What's On Your 2013 Wishlist?
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June 2013 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
Comments (42)Love the new pics. You know, I'm ashamed because I have no excuse for not growing figs or grapes. I know so many people in person and on our fun forum that have had great results for years. Great pics and information Queenie and all! Here's something looking good this morning, a first bloom on our native passion flower, Passiflora foetida. It's got a ton of other flower buds too. I bought it as a tiny seedling at the last AZ Rare Fruit Growers sale (always worth going!) and now it's got three or four stems each over 7 feet long. Fun! This stem/branch is climbing up and over an orange tree. Anyway, I thought folks might enjoy it so here it is. The blooms aren't as large as some of the more tropical types, but our good ol' native species is immune to anything our climate can give it. My little covered patio is looking good these days too. Nothing fancy, but it's a nice space where I sit with hot coffee and the newspaper (paper or iPad version if the paper version is late) almost every day of the year, prior to doing some *quiet* early morning gardening chores. Happy gardening! Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden June 2013...See MoreNovember 2013 what looks good/bad in your garden?
Comments (26)Interesting information, Mary, thanks for taking the time/effort to post it. Interesting about it being toxic to the caterpillars! Good to know! Here's a plant that's looking good now, as it does every single day of the year, good ol' Euphorbia rigida in my front garden. I have several of them out front. Some get full sun all year and some get full sun in summer and mostly shade in winter. All grow, thrive and bloom for me. I water them once a month in winter and once every week or every other week in summer. That's it. The only real maintenance is a quick once-a-year trimming of stems that have bloomed and set seed. Stems that bloomed will die (but there are always other stems that won't bloom until next year), so I trim them back to about 3 inches (new side shoots sprout from the base of the fading just-set-seed stems). So easy. The trimming is once a year, and takes a whopping 5 minutes a plant. I don't know why everyone doesn't grow these! In any case, here are a couple of kinda bad pics from this afternoon, LOL. That's an Agave parry and a "cardon" cactus (Pachycereus pringlei, a muuuuch faster, bluer growing relative of the saguaro) to the right in the first pic. Happy gardening all! Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden November 2013...See MoreWhat's Blooming in your garden - a photo thread - July 2013
Comments (88)Dee No worries about your review of the URI article. I was a bit put off by the lawn/imidocloprid thing myself. Usually the URI entomology articles are quite good, but that one wasn't. I did however, find a link through that article to Arbico Organics that sells a variety of different kinds of beneficial nematodes. I've been looking for Steinernema Carpocapse for some time. Not only does this nematode control grubs, it also is the only beneficial nem that will control foliar nematodes. Foliar nems are a real problem in Hostas and are hard to control. The link is below. Thanks for the Prarie Sun ID. Lost the tag on that one. H. Cracker Crumbs is a mini. I little bright gold thing. Bella Anna is always pink, regardess of pH. The only drawback is that it flops like Annabelle does. I need to get some Peony supports for it. I bought that one for $5 at Weston Nurseries in November after the pallet sale broke up. It's grown well. Enjoy the weekend. It's going to get hot next week. Remember, nothing lasts in the garden. Steve Here is a link that might be useful: Arbico Organics...See MoreWhat custom features are on your wishlist
Comments (11)@CT_Newbie, For our charging station, we have an outlet installed in the back of one of our island cabinets. It has one outlet and two USB plugs, instead of the usual two outlets. Our island has a stud wall in the middle of it for support of the granite overhang and the outlet is really mounted to that and sticks into the back of the cabinet. You can put such an outlet into any cabinet that backs to a wall. Our microwave is above a single oven. Both are a comfortable height for DW. I would think that having a microwave under the counter would not be comfortable, as you have to bend over to even use the controls. I don't expect the molding around our island to create any more work to clean (it was installed just yesterday). No more than any other baseboard molding in our home. It does stick out a bit but no more than the doors and decorative panels on the sides and back of the island. On fillers, many cabinet makers only deal with 3" width increments. So, if there is a gap in the layout, it will get filled with a piece of wood that is finished the same as the cabinets. We went with a local custom cabinet maker and they size cabinets in 1/8" increments. They only used 3/4" filler strips at the walls to start a run. That was to ensure that the doors would open properly. Filler strips are just dead space, so minimize them, if you can....See More- 11 years ago
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