Hi gang! Just joined Dave's Garden last week ... what a wonderful site. I've learned so much and realized how much more I need to learn about gardening. I'm new to gardening, only started playing around with it about 2 years ago -- late bloomer, I guess. I bought my house 4 years ago and last year decided to redo/reorganize the landscape the previous owners' created/added to. There were a lot of overgrown, misplaced plants. It's hard work and so much fun. I have tons of questions and need suggestions.
Oh, this weekend I built my first compost bin and started a compost pile.
Michael
New Mid-Atlantic Gardner
Compost is such a god start! Hi there, dirt friend. This is a nice group. Just don't believe anything wrightie says. She's a pathological liar.
Hey Sally! I was hoping I would run into you here. You always have such good advise. Thanks for all your help so far. I have lots of questions -- hope your ready for it.
Sally! You scalawag! LOL
Welcome Michaeljo, to the forum and to our particular addiction. Sally is right - composting will be a huge help to all your plants. But I think she's fibbing about Wrightie.
I've been chatting with michael on the canna and compost forums, and have m totally fooled into thinking I know something.......
Thank you Hart ... thanks to sally, I'm totally addicted to compost. I'll be keeping my eye on you sally ... you're in trouble if my cannas die.
Welcome Michael! Be careful, DG is VERY addicting - just returned from a visit with my son in Phoenix and I even felt it necessary to "check in" to see what was going on while I was there! LOL
I'm ONLY here now because I had to search for library books for my son, and eat breakfast. Can't sort socks or walk dog and eat.
Hello - I am only here because I am putting off doing anything else. ha-ha Good to see familiar faces. I have been reading the compost thread and see that shenanigans go on over there too. I was going to warn you michaeljo about sally instigating lots of laughs whereever she goes. You get her and wrightie together and it is almost enough to make you wet your pants from laughing so hard.
As for questions, you will find lots of good help here. This group also loves pictures. You will find some of the nicest and most generous people that you have ever met.
Welcome aboard.
Ruby
Too late, already addicted ... I check in as soon as I get to the office, during lunch and in the evening. Not sure if it's procrastination or an obsession. Hmmm, I'll think about all day and tell you later.
Big ole welcome to you Michael!!! As you can plainly see - some DG'ers are a tad more sane then others....ROTFLOL *ducking head and running*
At least there are to of us ...
Welcome, michaeljo! Sorry that I didn't find this thread sooner. I've been very busy planting a hedge of Ananas comosus; trying to get them in the ground before the first frost. I'm looking forward to enjoying the fruit next Spring.
Hi wrightie, I heard a lot about you. I didn't know you could grow pineapple in MD ... or have you moved to Hawaii?
Let the games begin...
Uh huh. I think we can blame this particular tall tale on Sally... she gave Wrightie a rep to live up to!
I really do have banana plants in my basement, though.
Yepper!!! Wish I had a basement...I've got Plumerias, Banana Plant, and EE's in my LIVING room....ugh!
There are banana pups potted up that will be overwintering in the dining room... want one?
I can vouch for Critter having banana plants in her basement.
Here they are while they were all still growing in her garden.
Now they are all in her "rafters" and among her pipes on the ceiling.....Haaa...Haaaa.... Inside humor!
Gita
Have my banana in my kitchen - appropriate? I can't believe the mess I have to clean up after being gone a week :( We brought everything inside 3-4 days before I left and didn't have enough time to get a few things in their final "resting place" before leaving. Counter is still crowded with those without a "spot" and you can barely move through the front hallway where all my containers from the front deck had to be moved to. Good news is we finally have more "room" to make our way to the front door, it was getting just a little crowded out there! Bad news, the plants are dropping their leaves faster than I can pick them up. Most are adjusting, but some of the Begonias absolutely hate coming inside :( When I finally get the "mess" cleaned up, I'll take some pictures of my jungle to share with you.
Speaking of jungles, it seems that I am in good company. My husband thought that I was the only nut who had to find spaces for house plants after they are brought in from summer outside.
I am thrilled to see some new and familiar faces amongst us. Has anyone told Michaeljo that several of us met last June at a Mid Atlantic Plant Swap? And then agaiin for another one at Critters in September? I missed the one in September, but will try my best to be at next open get together, whatever it be.
There will be no gardening for me today. I have a lot of errands to run today. I had a doctor apppointment yesterday that I call and canceled after I went outside and saw how lovely the weather was. I ended up cleaning out several beds and adding a load of stuff to my commpost pile. I ended up staying outdoors for several hours and got a lot done. Now if I can mind a few other afternoons that are like yesterday, weatherwise, the garden will almost be finished being put to sleep..
As always good to see all of you.
Ruby
Jill...LOL...Banana pups...you are always the bestest sharer!! Seriously though...I need to start using my neighbor's living room...I have plumies places not meant for plants as it is. OT but let me just say - IF - I don't get some blooms next year...somebody else can reap the benefits of my Plumie forest. They all put on quite a bit of growth the end of summer to fall...which is fine until you have to bring the "trees" INside....mercy!
Seriously, assuming they all survive being divided, there's an extra 'Ice Cream' banana pup and and extra 'Apple' banana pup. I hope they will go home with somebody at the Groundhog's Day tea party and plant swap (yes, Michael, of course you're invited! it's just a semi-official plan at this point since I haven't posted a thread about it yet).
Gita, they will not get a chance to grow into the ductwork in the basement ceiling this year! I bagged the roots, and we laid them on their sides along the wall in a bright corner of the basement. We'll see how that goes. I did that with one banana last year, and it survived... The pups I'm keeping upstairs are like insurance in case this plan fails, LOL.
Critter,
Talking about bananas-----
Last Saturday i went to do my "duty" as a volunteer at the Rawlings Conservatory on their Open House for the MuM Show. I am sure you have seen my Posts on this.....Besides the point.............
The Conservatory had Banana plants growing in all their beds outside the building--just for impact. They were beautiful! When I pulled up in the back of the Conservatory (I was delivering a couple of plants for them to adopt), I saw all the Banana plant leaves chopped off laying there--just to rot away. Even the bases of them. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm????
I meant to ask what they will do with these and if they will re-use any of them, but never got around to it. I can still e-mail them and ask. IF their Banana plants had "pups", would they have saved them all to replant next year and would they have grown to be plants the size you had?????????
Have you ever been to the Rawlings Conservatory and Botanical Gardens?? It is in Druid Hill Park next to the Zoo.
Get Bobbie and whomever else lives nearby and go see the Mum Show. I think on Dec. 8, they will be previewing their Winter Poinsettia Show.
Why don't we all make a "date" to meet there to enjoy this awesome spectacle on some given date??? Would you drive to Baltimore for it?
I missed it last year, but sure would like to see it this year.
Gita
Pineapples and bananas ... are you sure you all live in the mid-atlantic region. All I've got are banana's in a bowl on my counter.
Yes, s/he's got no bananas...
nor do I have any Ananas comosus.
Gita, they might have dug up the plants and stored only the corms (bananas have a big fleshy underground thing in the middle of their roots). Tropicman does this, I believe... he chops off the stems, lets the water drain from the corms from a couple of days, then wraps them in burlap and shoves them under the house for the winter -- in Kansas!
I'm picturing a canna like thing of GIGANTIC proportion