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Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am extremely jealous of YOU! We had no snow to speak of this year at all and I LOVE me some snow. I did not even get to make one small batch of snowcream, boohoo. Anyway I saw onion sets at lowes hardware today and bought some just in case, wow I can plant them, great. Thanks Prisonerno6.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Feel free to come north for the next blizzard. A little slip-sliding down the Back Mountain will cure you of those no snow blues. :-)

(I have a good 6-8 inches of snow left to melt before I can even think about planting anything. Rule of thumb is nothing goes in until after Mother's Day up here...)

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Or feel free to come WAY north to western Canada where this is the view from outside my front door just 10 minutes ago. Dogwoods nearly in full bloom, pansies in the pots, other bushes blooming, irises poking up about 6 inches above ground...
Vancouver

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hate you. :-)

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Yankee, baaaautiful!!!!!I'm jealous of you too!!!! I love the view of the water. My Dogwoods are just about ready to bloom, daffodils
are up and tulips are up about 4 inches. My Cherry trees are in full bloom.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We're getting more snow tomorrow...

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just a quick question, should I store the onion sets outside? I can't plant them until the weekend.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just store them some place cool, doesn't have to be outside.

Of course, outside here means they would freeze, since it's currently 20 degrees. :-)

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 9:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok, thanks Prisonerno6

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone else grow peonies? If yes, I'd appreciate any advice available on dividing them. They came with the house years ago so they're very well established.

Thanks!!

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How big are the peonies now? I don't think dividing them will do much damage unless they are nearing blooming stage. Mine are just coming out of the ground. I would just try and keep the ball of roots with dirt intact. I usually never have any problem moving plants around when I don't upset the rooting right below.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've got barely half-inch buds at the moment. They take up an area between 24-30 inches round. I'd like to divide them into 3 groups of about 8 inches each, but having never done these kinds of divisions I'm hesitant on how to go about it. Do I just hack them into groups?

Hypermom
Member

08-13-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I did mine last year. I dug them out, then just used a spade to divide them, then replanted. They did just fine blooming then.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks! I'll try that this weekend.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have finished planting my raised garden. Planted lettuce and onions a month ago and my lettuce is starting to multiply. How do you know when to harvest your onions?
All winter I used the garden as a compost and I can already tell it's going to make a huge difference. This year I planted tomatoes, onions, lettuce, parsley, thyme, zuccini, cucumbers, several types of peppers. This year I planted most everything from seeds. Last year I planted mostly established plants and had more luck with the grape tomato that fell off my plate when I scraped it in the yard for the dog. It fell into my white rocks and grew like a son of a gun. We couldn't eat the suckers as fast as they grew!

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 3:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*pout*

We're still getting below freezing temps at night (it's 32 degrees right now at 6:00 AM). I am getting my yardboy in this weekend to start digging up planting beds, and maybe I'll get some cold weather crops in soon, like peas, lettuce, and onions, but it's a good 3-4 weeks before we can safely put in tomatoes and peppers and herbs.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So sorry Prisonerno6. I am worried about our temps. It has stayed in the mid to upper 40s at night but tomorrow night will bring a low of 38. That's not freezing but I am wondering if I should cover them up anyway.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy I would cover them if I were you, especially if they are pretty new to the enviroment, plants don't like sudden change in temps.

I am still a month away from planting most of my stuff. Right now I'm fighting with my city over my greenhouse I want to put up. The problem is pretty simple, I want to put a new larger greenhouse up and the city doesn't want me to have any greenhouse at all. I think I already know the outcome of this one, but it's worth a fight just to irritate them.

They also told me I need to move by dirt pile, I have 20 yards of black dirt I had hauled in last year for various landscapping projects I want to do. I've got it covered with tarps and have only used about a third of it. They sent me a letter telling me I have 30 days to get rid of it. I am nowhere near ready to use this dirt, both financially and physically I can't do any of the yard projects I had in mind for this summer. If they insist I get rid of it I will probably have to run an ad saying free black dirt come and pick it up and just bite the cost of the dirt. Why or why can't I have a nice place out in the country.

