The Gardening Thread

Mountaintop_Lupin_overlooking_Raspberry_Strait,_Alaska_2009_114.jpg

[Mountaintop Lupine overlooking Raspberry Strait, Alaska via Wiki]

KT is home from the hospital. Weirddave had volunteered to fill in today. However, he had a family emergency back east and went back to be with his family. So unfortunately you are stuck with me on late notice.

I have a green thumb on occasion and it's not from the acrylic paints I use. Yes, Morons I have grown plants from seed to actual beautiful blooming plant.

The photos below is from our last home where we had numerous beds. Every flower you see in this photo started from a seed packet and was grown via winter sowing and milk jugs. And I know you can do it to.

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Winter sowing is fun and very inexpensive to get into. No need for fancy green houses. Don't have a lot of space? Well, you really don't need much to get going.

SEED STARTING 101: A GUIDE TO WINTER SOWING IN MILK JUGS

Winter Sowing is sowing your seeds in milk jugs or other plastic containers, and using them as mini-greenhouses outside in the middle of winter. Winter sowing is an easy, simple, inexpensive way to sow seeds.
I have been doing this now for the last 8 years or so, and it has worked so well for me, that I wanted to share this Winter Sowing tutorial in hopes that it works for you too. Because it is SOOOOO EASY!!!!! Sow those seeds, and then forget about them for a few months! Seriously. That is all.

The Fabulous and I plan on picking out flowers shortly. We still have a foot of snow on the ground and 18" of ice on the lake. What's going on in your gardening world?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 12:30 PM

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1 Yay, flowers!

Thanks MisHum

Posted by: JQ at February 08, 2025 12:36 PM (YoCnN)

2 First? And I even read the content...like a rookie

Prayers up for KT, WD, and their families.

Posted by: JQ at February 08, 2025 12:37 PM (YoCnN)

3 Lupines are especially pretty, I will plant some this year.

Posted by: JQ at February 08, 2025 12:38 PM (YoCnN)

4 K.T. get well prayers for you and WD's sis and your families.
Let us know how you are doing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 08, 2025 12:39 PM (ncgY2)

5 Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore
Tra la la lala

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 08, 2025 12:43 PM (5qniO)

6 Lupines are pretty. But I think I'd have to water heavily to keep them alive here so I stick to enjoying them in pictures.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 08, 2025 12:44 PM (CKOCg)

7 How does one plant flowers in frozen tundra muck? Drill? Explosives?

Posted by: Deflowered In NC at February 08, 2025 12:44 PM (G5+As)

8 I too have grown flowers from seed packets. I bought a packet of spring wild flower seeds and spread them on a earthen mound of tree root ball and watered. Voila! multiples of different, colorful flowers. One of my best efforts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 08, 2025 12:47 PM (ncgY2)

9 Loooony lupines! They make me smile.

They are in the same family as bluebonnets.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2025 12:47 PM (W0Ks/)

10 I bought a Honda mini tiller and the digging tines. I already had a Mantis, which is unused from last year. I don't think it's up to the job and was regretting that I hadn't bought the Honda. I've got someone to help put this in. I could hire a tiller but this is unlikely to be done on one day. I want to do the entire yard. I'll put in no mow grass for those areas and meadow seeds out front. Will see how it goes but I'm determined to do a garden this year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 12:49 PM (EV2jz)

11 10 I bought a Honda mini tiller and the digging tines. I already had a Mantis, which is unused from last year. I don't think it's up to the job and was regretting that I hadn't bought the Honda. I've got someone to help put this in. I could hire a tiller but this is unlikely to be done on one day. I want to do the entire yard. I'll put in no mow grass for those areas and meadow seeds out front. Will see how it goes but I'm determined to do a garden this year.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Do you have heavy clayish soils? Those definitely need more power and weight to break up soils.

Posted by: whig at February 08, 2025 01:00 PM (ctrM5)

12 I generally don't have too much trouble growing things, but I simply have no luck with cone flowers. Those in the photo look very nice.

Posted by: Paco at February 08, 2025 01:02 PM (mADJX)

13 FWIW, someone came up with an idea on a gardening website using clear plastic umbrellas as mini cold frames for plant growth or to protect vulnerable vegetation from cold ice and snow temperature snaps. The umbrellas are about $20 bucks or so.

Thought I might pass it on to people that can use it.

