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February 2010 in the garden
Well,let's hold the oooOOOoooo's until I get them thur a complete life cycle. It may be more like...S***-S***-S*** once it gets hot here.
Aaaaah!
Exactly. I'm in no hurry for hot hot hot. It sucks sucks sucks and it lasts forever in Florida.
Jaws...eat him! LOL!
Jaws won't touch me or I'll leave his butt outside tonight in the 40 degree weather.
LOL!
Ok, I got the mess in the kitchen under control...finished pruning, cleaning and watering the plant stands and finished poking cuttings.. What a job! Now all I need is a carpet shampooer for where I spilt dirt on the rug... gads one mess leads to another!
My gardening is still indoors... except I did kick out thos red spider lilies.. hope they dont get froze and not grow later.
Heres the first plant stand
Very nice Blossom. Everything looks revived, neat and tidy. Way to go girl!! High fives to ya. Just rub the dirt into the carpet. I won't tell anybody.
Here's more Feb/March in the garden from today. Calendula "Apricot Daisy" grown from seed packs purchase at Lowes.
I tried to suck the dirt out of the carpet...dint work.. I left a horrible trail between rooms.. what a mess! Well, I got the carpetpooer on order. LOL!
Im not heppy with the baby sunroses on the bottom of that stand.. they got weedy looking. I took cuttings so maybe after those rangy monstors get chucked outside, they will revive. They are kinda brown looking.
You would be amazed how many plants are actaully on that thing! LOL! Theres spider plants, mums, coleus, a petunia, the baby sunroses, a hoya, impatiens, 2 flat of cuttings,
a basket of polkadots, sweet potato vines, a basket of vinca, and a basket of chocolate mint....and I think two purple passions...and three cans of I dont remember what the heck are in those! Some bulbs.. I think patty sent them.. Oh yeah, thats right, they are , they are mystery bulbs.. I better remeber to mark them pots they are bulbs!
The snaps I sowed today when into the laundry room...I got ride of all but two of my green pepper plants...they kind of bit the dust, but two have some branching yet so maybe they will come on. Oh, I also potted up my three cannas.. those are with the snaps inthe black pots.
Heres the other stand...
The bottom are three flats of impatiens and 2 flats of coleus cuttings.
The middle shelf is the mothers of the cuttings..
The top shelf is my collection of houseplants or as you call them tropicals! LOL! Also my dianthus and rex begonias.
Thanks to pattys suggestion to snip and do cuttings on the impaiens, I am pleased Igot so many babies! My only regret is I only saved the one color! I had 6 colors, but the others did not make it.
They still look good considering they've been inside all winter. I'll bet you're glad you got all that done. I think you got more plants on them stands than I do outside in pots by the pool.
My excitement, for the evening, was nicking a bunch of wild perennial lupine seeds (lupinus perennis) that came in the mail today. I heard they'll grow as far South as Northern Florida, so I'll give them a try and plant them in some empty space outside and try to ignore them.
I am sooo tempted to take my sweet peas and freeze them in an ice cube to scarcify them...Im no good at sharp hand implements. I need my fingers! LOL! Besides that , they will not let me play with knives or scissors.. unless of course that hound supervises. She can always run for help if I cut a finger off. Last time I did that though, she almost ate it.
I am soooo amazed I got all those cuttings off that one pot of impatiens! Too funny! Jsut wished they were pank!
Some of my coleus were huge leaves and they took up a lot of flat space on top of the smaller ones.. I hope they all make it. I am soo ahead with impatiens and coleus now! *G*!
Coleus...
LOL. Yeah I don't think the scissors would work too good at nicking seeds. It would look like bee bees flying all over the house when them scissors miss cutting through the seed coat. I just jam them next to the finger slightly under the fanger nail and chop chop.
Thats too much for my pea brain to deal with! LOL!
More coleus cuttings of the day! Sorry about the blurr..
Heres the spiders that was on one of the shelves.. I think theres 10-12 of them thar baskets! Cant wait to get them out on the porch! There are three varieties in that mess!
Boy those shelves are jammed full. I want complain about all the stuff on mine now.Won't be long now before I can give them all the boot out the front door to the patio.
This is my Wally World plastic snap together shelves w/ shoplights
the light shelves hub's built. There's one at the top but the bulbs burnt out,can't get the replacements(big ole long ones w/ one post) in this poodunk lil fy speck town so I'll have to pick up some on my next run to the BIG city. Can't get bales of peat here either so I see a trip in the near future.
Nice.. but you need more plants on them! hehehehe!
Also did some sweet potato cuttings.. they are starting to grow! YAY! Sorry to say though I did lose one variety, dang it...!
And I got seed potatoes in for kenebecs and re-yad pontiacs.. still looking for the you-cons!
I did the yukons a couple of years but never got much of a crop
Its hit or miss here. You gotta get taters in cold ground to start. 3/17 is tater planting day.. the ground here is still froze today.. so dont know if we willbe able to til or if Iwillbe poking themin to a weed patch.
If I get it done right I will get close to a thousand pounders of fries!
We would have to dig under 6" of snow still on the ground to even get up to the garden, so taters will surely get a late start here!
Poor you!
I also got on-yawns in!
Picked up some seeds too...like I needed more.. LOL!
Got some grey stripe sunflwoers in bulk... hope they grow.. they were actually out of the bird seed department at the hardware...
and some black oil sunflower seed by bulk...
straweflowers... wouold love a ton of these...
some annual statice which I wish aI had tons
Some radish.. white globes...and
Yep, the Strawflower plants are out and about down here. Only two colors I've seen are yellow and white. Just planted some statice seeds about 10 days ago. It may be bordering on too late in the season, for here, but gonna try anyway. Just planted a few seeds.
I have some Heavenly Blue statice..
Also got some easter egg radish... The hub reminded me, he said yano, he sez, the radishthat were he best was whe we cross bred the easter eggs with the white globe and then the white ones that came in the second generation were the sweetest best ever.
So I need to mixe the two packs and let them reseed some for next year.
We love them with Ranch dressing, they make a salad of them selves!
Well, I cannot beleive I got this thing blooming this long.. usually I kill them.
My poinsettia committed suicide back in January. I grow radishes in the vegetable garden every winter. Can usually plant and harvest them 3 or 4 times each winter since they mature so quickly. I made a salad with some buttercrunch and red leaf lettuce from the garden tonight. Tomorrow will probably have some swiss chard. Need to pick some because the leaves are getting very large.
Marderer! LOL Well, I am sure I will kill mine before too long, I am realllly surprized it lasted this long.
Heres the heavenly blue statice. I hope I can get more and have lots!
Yeah, I've murdered lots of plants. I'm just growing some mixed color statice from a Ferry Morse seed pack bought at Lowes. Two years ago I grew "QIS Mixed Color" Statice and it was awesome.
well, heres the last of my mohecans of my green peppers....
Those shriveled up stems Blossom, or that thing in the middle?
Thats the remaining stem and a few leaves down at the near bottom.. I doubt it wil come back enough to pepper. I think its petered.
Here are some "Icelandic Poppies" in the front courtyard.
I was a bad woman again.. got a calthea plant... is it ever purdy!
There you go again getting more tropical plants Blossom. I'm just as bad. Ended up buying a "Musa Cheeka" dwarf banana tree. Much smaller than your typical banana tree. Only grows to 6-9 feet.
Here is my new pretty! I think I spelled that wrong its calathea? Will have to double check its label! It looks almost like a prayer plant, but different!
