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Alicia C. Member 
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I'm Alicia Cosgrove, staff writer for the paper -- and an amateur gardener. I would like to know if anyone would be interested in starting a seed swap for vegetables, herbs and/or flower seeds. I've started a variety of seeds in anticipation of my summer garden and have some left over. |
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Steve Adkins Member 
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Topic relocated to MAAN per request from Alicia C. Thanks for joining us in the forum !! |
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Cracker Jax Member 
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Welcome to the Forum Alicia C.!
Glad you've joined us here! Tried to welcome you yesterday but the Leprechauns wouldn't let me. A little trouble getting my posts through! You a pepsi fan??? I LOVE MY PEPSI! oh yea... seed swap. Wish I had some interesting seeds to swap, but unfortunately I was born with some really brown thumbs. Hubby and I did grow some Loofah sponges (Gourds)one year. That was great fun. Wish I knew where to get some more of those seeds. |
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Alicia C. Member
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Thanks for the welcome, Cracker. (And thanks to Moderator Steve for putting this thread in the correct forum. I goofed and started it up under Policies <blush>.) I'm going to do gourds this year, along with several veggies and a few flowers. I started seeds in those little Jiffy pods last week -- you know, the little flat thingies that swell up once you add water. They're so cool. (Yes, I am easily entertained!) My green beans are already 5 inches tall; the gourds are about an inch shorter. I'm not doing a big garden. We're just going to do the square foot gardening thing. I think luffas are cool, too. If I find a seed source, I'll give you a shout. Am I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi!  |
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Kris McNeill Member
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Ya'll tell me about these loufah gourds - is it really like a loufah sponge?! Caffeine free, Diet Pepsi for me please! (I know I take all the fun out of it |
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Cracker Jax Member
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Alicia C. wrote: Am I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi!
Alicia, If you ever need a transfusion, just give me a holler!
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Cracker Jax Member
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Yep Kris! The loufa sponge gourds are so fun! I think I bought mine at the Greek Church on Westridge during the herb festival... Isn't that in April sometime?? Hubby and I did the Jack and the Beanstalk thing... We just threw them out back along the edge of the woods and they started these vines that grew up into the trees with long zucchini like gourds growing all over them... Probably a more scientific way to grow them, but I don't know it..... We cut them off and let them dry in our out building for a month or two. Then we peeled them and shook out the seeds and cut them up into small loufa sponges just like you see in the stores. My sister and I actually sold them in some herbal baskets that we used to make. Those sponges were fun to grow and WAY COOL! Can't find the seeds we shook out and saved though. Imagine that. Last edited on Mar 19th, 2006 05:09 pm by Cracker Jax |
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Alicia C. Member
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Kris McNeill wrote:
Hi Kris, Luffa gourds are pretty easy to grow, I think. Basically, you just plant 'em, keep 'em watered and let 'em do their thing. The fibrous interior is what you're after, so you just let them dry on the vine until the stems turn brown, then harvest and let them continue to dry in a dry sheltered place. I've heard that getting the husk off can be involved, but I'm sure there's lots of advice on the net about doing that. Once you have the husk off, you shake out the seeds and cut the dried fiber to whatever shape you need. Luffa makes fabulous kitchen-type scrubbers as well as bath sponges. Re: Diet Pepsi -- you can have it. I shall be no threat to the Diet Pepsi supply in the NW area. I can't abide the taste of diet anything.  And if it has aspartame in it, I'm gonna end up with a nasty headache and an equally nasty aftertaste. Plus -- I really need my caffeine! |
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Alicia C. Member
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Cracker Jax wrote: Alicia C. wrote:I'll keep that in mind. :-DAm I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi! |
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Kris McNeill Member
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WOW, thanks for the loufah/luffa info ya'll! I learn so much here - it's amazing! I'm gonna hunt for some of those seeds. I saw a miniature Banana Tree in a plant catalog that I wanted to get for the porch too - spring really gets me in the growin' mood! (I have 2 black thumbs too Cracker so I need the easy to grow stuff!) I also want a gardenia for the porch because they smell so good. Anybody know about gardenias - easy to grow? need sun? I will google.......
