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What is this plant? Yellow flower, arrow leaf
Comments (2)Now renamed Ficaria verna, I believe, aka Lesser Celandine....See Morewhat's blooming and what's happening 13 June?
Comments (13)Roses and irises and peonies! Oh my! With all that eye candy my eyes would burp if they knew how... The Zephirine Drouhin roses continue to grow up on the porch. They smell wonderful and have almost no thorns (important on a porch). This shot of irises was from a week ago. I like the change in levels - the siberian iris on top of the stone wall and Beverly Sills bearded iris on the bottom, with cotoneaster carpeting the wall. This morning I opened the shades and saw a hummingbird sitting on the Rugosa Yankee Lady. It didn't seem to be getting nectar from the rose, but the feeder is right next to it and the hummingbird was probably resting between snacks. Also in bloom: Dicentras one hellebore geraniums Biokovo and Macrorhizum one daylily Alchemilla Kalmia Leucothoe ajuga (ending) As for what's happening, I had to stake up a Carefree Beauty rose. The rose was stuffed between two big New England asters last year and refused to bloom, so I moved the asters a month or so ago. So now the rose decided to bloom, but to flop all over the irises. I made a tripod out of three 6 ft bamboo poles (on sale for 79c each at Ocean State Job Lot) and tied them together with twine. I then used a cable tie on top of the twine to make it more permanent. (Mindy might be interested). The poles are shoved into the ground a little bit which helps with stability. I don't know how well it will last, but the rose seems happy now. The tripod is lopsided, but I was working in the middle of a planting bed with a panicky rose flailing around (with thorns). Claire...See MoreGreen Arrow Peas
Comments (6)Green Arrow only gets about 24-30" tall, so you don't have to trellis them. They will intertwine with one another and sort of help hold each other up. Most of the pea pods are produced near the top of the plants so they are easy to pick. There are other varieties that are vining types and they would need a trellis if you were growing that type or you'd have a big tangled mess. When I trellis vining peas, I normally hammer green 6' or 8' tall green metal t-posts into the ground and attach woven wire fencing to the posts with zip ties. I mostly grow vining kinds of edible podded peas and don't grow green English peas any more because the green English peas just don't produce well enough here (where we usually either stay too hot too late into the fall or get too hot too early in spring for them) for me to devote space to them. Back when I did grow green English peas, Green Arrow did better for me in spring than in fall. I am pretty far south and often we still are in the 90s during the day even into October, and the peas sometimes just sit and sulk until we cool off, and then...BAM! The nights start getting too cold for them, so then their productivity drops. I still got a harvest from English peas most years, but it was a meager one most years compared to the sugar snap type peas. Edible Podded Peas, also known as Sugar Snap Peas (varieties include Sugar Snap, Super Sugar Snap, Cascadia and Sugar Lace), give me about 4 times as much of a harvest as green English peas so they're the only cool-season peas I grow any more. Do you remember the name of the cucumber variety you planted? There are vining types and bush types, so if yours won't climb a trellis, I think you likely planted a bush type. I grow cukes on the same type of trellises I use for sugar snap peas, pole beans, smaller-fruited winter squash, Armenian cukes (they are melons and not actually cucumbers), gourds, true cantaloupes, muskmelons, and icebox watermelons. Bush cucumber varieties are fine if you are growing slicing type cucumbers for fresh eating. I prefer the vining types for pickling because you need a lot of cucumbers at once to make pickles, and I get more cucumber per square foot of planted garden space from vining types. Also, for pickling, the cucumbers that grow higher above the soil on trellises are cleaner than those from bush plants that grow closer to the ground. You still have to scrub them before canning them, but I just like starting out with them being fairly clean to begin with. Normally vining types of cucumbers will climb a trellis just fine, but every now and then one of the plants obstinately decides to crawl across the ground instead. When they do that, once they have a little length on them, I pick up the vine and weave it through the trellis a bit to encourage it to climb instead of sprawling....See MoreWhat happened to the arrow at the end of our posts?
Comments (28)I don't see it; maybe because my OS is older. I can't even update Safari anymore. Possibly. I'm using 10.9.5, though, so not exactly up to date here. You do know that you can just press command+up arrow to go to the top of the page? I rarely bother with the arrow on the page, since my Ghostery list of trackers found covers it up....See Moreglenda_al
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