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One of the "perks" to being a Master Gardner or lol though my hubby would say one of the "downfalls"
But I share the benefit with my friends and family
tonight they are calling for our first freeze so I will be out with my sheets to cover some of the plants
lol it ends up looking like a garage sale exploded !!!
this is when I realize I just may have 1 or 2 too many plants
When we get a "hard freeze" everything potted gets dragged into the screenroom
you've gotten some trades that gave you a 100 seeds per pack, but you only have 35?
or the plant does not reseed heavily?
how's the germination rate, and did you WS?
Some trades (nicotiana, cosmos, marigolds, etc) have been large, 20,40,100. My trades for Yvonne's Salvia have been 10-12 each. One sent me 15. I estimate about 35 seeds after 3 trades. Sorry. I still need more coffee. LOL
Too bad I don't have a screenroom. My begonias were simply gorgeous all summer but the temps are going down to freezing so very reluctantly I pulled them up and planted some pansies the other day. I hated pulling them up.
One of the "perks" to being a Master Gardner or lol though my hubby would say one of the "downfalls"
I shoulda known. Actually, I am having a culture shock issue in WV. So many of the bushes that were beautiful and fragrant in Fl would die in the freezes up here. I learned how to garden in FL and now I have to retrain my brain to learn about the things that can and cannot grow here and weather the winters.
Meanwhile, this is my idea of a raised bed garden at my vacation place in Maine:
gotcha Paper.... I know how that goes... the precious seeds, you dont get as many.
I know when i'm baggy-ing up my seeds, seeds like Husker Red, I just pour on it, same as MG's like GrandPa Ott... but then Heavenly Blue, you'd get 10, because the are not heavy seeders for me.
Well, to be a "piggy" [that's the name of our swap] I asked another gal for Yvonne's. I'll see if i can get those too.
OH -- Hey Paper.... how did your 4-O'c experiment go this year.... Did you get a lot of plants?
I'd have to say ... many of the seeds i just 'stuck' in the ground this year, did not do well. I had Whites that never germinated ... which bummed me out, but my neighbor had 1 , though hubby gave all those seeds away to a friends wife. I got a new one called Desert 4-O'Clock, it's a lower growing plant... so that one i'm excited about. I think another name is "Colorado 4-O'Clock" Mirabilis multiflora.
I am learning a hard lesson. Another culture shock. I grew birdhouse gourds this year. I grew them every year in FL. In FL, I left them on the vine to dry out. I took them off the vine in WV to dry on a sunny stoop and now am told that they will rot and disintegrate rather than dry out the way they did in FL.
But the people that told me that are not gardeners. Can anyone shed some light?
OH -- Hey Paper.... how did your 4-O'c experiment go this year.... Did you get a lot of plants?
I tossed out about 3000 seeds, if I remember correctly. I got less than 100 plants. However, I did have a tree come down and that killed off a bunch of seedlings. I think next year, the reseeders should be stronger. The soil there is really bad, but I added some compost and leaves this fall. Hope it is better in the spring.
I am learning a hard lesson. Another culture shock. I grew birdhouse gourds this year. I grew them every year in FL. In FL, I left them on the vine to dry out. I took them off the vine in WV to dry on a sunny stoop and now am told that they will rot and disintegrate rather than dry out the way they did in FL.
But the people that told me that are not gardeners. Can anyone shed some light?
AliceT call your local extension office they will be able to answer the question.
Another trick for a raised bed is those square concrete blocks the builders use
We have used them for some of the raised beds at our schools where we teach the JRMG program
Cinder blocks are heavy and they don't roll very well - but great idea if I ever come across some blocks and the means to utilize them
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