Do you have a gardening 'To Do List'?

13 years ago

I just completed a moderate kitchen remodel for my dear dear non gardening wife (if someone wants to see the new part of the kitchen I will post a couple pics). She asked if I had time to start on one of the bathrooms making a new cherry vanity and I said not really....that I had a "to do" list a mile long of things that need done now that it is spring-ish. She said just where is this list I hear so much about? I pointed to my noggin and she said "well it is lost for sure". Just to spite her I wrote it all down, heck writing it down tired me out a bit. I will post mine when I think I have remembered all the items.

So I was just wondering, do you have a gardening to do list of current and upcoming projects? If it is written down post it.

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Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
13 years ago
Ok, you asked for it. Please just don't start asking me how I'm coming on my list! I don't want to be held accountable. This is my "fun" stuff. :)

1. Spray round up for new bed.
2. Paint shutters. (Shutters already taken down, washed with soap and bleach and dried. Paint already purchased. Just need to PAINT them, darn it. Need to get on this one.)
3. Move sprinkler heads.
4. Make more hydrangea cuttings/starts.
5. Move night-blooming jasmine to sunnier location.
6. Spray camellias for tea scale.
7. Mow grass (first time in 2 months). May have to tune-up lawn mower.
8. Move oak leaves from street gutter to new bed.
9. Make more tree plant hangers for epiphyllum. (Purchased s-hooks and line; just need to make them.)
1. Pull fish hook line from lake. (Some knucklehead left a line with about 10 hooks in our lake - over on the far side. I went over to see what it was but need to go back with gloves and a bucket in which to put it when I pull it.)
2. Buy shade cloth/heavy screening and replace lower screens on back porch. (Porch faces west and current screen still allows too much sun. Plants get scorched.)
3. Bring in purple martin gourd rack. (Rope and pulley failed. The purple martin house is in the air but can't get gourd rack rope to slide through pulley. After cleaning gourds, can't get them back in the sky. So need to bring them in and fix this next year as the purple martins have already arrived.)
4. Finish planting beds. Move roses (half are moved). Plant camellias. Finish planting aztec edging. Plant brugs. Plant impatiens. (All these plants I have. I just need to finish the musical chairs.)
5. Make crown-of-thorns starts.
6. Finish repotting house plants. Hang hoyas outside.
7. Plant 100+ amaryllis seedlings.
Yay! I can't wait to get started!

Carol
tomncath
13 years ago
Holey Moly, if I wrote it down I'd be overwhelmed and decide not to do any of it because I could not possibly get it all done. Yesterday, I intended to finish my fertigation system but knew I had to trim up the lower branches of the tomatoes, add some more tomato tape and fertilize them, that lead to nine other projects that I was not planning to do that got done, but the finishing touches to the fertigation line never got touched :-) :-(

Tom
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My list is getting shorter every year because I'm trying to go lower maintenance in the yard and garden. Growing fewer things in pots because it drives me crazy to worry about them when we go out of town very long.

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-learn how to make AACT actively aerated compost tea to apply to all plants and lawn. Use less store bought fertilizers.

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-attempt to graft OGR rose cuttings onto Fortuniana stock. Tried before and scored 1 success out of 8 grafts. Try for better this time.

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gardengimp
13 years ago
-interplant the bahia lawn with frogfruit groundcover

Dang Denise, did you have to add to my to do list???

Hmmm, off to go dig up more 'weeds' from the neighborhood lawns.

~dianne
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13 years ago
I'm leaving for Cape Cod in a couple of months, so do not want to plant anything that won't be well established.

1. No more plantings!!!! (Except what is on order. Have to plant the poor things.)

2. Disregard Number 1: Bromeliad garden is a little "light". Will have to make one more trip to Tropiflora and fill in. (You'll see me in three years at swaps begging people to take them.)

3. Weed, weed, weed.

4. Break down Earth Boxes as needed. Thinking about bringing them to the Cape, if space allows.

5. Drip and micro-irrigation system needed for side and back yard.

6. Repair the Love Canal area where the underground oil tank was removed.

7. Add structural objects to the gardens, not sure what.

8. Sand and stain 32 feet of new sliders and trim, inside and out. Husband only paints boats!

9. Go to baseball games and enjoy the beautiful weather.

CB
julieyankfan
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We are finally fencing in our corner lot. We've had it opened for the 9 yrs. we've lived here, but the neighbors we used to have are gone and I would feel safer with a fence. Now I'll be able to landscape the backyard and not worry about anything "walking away" like my St. Francis statue did.
We've decided to wait till the fence is done to see what is left in the budget for our new backyard. Also getting a new AC system, so budget might be tight.
Denise, I'm trying to keep it low maintenance, too. I just can't physically do it anymore. I'm going to let the plants in the front of the house stay there and be happy. No new plants there. I'm going to concentrate all my energy on the backyard, which we see and enjoy. We have a nice fountain in the front, which we are going to move into the back and try to get rid of as much grass as we can. Hoping to do something with pavers, but that might have to wait till next year.
Carol, I was exhausted just reading your list!lol Good luck with it.
Julie
pabrocb
13 years ago
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1. No more plantings!!!! (Except what is on order. Have to plant the poor things.)

2. Disregard Number 1: Bromeliad garden is a little "light". Will have to make one more trip to Tropiflora and fill in. (You'll see me in three years at swaps begging people to take them.)

3. Weed, weed, weed.

4. Break down Earth Boxes as needed. Thinking about bringing them to the Cape, if space allows.

5. Drip and micro-irrigation system needed for side and back yard.

6. Repair the Love Canal area where the underground oil tank was removed.

7. Add structural objects to the gardens, not sure what.

8. Sand and stain 32 feet of new sliders and trim, inside and out. Husband only paints boats!

9. Go to baseball games and enjoy the beautiful weather.

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gardencpa
13 years ago
Yes, it is as long as my arm but I am afraid to write it down to keep it from being too daunting!
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13 years ago
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jwahlton
13 years ago
I try to do one each weekend. I got to everything I needed to this past weekend and will start a new list for the upcoming weekend. Which will be:

Buy tomato plants and put into containers
Move some of my seedlings into the greenhouse
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Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
13 years ago
bamboo rabbit, please tell me about propagating plumbago. I just started six plumbago cuttings a few days ago but I'm sure I did not do it correctly. I just cut off new growth, pulled off lower leaves, stuck in growing hormone and then stuck it in a small cup of soil (holes in bottom for drainage). Are you gonna use the 2-liter bottle method? Have you had previous success?
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13 years ago
Love-the-yard,

It roots ok....I just use plastic cups and place the semi woody 4"-6" inch cuttings down in to loose natural fertile soil amended with some pine fines (to increase the lightness of the soil) I place more than one cutting per cup, as a rule 3. I have started them with and without rooting hormone before and the hormone does seem to help. They are not the fastest plants to get roots, takes quite awhile. On the segments I remove all but a couple leaves. I place the plants in my bamboo propagation corral which is in 100% shade and they get auto misted a few times per day but just a few seconds each time. There are probably better ways to propagate them but that is how I do it. I would say my success rate is fairly low, about 30% but because I place 3 cuttings per cup I get at least one plant in almost every cup which is what I wanted in the first place. If anyone else has techniques for it I would love to hear them.
tinael01
13 years ago
It's planting time here! yay! My to do list:

plant tomatoes and peppers

find some really great beans to try, limas and maybe red noodle

find a place for the purple sweet potatoes and yams

help Nick eat all his carrots

learn to cook my veggies like Silvia :)

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