What do you do with your container plants in a very windy/rainy storm?
Heruga (7a Northern NJ)
7 years ago
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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Do you plant your tulips or daffs in containers?
Comments (5)It can be useful to use a bulb basket for planting out if you have a small garden. It's a bit easier to locate the plastic container and reduce the risk of bulb kebabs on your garden fork...:-((. Then you can clear away the bulbs in time to plant up for a summer's display and watering regime. If you want to do this - be sure that the pots you use have very generous holes otherwise the daffs particularly will circle the pot many times before they find an exit. Not optimum for developing buds and reserves for the following year. Also - some Narcissus seem to be downright picky about flowering in pots more than once. (Jonquils. Tazetta.) Others, such as Tete a tete and Jetfire are quite uninhibited and multiply generously. The system you're proposing - lift and replant annually - definitely works in my zone. Make sure you select your bulbs for size and keep the smaller bulbs together for growing on. Tulips. Deep pots are better, IMO. They provide enough room for the droppers and the formation of the new bulbs. But I'd have to be very fond of the variety before I'd be excavating foot-deep holes....See MoreWhat do you do with YOUR plant tags???
Comments (15)I have a fairly large garden (about 1 1/2 acres) and I have several different gardens within my garden, rock garden, perennial garden, trees, shrubs, native, wildflower and this year I've started a vegetable garden. I made drawings of each garden area and identified the plants on the drawing. I'm not artistic so they are just little circles with the names of the plants and approximate size in proportionate to the area. I've saved the labels from the original plants and put them in separate envelopes with the name of the bed on the envelope, like "side of house" "entry way" "rock garden" "shade garden", etc. I've also printed out or copied from a garden book a page that describes the plant and how to care for it and put them in a notebook. This year I purchased the 2-prong zinc markers from Lee Valley to put in the ground in front of the plant because I like to walk around my yard and see the actual plant growing and know what it's called. I started out about 3 years ago when we moved to this house with land and I was pretty new at this level of gardening. I always had a small yard and did a little gardening, but nothing like this. This method has really helped me learn the names, site requirements and care for most of the plants I have. Keeping up with the weeding, deadheading, and preventing the critters from eating everything is another matter!! :)...See MoreHow do you keep your containers from blowing away?
Comments (23)I just figured out the easiest way to do mine. We have strong winds at times, but the house will shelter some of it. My half gallon jugs, I thought I'd cut the right length of twine or some nylon cord and tie easy loops in each end. Then I'll wrap the twine around all the jugs and use a twistie to secure the loops, tying them all together. May do another level of it in case it slips down, can run the twine through the handles of the jugs on the perimeter. I hope it will work. I can easily open it up to check plants more closely, read labels, or move the whole group, etc., and just twist them back together again. I guess I can just pick out any jug in the group, lift it up, inspect it, deal with anything needed, and just slip it back in again without untying. When I get to the pepsi bottles, I may do the same thing rather than try to stick them in a box or burn holes in something I'd rather not. As I start planting out, I can just shorten the twine and tie another loop at one end and twist together again. I'm just setting them on the sidewalk for now, hope they'll drain ok, probably better than they would have when I set them on the ground. The ground can get saturated from melting snow and cause the water in the jugs not to drain very well or maybe I'm wrong about that....See MoreWhat do you wish you had NEVER planted? & Which plants do you love?
Comments (53)PK, I pulled it up as soon as I saw the first leaves emerge. When I pull up an invasive, I don't merely tug and yank, I get my hand weeder (or shovel) and go down deep to get the roots. Merely pulling the plant up usually leaves too much root behind. Even in places where I could not get rid of every bit of root, I just made sure that I cut off every leaf that sprouted, which insured the death of the plant trying to emerge. Diligently removing emerging foliage on pesky invasives (such as alstromeria) worked well for me because the little brittle roots were impossible to dig up. Molly...See Morerina_Ontario,Canada 5a
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHeruga (7a Northern NJ)
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