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Comments (21)You should do well with sweet potatoes from a local type. I've grown sweet potatoes in zone 6 with great luck then last year when I grew them here it wasn't so good. I don't attribute my bad luck to the zone or variety but my very poor growing conditions, bind weed choked them out and it was a wonder I even got "fingerlings," LOL. I grew sprouts one time and the actual sprouts didn't appear until late in the season. I don't know if that is normal or what but they say they like a bit of cold weather on the end of growing (like cabbage), which they got. They were very good! It's only been a few days but I stood watch this morning as I let one of my big girls find her way to the little girl's run. She promptly pecked at anything she could reach. I expected some pecking but it seemed rather harsh so now I'm a little nervous about putting them all together at some point. I don't have the facilities to keep everyone separate permanently. The little girls are living in a rather make-shift shelter. I had planned a week or two and it hasn't been that long so maybe the older girls will adjust. The little girls don't look so little just in that time, though. It seems that they have just blown up since Friday when we put them out there!! Sorry so long-winded, Lori...See Morebloom gone, can I bring orchids back to life?
Comments (3)Hope this little bit of info will be of some help. First off here is a website with good info for you. Needless to say there are many,many more. http://www.robert-bedard.com/orchids/phal_culture.html I have 9 phals all in bloom right now as they do every years for the past 7 years. It seems this is when they do their thing so to speak. Don't over water them and let the branch that the blooms were on die back then you may cut it. If it stays green there is a slight chance you may get another bloom but highly unlikely. Put them outdoors, if possible when the weather permits and come fall let them experience the temperature changes. This will cause them to put out spikes. All of the info you google up is good for what you need to know as I have found these to be he easiest orchids to grow. Happy growing. By the way I'm from Massachusetts....See MoreThings are beginning to settle down
Comments (11)Jan, I'm so glad to hear the storm is nearly past and you are enjoying the calm of the moment. Maybe there is no such thing as a "perfect" decision, but you've done something that many people in your stead could not have done: You made a decision, you saw it through, you accepted help when you needed it, you made peace with your mistakes along the way, and you are living in the land of "now" (not what once was, nor what could have been). For that I applaud you. Life is full of change regardless of whether we are ready for it or not. (Easier said than accepted!) Kudos to you for recognizing the direction of the current and navigating it in a graceful manner... and not fighting it until you drown! Maryanne, I did not realize you were not divorced years ago! How awful for such a thing to drag on without an end! How idiotic for him to make it more painful than it needs to be... for all the parties involved! Courage. Once it's severed, his leverage is gone....See MoreCutting out the dead wood....!
Comments (6)I'm very much at the 'playing around with ideas' stage.... I'm worried that the beautiful young 'Wolf Eyes' Kousa dogwood on the other side of the shed is struggling with too dry conditions there and may not survive too long. So, I'm thinking maybe I should plant one somewhere in this area. (Since the property drains to this side of the yard, there is more moisture available - too much in spring in the nearby 'wet corner' area....) My first thought was to move one of the Persicaria polymorphas nearby, plant it by the shed and plant the dogwood in its place. But the Persicaria would likely get too big for the spot by the shed. This fall I removed two goatsbeards flanking the end of a path nearby and replaced them with 'Pink Spike' Actaea because they had got too big and were blocking the path. So I don't want to repeat that problem. Currently, around the willow base has largely been empty most of the time - there are trilliums and marsh marigolds in the spring that go dormant. There are also some forget-me-nots that seeded in and a bit of a tiarella that rambled in from the front of the shed. I'm thinking maybe just adding something like El Nino hosta that might look good with the dogwood - or might be too busy with it, so I'm not sure about that idea.... Where the pine came down is likely not going to be planted with anything in particular. It's very dry there - there are misc. perennial geraniums and nondescript brunneras under there; a few striped squill bulbs show up in spring; a mess of suckering clethra somehow manages to survive there too. I'll just let them continue to fill in there as it wouldn't be worth the effort to try to do something more organized with that space! I was playing around with MS Paint this morning on the plan bed layout I had made of the backyard years ago. I was trying to mark in the change we made this spring to the lawn (adding the path on the south side). I marked where the trees were removed and noted things that affect my thoughts for changes. ~D = 'struggling 'Wolf Eyes'; D? = potential new 'Wolf Eyes'; A = Actaea 'Pink Spike'. Here is a picture I took in early October, showing the willow against the shed. You can see a native dogwood on the right side just starting to show rather disappointing color!...See Morefriedag
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