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Kris McNeill Member
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Maybe we should rename this the gardening forum???!!! |
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Vicki White-Lawrence Member 
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The gardening forum! I might get my husband to join if we did that! I know he talked with you yesterday, Alicia! By the way, Alicia, welcome to forums! As you'll see, I post here sometimes too! I too am a "brown-thumber," but my husband Scott loves plants and is always trying new things. We grow pansies (almost year-round), roses, gardenias, miniature banana trees, daffodils, all kinds of things.... in addition to a small vegetable garden and experimental area with various grapevines. My favorites are tulips, which he grows because I requested them.... Of course, my role in all this gardening is to look at them and tell him they're pretty, and help weed the garden if he can tell me exactly which ones are the weeds... |
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Steve Adkins Member
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I tweaked the name so Vicki's husband would consider posting.........if y'all don't like it, I'll change it back, let me know. SMS |
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Alicia C. Member
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Steve Adkins wrote: I tweaked the name so Vicki's husband would consider posting.........if y'all don't like it, I'll change it back, let me know. SMS I'm okay with it. Vicki, tell Scott he can post here now!  |
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Vicki White-Lawrence Member
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OH MY GOODNESS!! I just read my last entry after seeing what Alicia had just written! I REALLY didn't mean it had to be re-named in order for Scott to participate, although I realize that's what I wrote! I MEANT I might finally get him to post SOMEWHERE now that there was this type of place, since he's so "into" plants and all! (I'd better make sure he joins in now that you've put so much into assuring that he would!) |
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Kris McNeill Member
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OK Vicki, tell Scott that IT IS TIME to join the forum! I need help! I was at the gardening center today looking at the gardenias. Well, I came home empty handed because I just couldn't decide what to do! They had some big ones - "Chuck Hayes Hardy Gardenia" that I could use as foundation plants around my deck. They had some smaller ones - can't remember the variety - I considered getting one to pot and put on the porch. I've read that gardenias can be hard to grow/bloom, suseptible to insects,etc. But, I love the smell! My deck gets sun in the afternoon, filtered once the trees leaf out. Camellias - I love those too! Any advice on camellias? I want something different for my front porch box planter this year. I saw dahlias (I think that's right?) - so pretty but don't know anything about growing those. Front porch gets morning sun but mostly shaded once the trees leaf out. Thanks for ANY help from ANYone |
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macca Member 
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Pardonez moi! I know little about posting and even less about gardening...♥♥♥ Last edited on Mar 30th, 2006 11:20 pm by macca |
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macca Member
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Last edited on Mar 30th, 2006 11:15 pm by macca |
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Macca! your posts are multiplying like my weeds! chuckle Thanks, Alicia for beautifying the planet and for starting this topic. But on to gardening. Afraid I gave up on veggie gardens long ago, but I like nothing better than swapping plants (well, the NWO maybe) but am not having much luck with seeds. Planted geraniums, petunias, marigolds and three or four others in flats. They came up beautifully but now are about 3" tall and sickly. Do I whisk off to Home Depot? Anyone want to start a gardening advice column?HMMM? I do have plants to divide. Hosta, Lenten Rose, Rubeccia, Dwarf Mondo, Iris, Dwarf Iris,,Lily of the Valley(if they come back this year). Please does someone want a small Magnolia tree? How about some Mahonia (one of my favorite shrubs). Also have some ferns that need dividing, I can't remember the name but they are copper color in winter, pretty. Also some creeping things and some water plants. I hate to mention Liriope, but I do see it for sale every year. Wish I could sell mine. Ditto with varigated ivy. They are nice, though, in a contained area. Maybe we need to set a swap day |
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Cracker Jax Member
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Starcatchr! What a GRAND idea! I WANT some dwarf mondo!!! I've been after my mother forever to give me some! I have some poke weed and some clover I can trade! |
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Starcatchr Member
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Poke salit would be nice! Mondo on the way. Did your mam give hers to the siblings? |
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Cracker Jax Member
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Starcatchr wrote: Poke salit would be nice! Mondo on the way. Did your mam give hers to the siblings? Probably Starcatchr.... she likes the siblings better than she likes me. |
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Cracker Jax wrote: Starcatchr wrote:Now what mam wouldn't like CRACKER JACKS better... There is a surprise in every box.....Poke salit would be nice! Mondo on the way. Did your mam give hers to the siblings?  |
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Scott L Member 
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Gardening, Seeds, Plants, whatever, I'll post occasionally. Regarding camellias and gardenias, we live at the northern portion of their growing range so they both need protection from our coldest winters and temperature swings. The easiest way to protect them is to select ones labeled "cold hardy" and plant them next to a wall in half to three quarter sun. I grow camellias and know they like moist, well-drained acidic soil. One type flowers in the Fall and is very fragrant. The Spring blooming type has great form and color but is less hardy than the Fall type and has no smell. Ours have grown 10 feet tall and I have to cut them back every year or two. I don't grow gardenias but they are a smaller plant and more disease susceptible than camellias. Gardenias should be covered with burlap or plastic tarps when the winter temperature dips below 20 or is expected to fall rapidly. Grow only dwarf banana trees unless you want a 10 ft. or higher one to take inside when frost comes. They get killed back by freezing temperatures but can be wrapped up and stored in a garage or crawspace until the next Spring. I grow a dwarf banana tree in a large pot and bring the whole thing indoors over the Fall and Winter. Banana trees will make a baby or two each year that pops up from the base. The underground umbilical cord to the mother should be cut and the baby tranfered to another pot. Hospitalization is of the mother is usually not necessary. Winter before last we even got bananas. Bananas trees are fun! Scott |
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Cracker Jax Member
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Scott L wrote: I grow a dwarf banana tree in a large pot and bring the whole thing indoors over the Fall and Winter. Banana trees will make a baby or two each year that pops up from the base. The underground umbilical cord to the mother should be cut and the baby tranfered to another pot. Hospitalization is of the mother is usually not necessary.
