Don't Think I've Ever Seen This
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Comments (104)My first Hydrangea is now in the ground for more than 25 years. At this point, I keep it for sentimental reasons only. It's gotten so THICK with canes that if I wrap it in my usual cage, I have to get everything so tight in there that I think I may actually be suffocating the plant. I've not had good luck overwintering it in recent years. This past winter I didn't even bother with it. If I were you, I'd consider taking a cutting or digging out a portion of your sentimental one and essentially start over. It would indeed be the same plant, so you could keep your sentiment. But I can understand sentiment. I should get rid of my first Hydrangea, but I'm not. For a long time I would cut back the old canes completely to the ground in the Fall. I'd only leave canes that had shot up from low points on the canes or from the crown. They would have grown all summer and would end up giving me great flowering the next year. I'd have very long stemmed flowers, too, that I had cut. The big problem with this technique is that you end up with weaker stems than you would otherwise and next summer they'd be weighted down to the ground with their flowers. I've found that, for my zone, I can usually prune as hard as I want up until about Fourth of July, just to be easy to remember, and not hurt the flowering potential for next year. After that, the buds start setting for next year and you start running into that problem. (But then I've cut some "nikkos" back to the crown in the Fall and on some I'd get great flowering and on some I'd get none. Do I really understand this? NO.) So, here is another method for you to consider to keep it smaller, at least in height. Another thing I've experimented with is to prune all the wimpy growth completely out and just end up with a few stout canes over time. This was interesting, but you end up with an artifical looking Hydrangea and the few stout canes start looking rather strange. But with this technique, more or less, you could develop a plant that wasn't so crowded. I don't know though. I wish I could help you more. I'd like an answer to the question you have, too! Hay...See MoreI don't think I've ever seen this before
Comments (21)The instructions are written that way because a lot of people who live on the Southshore of Lake Pontchatrain (where I live), will see the ad. I guess she wants them to know they have to come to the Northshore, where Covington is located. We Southshore people hate to travel the Causeway bridge to the Northshore. Northshore is like the country of New Orleans and thousands moved over there to "get away" from the city. So most of them travel to the Southshore every day for work. The folks on the Southshore however, very seldom travel to the Northshore because we hate to make that drive....See MoreThought this would be funny
Comments (28)I usually forget about the bad ones. Usually I'll suffer through it but the only movie I ever walked out of was Dancing with Wolves. We were there about 15-20 minutes and I said enough. We wanted to see a movie that night so we went to, I think it was Bachelor Party. Another one that others like but I've never really figured out was Blade Runner. It usually is so boring I fall asleep. Give me something with some comedy and/or action. The other one that I didn't think much of was with Will Smith, a western and I can't remember the name. Had the crippled guy that became a mechanical spider. It was rated argh! and approached "stoopid"....See MoreDo you like the taste of kumquats?
Comments (29)I have Meiwa, which I received as a free promo item a couple of years ago from our local insurance agent and will eat them though honestly there are a lot of citrus varieties that would be on my list ahead of it. To date I have only ever eaten them whole, sort of like eating a seeded grape, though a bit tougher, I have seen some interesting looking recipes that I want to try. Mine came from Saxon Becnel, I have bought a few other citrus trees from them, and this one by far has the poorest graft union, it was about 3 ft tall, in a 3 gallon growers pot and a bit thin, though I have to wonder if the insurance company made a deal with them to get seconds in a bulk buy (as I recall it was a choice between Owari Satsuma, Meyers Lemon or Meiwa kumquat, or some non citrus tree, since I had Owari and Meyers growing in ground already I opted for the Meiwa). Don't get me wrong, I do like them, it is just eating 1 or 2 at a time a couple of times per week and a pound of them would be about my yearly limit. By contrast something like a Cara Cara Orange might weigh a pound each, and I could eat one per day during prime season. This does not count the juicing potential of other citrus. Even Meyers lemon is higher on the list, as the perpetual year round supply of lemons is nice to have, even though 90% of them off my 5 year old Meyers tree go to waste....See Morepudgeder
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