Anyone else OVERWHELMED??? :-)

Georgiaredclay...THAT was the reply I figured I'd get from EVERYONE!! LOL

~julie~

Just got back from the Ky. roundup last week end and here I go to the BGI roundup at High Falls yesterday and more plants at my house than I know I will ever get out. About 6 new brugs and another 7-8 different brug cuttings to root. What in the world am I thinking. Already more potted plants sitting around outside waiting for me to put in the ground than I'll ever get there. A new ginger that I didn't have and more canna's and a bird house that is just out of this world. Now the bird house doesn't seem like it would be any work but I swapped a calendar, that I make, for it and now I have to get busy making a calendar. Aw shucks, we don't have but one life to live I might as well enjoy it.

I got an email from Susan about a trip to a hosta farm for next week end. Boy I sure do want to go. I really don't have a lot of shade for hosta's but I could plant a few trees I guess. Hey Iris send me the tree that you and Frank dug up.

Iris - my red-twig dogwood is still small. I planted some Verbena in that bed and oh my goodness!! that stuff is a monster from another world. It keeps trying to overtake the dogwood. It was a little 1-footer when I got it 2 years ago and it's little more than that now thanks to the verbena.

Jim - you crack me up...."I haven't time to read this I have work to do." ROFL!!

Julie - thanks on the mockorange comment. That was the ONLY flowers it got this year and I nearly missed them as they were hiding in the back. To Iris' point that backside is shaded against the house so maybe part-shade is best for it.

Jim,

I am so bummed out. That hosta thing I read about in the hosta forum. Do you know anyone that would like to pick me up some and send them to me?
I just can't drive all that way again.

Maybe a Galaxy, Loyalist and ????

Molly
:^))))

If you promise to sing a song and dedicate it to me at the next roundup I might be the one. I don't know if I'm going yet but the place is close to where I live.(not the roundup but the plant farm) LOL I'm not sure if my grandson that plays on a traveling baseball team has a tournament that week end or not, if he doesn't I'll go for you. I'll find out tomorrow and let you know for sure.

Oh Jim,


Goody, goody, goody!!!!! I will play and sing for you as much as you like. I will wait to hear if it works out.

Thanks so much!

Molly
:^)))

As for me, I planted my LAST iris & daylily today! YES! My DH came out & said "Are we going to have supper tonight?" What? Are we out of frozen pizzas again?

And I planted my new peonies yesterday. I'll tell you, it's a whole lot easier planting 5 new peonies than diggin down to China to uproot 8 old ones!

I still have quite a bit in bloom: iris, asters, sedum, mums, snapdragons & a few other things. Frost took out the zinnias & cannas last night.

Soon it will be time to throw some wood on the fire and curl up with a good book as I look out at my sleeping beds under the snow. And plan for spring.

Julie, heehee, you're not finished yet -- you have a box arriving tomorrow, Monday, 10/4/04. Have sent email with list and cultural notes.

Hey ya all, I was replying to the new post's on here and was about 3 quarters of the way done when I went back up to ccp an area of what someone wrote, and on the way back down instead of hitting the scroll down key, "Dummy Me" hit the 'Back' button which of course ERASED everything I just wrote! ( GRrrrr!!) So I'm starting over!

Julie, Maybe it's a good thing we 'don't' live by each other, We'd both be trying to put each other to work!! LOL!
( Only kidding) I think it would be great, We would both have so many 'new idea's' for gardening designs ( And I'd always have a place at your place for all my extras!!!LOL!
Sounds like you have a lot of spots of shade and semi-shade, That's always nice to have! I couldn't stop laughing when I read how your hubby 'Loves His Diesel Tractor!!!!" ( The BIG Boys Toy!)LBMO!!!

Jim, "I haven't time to read this I have work to do" ~ You crack me up!!! LMBO over here!!
"WHAT "WERE" YOU THINKING getting all those plants????? My Good God Jim!!! LLOL!!! You wouldn't by some slight chance have an EMENSE ADDICTION to plant collecting would you??? ~ You wrote: "Now the bird house doesn't seem like it would be any work"

I 'Don't' believe this!! I wrote a reply to all the last postings and it only posted HALF OF WHAT I WROTE!!! GRrrr! And I noticed as I try to post more to finish it, It's doing the same thing again!! So, I'm quitting for now! I'll try it again later.