WELCOME TO THE FORUM SCOTT L.!!!
All this gardening talk reminds me of that time I tried to learn Spanish.... It's all Greek to me. I am dying laughing over the "no hospitalization is usually necessary" statement, but I am sure someone is gonna come on here and tell me that wasn't supposed to be funny and that people do actually hospitalize their banana trees. I'll enjoy it until then. See? there's just no hope for us "brown-thumbers"! Last edited on Mar 31st, 2006 07:59 pm by Cracker Jax |
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macca Member
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CRACKAH!!! YOU JUST AIN'T RIGHT!!! AND THAT'S WHY WE LOVE YOU SO!!!♥♥♥ PIMPLMAO!!!!! |
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Kris McNeill Member
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SCOTT!!! ooooh, now I know where to come for gardening help and believe me, I need it. I kill so much stuff that I'm constantly replacing it Wow, I wish human babies were as easily birthed as banana babies
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StewartM Member
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Cracker Jax wrote: Scott L wrote:Did someone say BANANA.........good for dietI grow a dwarf banana tree in a large pot and bring the whole thing indoors over the Fall and Winter. Banana trees will make a baby or two each year that pops up from the base. The underground umbilical cord to the mother should be cut and the baby tranfered to another pot. Hospitalization is of the mother is usually not necessary. |
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macca Member
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SINCE MIKE IS EATING SO HEALTHILY THESE DAYS, I THINK WE SHOULD ALL PLANT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND DELIVER THEM TO HIM! ♥♥♥ |
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Scott L Member
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MACCA, Since you know little about gardening and this is the time of year many of us shop for plants I'll give you my take on the shops. The big box shops carry the regular, standard plants at the lowest prices. The plants may or may not be the best for our region of the country. For example, you can buy Big Beef or Early Girl tomato plants in small 6 packs but you won't find the newer tomato varieties at the big boxes. The packs and plants are usually smaller than what you'll find at the specialty garden centers. The specialty garden centers will have a much larger selection of varieties of tomatoes and everything else in larger containers with bigger plants at somewhat higher prices of course. I buy Big Beef tomatoes at a big box but Asian eggplants (the long skinny ones) at a specialty garden center. Rabbiteye Blueberries, the best type for here can be found at the specialty garden center but the big boxes will only have blueberries that are best the in the Blue states. Scott |
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macca Member
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Oh, just had to post here, to make another MAAN sweep!♥♥♥ |
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DToney Member 
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Gardening! Now there's something I like! I'm like you Scott... the stuff at the "big-box" stores is not all that good of a value... even tho the price is lower, so is the quality. I have had better luck at Lowes, but for the best, the garden centers are the tops. Unless you need a truck full of dirt, the bagged variety of top soil will do for beds - especially needed in the clay like soil to get it in better shape. It'd be nice to get a seed-swap going... I bet one of the Fire Depts or some local ball field would even do! It'd have to be soon... Spring has Sprung! |
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Revpast Member
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Gosh, I haven't checked in for a while, but what a pleasant surprise to see this wonderful topic posted for sharing gardening ideas. Thanks. For those of you looking for really nice garden plants (tomato, cucumber, okra, squash, zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe) check with George and Ann Thacker down on Hudson James Road (turn right off 158 East and about a mile on the right) in Summerfield. They sell really nice home grown plants for $1.00 for a 4 pack and some exceptionally nice 2 to 3 foot tomato plants in pots for $1.75. For those who know which plants you are looking for, a suggestion would be to check with Spivery's Nursery located at 1998 Beeson Road (drive West on Stafford Mill Road (off Highway 68 in Oak Ridge) until it dead ends, then turn left and Spivey's is one half mile on the left). This is not a nursery which is easy to browse through, but they have excellent shrubs, trees, and evergreens which they sell both wholesale and retail. Their plants are much better than the big box plants and at a much more affordable price. Town and Country Market in Walnut Cove also has affordable garden plants and some limited landscape plants at very affordable prices which the owner (Tommy Webster) grows for sale in his greenhouse in Rockingham County. They have an excellent garden seed selection (which can be purchased by the ounce or pound) at prices cheaper than any other seed source I have found in the triad. (Highway 68 West from Stokesdale, then turn right in Walnut Cove across the rail road tracks onto Highway 311, and Town and Country Market is located on your immediate right). They also have wonderful butcher cut meats, farm butter and cheeses, and locally