Horrible news and to see the poor mother return and collapse at the news was beyond sad.
Back to sad peaches. Here was our poor kid. I don't have the final picture where the fruit dried up and the leaves curled but in the lower picture you can see it starting. Thanks for any advice. It looks great this spring. Patti
Patti - is that a Saturn peach? Mine has peach leaf curl and I bought a copper spray for it but the way the weather is - I won't ever get to spray. I managed not to get an oil spray - so I guess I can spray anytime. I'm out working on the paths around tomato mountain. I can live with them not being level - I just hope the weeds will not manage to come through the newspaper and chips.
What you've done with the moss looks great, rcn48. I also love your photoshopping job. Do you have a special program with pics of hostas or do you get them from catalogs, or what? Really nice.
Patti, your plans for the JM bed sound ambitious. You'll be busy! My plans are always ambitious and always keep me busy.
Karen
Ayankeecat, Yes, it is the donut peach 'Saturn' Good eye. I bought some of that spray at agway two weeks ago, so I will use it as planned. Here it is today. Thanks, Patti
Karen, but you have "nuts" in your name so you have an excuse. Me none. Poor time management and big eyes is a problem for me.
And Karen has a RU planned so we know she is a fellow nut!
Well I finally got hubby to come with me to Lowe's and pick up some supplies to start working on my veggie garden.
I found this fo about Peach tree leaf curl 2 years ago.
It's a bit chopped up, sorry.
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That's my gardening project for today, lol.
Andy P
I have a big silver maple on the north side of our property and have never fertilized it. In fact, I never fertilize my trees, and they all do well.
Karen
Sarakeeper, Thanks so much. I am giving this to my DH to read as he is the Mr. Fix It for bugs, critters and diseases. Patti
Patti, I have a nectarine tree that does not get leaf curl but the fruit turn black and are inedible for the past 3 years. I hit it with a dose of dormant oil and sulfur a couple of weeks ago. I keep the area around it clean. If it doesn't produce this season, it's gone. Space is too valuable for non-producers.
I'm not going to jump through hoops for a peck of fruit. Peach and nectarine trees have a relatively short life span, mine is already past middle age.
I wish my gardening mentor, old Mr. T, was still around. He grew everything when I was a kid in NH. Plums, watermelon, grapes, kohlrabi, apples everything. He showed me the value of compost, too.
I remember him well. I pity the garden nuisances...
Not THAT Mr. T. lol
Patti, yes we are still in "parallel universes" :) I know the stream will get done eventually - if I could just concentrate on one area and stop exploring all the other possibilities! Just look at what a simple border of rocks turned into! LOL
Here it is,the "finished" path with steps at the top! You can see how it will connect to the path with the new arbor in the background. The nasty winds yesterday afternoon finally started knocking off all the dead foliage of the black bamboo so I can see the path is going to be a high maintenance area each year :(
I made two more trips to the woods to collect moss yesterday and I still have nowhere near enough to finish! I'll just make sure to carry a few bags with me for collecting each time I visit the woods to check on the wildflowers as they come into bloom :)
This is one of the "pockets" with Hepaticas and a Walking Fern on the rock. I'll continue to collect moss covered rocks and add them when I find more.
The Hepatica blooms have different colors - white, pink and blue. A very pretty pink one :)
This is the deep violet-blue one I found. The color looks much darker in the morning but I think it looks lighter because I took the photo in the late afternoon.
On the other side of the path is Bloodroot and Dutchmen's Breeches. The wind knocked them around a little but they should start perking up soon.
And just below the Dutchmen's Breeches is the Wild Ginger from the woods. I also found one small Polypody Fern growing on the rocks. If you look closely you can barely see it growing out of the mound of moss on the rock. Hopefully because I tried to mimic its native environment by placing it over the edge of the rock it will survive!
I'm running out of time to get the planting done but two pictures pasted together give you an idea of the area I have available to plant. Some of the Hostas are already there waiting, all I have to do is dig the holes! "Today's project" is quickly turning into this "Month's Project" :)
looking good so far
About hireing the kid for too much.
Just scanned thru this thread.
Sorry if this is old stuff ,thread started near the top.
Any kid would be glad to have a job period , when out of work people will work for anyamount.
GS is 21 this year and worked for minimun wage when 19two years ago , and hit the jackpot when he interned for a company last summer.
He has three years of college and will earn over $15 pr hr at the same internship job this year
. My vote is to pay the rock carrier $8.00 per hour,see how he does and hire him for other jobs at an increase if he works out.
This is a couple of hours work at best, if he wants full time employment for a higher wage he can find a job elsewhere.
He wont have his mother negotiating for him forever.
Its tough to get into the world, but he should make it.
Guess I'm just grumpy today.
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Looks great Debbie.
Looking good, Debbie!
ge1836, no you are being realistic. Here is the start of a non-gardening rant! Apologies in advance for those parents and kids who are stepping up and I know there are lots of those too.