Karen...with *friends* like you...who needs *enemies*!!! LOLOLOL!! I can't thank you enough. You sure helped fill in some of those open spots in my shady borders. (Now...I can just remember who sent me what, I'll be in fine shape come spring. (Like THAT's going to happen...remember, I mean!))

Iris...I'm beginning to think it's a *very* good thing that NO one around me gardens. I'd be in exactly the same shape Wanda's in..."What? We're out of frozen pizza?"

Wanda...what is it about men and tractors AND their *pizza* ??? Thank goodness, Eric is a pizza addict! Otherwise, he'd starve! LOL And as for that "curling up with a book" in front of a nice fire...sounds *mighty* good to me!

Molly...I *LOVE* that Loyalist hosta! Purely gorgeous! Next year, maybe! Unless....Ohhhh Jim?
:-D

~julie~

Julie do you play the guitar and sing or sing acupolco. I know that's not the right spelling but I think that's funny so I'll leave it there. LOL
Looks like I might get to the hosta shindig. My DIL said GS doesn't have a game this weekend.
Molly email me your list. You to Julie.
Iris I think you have been working to hard and just thinking you are typng and you are in your mind but not with your fingers.
I was thinking about all my friends that like plants and decided to get enough for them. Now I know you have this new addiction to day lilies so I got day lilies for you. LOL And I know you play the guitar and sing so I'm waiting on my tape with all those good songs you sing and play.
BTW what are you doing posting in the middle of the afternoon?

Jim,

Thanks so much for the offer of picking me up some hostas. But I better back off on this for now. My fav. Ebay plant seller is having a fall sale and I overdid it.

I'm not sure at this point whether I run out of money or ground space first.

When they come in then I will be overwhelmed yet again.

Molly
:^)))

Julie, I know what you mean! I do a lot of 'pot of speghettti, spare ribs and taters, pots of soups ect.~~'Heat and Eat' dinners here!! There is nothing I hate more then having to run in a cook something for eats while I'm trying to get my yard work done! So I try to keep things ready ahead of time to shove in the micro!

Jim, If you notice, The last two posts were in the A.M., But I did have one in the P.M.~ I had a few extra minutes while on break that afternoon so I thought I jot a few words in.
I figured out what the problem was with the posting earlier ( And 'No', It was not a mind typing thing LOL) ~ It seems that if you ccp something from a post on here, It won't go past what you ccp'd when your finished with what your writing and go to post it.
Daylilys eh??? Trying to get to my weak spot are you???? LOL! ~ I have been meaning to do a tape, One of these days/ nights~ I know I'll get it done!! I need to take time to relax, Ah, The joy of it! Did I fall asleep again??? http://www.wtv-zone.com/irislynx/gifs/swingskel.gif

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Jim...it started with a grin, morphed into a giggle, then erupted into a ROFLOL. If you were familiar with my family you'd have known that your 'acupolco' line was *perfect*! My oldest son (he's 39) has a habit of exchanging words just like that...it's such an endearing quality...except in his case he probably wouldn't recognize that he'd misspelled it to begin with. LOL & LOL.

To answer your question, 40 years ago I did sing 'acupolco' and pretty darn good at it too. Then I got married, had kids, screamed a LOT, lost my voice, and just found it again a few weeks ago. Now I'm singing 'scales' (La La La La La La La La) with my youngest granddaughter (barely a year old...and she has no idea I *can't* sing!) As for the guitar, that went away when 'authorytis' claimed my fingers. LOL

So my list of hostas is really short. I *need* nothing...would love to have *everything*...it's too cold now to plant *anything*....:-D....but please think of me when you see that Loyalist! And if there's another opportunity in the spring, I hope I find out about it! (Thanks for the offer, you're a sweetie.)

Molly! What do you mean you've run out of ROOM!??? I still have PLENTY...and I'm willing to share. (Mwahahahahaha)

Iris...a girl after my own heart! LOL

~julie~

I'll have to remember acupolco. My husband wears gargoyle socks (argyle) and likes to eat at the Barbarian (Bavarian) Inn Restaurant!

sylvi...those are GOOD ones! I just love it when someone *accidently* plays with words (or for that matter, just plain twists things up on purpose! LOL)

~julie~

LOL
Julie and Donna, I might just get that loyalist and overwinter and get ya'll a cutting come spring time.

