August in my hosta garden
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Some August shots from my garden
Comments (7)Will, I have 390 conifer varieties at this moment, but the fence is for my two young dogs....:) Smivies - this garden is a "temporary storage" for my conifers... In my garden now is "Big Transplantation":) All hardy plants I relocated to my meadow (3ha) in zone 5. All sensitive plants for zone 6 will stay in the old little garden. I start to plant my new garden this summer - Here are some plants from my old little garden too. And I have enough space finally, what a joy!:)...See MoreGrowing my garden: hosta by hosta
Comments (13)Wow, this board is really buzzing! So many comments in such a short time period from such helpful gardeners! Thanks, all, for responding and for the warm welcome. I'm in NJ. I actually have that in my profile, and I'm unsure as to why it's not showing up on my posts. (I don't see preferences to show/hide it.) jadie88, I was searching for variegated Solomon's Seal last summer but had no luck finding it. And this year I decided I want to try red astilbe with some lighter-colored hostas to brighten up some areas between bushes. I don't have a lot of money to spend because I'm starting my raised-bed vegetable garden this year. But I do still need to add to my gardens out front. I planted them last spring after buying my house in the fall. The front does get sun, but it's rather uneven; the right side gets more than the left due to the sizes of the trees in front. I didn't realize how much of a difference there was until I saw how the plants/flowers were growing. The impatients on the right side seemed to triple in size, while the left side did not get much larger at all! So now I must forget about having a symmetrical look out front and get to replanting. ken_adrian, I'm not sure what I was thinking! Of course, more hostas! I can't wait to read through this forum to get more ideas and become more educated on hostas! (My mom had hostas when I was growing up, but she was amazed as well when I showed her photos of some of the varieties!)...See MoreAugust in my garden
Comments (35)Hi Silvia, Where did you get your white pots for your tomatoes? They look like they have an inner liner. I have some seedlings started and getting reading to transplant (with pine park fine mix). From other pictures I've seen it looks like that's their (tomatoes) final resting place ie with about about a foot of pine bar fine mix? In the Spring I used much bigger black plastic pots without much success. They got nice and tall and then withered. I got some fruit, but then the plants started fading. Maybe over watering, maybe a spec of herbicide, maybe blight? Used your fert. recipes too, a little fert almost every day in hot weather. When I pulled dead plants today, I expected much more root growth I digress. Where did you get your fancy white pots?...See MoreAugust 26 And What's Happening In My NE OK Garden
Comments (2)I am same, hungry to get my hands in the dirt before spring is even here. You are wise to make school a top priority. Decisions you make now will color the rest of your entire life, so choose carefully and don't hesitate to ask for advice from your parents. Parents just seem to ache to give advice but usually no one's interested in listening. Such a loss. My beets were a failure again this year. I think I harvested two or three that were big enough to eat. Not sure exactly what it is I'm doing wrong. But I'm getting tired of the garden now. I'm still letting several cucumbers grow large and turn yellow on the Crunchy Muncher vine and today I just picked them all, and cut into them, and no viable seed in any of them. So I made pickle relish with the cucumbers and some onion and peppers out of the freezer from last year's harvest. The relish turned out a little runny even though I followed the recipe carefully. Maybe it will thicken up as it mellows in the jar. Tastes good, though, and I was needing pickle relish for the pantry as my relish from 2016 is oxidizing its metal canning flat and all it's good for now is the compost, 3 quart jars is what is left. I didn't make as much this year, and won't ever make that mistake again. I have this oxidation happening in other things that contain vinegar and I wonder why the manufacturers of canning jar lids don't make their lids a little more resistant to that. Metal lids on purchased pickles looks ever so much more durable than canning flats do, have you ever noticed that? That's just NOT right. I have tiny beans on the bean plants. The wind has been trying to blow my trellis over in a couple spots and has pulled some of the beans up by the roots. Grrrr. Also the loofah is taking over and spreading out into the beans. Not good. I tore some of it out this morning and may do some more work on that tomorrow. But it's too late to do anything about the uprooted bean plants. *Sigh*. Saw my little resident toad this morning. He's all warty and mud-colored. Cute, in an ugly sort of way. I'm sure he's finding lots of insects to eat....See Moreundertheoaksgardener7b
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