while to see how they perform before they end up in the nursery, but yes I
pull things from the nursery display area on occasion to use in the garden.
On "left-overs" I pick two organizations each year to donate to that are
local. I also trade for things that I do not grow, but have a need for such as
shrubs and trees for my backyard habitat project.
The "old fulva" you mention below... Iris fulva?
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bobbi Brooks <lilylady@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: Re: [SG] A Second Raised Bed
> Tell us Gene, if you please,
>
> When you are planting a bed like this, how long does it take to figure out
> what you want to plant...and do you wait and order all these things new? or
> head over to your sales areas and pick out plants there?
>
> A lot of times, things here get planted that are left overs, and I find a
> good home for them until I really know where I want to put them, and then
> there is the whole process of moving sets of things! At least there is
> plenty of stock!!!!! Or else I get things and leave them in pots thinking
> that I have the perfect place for them until a job comes along and I look at
> those pots and say...oh well, use them, you (I) can always get them again!
>
> Lost plants today even, that were scheduled for a new little area recently
> cleaned out of old fulva....
>
> <BG>
>
> Bobbie
>
> > Just completed my second raised bed for this fall and got it planted,
> watered
> >and mulched for the winter to come.
