Come one..... Come all to the
Spring East Texas Round Up
May 16th starting at 9am till........done
Loves Lookout on 69 just outside of Jacksonville, Texas
as time gets closer I will post a link for a map
and start a trade thread and food thread
Spring East Texas Round Up
I am so there.
Super can't wait to see ya
I have already started seedlings and sown seeds of all kinds to share. Yippee!
ok, that is funny! i posted about when would we have our RU this spring just today. :) great minds think alike. lol but, i dont know if i can wait until May (says in a whiny voice)! i am looking forward to seeing everyone again.
tracie
patience is a virtue ya know LOL
Woo hoo! I'll be there with bells on! Can't wait Phyllis!
Hey everyone!! YAY!! been wondering Phyllis.. you know I'll be there. Been kinda sick around here. Had cervical surgery, the flu and a stomach virus all in the past 3 weeks...lol... soIi don't know what all I'll have to share, but looking forward to seeing everyone again!!
Ready for winter to go away. It will be great to see all of you. Hope this one is as good as last years.
DD
Becky, I am sorry you have been sick, I hope you get better soon.
Josephine.
TY Josephine... it's been kinda rough..lol... are you going to be able to come?? Sure hope so!!
David.. I'm ready to get to spend some time with you!! It will be good to see you
Becky, I will do my best to make it, but with so many R.U.s it is hard to make all of them.
I am glad to see a date set for this RU. Whoopee! I'll be there. Now, Josephine, yours is the only one that I attend that hasn't set a date. Let us know pretty soon if you can.
Come on spring!! I can feel you now. I rescued two flame acanthus bushes from my back woods yesterday. I am going to cut them back hard to get lots of summer blooms. That was a nice find!
I am going to try to sprout the cuttings for trades. Josephine you so love your natives. I am sure you already have some, but I will share more if you like. This of course depends upon my success with propagating them.
Charlene
Wow!! Charlene, I didn't know that Flame Acanthus grows wild in your area, but it seems that you have some very fertile and productive woods at your place.
I have never tried to root them in the dormant stage, but it could certainly work, since many woody plants can be rooted at that point.
I hope it works Flame Acanthus is a wonderful plant that is a host for the Texas Crescent butterfly and a magnet for hummingbirds.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ANQUW
As to our Spring R.U. Shiela and I are trying to come up with a good time and will let everyone know soon.
Josephine.
Wow, I will post here, so I don't loose the thread, but not for sure if I can make this one. Will there be a fall one later?
LK
Becky- So sorry that you have been a bit under the weather. I look forward to seeing you and hope that you can come by my place this time. Guess we will wait a while before we post Have's and Want's. I have started lots of seeds doing the WSing method. I am doing the demonstration for the Feb. MG meeting. Hope to have success with lots of trade plants.
Hope we have another good group this year with repeaters and new folks too.
See ya'll soon.
DD
TY David..... it's been many years since i have been "sick" so I guess I'm just paying my dues..lol... TY also for the invite to come to your lovely home! I am as excited to see what you've done with your place as I am coming to the RU! Congrats on your demonstration.. i know you'll be great! Never tried the wintersowing... guess i need to try it
Lynea... girl... I haven't laughed sooo hard... ty for that!!! I think me going to the nursing home to see Momma has my immune system on about the same wave length... I just receive a higher dose...lol... I'm so glad to get to spend more time with you.. I promise to get better..lol.. or at least I won't breathe on you... deal??
yay.. Lynea.. I'm glad! Sure wish I had some of that poo!! If I lived closer I'd be snitching some!!
I agrewe with ya there beck I need to snitch some of that too LOL
Morning!!
yeah Phyllis.. that would be fun..lol
Lynea.. ok.. you lost me... borage fertilizer??
Ack, sorry I mean comfrey. I always get those two confused! You pile leaves into a rain barrel type bucket (with a spout on the bottom) as the leaves breakdown they turn into a liquid fertilizer. Comfrey is extremely deep rooted and pulls up nutrients through the soil. sound fun, huh :0)
My my, playing in poo already this early in the morning, LOL! I am busy planting some very unusual seedlings that I can't wait to share with ya'll! Got some beauties and exotics too, like Blue Shrimp Plants ☺ Can't wait to see all of my friends, especially my DdeTex dude and Phyllis the bus driver hero!
I will be there for the RU and looking forward to seeing all too. DMD- You do not have to wait until then to come see me. Good luck with your unique seeds
I will do my cuttings and seeds for the MG sale and the RU. Doing WSing for my first time. Some luck so far. Lots of Hollyhock but have bad case of scale growing on them. How is the best way to get rid of them ?
DD dude :)
DD Dude too funny
I have no idea yet as to trades but I do know I am goin to try and make a run over to one of the shop guys place next weekend as Shelly will be in town and I can use her truck to get some poop from him...it may be horse poop but hey it will work in the compost pile just fine.
have to get in gear this spring and summer as Shelly informed me friday night tentative date is Sept. 5th for the wedding in our back yard....*sigh* lots of work to do to get it looking nice LOL
Same here Phyllis....on what to have for trade plants..I'm going to start a compost pile for the first time in my life!! I'll need all the help I can get from y'all...lol... Sept.5... hmmm not much time.. it'll pass in a few blinks of the eye
hmm DDDude.. that's cute.. now you have a new nickname!! Sorry.. I can't help in the scale... I'm still learning all that stuff
Karen sounds nice.. you are soo organized.. hope you're doing well
Lynea... you mean you just pull the leaves off.. add water??... and it turns into fertilizer?? Help me here girl.. I'm still lost!
I just wrote it on the 'official' home calendar - Ken and I will be there for sure.