But I am not sure what all the kids who have had the luxury of having parents who micro manage their every need and problems are going to do in this current climate of financial downturn. These kids have had parents who have been willing to provide them with their every obsession up until now no matter the cost. This over indulgence trait, from what I can see, spans all economic groups. These spoiled and pampered kids are still screaming their "needs" just as loudly at a Target store as they are at an Abercrombie. Aside from spoiling their kids to death, these same parents also seem to expect their kids to take little to no responsibility for any poor decisions made by their kids. They will swoop in as helicopter parents to clean up any messes while the kid is never held accountable or could possible be at fault. The parents also will take no responsibility for creating the mess by their poor parenting skills. I only hear excuses like "bad crowd", 'peer pressure", "they all do it", "just being a kid", "they have nothing to do", "they were just having fun" and on and on.
The same lack of responsibility goes on when their darlings actually need to hit the pavement to find a job. I can't tell you how many parents approached me to hire their kid at my bookstores for a summer job over the years because, "it would be fun", "the hours would be good as their kid doesn't want to go to work early or work late", "it will be casual and flexible and not stressful", "they didn't want to have to waitress or do physical work", "they wanted some extra time off, and as a friend, I would understand", "they don't really read, but love people" and "Oh, I want them to stop in early Aug so they can have time to have a vacation before going back to school in Sept" . I learned fast. Unless the kid actually showed up to apply for the job in person without the parent, and with no strings attached or special treatment expected, and could rattle off a string of recently loved books, I didn't consider hiring them.
There is nothing wrong with networking for your kid, but parents need to know that they are doing their children no favor in not let them have to grow up and function as an adult. I had a parent call me last month to see if I would call a friend of mine to call his dear friend who could be an important contact for her recent college graduate "child" age 23, looking for a "good" job. This parent also said that she, not her child, who was off on a vacation, could send me the resume that she had put together for her child. I told her that unless her child got to met with my friend in person, that she would not likely pass the name on. The parent didn't get it and said well you could tell her that this child comes from a really nice family and the parents were my good friends. I told her to give my e-mail address to her child and I could arrange for her child to meet and talk to my friend, and guess what, no e-mail to me in more than a month from this poor kid' who is in "desperate" search for a "good" job between vacations. I know the kid has no job or internship yet either. And, heaven forbid, that this 23 year old may actually have to work at something like a minimum wage job in the meantime. That isn't even being considered for this spoiled darling even though the parents money has evaporated a great deal of late. These Parents have opted out of letting their child become and functioning adult.
End of rant. Back to gardening.
And I totally agree with Victor.
Debbie, Great job with the path and stairs. I love seeing all the moss and Hepatica. I ordered one this spring called Hepatica nobilis'Lithuanian Blues' to surprise of a Lithuanian man who my DH has mentored for a couple of years in English and literature each week at our house as part of a free ESL program on Nantucket.
He is always anxious to walk through the garden when he first arrives. He grew up in a big gardening family and keeps a veggie bed with some flowers at his rental home. The Hepatica should be a big surprise for him to see, if I can get it to grow. He came to the US from Lithuania on an agricultural visa after working in Ireland for a year to learn English. He first worked in WI in farming for a year before migrating to Nantucket and working as carpenter about 4 years ago. He never went to College rather a trade school. His second language is Russian and then he speaks many others. A really good guy. He may have to go back to work on a farm for way less money soon or try and pass the TOEFL test and go to college. Carpentry business is very slow here. Patti
great job on the stone path and moss collecting rcn! I always appreciate good stone work - two weekend ago i was listening to a gardening radio show and they discussed the collection of moss from the woods just as your doing - they mentioned something about mixing sugar and water to help make it grow as well.
Wha, my DH tried a mixture of moss and milk that he mixed up in the food processor and then painted on the rocks. I don't think it did much and not as good as the gather and plop method as done last in on March 12 2008 by him. Patti
did not hear paul parent talk about any milk, you are correct about just gathering it in the woods. I've been killing it and now after looking at some different sites it looks good on rocks under jm's - have a great kinda flat stone i moved from a friends home in western mass that i rubbed the moss off of now with i hadn't - still has nice lichens and lots of quartz so hoping some of the moss returns. it is still in a holding area that has moss so maybe it will return.
There was an article on here about moss, I think.
got a lot done this past weekend - saturday i raked the front yard which took numerous trips to dump the debris and then limed and fertilize all of it. only the backyard left before i get to the "un-kept" areas. also had another large fire as the ice storm clean up continues
sunday only had a half day and was able to trim up hemlocks and some spruce trees before retiring to the basement to re-pot 50 t-plants, basil, and peppers.
Debbie, I love what you've done. It looks great!
Carrie, thanks for the link to that article on the moss. I will check it out in a little bit. I'm doing what Debbie is doing, gathering moss in the woods and putting it in my woodland gardens. It sure is pretty.
Karen
No problem - my mission in life is to disseminate the DG articles throughout the forums as needed. I have a few other missions, bring up my kids well, or finish, have a wonderful marriage, etc. etc. (Be the next Leonard Bernstein - I think I missed that one - but you get the picture.)
Carrie, you didn't wave your arms when we were at symphony. I had no idea. Patti