produced pickles, jellies and jams. Sort of a country store atmosphere with friendly helpful employees. For those interested in some nice azaleas and some other limited flowering and accent shrubs, there is a local family on Highway 158 just past the Monticello Golf Course (on the left almost directly across from the Monticello Fire Station) that grows azaleas in their own greenhouses, and then sells them in their front yard at prices lower than the big box and specialty garden centers. They have a large and nice selection of colors and varieties of azaleas which they sell for $3.50, $8 and $12 depending on size. A couple of weeks ago they had some 3'-4' Japanese Red Maples for $15 which is about 1/5th of what they sell for elsewhere. For those buying several plants, they will haggle on price. I'm sure there are dozens of other local growers who produce and offer high quality garden and landscape plants and materials, but these are some of my favorites which I feel comfortable in recommending. BTW, my personal experience with gardenias is that they are generally trouble free if they are planted correctly and watered amply during the first planting season. They can be propagated by planting cuttings, but I would suggest using some "rooting hormone" which you can ask for and purchase at most garden centers as well as the Summerfield Feed Mill, which also has a nice selection of more affordable garden seeds, slips and transplants. I highly recommend checking with the nice friendly Neal family at Summerfield Feed Mill before going to Lowes or Home Depot. Steve, Randy, Paul and Arleen know their gardening stuff and can be immensely helpful with garden questions, problems and suggestions for curing whatever ails your plants or garden. Last edited on Apr 26th, 2006 01:43 am by Revpast |
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wepete Member
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Thanks Revpast. With a new house just completed (got the CO today) and a remodel almost finished I needed that very helpful info. |
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DToney Member
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I have a question about mulch. It seems like everyone around is using bark rather than pinestraw, but I prefer pinestraw. The problem is I cannot find a good source! Hubby went to Home Depot and bought about 50 bales... what an upset that was!  The stuff looks like last year's crop, full of dead weeds, and the bales are tiny! Does anyone know a good source for pinestraw? If I could find some, I would gladly take this mess back to Home Depot today! |
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Summerfield Feed Mill carries pine straw and can deliver if necessary. Prices are comparable or lower than Lowes and HD. They keep a large tractor trailer out front loaded with nothing but pine straw. If you want to call them first to inquire, their phone number is 643-4776. Give them a try. |
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Vicki White-Lawrence Member
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Did anyone else get/give a nice fresh bouquet of flowers for May Day yesterday? This was always a tradition for Scott's family as he was growing up and he has continued it with our boys, so I always get a beautiful bouquet of whatever is blooming in our garden on May 1. Beautiful colors and sweet smells! Hope others had that same experience! |
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Cracker Jax Member
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How nice for you Vicki!!! You're a lucky mama!!! |
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Starcatchr Member
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Is there a plant doctor in the house? My five laurels are several years old, planted in a grouping, and look very healthy. Four are perfect but one looks as if it has had a run-in with Pappy and his shotgun. Any ideas on how to get it back to normal? |
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DToney Member
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Is it holes in the leaves? Is there a white powery looking stuff on the leaves? I MIGHT be able to help if you have more info.... The white powdery stuff is a bug... best killed with a good dose of dish water! I know it sounds nuts, but it works. When you have bugs getting on your plants, feed them dish water & it seeps into the leaves... the bugs don't like the soap taste and they leave it alone! |
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Starcatchr Member
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Nope, no powder on the leaves. Just lots of uniform holes about the size of a BB. Plant looks very healthy otherwise. I'll try dishwater anyway. Maybe it will help. Thanks for the suggestion. |
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Scott L Member
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A mixture of 1T baking soda and 1T of vegetable oil in one half gallon of water makes a pretty good organic insecticide and fungicide spray. Maybe using dishwater in place of the water would be even better. Scott |
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DToney Member
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does anyone know anything about Palm trees? Is it too cold up here for them? Also, I keep killing ficus trees... the last one made it thru the move up here, but moving it from one side of the room to the other at Christmas musta done it in! Any ideas how to keep them alive? |
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Starcatchr Member
