Foxgloves...What's your favorite and why? Containers?
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Comments (44)"Huh? We've had a considerable number of conversations about your sweeping statements/rebuttals that miss the mark; and again you apparently didn't understand what I said because you're not even addressing it obliquely. It doesn't take a lot of research to see that mixing a small fraction of perlite into pudding, sand, or media based on fine particulates, isn't going to have an appreciable impact on aeration, drainage, or the ht of the PWT" "If you mix 10-20-30% perlite into the sand or pudding, is it going to increase aeration? - NO, drainage? - NO, the ht of the perched water table (PWT)?" You just compaired peatmoss to pudding stating:" is it going to increase aeration? - NO, drainage" The fact is that promix bx has less air porosity then hp because hp has more perlite. This shows adding perlite increases air porosity in peatmoss. "We've had a considerable number of conversations about your sweeping statements/rebuttals that miss the mark; and again you apparently didn't understand what I said because you're not even addressing it obliquely" Please explaine why bx has less air porosity then hp. This is a statment you made:"is it going to increase aeration? - NO, drainage" So then hp has no more drainage then bx? It has a little? Peatmoss is not as good as bark but does that to say we now should treat it like pudding? The partical size of peatmoss is quite large. The fact is you said adding perlite will not increase air but it does, just not as dramatically as when you add it to pine fines... I understand why you compaired peat to pudding and I know you used it as a exaggeration. I know you are trying to make a point about why peat really is not the same as bark. I do understand using little or no fine particals in a mix is ideal. I understand peat just fills in around perlite, where bark creats the macro pours like you said. It just seemed like you said adding perlite to peat does nothing when it does because I worked with both HP and BX before, thats all. Does HP have Higher Porosity because it has more dry spots when wet from the perlite? That really is it I would think....See MoreFavorite Cucumbers and Why Can't I Grow Any?
Comments (9)Thanks for all this good advice. Dawn, I had the cukes planted on the same trellis with my yard-long beans along the edge of the raised beds, the trellis that is made of a stock panel that is arched over the walk-way between two raised beds. I know that a few times over the summer it did get kind of dry there. I watered several times through the month of July and August as we didn't get much rain after having such an abundanza during the spring. So maybe they got too dry, like you said. Next year I'll plant them at ground level. Those raised beds are wonderful when we're getting lots of rain, but they dry out so fast when we're not that it's a pain to keep everything watered. We went to Atwoods and got one of those big sprayer tanks that people carry around in the back of their trucks. It's too late for this year, and anyway DH is still recovering from knee surgery on his second knee, but next summer I'm collecting water that comes out of the roof guttering drain. I grow a garden to save money on food, primarily, and when my water bill goes up because I've been watering the garden, that cuts into my bottom line. George, Thanks for the tip about Armenian cucumber being a melon. I didn't know that! When I plant newspaper pots I always tear the "collar" off. It's always a little drier already than the part that's touching growing medium so it's easy to do this and I had heard about the wicking problem. Sometimes, though, the newspaper pot then falls apart in my hand so this is a process that must be done carefully! I left the Homemade Pickle cukes on the vine till they started turning orange, but the vine started to wither at about that time so maybe that's why my seed doesn't look so good. I didn't know if the vine was withering because I had left that cuke on, or if the cuke was turning orange because the vine was withering or if neither was a cause. I got some Armenian cucumber seed in a trade once that was flat and empty-looking and none of it germinated, so I just assumed if the seeds were not plumped out once they were dry that there was nothing in there. From your post I gather that's not necessarily true then? Carol, that IS perplexing about your squash. I had a lot of squash bugs this year too, and all I grew in the squash family were some volunteer spaghetti squash. On zucchini, though, aren't there male and female flowers, and doesn't the male flower just fall off and not make anything? Could the flowers you mentioned have been those? Myself, I don't know the difference between them, but I have noticed almost every year that I have squash that some of the flowers do just die off. I've also seen that with gourd plants. Something else that I've seen fairly often with squash and gourds is that there will actually be a small fruit that will form and then it will stop growing and start to grow mold, and then fall off, unless I break it off ahead of time. I haven't found this to affect the rest of the plant, but it is kind of disappointing when the plant is just starting out. I get so excited when a plant starts to set on fruit. I'm easily entertained. I'm thinking about Spacemaster 80 or Straight Eight for next year. Anyone have opinions about either? --Ilene...See MoreWhat is your favorite salvia and why
Comments (19)I love the ease of my S. leucantha and S. elegans and all the hummingbirds that they bring to my yard, but I think the combination of the foilage color, the flowers, the smells and the bees and butterflies it attracts has brought S. mellifera to the top of my list. At least for now. The S. africana-lutea I planted from a one gallon container a few months ago is just coming into bloom right now and is indeed a very nice Christmas sage. Now if my neighbor's cats would stop thinking that bed with 5 or 6 sages is their bathroom!...See MoreShow us some of your favorite pots or containers
Comments (189)Wow, so many lovely pots and plants. Nanzjade those are awesome, I would love to see them planted. Jeff that is very cute, i might have to get myself some. A pot my mum gave me, planted with mint that I have since moved elsewhere. Recently planted with kalanchoe rotundifolia: I caught this pot of aloe and kalanchoe in rather striking sunshine today. My Nanna gave me the pot filled with garlic chives. It was an unfortunate shade of green. The garlic chives are now happy in the ground, and the pot has been repainted, though a little of the former shade shows through, which I like: This is Styrofoam and was packaging for bathroom shelving, I think. There is even a readymade drainage hole in each section. I painted them, of course. I have four of these....See MoreFrozeBudd_z3/4
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