Just an introduction - moving to Saskatchewan!
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Saskatchewan Daylily Lovers - U There?
Comments (7)I agree with Brenda about using roundup on the grass...with quack-grass especially, it'll just keep on growing, even if it is upside down and half buried! I think I recall you not being a fan of chemicals...if you don't really kill all the grass though, you'll have to put up with yanking up quack grass for...forever. There are all sorts of perennials that I interplant with my daylilies, but some of my fav combinations are: lilies (the daylily foliage hides their "caterpillar" like stem/leaves), liatris, veronica, phlox(so yes, I think that'll look great!), roses, iris....actually, come to think of it, I have almost all the stuff that Brenda has mixed in with mine!! Except that all my bleeding hearts/hostas/other shade plants are on the north side of the house, where I don't grow any daylilies. The amended depth of my finished beds is 24", which is probably overkill. My husband uses a pick-ax to break up our rock hard clay soil, and he shovels it out into a big pile. So thank GOODNESS he does that part of it, because it takes me forever and a day when I do it. The rest of the work I do myself: Break up the clay clods with a hoe, mix a bunch of peat moss into it (at least 30% of my "dirt" is peat moss), then shovel it back into the bed. If I could afford it, I would also mix in a ton of vermiculite to help improve the drainage. The I top dress with old manure. If you can get ahold of topsoil, that would be great. I don't really have any I can use around my farm. So yep, all the garden work has to be done with pick-ax, hoe, shovel, and wheelbarrow(which I use for moving rocks around). I don't enjoy that kind of work at ALL. I'm totally into puttering, not shoveling! ;) But at least once it is done, you have good soil to start with. Oh, and I like Brenda's idea of a mower running strip thingy for the edge of your bed. That way you don't have to drag the one side of the mower into the edge of your bed so that you can get all the grass. Whichever works!...See MoreSaskatchewan Gardeners, You Still There?
Comments (8)My first iris opened yesterday, but I don't think it's quite right . . . I think the frost caused a problem for the bud, because the petals and falls are all twisted. Of course, I just moved to this house and inherited these irises, so maybe that's what they always look like, but I doubt it. I've already killed all six broccoli that I raised from seed, by leaving them uncovered for the hard frosts, and damaged the 4 that I bought to replace them by forgetting to water them for a few too many days when my brand new sprinkler broke. Sigh. We might still get broccoli this year . . . On the bright side, the orchard is looking nice. All the little trees that I planted about a month ago are looking happy, with either buds or flowers on all the apples except two (well, three including the one that I killed with too-fresh manure, despite innumerable warnings), buds on the evans cherry, and saskatoons that look like they are planning to set fruit, even though they're only 2.5 ft tall. The bleeding heart is finally getting sizable buds, it took so long that nobody (including me) believed that it WAS a bleeding heart. Most of the veggies are happy too, the peas were completely unperturbed by the multiple frosts since I planted them on May 4, and all the corn and beans that were up seem to have survived with covers. Some of the corn even survived with no covers, it's a good thing it was only 1 inch tall! Three days ago I was pretty depressed, but now I'm ready to forgive and forget . . . as long as that's the last frost until fall :) It's nice to hear from other gardeners going through the same things I am, I think I like this forum! It makes me feel better, and I pass on the feeling to a friend who just moved from Vancouver to Saskatoon . . . this is her first spring there, and she's trying to start a new garden, in this crazy spring. Thanks for the support, everyone!...See MoreIntroductions
Comments (11)Greetings and Salutations!! Welcome to the land of red clay! :-) Definitely come to the swap, and if you have one, bring an SUV or truck. (Suja's not kidding about the nondiscriminating thing.) Last year, my DH (dear husband) almost had to walk home because our SUV was COMPLETELY full!!! Then in the fall, I had grasses bungeed to the top of the 4Runner. The people on this forum are FABULOUS!! Friendly and generous. Let us know what conditions you have (sunny, shade, wet, dry, etc.) and we can make plant suggestions. If you are interested in Native plants, there are several sales throughout the year. (See Link Below for a few.) Happy Gardening!! Jen Here is a link that might be useful: Native Plants Sales...See MoreHow to dormant mini roses in zone 2b Saskatchewan
Comments (2)Hi Seil! Thanks so much for the reply. I have been growing them under metal hallides, I thinking 400 Watt's. I am not sure as my bf got them from when he built the target store here. They are big and you can see the light they emit all the way down the block. I can't even look at them without being blinded LOL. But boy do they do the trick for alot of my plants. I got my oleander next to the and plan to grow some orchids under them. We made sure the foot candles was far enough away to ensure no scortching of leaves and blooms. I have run these things for about 4 months now and all sorts of things are sprouting up, even my foxtail fern, that i had no idea flowers, formed little white buds. I am on the look out now for a fridge on kijiji but so far no luck. I do want to dormant them, and let them rest but I supposed just to keep them going as you said would be better for them so that they don't struggle. Thanks for the advice!...See Morexmpraedicta
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