slow beets, every year
daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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Iris reticulata: getting blooms every year
Comments (6)The Iris reticulata at our place live in fairly large pots - about 14" across and about 10" deep. (We have a tendency to make bulb kebabs with the garden fork...) The mix is free-draining and has pumice included. The bulbs are planted around four inches deep, and they were planted at the 'right time' of the year. After flowering they are fed with tomato fertiliser, or slow release. Over summer they receive rain water and the occasional splosh from a passing hose. They don't actually 'bake', as such. And they are rarely disturbed. I probably won't decant them until they are more crowded - perhaps next year. They've been in those pots for at least three years. Huey, the Weather God, has sent a couple of mild summers our way and the retics have responded with plenty of flowers - pale and dark blue, and the purply-red ones. The leaves come up between four and six inches high before they complete their cycle. This year I bought some end of season bulbs and planted them close to the surface and in a shallow bowl, about six inches in depth. They have come up and several have flowered. The leaves came first and are about 12" high. I bought a further bunch and have potted them on but they have yet to appear although a nosey finger says that roots have begun and a few tentative shoots have emerged. It has been an exceptionally wet winter. This last lot were bought in July (your January equivalent). I'm interested to see how they'll respond in subsequent years....See MoreSlow beets
Comments (1)The best beets I ever raised cae from a bed I hadn't amended for over a year...See MoreKitchen sink drains very slowing every now and then.
Comments (6)Drain line seems normal from the pic (apart from the disconnected DW line as you mentioned), you are either plugged at the vent or plugged in the drain line. More likely plugged in the drain line, if the vent was plugged it would act odd or siphon your trap causing sewer gas instead of coming to a complete halt. Kitchen drains have the tendency to cause a soft plug aka a clog from grease/food/etc which a snake will open temporarily but will close back up soon. The ideal item to use is a blow bag for kitchen drain lines. If this item is above your skill set, employ a plumber. Mention the blow bag to them if they try to snake instead. Dont use any more chemicals, they could damage your drain line or melt the adhesive holding the pipes together....See MoreGaps in bed reworked last year: dead or slow?
Comments (11)My daughter grew Obsidian at her old house. Spectacular specimen - in a dry environment under a wide eave and morning sun..just like yours! All my dark ones thrive in hot morning sun, some in all day sun, and well drained soil. Acteas, dark ones, are so beautiful! Mine isn't that tall anymore but it has adjusted to being grown out front of the house where it is sunny, hot, dry and windy. Flowered first year and second because I faithfully watered it. No flowers since I cut off the umbellical cord but glorious foliage and texture. The foliage is darker and richer with more sun exposure, I found. I tried the second one in more shade - it developed a greener colour and as I have read, did not abide my transplanting it :( . Price is an ouch, agree! I wanted to post a photo of the polemonium foliage for you but ran out of daylight. Will do so tomorrow. Still in pot from last year....See Morejacoblockcuff (z5b/6a CNTRL Missouri
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