TA I would love seeds..
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Ted, I am getting the manure from Bronc. You need to let him know you want some. Sorry:(
If he doesn't have anymore, I will share mine with you.
I have been digging trees and more trees. Too many to bring to wait to the last minute. Saturday is taken, so I had better get'em dug. I am putting them bare root in a large wastebasket and putting them in my extra bathroom in the dark with a wet towel covering the roots. That is better treatment than the ones we bought from the local nursery when we first moved here. They were shipped stacked in a trailer bare root and dry.
I am thinking these will do just fine. Lots of sweetgums today and a few cedar elms. Tomorrow, I will go for others.
I started out in a sweatsuit and shed the top for a shortsleeve shirt pretty quickly. I am sure glad it rained lately. It makes the digging a bit easier.
What I need is to find some sycamore trees for myself, but on this whole 54 acres, there is not one!
Charlene
Hello Everybody, the Final headcount thread has been updated with the current attendance responses, the maps to the park and directions.
Please let me know if I have missed anyone and if the directions are clear enough. I will update again as things develop.
Josephine.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/781812/
Mama...Here is a picture of the little sassafras trees...I did add you to the list for one and tomorrow hubby and I are going out and diggin up some more of them ..they are shootin up all over in the back half.
Mibus, if you are digging anyway, would you dig one for me? It brings back fond memories of going out in the woods with my grandmother to gather roots (i think it was the roots) to make sassafras tea to make whoever was under the weather feel better.
I could bring you a little tree about the same size if I knew what you wanted. That is just about any darn tree except the Sycamore tree that I want for myself LOL.
i know i must have seen one of those in my lifetime but don't recognize it yet. the leaves appear purplish. does it stay that way?
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I am looking forward to having one of them from Mibus2.
Mama no they don't stay that way they get taller and green...I'll try and get a pic of the bigger tree today and post
Charlene sure I mean there are a ton of them showing up all over out back so not a problem..as for something for me
dang I have no idea I am still trying to pick up on all the names compared to how I know them on everything y'all are callin them.
and Frost I have ya down for one too.
They are starts that come from the roots so they are not cuttings at all
And gee Char maybe I should bring the "tea" I have sittin in my frig right now that I made from boiling the roots.
haven't tried it myself. lol
We had sassafras trees all over the place back home in Ohio. Grandpa used to dig up the roots and we had tea all winter long. Perhaps my parents may want one so we can have that here. I will ask them.
Mibus, bring on the tea and we'll have sassafras tea at the ru. Who knows, we may all be cured of whatever ails us. LOL I wonder if I should make a poltice out of it for my rash from something that I got into (poison ivy, oak or sumac maybe)? I really should watch where I step, but I lose control when I see something growing along the roadway. Thank goodness it is cooling down,so there is less chance of a snake in the grass!
yes please bring some tea. i have never had it. is it awful?
No! It is wonderful! I used to drink a lot of it, when I was a teenager,.
I would love some tea!!
Sigh...add Sassafras tea, to the long list of things that could be bad for you!
I did a search on it, and it scared me, from drinking the tea...
I grew up on it... grandparents drank it until they got too old to gather anymore...
I know, I must have consumed gallons of the tea when I was in my 'hot tea stage' now I drink tea, but then, it was an 'event'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras
Yep, us too. Although, it's not like we drank it every day, just once in a while through the winter. And just think of all the other things that we consume on a daily basis that are supposed to be bad for us...pop, other kinds of tea, fatty foods. Moderation is the key.
Sheila and BlueEyes, I am not sure about the Brazilian verbena. I thought I would have lots of seedlings. I do have tons of seeds. My friend who gave me the original plant will dig up some of his volunteers, but if we don't connect by the RU, you may only have seeds. Sorry.
No problem, seeds are fine!
i have a braz. verbena for blue eyes i think. who else wanted one?
Thank you mamajack!!
OK well so y'all know I have done reading on the tea and I guess that is why I haven't tried it yet, but then I am not a lab rat getting huge doses of it everyday either.
Plus I have boiled it twice and strained it each time to try and get as much of the "oil" that was floating on top out. I just happen to have some empty milk jugs that I washed out ...since I like to make gallon batches of raspberry iced tea to drink so I will pour it into those and bring it along.
I also took a pic today of the trees there are both sassafras and the persimmon in it as they were growing together....hubby has cleared all the greenbrier vines and any other vines off of them so it looks rather bare out there now.
Sheila wanted one braz. verbena. Thanks ,mamajack.
Yes, I did, thanks for offering mamajack. And I would love some seeds Anna if you have plenty.
Thanks
o.k. i'll dig another one for you sheila.
Thanks!
Mom and dad have a bunch of cassia alata seed ripening. I can grab some pods for you. I'd love some formosa lily seeds.
does anyone have red cassia?
Mibus2-I spoke to my mom and they would love a sassafras tree if you have another one.
Thanks!
Have a pot of small Black Elephant ears.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31781/
I'd love some black EEs.
TARogers....got you down for daylilies Baja, Ice carnival, and Topgun's verna jean
pbtxlady....got you down for daylilies Stella d'Oro, Ice carnival, and Baja.
About the rabbit poop, it's not just rabbit poop. There is also pine pellets (like feline pine) and Timothy hay (no seeds). Both of these seem to help in compost, they break down easy. Just so those of you who want my rabbit poop know exactly what they are getting.
You got some and save me a pod of cassia alata
Will do, thanks!
Do you compost it first, bluesmaven? I had read that rabbit poop doesn't have to be composted--one of the few kinds that doesn't.
OTOH--since it's so late in the year, mine probably will get composted anyway.
Pattie