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What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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Posted by BrooklynPhill z6 NY (My Page) on Tue, Apr 5, 05 at 16:24
| Wonderful Spring starter weather!
I'm so excited to be out there! I put a flat of Violas in last week, did the whole clean-up thing, and took my perennial pots "out of hiding." Sprouts in the mums, and what I think is my lavender is sprouting madly ... I didn't label the pots. I think I lost a ficus tree, but we'll see. The Spruces are gorgeous, and I have some horribly winter-burnt ivy in pots that I wonder if I should cut back. Live and learn.
- What are you up to outside?
- What did you lose? (Nothing I hope!)
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RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Why am I sitting here reading this forum when I still have the whole spring clean-up thing to do??? New perennials I planted last fall that are active: peony, yarrow, phlox, geranium, sedum, and scabiosa. This is good! Keeping them in the mini greenhouse a bit longer, I think. New perennials I planted last fall that show no signs of life and have me worried: clematis, one rose bush, carnations. Is there still hope? Isn't it wonderful to have 2 sunny days in a row? Some of my winter sown stuff is starting to germinate ... yay! |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| My brother-in-law turned the soil for my tiny back yard vegetable garden and added lime, peat moss, and cow manure. We re-arranged some perennials in my front yard and fertilized and limed them too. I have tomato seedlings that are about 5 inches high which I will probably put out the lst of May. I know I always rush things but I get kind of antsy waiting for the traditional May 15 or 30th date. Virginia |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Here in the city, a few perennials are coming back to life: lovage, costmary, anise hyssop, garlic chives, and gooseberry are all poking up shoots. Out in the country, perennial flowers and herbs are coming back; the big surprise is that Munstead lavender survived the winter! I did some light pruning, cleaned off dead branches and old flower spikes, removed the season's first weeds, and planted pansies and violas. Yes, Meg, it felt so good to be outdoors, feel the wind and sun, and get dirty! The snow's been melted for less than two weeks; the soil is moist but soft, with earthworms aplenty. I picked up some new plants at Greenmarket today to put in the ground this week. I'll be starting warm-weather seeds soon (Genovese and Neapolitan basil) for planting around June 1. Trying to divine when it's safe to put tender perennials like bay laurel outdoors; I know if I were a plant I'd want to be out now. But I'll probably wait another few weeks, until the danger of frost has passed. |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Heh, I was being sooooooo good, resisting that urge to go down to Union Square Greenmarket. While I was sitting outside musing about where on earth I was going to put all the stuff that's growing, hubby pipes up: Not enough color out here! Let's go down to Union Square! Well, he's recouping from 2 heart attacks, so I only said 'no' once. I must indulge him, right? :-D Since none of my tulips, narcissus, or crocus are doing much of anything, we picked up some spring stuff to put in the window boxes. Fell in love with something I never saw before ... puschkinia libanotica (striped squill), and a few other things that won't last all that long but will pretty up the window boxes until the summer stuff is ready. Heck, if he's willing to blow some bucks on temporary stuff and it also satisfies my cravings, I'd be nuts to put up a fight, right? ;-) nygardener, I left my bay laurel out all winter; it was supposedly hardy to this zone, but it didn't make it. Kinda sad about that; I'd wait another week if I were you. |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Spring clean up here on Long Island. Dug up five potted roses I buried and covered with leaves last fall. Looks like they all survived. Planted five lillies of the valley I had bought on-line. They look limp but hope they'l be okay. Walked round and round the back yard, looking for signs of life. Hellebores, daffodils, hyacinths, frittilaria and violas are up, as well as crocus. No sign of hostas and violets. Red stems of bleeding hearts are up a couple inches, will be a few feet by Mothers Day. My winter sowing experiment with coleus seeds was totally water-logged, a failure. Walked around the neighborhood, ran into four neighbors doing likewise, exchanged pleasantries. My dog is happy that I spent time with her outside. She runs and runs. Wish I was a puppy! |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Strange what comes back and what doesn't, isn't it? Jannie, I have a small planter of violets that spent the winter on the ground in an open courtyard and is now putting out new leaves; it has one, very fragrant flower. A much larger planter sheltered against the building shows no signs of life (though that may be thanks to the interest the resident squirrels took in it). Urban gardening is certainly a perplexing art form. |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| Well, since its almopst Memorial Day when I saw this board, I will say what I did in my garden this weekend. First I planted some pentas I got at Lowes in GC in open areas of my foundation planting. I got some alyssum at Martin Viette and planted that around my Kwanzan cherry tree, and around my Kousa dogwood. I then fertilized my lawn with 2 bags of Milorganite and am now waiting for the rain to happen. |
RE: What are You Doing in the Garden this Week?
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| THREE DAYS OF DIGGING UP SOD. I am replacing about twenty running feet of lawn with a rose garden. This has been my dream for nearly twenty years. Have ten roses still in pots ready for the planting. Lots of back pain. |
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