Asparagus not sprouting - give up or give it time?
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Give up on asparagus?
Comments (3)Asparagus needs to have good draining soil to perform well. Your enriched soil and compost would have been well served to have had some sand with it. Were the asparagus placed over hard pan non-draining soil there may be a problem with standing water...but at any rate, have patience, I remember it took almost 2 months before my ass-per-grass came thru......See MoreOk, I give up! It's time to kill it all!
Comments (1)Any product with 2,4D will kill dandelion. Spray dandelion in spring and late summer/early fall, and then reseed early fall. A healthy stand of turf will keep out a lot of dandelions....See MoreIs it time to give up on Mlle Franziska Kruger?
Comments (17)I just recently shovel pruned two roses I will not admit to having shovel pruned...because of the howls of outrage it will provoke from devotees...but they were awful in the garden here. (SdlM and Mme. Isaac Pereire) I got rid of them because the mildew was so bad that I never got an unspoilt flower in 3 years. (For those of you who've been here...I don't mean the Mme. Isaac that is climbing up the staircase...that one does well and stayed). There have been plants that I moved that did 180's for the better. We have a bed that faces south-east, and everything does better there, because ther is plenty of air circulation and a little bit of filtered afternoon shade. If I were in your shoes, I don't know what I'd do...because Franziska is a nicely shaped, nicely foliaged plant. But those "veggie centers" are not lovely, for sure. Sorry for rambling; I'd probably get rid of it. I am getting bolder about easing out plants that don't really contribute to the greater whole in some way. Jerome...See MoreIs it time to give up?
Comments (16)The hippie in me is philosophically attracted to the idea that the seeds know best. But I'm wondering if "forcing" them with a few days in indoor temps until seedlings emerge might not be a fine idea. My thinking is something like this, and only refers to weather dependent seedlings, not daylength ones. weather-dependent seedlings respond to environmental temperatures. But environmental temperatures vary widely from year to year and without obvious patterns. All my tomatoes that burst out in the 80 degree weather we got last March didnt magically "know" that the rest of the spring was going to be fantastic. And indeed we got plenty of hard frosts after that warm streak, including right up to our 90% CI last frost date of May 11th (Z5). But my tomato seedlings were tall and stocky and robust and grew fine through those frosts inside their little WS recyclable "greenhouses." So why shouldnt I simulate that freak warm spell by bringing them in after a period of cold strat, and then right back outside as soon as they start to sprout? My understanding of what makes seedlings robust, stocky and free from hardening off is that depends on everything that happens AFTER they break the seed-coat and decide to give life a go. So if I bring them in until green peeks and then back outside in their jugs, wouldnt that be just as if Mother Nature decided to give me two days of 72 degree weather and then go back to the 50s? Someone who knows more than me tell me why this is a terrible idea, otherwise I'm going to start experimenting......See Morelilydude
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