Posted by: whig at February 08, 2025 01:02 PM (ctrM5)

14 Winter sowing is a great topic. Lovely results from your past projects!

Ran across a photo of tomato seedlings I started in January years ago. I'll try to post the photo next week.

Included: Dr. Lyle, Giant Belgium Pink, Indian Stripe, Reif Red Heart, Moreton Hybrid, Tomatoberry Garden, Sweet Tangerine, Moravsky Div, Golden Girl, Carbon

Posted by: KT at February 08, 2025 01:03 PM (xekrU)

15 12 I generally don't have too much trouble growing things, but I simply have no luck with cone flowers. Those in the photo look very nice.
Posted by: Paco
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My wife likes cone flowers so we have a fair number scattered around the landscape. In our area, with heavy clay soils, we pretty much have to amend it with a lot of organic matter for the cone flowers to thrive. We built extensive terraced beds for flowers and veggies as well which I physically could do years ago.

Posted by: whig at February 08, 2025 01:05 PM (ctrM5)

16 Mishum, liked your pix of a mix of flowering plants at your house. Never thought of combining daisies, black eyed susans, and coneflowers in the same mix. We have ours scattered around the landscape but not in the same beds.

Posted by: whig at February 08, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)

17 Praying for you KT.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 08, 2025 01:09 PM (dg+HA)

18 Was just outside looking at my garden when a deer hopped the fence into the next yard over. 5 foot didn't even slow him down.
Looked over at me like "yeah. do a garden again."

Posted by: Reforger at February 08, 2025 01:10 PM (xcIvR)

19 >>>KT is home from the hospital.

Yay! Be well, KT!

Posted by: m at February 08, 2025 01:12 PM (v0TzN)

20 Sadly, I cant see a lupin without thinking of Monty Python.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 08, 2025 01:12 PM (W3T6M)

21 >>> 10 I bought a Honda mini tiller and the digging tines. I already had a Mantis, which is unused from last year. I don't think it's up to the job and was regretting that I hadn't bought the Honda. I've got someone to help put this in. I could hire a tiller but this is unlikely to be done on one day. I want to do the entire yard. I'll put in no mow grass for those areas and meadow seeds out front. Will see how it goes but I'm determined to do a garden this year.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 12:49 PM (EV2jz)

Can you have livestock where you are? You could get a couple of piglets and put them in a moveable pen.

Chickens would work too but they're much slower, and their fertilizer burns plants if you use it right after it's produced.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2025 01:13 PM (Vqx30)

22 I'll plant peas next weekend or so... Monday thru Wednesday will be temps around zeroF, so need to wait a while.

Posted by: JQ at February 08, 2025 01:13 PM (YoCnN)

23 18 Was just outside looking at my garden when a deer hopped the fence into the next yard over. 5 foot didn't even slow him down.
Looked over at me like "yeah. do a garden again."
Posted by: Reforger at February 08, 2025 01:10 PM (xcIvR)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at February 08, 2025 01:15 PM (v0TzN)

24 >>> 18 Was just outside looking at my garden when a deer hopped the fence into the next yard over. 5 foot didn't even slow him down.
Looked over at me like "yeah. do a garden again."
Posted by: Reforger at February 08, 2025 01:10 PM (xcIvR)

From what I've read you can use either an 8 foot fence, which is difficult and expensive, or you can use a 'double' fence of two parallel but lower fence lines, maybe 4 feet high and 4 feet apart. Supposedly the deers can't figure out if they can clear both lines. Still more expensive but probably easier for most people to do.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2025 01:18 PM (Vqx30)

25 No, I'm in town, so no pigs. And I have an autoimmune disease triggered by bird dander, so no chickens. I figure, if I don't need the tiller beyond this year, I can sell it. In looking at the comments on Amazon, the price of the digging tines has doubled in ten years.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 01:20 PM (EV2jz)

26 The umbrellas are about $20 bucks or so.

Same as in town?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 08, 2025 01:23 PM (3gkNj)

27 Thank you, MisHum, for the garden thread!

Posted by: m at February 08, 2025 01:24 PM (v0TzN)

28 Moravsky Div means "Wonder of Moravia". Said to be a variety of "Stupice", a famous little cold-weather tomato. Stupice is favored for excellent tomato soup by some experts.

