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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 6:08 pm
Yes, there is Gardening for Dummies, Gardening All-in-One for Dummies, as well as Container Gardening for Dummies, Herbed Gardening for Dummies, and Vegetable Gardening for Dummies. I would also suggest Square Foot Gardening. As for watering, I would use the old tried and true method: stick your finger down into the ground and feel the soil.
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Suitsmefine
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 8:49 am
Today I went to turn the compost pile and discovered 2 tomatoes the size of my fist were turning pink!!!! I CAN"T WAIT FOR THAT BLT!!! My cucumbers are covered with little cukes, we have already harvested 2 rounds of lettuce and radishes and lots of sweet peas...my kids just love to eat them straight off the vine. My yellow squash are covered with little squash and the zucchini are just starting to bloom. So things are going well except for my eggplants....they are not growing and I can't figure out why... The flower beds are doing great too....lots of roses, clematis, purple coneflower, Queen Annes Lace, Asiatic and Oriental lilies,pink veronica, lavender, coreopsis,Butterfly weed as well as my Butterfly Bushes are in full swing....I just love this time of year!
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 9:07 am
Yankee: those flowers are beautiful. I'd appreciate some help finding organic (non-hybrid) wildflower seeds. I've looked at a few online sites but haven't had much luck yet. There is a natural foods market in the area but it only carries vegetable seeds. Thanks in advance. I live in the country and in my "back" back yard have been trying to cultivate a natural meadow/woodland garden amongst the trees and open spaces. I'd like to have native plants that attract birds, butterflies, bees, and other critters (I do have some of that already but want to make it more varied and lush).
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 9:08 am
That is terrific Suits! Well, I am just worried to death. It has been pouring rain all morning and it is supposed to rain all day and some tomorrow. Weather report says we will get an inch of rain today. I have looked outside all morning, at my greatly over-watered garden, wondering if all this water from me and mother nature will hurt my plants. Oh well I am learning and I will not make the same mistakes next year.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 12:11 pm
Calamity: I did a Google search for you Organic Wild flower Seeds. There are a lot of stores out there! Kristy: Too bad you didn't plant a rice crop...planys are fairly resilient. We'll just keep our fingers crossed!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 6:26 pm
That is so true Lkunkel!LOL The other day I went up under the deck and lo and behold on the outside edge I saw this massive plant growing. It has to be either a cantaloupe or watermelon. This thing is huge. It has fuzzy leaves and stems with these green balls on them the size of jaw breakers! Now you see, I didn't do a darn thing except throw out some watermelon or cantaloupe for the critters in the woods last year and I get a Big healthy plant. It hasn't even had any water as we have not had any rain for many weeks up until today, . I think next year I'll just throw some slop in the raised garden and see what comes up!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, June 04, 2004 - 8:06 pm
Gorgeous pics, Yankee. I hope those flowers are where Jujuduck can see them.
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Reiki
Member
08-12-2000
| Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 7:26 am
Yankee, those flower picture are really wonderful. Your DH is not the only one in your family with a talent for photography.
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Strawberry
Member
07-18-2002
| Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 7:40 am
I saw Reiki's name and got all excited thinking she was posting some more pics too! Love all the pretty photos in here. I especially love the one of Jujuduck's home.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 9:25 am
Lkunkel: Thanks for the help!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 7:24 pm
Ok, I finally got my batteries. Here is a picture of my garden. Some of my peppers are dropping their leaves and dying. The tomatoes are doing great.

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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 12:07 pm
Kristy your tomatoes are doing great, my garden is not doing too well either this year, nothing is growing. Everything is almost the same size it was when I planted it. I bought one large tomato plant that already had tomaotes on it, well thanks to the neighbors dog it got knocked over and died. I think I mentioned that I built a small green house or hot house, still tweeking it a bit to close up some of the air pockets, hopefully that will allow some of the stuff to accelerate in their growing process. I'm just worried about what will happen to the garden while I'm on vacation. If the weather changes and we have sunshine for 5 days straight my stuff will be history when I get back home. My roommate says he'll take care of it, but I know him way too well, he'll totally forget about it.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 1:17 pm
I took more pictures today and will post them later if they turn out better than this one. So sorry Jagger about your garden, hopefully it will spring back. I have one large green tomato on the shortest one and several green grape tomatoes. I also have one pepper pod. The parsley, sage, and squash seem to be doing ok.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 3:52 am
My god, we have had 3 days of warmer weather and my stuff has grown like weeds, well actually faster than the weeds. Several of my tomato plants grew almost a foot in 3 days. They actually look like they may do something after all. The ones I have growing in my hot house seem to be doing the best, they look the healthiest, but aren't growing too much. All of my flowers are growing nicely, or at least the greenery part of them are, should have all kinds of flowers in about 3 weeks.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 5:12 am
Yea!!!!!!! Jagger, I am happy for you. I get so excited watching my stuff grow and I am excited for you. I harvested some parsley the other day and I was thrilled!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 6:39 am
Ok now I have a critter living in my garden! I was sitting on the porch last evening and I kept seeing a little black head bobbing out from the base of the garden. Upon further inspection I discover that it is a mole. The critter is black and does not have a tail so I am guessing that's what it is. Do I have to worry about him living there and if so what do I do to get rid of him. If this little s#$t eats my stuff I am going to cry.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 7:51 am
Moles are not a good thing for the garden Kristy. I would check either on line or with your local nursery or hardware store for mole removal products. They can do serious damage to your garden. I'm posting a link to just one of many pages on the internet that sell products to get rid of moles. Years ago I had moles in my yard, but they never moved into my garden, not sure what happened to them, they just dissapeared on me. http://www.gardeners.com/searchLanding.asp?q=mole&SC=XNET8019
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:00 am
I have a ground hog in my garden and he is making me so furious that I could kill him with my bare hands. He's mowed through the sunflowers and has headed for the deck plants. He's so darned cheeky that he trots right across the deck while I am sitting there! I think he was living under the deck, but now I have it blocked with rocks...keeps the neighbors' kitties out, too.
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Conejo
Member
08-23-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:14 am
Kristy, try www.themoleman.com (sorry I don't know how to do links)this guy has lots of information about moles. The host of our local gardening show recommends his site all the time.
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Conejo
Member
08-23-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:16 am
How did that link get there? Does tvch have some kind of auto-link thing going on?
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:12 pm
Thanks Conejo I am going to read it right now. I think that mole is what is causing all my peppers to drop their leaves and then die. My stupid cat had rather hunt snakes than fool with a little mole!
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:40 pm
LOL @ Vee, funny post! Waiting patiently for more pictures from Yankee and lkunkel....hows the pepper doing?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:47 pm
The skwerls are invading my yard. They've dug up the ground around my flowers and planted their nuts and seeds in my potted plants. I pulled the new mulberry bush seedlings out and tossed them. There's a new bamboo plant and flowering bush, too. One good thing is I have a new oak tree I can plant in the yard. Now, why can't they dig up the hackberry trees?
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 1:48 pm
My little pepper is slowly growing. He looks so cute!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:45 pm
Lkunkel, I picked my first pepper today! Hot bananna pepper. I have one out of about 12 different peppers that looks healthy and it grew a pepper, yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!. And you know what I did, forgot to eat the dang thing with my supper. When I cleaned the kitchen I saw it lying there on the counter. Oh well I will try to remember to eat it tomorrow and see how it tastes, I don't like to eat them alone just with other foods. ps Lkunkel, what kind of pepper is your little fellow?
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