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 Scott, thanks for the insecticide recipe. Is this good for all plants including roses? |
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Cracker Jax Member
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DToney... I've had my ficus for 14 years and it is a tempermental thing indeed! It doesn't like to be moved AT ALL (Takes weeks to get over a relocation)and barely endures an occasional dusting. I have it beside a window that gets full morning sun, though the sun doesn't hit it dead on. It seems to like that spot. It's no secret that I have a brown thumb so basically I just ignore the ficus and it lets me know when it would like a drink by showing me a yellow leaf or two. Makes my mom crazy, but that's just the nature of my relationship with my tree! |
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Scott L wrote:A mixture of 1T baking soda and 1T of vegetable oil in one half gallon of water makes a pretty good organic insecticide and fungicide spray. Maybe using dishwater in place of the water would be even better. Hey, Scott! Last year Pappy had some Japanese beetles over fer supper an' the varmints stayed on a few weeks an' nearly et my yard up! They just couldn't take a hint. Brought some o' their out o' town kin with 'em, too. Will your recipe above work on them critters, or have you got somethin' with a kick to it? By the way, what do you think o' them beetle traps they sell? They seem a little bit like a self-fulfillin' prophecy in a bag to me. Me an' Mammy tried 'em last year after things started gettin' bad. We stayed busy emptyin' the bags, but I didn't see much benefit over where the flowers were. Maybe the bunch that was eatin' on the flowers got tired o' waitin' in line at the traps. If'n things don't green up some, we ain't gonna have much to offer our guests this year. |
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DToney Member
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Does anyone have a method for killing sweet peas? When we bought this house, the beside our back door was overrun with them. I've dug, pulled, and sprayed a double dose of round up on them & still cannot get them to die!  |
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Alicia C. Member
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Anyone know about propagating gardenias from cuttings? We have a lovely but overgrown gardenia next to our garden shed. It really needs to be trimmed back (we can barely get the mower out without thrashing the plant with the shed door) and I would love to take those cuttings and start new plants to put around the yard. I have rooting powder for cuttings. Should I baby the cuttings indoors for a while (since it's so hot out) or try to start them outdoors? Any help would be muchly appreciated. Alicia C. |
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Starcatchr Member
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Lucky you to have a large gardenia bush! I have in the past rooted them in water and I believe they are also easy to root in soil. I seem to remember that they need to be potted for maybe a year and then planted in a protected location. Sorry to be so vague, but hopefully someone else will know more. You have inspired me to find cuttings and try for some baby bushes of my own. |
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DToney wrote: Does anyone have a method for killing sweet peas? When we bought this house, the beside our back door was overrun with them. I've dug, pulled, and sprayed a double dose of round up on them & still cannot get them to die! How in the world? Roundup kills everything, including concrete........I'll ask a dumb question, how old is the roundup? if you mix it 6 oz per gallon, it should knock 'em down. If roundup won't kill them........better start cooking & eating. |
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DToney Member
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Waytago wrote: How in the world? I wish theses sweet peas were the edible kind! These are flowers.. that are growing like bushes! I've gotten them to where they are only a few, but there are still some stubborn ones coming up... even after a double dose of just purchased round up - second application! They will not go away! As for the gardinia bushes... typically any "shrub" (which this has a wood type branch) is propagated by placing dirt over the existing branch and allowing it to root. Most folks use a cut branch with a bag of dirt tied on, but my granny used to bury the branch a bit. Once the root starts, you can then trim the branch from the plant. Last edited on Jun 24th, 2006 01:47 am by DToney |
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Sorry, I don't know anything that is more aggressive & less forgiving than Round Up. |
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FatPappy wrote: By the way, what do you think o' them beetle traps they sell?They are wonderful at attracting the Japanese Beetles.........right into your yard. If you're going to use these traps........sneak them into your neighbors yard instead, at least you'll be attracting the Beetles away from yours !! |
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About this time every year weeds threaten to take over every inch of my garden. With the heat and humidity, weeding seems a lot less exciting than lying in the hammock. Anyone know a weed whisperer? |
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DToney Member
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I have put even more Round Up on those dang sweet peas & they are STILL growing! GRRRRRRRRRR! |
