Propagation: Plant propagation part XVI based on my own experience, 1 by Pughbear7

Pughbear7 wrote:
Good morning to all:
Not much new here just heat and the occasional rain storm. it is suposed to rain tomorrow but will most likely do it in the evening to overnight.
Have yet to go out and look over everything. Have lots of cuttings to take just need the energy and time. I have a new groundcover I want to try the problem is I have no idea what it is and the poor girl at the garden center had no idea. just the over played speal on the common flowers they sell a ton of.
Tomatoes are 4 1/2 ft tall and the squash has taken over the bed. funny i only planted 4 plants and 2 cukes but its doing quite well. I guess the garden is a learning experience. I toped the onions and did it a bit to agressively on the white onionion as they have yet to put any new green on so I guess its golfball sized onions for dinner.
well its time to venture out and see what I can get done. 1st stop the DL's as I missed them yeaterday and they like to be pollenated when they bloom so I am guessing i missed a few seeds. Its funny i started out the season just writing down what I did and that was a mistake as I miss placed the envelopes I wrote everything down on. So I ordered some string tags to lable time will tell on the usefullness of them.
Linda: I feel your pain as I have a few that the tags are gone on and I will have to look up the names Of what I bought. Luckily its only 3 -4 plants and they are the 4ft scraped ones which I don't like. I like the compact plants, but who knew...when I bought them I was only going on flower color and these are not something I would have bought so I think they were mis labled. they look like the crowned heads I got, which looks like a tall frans hal see the attached. I am sure I paid good money for them as I spent a lot on each plant. Oh well lesson learned. lately I have been buying from a few growers on the daylily auction. I am guessing that once my seedlings bloom I will have a lot to replace them with. I too am planning to buy the metal display tags for my stock plants. where have you found the best buy on them??? I have found the best price at Gardeners 25 for $14.95.
JB: where are you getting your boxes? I found a decent buy from uline for 31 cents. I am using a 10 x 6 x 6. I think (key word think) if you stay under 12" the shipping cost through the mail is a lot less. I guess I am thinking this because of the box to check "is the box over 12" on any deminsion?" of course that did not help with the rudbeckia I shipped out yesterday. I just hope they did not do to badly as I had to bend some of the tops to get them in. good news is they grow fast and they were sold for a buck a piece.
happy gardening to all and stay cool.
Dave