Propagation: Plant propagation part XVIII based on my own experience, 1 by evelyn_inthegarden

evelyn_inthegarden wrote:
Jeanette ~ I have the steamer with the point on the end. They supplied one microfiber cloth in order to wipe afterward if that helps. I admit, I have not been using it as much as the floor steamer, but thanks for reminding me as it is very handy and saves on using other products using for cleaning. Did you get your floor steamer working or is it defective? D-mail me and I can give you more info on that, if you need it, OK?

Sidney ~ Yes, welcome back. I was not on this thread when you were, though I have been a member since 2002. I have been away a while as well due to many operations, but I am back and trying to get things in order. This year I planted 8 square foot gardens in veggies that I grew all from seed, except the broccoli and the potatoes. I will try again with the broccoli for this fall, as I am determined to succeed. It takes me a lot longer than it used to for many things, as I am getting older as well...just almost 69, but not really OLD...I had to sift them (the SFG's) all out after digging to the bottoms to get the clay, weeds and old roots out, as it has been a while since we put them in.

I grew peas, carrots, beets, potatoes, many kinds of lettuce, of which we are still harvesting, and now the tomatoes are finally starting to bear fruit. It has been consistenlty hot, but before that we had late snows and hail in May so everything got planted late. I could not work the soil in such wet and cold conditions. I know I will plant a lot more peas, lettuce and broccoli and some cabbage, too, for this fall.

Also, I started a new flower garden, I call it the "Cottage Garden Border", as I dug out the old White Daisy Garden, which had all sorts of daisies, asters, mums and boltonias, and wanted something new. (I moved those daisies into the White Flower Border, which needs to be reworked as well.) This time, instead of just amending small parts or "amending the planting hole", I dug it all out and put in a lot of organic compost and peat with bone meal, blood meal, azomite, biochar and some other various organics to beef up my soil as it is hard clay, but that bed is, for the most part, no longer hard. I have to be careful where I walk as it is like walking on a pillow instead of my old hard ground...LOL!

I have a question for you...you said that the Watersorb stores 95% of the water, but at what rate does it release it? And how long does it last? I put some under my hydrangea as it is a waterhog, but I still have to water it daily as it flops over towards the end of the day. Maybe I did not use enough...not sure....

Dawn ~ Do you use them? Yes, maybe you can get them from Jeanette...LOL! Jeanette, are you going to sell your polymer crystals?

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