I should have lots of things at that time, but I won't know what or how many until closer to the day.
I just started the tomatoes for this year, they are up and growing, mostly. The ones I am trying for the first time this year are Crimson Sprinter, Super Marmande and Thessaloniki. They are all medium sized, short season tomatoes. I am also starting Cherokee Purple again for sentimental reasons. I went with short season tomatoes because they tend to produce before we get burn-out heat - hope they do OK. Anyway, I will probably have some of them available for trades in May. Other vegetables MIGHT include eggplant, various hot and bell peppers and of course the ever-popular Malabar (spinach).
Ken has hundreds of Brugmansia rooting although not nearly as many as last year. In any event, y'all know that whatever we have we are more than happy to share.
I may have some surplus Oregano (just plain old Italian/Sicilian) plants. I had great success rooting them last year and have some nice healthy plants here even now.
We should have a small selection of Gingers, Elephant Ears, Bananas, etc. I am not sure what Ken is willing to part with in trades for these and you know Ken is now in charge of those things - LOL!
I may have some common Purple Coneflower, Hellebore (started from seed in 2007) and some odds and ends of ferns, etc. I should have a few oddball houseplants too.
We are looking for things for ourselves and for others. Rusty and Sheila recently moved into their very own home after sharing a home with friends for nearly 12 years. Rusty is currently waging war with some sort of cancer and Sheila works full time. The land they have their home on was recently cleared - and I mean scraped down to nothing - so it is virgin territory. It's kind of exciting to be in on planning a landscape from nothing. For them we are looking for trees especially - oaks in particular. Also any flowering shrubs, they can be ones that get to be large. Evergreen shrubs would be good too. I think we talked about groundcover plants too - I don't think there's any concern about snakes (in groundcover), but there is concern about erosion in some areas. Needless to say, their whole place is FULL SUN - LOL!! So, Ken and I are a bit hard pressed to come up with a lot of sun loving plants.
Ken and I are open to anything strange or unusual in the plant world. We had some septic system problems that started last Fall (y'all who came here remember that?) and the fix required taking out the peach trees and the old bird pen in the back yard. Ken has built more raised beds for me but there is still an area that needs to be planted and it is sunny back there. I would like a couple of small flowering trees to add to my collection there, so far I have 2 Desert Bird of Paradise and a Harlequin Glorybower. Oh, and there's a Cassia around the corner sort of behind the barnage. I would like a Stewartia or a Styrax if anyone has one or knows what they are. There may be too much sun for them there so I am open to suggestions for small flowering trees.
I am also partial to Hosta, Toad Lily, Ligularia, Ferns of all kinds, Violet, Hellebore and any other shade loving perennials.
Wow Maggi, glad to hear all that you've been up to! Did you get the Paul Robeson tomato seeds I sent? I am sewing my tomatoes (8 kinds) this coming week; corn, squash, collard greens, zucchini and purple hull peas. Beck, I'm doing great, thanks for asking ☺ So ready for lasting outdoor weather, although I know in August I'll be crying because it's too hot.
Now I've really got to get busy and start my seeds. Lorraine and Maggi came down yesterday to get me started but we decided it was too cold, so just stayed inside and crafted.
Why is it always dduring the week when I have to work and cold on the week-ends? Sure looking forward to seeing everyone again.
Pam
Ken/Maggie- You guys are so generous and knowledgeable. Loved coming to your place last fall. You have been here before and know the things I have to offer you. I may have lots of things for the friends new landscaping project. Come any time and get a load if any will work for you. I do grow some unique things.
Cocoa- Making "Tea " fertilizer is always interesting. Have not done the comfry but tried others with mixed results. The poop in a bucket of water does work. Also tried shrimp heads and peelings- stinks to high heavens in the bucket but also works.
Looking for spring and warmer weather. Hope to have lots of things from cuttings and seeds to offer.
DDDude
Becky and David, I'm going to start a new post on the comfrey. Everything I know I picked up off the web, but haven't found one site that contains all the info. I hope to learn more myself.
David, hope you get an answer on the scale, I haven't had to deal with it (knock on wood)
Phyllis, That's great Shelly has pinned down a date. You can go through the old September bloom photos and see what is blooming the best that time of year.
David, Here is a site with some advice on eliminating the scale.
http://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/solver/pests.html
http://reviews.ebay.com/Insect-Control-On-Houseplants_W0QQugidZ10000000004625662QQ_trksidZp4295.c0.m328
http://www.mun.ca/marcomm/communicator/Apr.99/garden.html
Josephine.
Thanks for the info. I have isolated the infected flat or so of plants. Will try one of the suggested methods and report my results. I do not like chemicals but may Have to as they are very infested at this point. They seem to only be on the French/Zebrina hollyhocks. I should have jumped on this sooner but cold and busy made me neglect them. These are some of my WSing attempts. Did not see them until after they were potted up to 6" pots and got some size on them. Not a big loss but 20 or so nice plants if I can control these buggers.
I don't like chemicals either, I hope you can find a good safe method.
is it just plants for the RU and trade?? what about yard art..ie stepping stones, hand made gathering baskets and stuff like that??? Im just getting started on my yard here and dont have alot of plants to trade but do make a lot of stuff Id be willing to trade plants for ...these are some of my stepping stones I ve done I also do mosiac gazing balls..
no matter what Ill still come and meet everyone!
Those are beautiful, I sure could use a mosaic gazing ball, the glass ones I had broke a long tome ago.
Josephine,
Hi blkraven2, and welcome aboard! Of COURSE, you can bring anything to trade! My first RU I had nothing but homemade jam and jelly to trade, and everyone liked it! Just bring yourself and whatever you'd like! (or nothing at all ☺) We'd love to visit with you!