After lugging all my brugs outdoors and into the shade out back... I think DH is about ready to kill me - lol ;) I didn't realize I have so darn many until they are all in one big pile, taking up the entire yard. He's already made a couple "We are NOT going to do this again NEXT year!!" remarks.
We'll see....
I think I'm in the dog house...
so poppy, just how many were there?? and mine said the same thing, I just didn't listen:)
You gals need to train them better! Mine helped me carry them in and out, when it was supposed to frost, rain, hail etc. He takes the pics, and tells all his buddies to come see them when they bloom. Have I got a "gem", or what?
I dunno anymore. Between brugs upstairs, downstairs, and two lightstands full of seedlings... I lost count. I know it took me all day to move them off the back lawn so he could mow! It's going to be a challange to plant them all!
You have a gem alright! I moved them all by my poor lil' ol' self!
So quick tell me where you moved them to so he could mow, I need to move mine there also! LOL. My back yard looks like a nursery, black growers pots all over.
Jim doesn't help me with them at all. In fact, last year when I was talking about them, he put his hand up to his head and said "I've just about had it up to here with brugs". Well, I waited for the right time. Every day he would come out of his shop, where he watches TV during the day, and always says something about a recipe he sees on Martha. Finally after listening to him day after day, I put my hand up to my head and said the same thing to him. Funny how he listens to me when I talk about my brugs now. His health won't let him help me carry them around, but my two wheel dolly works great. Everyone should have one of them. They are great for hauling around those big bags of ProMix too. Got wordy, didn't I?
They all went out into the sun on the mulched part of my garden. They're lining my path like soldiers, around the herb bed, and anywhere else I had a flat spot to stick a pot. There's still a few trays of seedlings on tables in the shade.
I got 4 in the ground today. At this rate I'll be done planting in August!
You must have an awful lot of them. Are the pots large enough for them to grow through the summer? I'd be tempted to half bury the pot and just water more. You are going to be so tired of digging. Wouldn't one of those gas powered post hole diggers be great for planting brug?
I know the feeling well. Last w/e DH helped me move these.
Oh, how cute, a class picture! I only have six or seven in big pots so far, most of mine are in gallon pots. I know that they won't stay there long, they're cuttings from last fall and baby seedlings. I have three kinds of seedlings from CC's seeds, and I had gotten some Canary Bird x Raffaella seeds from California. None of the CB x R came up for months, but I didn't give up! I kept the pot watered, and watched them, and now they're finally popping up! One fully up, with seed leaves open, and three or four (so far) just barely sticking up. I'm thrilled!
Poppy, I spent all day outside today with DH planting Brugs. I'm beat and I didn't even dig the holes. Just lugging them out of the GH about did me in. LOL
Planted 62 in the ground and those are just the seedlings and cuttings. Still have over 40 more in the GH. It didn't look like I had that many before I started.
I hope your DH will help you with the hole digging. Cook him a nice supper with candles before you ask for help. ;)
AWWWW I bet he'll forget real soon Poppy Sue. Just cook him a good meal. Works for me EVERY time. Then after you cook this grand meal, tell him you need to run out to get dessert. Make a Bee line to your local nursery and bring home MORE plants. Of course, make a quick stop to the bakery for a tasty treat! My theory is to catch them off guard after they had all that food! They tend not to notice any new purchase *grin*!
Suppose I'm not helping, huh? Of course, if you need a few good recipes- drop me a email.
((Kristi))
As of right now I still have a gem myself. About a week ago he put in a garden window in the dining room (for my seed starting he said). . has bought me some, helped move them and has even watered them when I asked if for some reason I wasn't going to be around.
I am sure it will be beautiful later this summer (if it ever gets here) and hopefully he will forget what he said.
oh mine helps and is wonderful to check the seed trays for me when he walks by, but he doesn't understand the addiction!
RA49, I am so impressed with your babies. Looks like they are ready to take off and flower soon!
Brugie pls post a pic of your 2 wheel dolly. I use a child's little red wagon...........
I am so lucky too.......... my sweet husband does most of the clean up and does all of the digging. He just has to be watched at all times. LOL! Though he was much happier pre brugs!
I think brugs are a semi man plant, BIG so they can see them. Any of my smaller flowers, either get walked on, weeded up, or mowed, 'cause he doesn't see them! Gotta' love those DH's tho' We need them.
Well, while all of you compare spouses what does DH stand for? Dumb Husband? I'm sure I'm one to the Mrs.
Doug, it depends on what they have been up to just before you talk about them. LOL. Hopefully they are being a dear husband at the time!
LOL drdug. 99 1/2% of the time we mean Dear Husband.
Oops! Forgot men read these also. I certainly meant Dear husband! He has a few faults, but so do I!
RA your mass of pots look like mine! I keep considering how much less grass I have to cut and since I'm allergic to freshly cut grass I don't mind all the pots. In the summer I get lots of questions like, why am I growing tobacco in pots or why do you have so many trees. Then the first of the suaveolens seedlings bloomed and everyone wanted seeds or cuttings.
Ok Everybody I can't keep anything watered in those small pots--except rocks. The 100 degree heat doesn't help . I put the pots in the ground. My DH is as bad as I am with the gardening--acacias,grasses,salvias,plumerias and anything with thorns. I showed him some of the large brug trees and is still waiting for mine to get that big. I don't think HG will ever grow. I have resorted to the "Lite" foam pots to carry in and out. Some of the pots are so big they popped the tires on the dolly.
How do you live in 100 degree heat DR?
AC,sweat out toxins, swimming pool and nekkid! Ask Dave how he likes it now--livin' in TX
All my fat would melt and suffocate me.
Kell, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way! If it did, we'd all be as skinny as we were as teens. It's been cool most of the time so far this so-called spring, but that will change soon!
Ronna- Your up north--OK is up north to me. Ha Ha! And hopefully you've gotten some rain--no other bad weather though. The rain came this morning. We were about 6-7 inches behind already.
We are up north in the winter (well, compared to Texas, anyway), but in the summer, our weather is the same. We've gotten some rain lately, including today, but it has been a lot colder than usual. I usually have all my plants outside by the last week or two of April, I just got finished putting out the most tender ones yesterday! We have a week or so of normal temps (70's & 80's daytime, & 50's & 60's at night), then have a couple of nights in the 40's (sometimes the lower 40's). My four o'clocks ALWAYS bloom by the last week of May, I'm still waiting for my first bloom this year.
OH, I could live quite happily in 100 degrees every day! The hotter the better so long as I have A/C, a pool and beer. :) My hubby would be happy too. He has degenerative and rheumatoid arthritis and living in Ohio is a way bad climate for him-too many fluctuations, too much humidity, etc. By the way, he never says a word about dragging plants in and out. LOL Gardening is the one and only truly selfish thing I do. And everyone enjoys my plants so much...
I don't have a DH, my only helper is my spazz-mo dog, who helps by running full speed diagonally right between my feet every time she notices I'm trying to balance a big pot while squeezing through the door and trying to feel for the steps. She has it down to a science, one of these days I'm going to wake up at the bottom of the steps with a broken head, (I wonder if I'll even notice a difference)
LOL Carena!! Husbands can sometimes be just as bad! LOL
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.
but there are times when a man with a strong back and a shovel in his hand could really come in handy.