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Alicia C. Member
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DToney wrote: I have put even more Round Up on those dang sweet peas & they are STILL growing! GRRRRRRRRRR! Er, have you considered a blowtorch? A friend who shall go nameless finally got so tired of his wife griping about weeds that came up through a crack in the sidewalk that he whipped out his torch and fried 'em. Little did he know that the wife was jockeying for a new sidewalk. Her ploy was unsuccessful (she's a little miffed about that) but at least the weeds haven't come back. |
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DToney wrote: I have put even more Round Up on those dang sweet peas & they are STILL growing! GRRRRRRRRRR! How strong are you mixing the round up?? Minimum is 6 ounces per gallon........in your case seems like 6 gallons per ounce might be more appropriate. |
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DToney Member
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Hubby mixed the Round up & said that he mixed it 3x as strong as it should be... dunno! |
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Scott L Member
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Actually as you've found out RoundUp does not kill everything. It kills nearly all weeds but not quite all of them. A few weeds require other chemicals. To find out what might work for Sweet Peas call Cardinal Chemical which is located just north of Greensboro on US Route 29. Because Roundup kills desirable crops as well as weeds, the the food industry has bred so-called "Roundup Ready" crops. These crops are not as affected by Roundup as are weeds. Maybe you have inadvertantly bred a "Roundup Ready" Sweet Pea. If you can cross it with the garden sweet pea, you might be able to sell the seed for big bucks! See, something good might come from all this.Scott |
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DToney Member
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The part of these sweat peas that have been driving me nuts is the fact they are so overgrown... when we first bought this house, they had taken over the back door... I did not even realize they had planted lavender in the same bed because it was lost underneath. I actually planted sweat peas in the past because the flower is nice & when they are compact, they are good to have in your landscape. The roots on these are integrated with my cable TV/internet source... so I cannot dig them up! so... I was pulling, prodding, & pouring (on the round up) to try to keep them at bay... like Pappy's stuff they wanted to come inside! These have not grown enough to have seeds... so I cannot harvest them for sale.... (there goes my millions...) I guess the best solution I have so far is like you say... call & find out what best suggestion they have at Cardinal to get rid of them. Thanks for the "word up"! |
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DToney Member
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Alicia C. wrote: Anyone know about propagating gardenias from cuttings?my granny used to propagate shrubs by burying a strong limb with a few branches... its best to start in the early spring before the new growth appears.... then when the roots appear, you cut it away from the host. Some gardners use another method that is similar by cutting a wedge from the limb and placing a bag of dirt around the cut in order to get the roots to form. |
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I have done the same as your Granny, DT.. but used a good ol' brick. |
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Scott L Member
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On muscadine or hybrid grapes you can just loosen the dirt, pull a cane over it and put a rock on the cane. Its important to appy water during dry periods and then it will root over the Summer. In the Fall or next Spring when the roots have formed, cut the umbilical cord to the main plant, dig it up and transplant to the permanent location. This is a good way to duplicate the many plants that won't root from hardwood cuttings. |
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Skiddles wrote: I have done the same as your Granny, DT.. but used a good ol' brick. Hey... whatever works! Granny used to keep pretty pebbles to put in the top of her house plants too... that woman could grow ANYTHING! |
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btw... does any one know where to get some nice mums at a good price? (Even the ones at W-m are kinda pricey) |
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Scott L wrote: On muscadine or hybrid grapes you can just loosen the dirt, pull a cane over ...Good Morning Scott, I'm gonna do this one. I just put in a trellis for grapes. It's pretty long, so I can plant 3 different kinds of grapes on it. I already have one and now you have me thinking about the other 2. Thanks for the tip.. never thought about rooting grape vines! |
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Skiddies, I've got a few plants of locally bred moderately disease resistent seedless grapes if you'd like to try them. I'll give them to you. Scott |
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Since this Forum is closing, if you would like to discuss gardening topics, I can be reached at scottlawrence@triad.rr.com. Goodbye. It sure was nice being able to talk about gardening topics. Scott Last edited on Aug 23rd, 2007 02:32 am by Scott L |
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Alicia!