I've been missing in action here. I went to a horse farm on Sunday morning and got a full load of horse manure loaded into the back of hubby''s truck. I brought it home, backed the truck up to the beds and them personally shoveled it out. When I was done, I went back and did it again. I worked from 7-4 and covered an area that is 100 feet long by 5 feet wide... it's all covered now, and boy am I whipped on Mondays... but of yea this is Tuesday and I'm still beat. My neighbors actually stopped and commented that they couldn't believe I was doing all that. I still have more to go!

Ga Clay.. I'll be there in the AM on Saturday and I'm not sure how long I'll stay, but hope to see you there. It should be fun. :)

Susan McCoy

Jim...and if you do get that Loyalist and you do winter it over...and you DO send me a start...I'll send you a start of "Remember Me." That's a gorgeous nearly ALL white one I found at Park's this fall. (I'm leaving it in my 'will' for my kids! hehehehe Otherwise, I'm SPENDING their inheritance! On plants, of course!! :-D)

Susan... LOL back into the manure, eh? I think you need to get to be friends with Brenda (langbr)! Cow poop is HER *best friend*...oh, wait...I think she's getting a goat from Charlotte! LOL

~julie~

Lol
Work never urt anyone but that manure will kill you.

Julie, I tell all my boys when they come and start saying I'm a pack rat. I never throw anything away, that I would be throwing their inheritance away.

Susan I plan to be there. Look for an old man that is 6' 6" inches. Shouldn't be hard to spot.
I won't be able to stay long either. My work place is having our company picnik at Butt's Mill Farm Saturday afternoon I think it starts at 4.

Julie - I know whacha mean about seeing those roots forming in the glass. Long ago, we had an elderly neighbor (probably the age I am now) who wintered her summer annuals in little antique colored glass vases. They sat on glass shelves against her windows so that the house, in certain lights, looked like a shimmering pastel rainbow.

I had never gardened without being flogged first (just exaggerating) before, but something came over me and there I was shoveling up a tomato bed in pure and total shade of the garage. Mrs. Waterman came out of her house and told me not to plant those tomatoes in the shade like that. That's how we met. Well, luckily for me, she had quite a few occasions to come out of her house and set me straight. It was she, 'Shoe, who showed me my first moonflower vine. She was training it to go around and around a wire hoop, in a circle, about 3' from the ground.

Now, here we are in a thread about being overwhelmed by our gardens. I just did a search for the word, "flashlight" and no one else has used that word yet. How is it that DH and I are the only ones, so far, in this thread to be out in the dark with shovel and flashlight saving plants from frost? True overwhelming comes from being disorganized (anyone want to argue heehee?). Have I got y'all beat, or what?

LOL...Jim, you sound JUST like me! LOL

Karen, I love the lady who got you into gardening. If it hadn't been for her, I would never have met such a ...uh...(well, YOU know the word I'm thinking of) person. LOL&LOL And as for 'flashlight,' maybe not in *this* thread...but the first person who pops into my head for 'nighttime garden chores with one is langbr. And, it just occurred to me...hope she didn't go on her expedition barefoot!

Disorganization = "Overwhelmed" (Nahhhhh! My chaos is extremely organized! :-D)

~julie~

Julie - you *must* be referring to 'Langbr vs the Slugs' otherwise known as World War III. giggle snort snicker guffaw

"giggle snort snicker guffaw" And "ditto" back atcha, Brenda...:-D That's the one.

Now, I'd use a flashlight as a weapon against the MOLES, but I'd have to FIND the little suckers, first! (Picture this...julie trying to slither down the first mole tunnel she sinks into...THEN trying decide which way the @$#&$*(@ went. But I like to think of that scene as would see it from above ground...HUGE mounds of dirt instead of the 4" high ones!) I never dreamed that I'd *ever* have a mole problem. Guess I learned!

~julie~

GA Clay, I saw the roundup pics and I know exactly what you look like. You're "wise and mature", not old!! I'm 5 11' myself, so we will be the tall ones there! I'm 34, the baby who just received 500 tulip bulbs that say don't plant in manure. Oh boy!! That's about all I've got!!

I still haven't decided what all I want in the way of Hosta's ... should know by Friday :)

Susan McCoy

Susan I'll be there. Don't feel bad about BEING ONLY 5'11" all my friends are shorter than me. LOL
I guess they would have to be or I wouldn't have any friends.

