Good garden markers needed soon
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Comments (7)I cut strips from aluminum drink cans. Put them on a softish surface (like a notepad), and write on them with ballpoint pen. The writing is embossed in the surface and stands up to all kinds of weather. The strip can be pushed into the ground, or loosely curled around a branch. Recently, I've been taking a ceramics class at the senior center. I'm making simple stakes with the plant names embossed in the fresh clay with rubber stamps. Once fired, should last millennia!...See Moregarden stakes/markers
Comments (19)"mikeymollie One rainy day a couple of years ago I had my kids write names of plants and veggies I always have on smooth stones about 4-5". They wrote with permanent markers and decorated them. Then we varnished them. We use them both for the veggie garden and next to plants I never remember the name. When people walk around my garden it seems I know them by heart!" Love this one fer shur! Major good on ya, mate! Thanks a lot! :)...See MorePlant Markers For PlantMarker!
Comments (28)Scott, If you only had 1 or 200 conifers it doesn't matter. The point is to find the best plant marker out there that happens to be trouble free and will still be there long after the plant dies. That has happened to me numerous times. I then pull it up stick a new name on it and away we go. We all have different opinions. You need to decide what works best for you. I think you have enough to go on. I am sure Ken only has your best interests in mind. Opinionated for sure, but aside from that a good resource for valuable information. By the way I am opinionated also. "So since bunky only has 45-50 conifers" If you have that many then putting the correct name on a marker is a must. A conifer collector you have become. Most people that would take time to look at 50 different conifers have more then a occasional interest. Having a name on them will relieve you of the embarrassment of not knowing what you are growing. I still on occasion have to look at the tag to give correct information to the person that is interested. No big deal...who could remember all those Latin pronunciations any way. "I kind of get the feeling I'm not good enough to talk with the elites, but nobody here normally talks down to me in this way." There are a few elites on this forum and rightly so. Its easily to separate the ones that are in the know from those that think they are. I have been helped numerous times by those in the know. Straighten those feathers back up and keep on posting. We enjoy your comments and the photos of your conifers. Dave...See MoreNeed a good vine for all day sun for a garden arch
Comments (10)G.M., I think any ornamental sweet potato would adequately shade the clematis roots. However, last year I had both Blackie and Margarita (and some others as well) in containers (couldn't plant them in the yard-turned-pond) and they climbed both a trellis and a chain link fence. They did look pretty, but might try to climb and compete with your clematis. On the other hand, maybe they'd look good climbing together. The Sweet Autumn Clematis is the only really late blooming clematis I know of, generally blooming for me from late August through early September...maybe about 3 or 4 weeks of bloom. The others are spring to summer bloomers as Caroline mentioned above. I did notice our forecast has changed again and I like the new one more than the old one (if it is accurate!). I gues I'll just continue to watch the weather and do the should I plant/shouldn't I plant argument with myself for the next few days. The 22 tomato plants that I put in the ground yesterday DO look deliriously happy. I guess they are ready to spread their roots and grow. The wind has been beating the tar out of them all week, so I have had to keep a close eye on them to make sure that they didn't windburn. You can add any organic material to your beds to improve drainage and revitalize them. I like to add a little compost, a little composted cow manure, and some pine bark fines (the most finely shredded bark mulch you can fine, whether pine or not, will work). At Lowe's they usually have bagged mushroom compost, which is great, and I prefer the Black Kow (Cow?) manure they sell in bright yellow and black bags. It is 100% manure, whereas the law only requires bagged manure to contain 10% (!) manure, so many other products have a minimal amount of manure and lots of cheap, useless filler. I like pine bark fines as they break down a little more slowly and help feed the soil longer. (You want to avoid working big chunky mulch into the soil as it ties up nitrogen as it breaks down.) If you can't find finely shredded pine, you also can use finely shredded hardwood. I've even used finely shredded cedar and it didn't seem to have any adverse effect. I am watching Megan's forecast right now and it sounds like a cloudy, dreary weekend....but at least we don't look like we're going to freeze. Today's high (63) is lower than it was when I woke up yesterday morning (68). I'm off to get some mulch today for the beds that are already planted. I don't like to mulch them too heavily until the soil warms up to 70, but I do need to mulch them lightly today or I will be pulling weeds soon. And, by the way, I am too sore to do much in the garden today too. I guess you and I need to do a pre-season gardening workout to prepare us for the planting season. Caroline, I hope the moonflower seeds sprout for you. I love, love, love the flowers and they are worth the wait! (Not only are they slow to germinate, but they also are sort of late to bloom....but worth it!) I read an article many years ago in Southern Living about a groom who built a sort of open-air chapel on family land for his wedding. (It looked sort of like the framing of a building. So, I guess it really was a huge open-air trellis built to be covered with vines. The wedding was held "underneath" the trellis.) Then, he planted it with moonflowers. I think he planted some a year before so he could time when they would open. THEN, for their August wedding they timed the start of the ceremony so the flowers would oh-so-dramatically open just moments before the bride made her trip down the aisle. Can you imagine how perfectly lovely it must have been? (I hope they stayed married, 'cause a man like that sounds like a keeper!) Dawn...See Morerock_oak_deer
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