As far as the onions go generally when the tip of the tops start to turn brown is a good sign they are ready for harvest, I would just pull 1 out, or dig around with your fingers to see how big it is before pulling it. My understanding is that you can leave them in the ground until you are ready to use them, they will keep better planted than if you pull them all out.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fight em Jagger! Even if you don't win, you might just annoy them and that'd be fun, lol.

Last September half our neighborhood got warnings from the city (including us) about the graass not being green. 30 days to green it up or you'd be fined, they were even kind enough to provide pictures. Reasone we'd all quit watering? Month or two before that we'd gotten warnings from the water company because we were in drought conditions that if we went over our monthly allotment they'd penalize us. The silliest part about the whole thing was that the city had been putting notices in the paper for awhile at that point about conserving water and everybody has to do their part.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the help on the onions Jagger. As for the dirt and the greenhouse It infuriates me that they can dictate what you can and cannot do in your own #&$% yard! Don't blame you one bit aggravate them all you can!

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I had sent the city an e-mail, which of course they never responded to, so last night I went down there and talked to the guy. Sure enough someone had complained about my yard, it was someone who doesn't even live in the neighborhood but walks their dog through my alley. The guy at city hall said he wouldn't have said or done anything if it hadn't been for the complaint.

We had to do some compromizing ( sp?), he said he would let me keep the dirt pile there for an extra month, which I am hoping to extend through the whole summer chances are he won't say anything about it if no-one else complains, as long as I picked up everything else around it, lots of pieces of wood and other junk. But he said a definite no to the greenhouse, he said the only possible way to get that OK'd would be to go in front of the city board and request a "special permit", which if the city granted that I would have to go to every neighbor in a 3 block radius and have them OK it, along with having to pay a $500.00 permit fee, which would have to be renewed every year at the price of $150.00.

I decided I could live without my greenhouse, but now I need to dispose of about 50 windows I've been saving over the past year and a half.

He also agreed to let me keep my wood pile, as long as I put it up on a pallet or something to keep critters from digging under it. That's no problem, I already had it raised up 6" so I really don't need to do anything with it.

My roommate was extremely happy also, the original notice said that there could be no signs of a small business being run from the home, well my roommate does siding, roofing and windows and he has a lot of equipment, he thought he was going to have to go and rent some space at a storage facility, but the guy at city hall said as long as he kept it on his trailer or inside the closed garage he could keep it there, but if he comes by and sees any of it sitting in the yard at any time all of it had to go.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jagger for a month and a half I have worked in my yard for 6 to 8 hours a day 7 days a week. I cut down all the azaleas (8) and all the junipers (12). They were all looking pretty natty. On both sides of my driveway I have areas about 10ft x 15ft and in the front I have two areas about 8ft x 20 that I had to redo. I took cuttings from all my hosta and planted about 25 (I love me some Hosta). Then I took cuttings from the monkey grass and planted about 25 of them. I went throughout the areas planting a Hosta then monkey grass and so on. Tulips and many other flowers are planted among those. Then I planted my garden! And if you lived closer to me I would come over and help you! Sorry you are having all these problems.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy you sound like you've been rather busy. It's too early for most gardening in my area, so far all that the weather has permitted was to take off some of the leaves from my perenials, still haven't rtemoved too much stuff, I still think we'll get some very cold weather and I don't want the things that are coming up to freeze out.
The rabbits are pretty much eating all the tulips that are coming up but hopefully they will leave them alone once the stem and flower start out.

It rained all day long Saturday, which we really needed, it should really green up the grass and give the garden stuff a nice boast. I worked out in the yard for about 2 hours Sunday.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The rain stopped at about 4PM yesterday, and I managed to get in about 2 hours of "cleaning" in my patio container garden -- getting rid of some ivy that ALREADY had aphids on it, repurposing the soil, etc. Not much in the way of "pretty," but I feel great having prepped the canvas, as they say...

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And this is why we don't plant our gardens until May in NE PA: we may have snow on Sunday...