(giggle @ Jim)

~julie~

Hello All,

I personally went to Winterberry Farms today and I learned quite a bit about their business. Due to a large amount of theft earlier this year, they had to fire seven employees and were left empty handed in more ways than one. They were unsure of whether they were going to be able to continue in the business at all. They were almost wiped out. While they are going to continue, they are obviously feeling the effects of having lost seven employees. Betty and Jim were friendly and helpful and I got lots of babies for myself and friends. Some had already started to go dormant as I learned they go quicker in pots than in the ground. We checked for the roots and they were very vigorous. I will plant soon and let you know how great they are next spring!! :)

I was really glad to meet GeorgiaRedClay—Jim, who is an amazingly generous wonderful soul. He brought me some sweet goodies. I also met Becky and I can’t remember her DG name. It was a fun time.

What a small world.... Betty Anderson went to graduate school with my cousin Skip Glover who owns Glover Organic Farms.. And she's known him for years. Wow!

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I originally meant to post this elsewhere, but that's what happens when you have two pages open to DG at a time! Well, after posting all about shovelling out two truck loads of manure, Jim said he was curious to see what I'd look like!!!!!!!! I guess I passed or else he wouldn't have told me that! I had him feel my rock solid arms (I wish) and prove how hard I work!!!!

This message was edited Oct 9, 2004 6:12 PM

Susan...you posted in *exactly* the right thread! I'm glad you told us about the Winterberry Farm and the problems that they had. It lets us all know more about the character of those owners, not to mention it lets us know that "thefts" can come where we would least expect them. (I felt terrible when I read what happened to them.)

I'm glad you got to meet Jim...and was finding him as easy you thought? :-)

Thanks for telling about your adventure...and thank goodness it didn't have anything to do with manure! hehehehe UNLess.....no, I'd better not say *that*. LOL LOL LOL

Glad you enjoyed yourself!

~julie~

LOL Julie that is so funny. It sure was good to meet Susan. A tall, strong beauty with muscles in those arms. She wasn't anything like I thought she would be, I thought she would be manly after hearing about the truck of manure. She is far from that. I really had quite a day. Meeting her and Jim and Betty the owners were so nice. People that I intend to go back and visit. I had to leave before Susan because I had the company picnic to attend but if not for that I would still be there looking and talking. I bought a few hosta's but really fell in love with the elephant ears. I have several different ee and bought 4-5 more. And yes Molly and Julie ya'll can be getting the voice muscles in tune. I GOT THE LOYALIST. I'll be sending ya'll one next spring. Molly if you have room and I will send your's now.

LOL Jim...does that mean you can "read between the lines" on that UNLess...:-D

OHhhhhh You're such a sweetie! I can sing scales with my 1 yr old GD so I guess I can figure out to do "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" for you getting the Loyalist. YIPPPPEEE!!! If our weather was going to hold out as nice as it has been these last few days, I'd tell ya SEND IT NOW!! :-) But that's all going to change in a couple of days.

I'm really happy when I see a couple of DG friends get to meet up in person. I'm glad YOU had a good time, too. ;-)

~julie~

Jim,

You are such a sweetheart! I surely can take that Loyalist down here anytime you are ready to send it. My zone 9 bed is so strange. While all the hosta growers up north are talking about them going dormant, mine are growing better now than they did all summer. I have a spot reserved for it now.

Thanks for taking the trouble to do that. My address is listed in the address exchange under extras.

Thank you so much!!!

Molly
:^)))

:) ********* Blushing********* Tall, strong beauty... I'll take it!! Thanks Jim!!

Julie, Jim Anderson stated that the liners are not a problem to plant in our area right now, but he told me that northern climates are iffy and I don't know why??? So just wanted to pass that along.

Molly, do Hosta go dormant in your climate much at all? I guess they need some type of rest even there but is it for very long??

I'm trying to stay away from using the tiller, and I'd like to move towards sheet composting, but I will be using it to get my hosta beds ready since there has been no prep before today. I'm really excited about seeing them grow into the following seasons. Now I'm really seriously contemplating learing how to grow things (Hosta) from tissue culture. I've been looking online. My Ken Druse book about making more plants doesn't really mention it much... It's is too indepth I'm sure. I do have a pressurte cooker though, and thats a big part of it! When you start gardening on a large scale, its necessary to learn how to get them as cheaply as possible, and making you own is pretty good!

And having wonderful, awesome folks like Jim who give you sweet plants to boot is absolutely wonderful!!! THanks so much Jim!!! It was fun and I enjoyed talking to ya!

