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Post by CuPcAkE on Jan 12, 2008 9:53:37 GMT -6
Make a garden diagram drawn to scale before placing your spring order. Remember this rule of thumb for planning perennial gardens: The width of the garden should be about twice the height of the tallest plant growing in it.
Organize, clean, oil, and sharpen your garden tools. A splash of bright paint on tool handles will make them easier to spot out in the yard.
Examine your land in the stark winter days, looking for places where an evergreen might go nicely.
Visit a greenhouse or nursery near you and talk with the experts about your growing problems. Ask them about shrub varieties best for your conditions.
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Post by SpyderLady on Jan 12, 2008 18:23:51 GMT -6
I really do need to put bright paint on mine, esp the hand tools. I am for ever laying them down and not thinking about it if I tote some weeds to the back yard. I forget where they are and have to hunt in the grass. One time I lost a little clipper and found it the next spring all rusty.
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Post by shyangel on Jan 12, 2008 20:27:03 GMT -6
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Post by joyce on Jan 13, 2008 4:18:05 GMT -6
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Post by shyangel on Jan 13, 2008 17:21:28 GMT -6
oh that gets expencive after a wail
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Post by olhillbilly on Jan 18, 2008 1:03:37 GMT -6
I seldom plan anything. (true statement on all levels) The garden is big enuff I dont havta crowd anything. Mulch where I dont want weeds an mow or till the rest. Least this year I got lotsa poo to scatter out. Who wud want an evergreen growin in their garden?
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Post by WVsnowflake on Jan 18, 2008 5:22:32 GMT -6
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Post by SpyderLady on Jan 18, 2008 21:20:54 GMT -6
@ sf!
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Post by olhillbilly on Jan 18, 2008 23:00:14 GMT -6
Yer rite! An with careful navagation, you can make em all have the same crook.
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Post by olhillbilly on Jan 22, 2008 4:24:06 GMT -6
i found a pic of my garden last year before i planted anything.
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Post by CuPcAkE on Jan 27, 2008 1:04:42 GMT -6
Your garden looks bigger than our yard
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Post by SpyderLady on Jan 27, 2008 1:52:23 GMT -6
Yeah, it looks a mile long.
You sure do have some nice flat land.
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Post by shyangel on Jan 27, 2008 17:02:53 GMT -6
well I got my garden and pond all drawn out in my head. Now it's just getting in on paper I would go stack it out on ground but it's covered in about a 2 feet of snow
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Post by joyce on Jan 27, 2008 17:12:00 GMT -6
Keep thinking "spring thaw" Hopefully I will start working my ground in March if I have to crawl out there.
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Post by lilithb on Jan 28, 2008 21:12:05 GMT -6
I am going to do a mini garden for apt. dwellers.. LOL
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Post by SpyderLady on Jan 30, 2008 11:28:24 GMT -6
I have some spring flowers coming up. They must be real hardy because we have had very few nights that were very warm the last couple weeks or longer.
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Post by joyce on Jan 31, 2008 14:15:57 GMT -6
Yea I have a few buttercups and crocus peeping thru the ground. Usually I have crocus blooms in January....not this year.
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Post by famfish on Feb 23, 2008 23:03:18 GMT -6
I just got some great seeds at Wal Mart tonight. They had a company called American seeds great prices 8.4 grams f simson lettuce for 97 cents that is 10 times what you get in most burpee packs. They also had a super sweet oion sets 60 for $1.97. yellow eyed potatos 5 pound $5.97. They have a great potting soil called perfec mix and its the best one I ever used 2 cubic feet for $7. The american seed also has 10 cent and the new 30 cent packs this year. I got everbearer straw berrys, Mixed radishes called Walmart Gardens package 4 grams for 97 cens and is a mixture of about 5 or more different radishes.Wal Mart is my favorite store. I love to shop anywhere. Big lots is another place i like! I guess I have about 300 packs of seeds. I am looking for a woman to marry that has a farm. now.
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Post by joyce on Feb 24, 2008 4:39:16 GMT -6
I saw those seeds at our local Wally World other morning. The temptation was so great. I did buy 2 pkgs of Calla lily bulbs. Most of my gardening seeds I get from the local farm supply store. They already have their cabbage, onions, potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower plants, all early things. It's just too wet here to even think about planting. It would take 2 good weeks of temps in the 60's or more and full sunshine to dry up things around here.
I will plant red potatoes, cabbage, some loose leaf lettuce, onions, and carrots as soon as I can get some ground ready.
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