Things you can't grow here
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Comments (3)The odds favor the problem as being over-watering, or a soil too water-retentive. Plants do best when the entire soil mass is barely damp. They do poorly when a fraction of the soil remains saturated between waterings, and the larger the volume that remains saturated, the worse they do. AIR, is as important in the root zone as water. The process of water/nutrient uptake is energy driven, and requires plenty of oxygen to be performed with efficiency. Your soil choice and watering habits are tightly linked and very important to how well your plants CAN do, and how easy or difficult it is for you to bring along healthy plants. That's enough for now - I won't bombard you with tons of information, but I'll leave you with the thought that knowledge is the fastest way to a green thumb. I'll leave you a link that covers most of the basics. If you decide you want more details or to learn more about growing, let me know and I'll furnish another link or two that should provide a considerable degree of illumination. Al Here is a link that might be useful: Click me, and I'll take you to some basics .......See MoreWhy can't things grow?
Comments (18)How beautiful they are! I have the same problem here in Colorado. The deer wander through my gardens at night. I had one particular plant that they seemed to love, and it would get chomped right down to the ground on a regular basis. It was pretty agravating! In my vast variety of yard art collections, I also have old deer antlers laying around. Last summer I took a small set of antlers and stood them up alter style around the plant they liked to eat, and I have not had a problem since! I guess they must think the last guy that ate my plant must have met up with a bad ending, so they stay out of my gardens now. Sherril...See MoreMoved here? What can't you grow anymore?
Comments (15)I have had a bit of success growing delphiniums outside Raleigh. But they aren't perennial for me. I grow them as a winter annual, they bloom in late spring/early summer. If I can get them started by Thanksgiving they will be head high and glorius by mid June. There is only one garden center here that carries them as seedlings and they only get them in March. March planted seedlings only get about 3 feet tall. No matter what the cel-pak tag says they always bloom a soft blue. When I get to travel to Charleston SC in the fall (this is rare) there are a number of garden centers there that carry plenty of color choices. Those have always been my best performers. The new Millenium Series Delphiniums are magnificent in bloom but no one around here carries them. The seed's cost around one dollar per seed and delphinium seed is notoriously difficult to germinate. One big change you will notice down here is that you can truly garden all year long. There are a number of winter blooming plants that can be clustered into a "garden room" so that on warm winter days you can sit outside and pretend its spring. Check out camelias, edgeworthia, daphne, winter honeysuckle, winter hazel, witch hazel, osmanthus for bushes and hellebores, pulmonaria, hepatica, pansies/violas, snapdragons, bellis, calendula, matthiola for annuals. Winter is one my favorite times to garden (fewer bugs and cooler temps)....See MoreFavorite thing to do when you can't garden
Comments (25)Reading! Which I have lots of time for, now that I've been laid off since last November. Well, maybe not as much as I would want, since now it falls to me instead of DH to do all the stuff around the house. There's been a lot of 'finish up' work to do after the most recent remodeling. It is great fun to crawl around the floor taping and painting moldings, for example -- NOT!! But one of the projects we did was to turn our dark, yucky enclosed storage shed into a beautiful lanai, complete with painted walls, cushioned chairs and even a comfy rug underfoot. So with the summer finally arriving, there's a wonderful place for us to curl up with an iced tea and read comfortably for a relaxing afternoon. It's even better than a vacation -- just step out the door and it's there. Wonderful!...See Moremarcia_m
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