Not much happening calendar-wise for Calendar Girl me. That is, nothing important to me with a story that touches me. But the race is on with the calendar and the gardening season - that's where my heart is right now.We got to name the road we live on, which is Singing Springs Lane. We sing, and there's lots of springs around our property. Some of the springs only show up with excavation and spring snow melts ... like now.
Dawson had finished the rock work around the hot tub, and I've got plants to plant there in the greenhouse. But the ground is still oozing and it's soup. So for the future, Monte wants to put in gravel and a drainage pipe. It'll be in limbo for awhile.
Tarda tulips are blooming. I'd plant tons of tulips because I love them, but hybrid tulips don't last long. Tarda tulips are the original wild tulips that all the others have been developed from.
I have so much weeding to do. There are thousands! of these baby weeds - not sure what they are. Could have come from last year's gypsophilia is all I can think of.
Planted some nursery potted raspberries yesterday. We've got lots of wild raspberries around, but I'm wanting to see what other raspberries will do. While there in the garden, I picked green onion stalks and asparagus to eat together while working.
Did I say I'm trying sweet potatoes this year? I do already have regular potatoes in pots and the first batch is almost to the top of the pot already, with the addition of soil as they grow. Well, I got some sweet potato slips and decided to try them in pots. I couldn't find any info about doing them that way. But they vine and flower like morning glories, so I thought I'd put bamboo poles in them. And from reading, I'm guessing the tubers just grow down like most root plants and not up, like potatoes. We'll see. When all set up, I'll post pictures.
3 comments:
I love tulips. Great bit of info about them, where di you find these originals? I am finding that old heirloom plants and bulbs that belong in an area thrive best. It sounds very simple when I say it, but for so long gardeners have been trying to have beauty anywhere with anything. I can put in new roses if I want to but they will be the "graveyard' varities that thrive here without disease. Most are small climbers. My roses on the arbor that are so gorgeous came from a friend that lives here. Everything I bought mail order has bit the dust.
It is fun to plan each year what to plant and also watch the perennials come back. Please don't even mention weeds.
BTW I received a comment from someone at King Arthur's Bakery, they said it was a "blowout" from escaping steam causing my bread to do that. they said to be careful shaping the loaves. I've been shaping the same for about 20 years, I think it's the yeast.
I had a friend that would go to cemeteries and take rose cuttings. They can be propogated by putting the stems in sand or vermiculite. Google it and I bet it's there. It is true, the old heirlooms or non-grafted, etc, usually grow the best.
We've grown sweet potatoes before by just planting the actual potato that had begun sprouting in our pantry. They grew really well.
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