Susan McCoy

Susan...I've seen the word 'liners' before...but the terminology is unfamiliar to me. I'm assuming that it means "starts" or small offshoots of the hosta plants. If that's the case, then I got LOTS of them for BIG bucks from mail order catalogs this spring. LOL

Probably the cautionary comments from Jim Anderson were made because of the rapid loss of any growing time up here. I've planted some things in the last week or so, but I was careful to make sure they were well watered in. We've had a couple of nice warm days and everything is growing like *mad* while they still have a chance. That will be soon be over and done with.

I know what you mean about having great friends here at DG to help us get our gardens started and about those who freely share the bounty of their work with us 'newbies'. (Isn't it funny how that word seems to attribute "youth" when, in my case, nothing could be farther from the truth. :-D) I've been on the receiving end of some wonderful gifts from several of those members since I joined. I can only hope that I'll be able to "Pay it forward" next season.

"Cheaply" and "Make you own" is right up my alley! LOL Now, since I know nothing about 'tissue culture' (other than I think it's some kind of "cloning" procedure) can you tell me what a "pressurte cooker" has to do with the process? I have a thing called a PRESSURE cooker...but I only use it for canning veggies. ;-) (Just kidding with ya!)

~julie~

Yes Julie, Liners are babies which are growing in six packs.

Oh, did missspell it?? :) Yes, a pressure cooker is used to sterilize the growing containers... I understand that baby food jars are widely used and they need about 15 minutes on high pressure to make them sterile and there are a whole lot of other procedures as well. It sounds kinda complicated, but I reason that if other growers can do it, I can learn too!! I'd love to find someone in this area who does it and be able to learn from them...??

Susan McCoy-- who has misspelled her own name before!!

You own NAME??? LOL that's cute.

Susan...I'm glad you put my mind at ease on the pressure cooker...I had visions of cooking up some kind of 'soup' out of the plant tissues in it and then putting the soup in a petry(sp?) dish.
:-D

Seriously, TC sounds like it could be a lot of fun, but at my age I need propagation methods that take a lot less time! (You know, like making a LOT of good friends here at DG. :-O :-) :-) ;-))

~julie~

Susan,

I'm sorry I can't tell you about the dormancy habits in my zone 10b. I have had hostas just less than a year. I gave up on them in the spring, then decided to keep trying by fall.

That's why I call their flower bed my zone9 bed. They are plants that have no business being down here in 10b. But here in my new place I have managed to find some good soft soil, in a shade spot with a mostly constant breeze going past them. I water daily, and our drainage is excellent with a good topsoil and sand mix. My Guacamole has doubled in size just since after hurricane Frances. (That would be labor day weekend). Paul's Glory is doing well and so is Sun Power.

Personally I think they should consider themselves lucky to be here. We don't have moles, voles or slugs to bother them and no deer to munch after them. They don't have to freeze their little tushes off all winter and I pay very special attention to them all summer. Any way, in a couple years I'll be moving up by Gainesville and they will come with me. Then they will be closer to their native zone.

I know, Susan, one simple question and here I go yammering away. :^))))

Molly

Gee Molly, don't be sorry!! :) I thought maybe they wouldn't stay dormant as long there? It's great that you have more than sand to work with. You'll be working your way up to Atlanta if you keep comin north!

Julie... My husband asked me if we could just divide the hostas to make more and I said of course we can, but learing how to making hundreds real fast is just so much more fun!!!

I'm either on full throttle or full stop!!

Okay, since this is the "Overwhelmed" thread and it has been hijacked for other fun topics, Here's the work I did today!

Hosta's Planted 10/10/04
2 Guacamole
6 Hadspen Hawk
6 Iron Gate Delight
6 Fragrant Bouquet
6 Minuteman
6 Wide Brim
2 Sum & Substance
6 Gay Blade
6 Leading Lady
6 Big Daddy

7 Assorted potted larger hosta that had been waiting since spring
3 might be “so sweet”

4 Acuba (Not a hosta) speckled green with yellow shrub/bush.

& Walked down the street to give my neighbor a Guacamole :)

I still need to get about two more truckloads of manure real soon for the other side of the driveways front beds. I will do that next weekend if I can't do it sooner. :)

I just had a medicinal ice cream, so I do not feel overewhelmed at this moment! :)

Susan