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Okay my fellow seed-starters, what seeds are you ordering?
Comments (17)Just for fun I stopped at the Ravenna Gardens up in U Village this weekend (I took the bus since my neighborhood's side streets were totally snowed in this weekend). Renee's Garden seeds has packets of rose seeds. I thought it would be fun to give them a try. It says they've been scarified and pre-treated for somewhat speedy germination (I've grown plenty of roses from my own seeds and always just plant them in autumn and wait until spring so they get variable temps/moisture that they need to sprout in spring (or muuuuuch later)), but this is the first time I've tried from purchased seed. I thought it would be fun to give them a try. We'll see how they do, but I'm curious. It says they are small growing, small flowering types in various shades of pink with some white. Below is a nice link to the actual seed pack. Happy growing and sowing, Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Rose seeds from Renee's Garden seeds...See MoreMail Order Co. ?'s
Comments (16)Yodlei, one way to get the scoop on a nursery is by going to www.gardenwatchdog.com They list numerous nurseries, and people who buy plants/products leave feedback, be it positive, neutral or negative..you'd be surprised the number of nurseries around w/99% negative feedback that are still up and running..One nursery owes thousands of dollars and plants, never refunded or shipped plants, yet he's still in business..he's even changed the company name but Gardenwatchdog got wind of the names, and posted to people who are thinking of ordering from him. I don't know TT nursery, but if you'd like more opinions, go to gardenwatchdog.com, find TT's page, and read what others have stated about them.. In the meantime, you might run across a nursery to buy plants you're interested in..Toni PS..hope you're better.....See MoreI guess Thanksgiving dinner is free this year!
Comments (57)https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_9243bb74-ecfa-11e8-8f73-0f42fb5dada2.html "The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is filled these days with people volunteering their time and sorting food donated for the hungry. But what this 170,000-square foot facility on Choctaw Drive doesn't have as the holidays start is food. The situation has gotten bad enough that the charity, which serves an 11-parish area, is putting out public calls for extra help, for extra donations of food, and especially for money to purchase additional food. High-profile disasters, including hurricanes Florence and Michael, as well as the ongoing wildfires in California, have diverted the supply of donated food as well as drawn away cash donations that might ordinarily have gone to help hungry people locally at Thanksgiving and Christmas. “You would ordinarily see all of these shelves full,” said Mike Manning, pointing to two tall, long and nearly empty stretches of metal shelving at the rear of the facility. These shelves is where the the charity normally stores its dry, canned and staple foods. Manning, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, said instead he is flush with candy, a relic of the Halloween holiday, pointing to a big box of M&M bags. “We’ve got a lot of candy,” Manning said. “That’s not what we need.” About 30 volunteers, several of them employees of ExxonMobil, were on hand Monday sorting donated canned food. Many people brought their families. The empty shelves are not visible from their work area. Katie Skiles volunteered on Monday with her father Joe and brother, James, but she said she has worked there by herself since she first volunteered more than a year ago. “My parents made me come,” Katie said. “Now I love it.” A senior at Lee High in Baton Rouge, Katie, 17, said she was not aware of the food shortage. She said she might talk to the National Honor Society at her high school about doing a food drive. The warehouse currently has about 1 million pound of food in its inventory, about half of the normal inventory, Manning said. One million pounds of food is also roughly what the food bank distributes each month to its 100-plus member agencies, he said. And to top it all off, this is normally a time of peak inventory, when the food banks stock up in order to have sufficient supply for the early months of the year. “I’ve never see it this bad going into the holidays,” Manning said. Besides recent disasters and the resulting “donor fatigue,” another food supply factor is the shrinking donations over time from commercial grocers who carry less excess inventory than they used to, Manning said. To help restock, the food bank has asked local schools to do special food drives. What would help most, though, are cash donations, which people can donate online on the charity’s website, Manning said. “We are kind of held hostage by the national situation, unless we can get sufficient money to purchase food,” he said. It doesn’t necessarily take much money to help. Manning pointed to palettes full of canned vegetables without labels on them. These cans, when they have commercial labels, cost 70 to 90 cents a can at the store, but without the labels, they cost the food bank between 5 and 10 cents a can. Manning said he’s talking about having a more formal fund drive around New Years to raise money, but he’s been too busy to pull together anything more formal sooner. “We’re in firefighting mode right now,” he said. “We’re just asking for help.”...See Morevintage buffet from grandmother just arrived
Comments (26)That is beautiful! What a great gift . I also can't really see where its messed up. Maybe just a good ( safe cleaning ) and enjoy the dents and dings as character of a well used and much loved piece....See More
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last yearThe Hyacinth bulbs are prepared ones for indoor growing. After they‘ve flowered I stick them out in the garden wherever there is a space amongst the perennials. I don't plant in rows or strictly by height. The only critters I get are the invasive grey squirrels and the only thing they eat is tulips.
From a previous year. I bring the bulbs in from the cold, dark shed in succession,
In subsequent years the flowers are less dense.
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last yearmy latest and last order just showed up
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last yearHere is the general area where I will disperse the bulbs around peonies etc, I like to group them with coordinating perennials…
thanks for this fun thread :))
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
last yearOur order arrived yesterday and inside was Veseys 2023 Spring catalogue!
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last yearlast modified: last year“The only critters I get are the invasive grey squirrels and the only thing they eat is tulips.”
I spoke too soon. I just looked out of the window to see a grey squirrel happily sitting in a pot consuming crocuses. This year is the first time they’ve done that. The pot is now topped off with upturned smaller pots.
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