Posted by: KT at February 08, 2025 01:25 PM (xekrU)

29 One of the truck gardeners I talked to said he would use milk jugs with the bottoms cut out as a cloche for his early spring plantings. He put a bamboo stake in, and in the morning he would raise the jugs on the stake to keep the seedlings from burning from getting too hot, and drop it down in the evening to keep them from being killed or pinched back by the cold weather.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 08, 2025 01:42 PM (D7oie)

30 Beautiful photgraphs! Congratulations on your gardening. Just the right accompaniment for an exhilarating week in news

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 08, 2025 01:45 PM (otJlS)

31 I did like the stupice tomatoes when I grew them last year, though it was one of those bad tomato years. I plan to plant them again.

I wind up planting valsetz or Willamette tomatoes, cherokee purples, and another variety. Last year what saved me was that I transplanted some volunteers over to the patch, and they were the typical cherry tomatoes. They put out tomatoes when nothing else did very well.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 08, 2025 01:47 PM (D7oie)

32 Beautiful flowers, MisHum! I didn't realize you were a gardener. Y

I did realize that you're a saint, though, and have the patience to prove it. Truly wonderful how you step in everywhere. Thank you!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 08, 2025 01:53 PM (Vvh2V)

33 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Tis the winter of my disconnect

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2025 01:57 PM (fwDg9)

34 Expecting a winter mix this afternoon. But nothing yet

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2025 01:58 PM (fwDg9)

35 Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 01:20 PM (EV2jz)

Not so, have you looked in to the no till method?

You basically lay down plain cardboard ( painters paper works too) over the area you want the garden in, soak it thoroughly, and put 6 inches of compost on top, which you then plant in.

I've tried it for small beds, and it works fairly well. It works best on flat, even areas, which we have very little of here, but it's worth a try. Start in a small section. And do please search on line for better details! Charles Dowd is the British guy who championed it, but there are American proponents, as well.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 08, 2025 02:01 PM (Vvh2V)

36 KT! How lovely yo see you!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 08, 2025 02:04 PM (Vvh2V)

37 19 >>>KT is home from the hospital.

Yay! Be well, KT!
Posted by: m at February 08, 2025 01:12 PM (v0TzN)

News worthy of a Snoopy happy dance!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 08, 2025 02:07 PM (VNX3d)

38 15 My wife likes cone flowers so we have a fair number scattered around the landscape. In our area, with heavy clay soils, we pretty much have to amend it with a lot of organic matter for the cone flowers to thrive. We built extensive terraced beds for flowers and veggies as well which I physically could do years ago.- whig

We're having to do a significant amount of soil amending, too, but for a different reason. Here on the coast, there's a heavy sand component, with inadequate organic matter. I'll try to redouble my efforts in that patch where I've been trying to grow cone flowers and see if I have any better success this year.

Posted by: Paco at February 08, 2025 02:07 PM (mADJX)

39 Really hope and pray you're feeling better KT

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2025 02:08 PM (fwDg9)

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Posted by: Ciampino - Zoomies all at February 08, 2025 02:10 PM (KjLnc)

41 Last week I planted primroses all around the back yard for a party. Not a big primrose fan but the nursery didn't have much else at this time of year for color.

The party is today. The squirrels have already eaten every flower.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2025 02:24 PM (vYDwg)

42 24 >>> 18 Was just outside looking at my garden when a deer hopped the fence into the next yard over. 5 foot didn't even slow him down.
Looked over at me like "yeah. do a garden again."
Posted by: Reforger at February 08, 2025 01:10 PM (xcIvR)

From what I've read you can use either an 8 foot fence, which is difficult and expensive, or you can use a 'double' fence of two parallel but lower fence lines, maybe 4 feet high and 4 feet apart. Supposedly the deers can't figure out if they can clear both lines. Still more expensive but probably easier for most people to do.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2025 01:18 PM (Vqx30)

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Reminds me of that part in "The Yearling" when (IIRC) a young boy desperately wanted to keep a fawn against his father's better judgment. A fine book and well worth a re-read.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 08, 2025 02:30 PM (lFpnU)

43 24 From what I've read you can use either an 8 foot fence, which is difficult and expensive, or you can use a 'double' fence of two parallel but lower fence lines, maybe 4 feet high and 4 feet apart. Supposedly the deers can't figure out if they can clear both lines. Still more expensive but probably easier for most people to do. - Helena Hamdbasket

I put a four-foot fence around my vegetable garden, and laid some thin bamboo poles across the top, three feet or so apart. That worked for us last year.

Posted by: Paco at February 08, 2025 02:31 PM (mADJX)

44 42

Reminds me of that part in "The Yearling" when (IIRC) a young boy desperately wanted to keep a fawn against his father's better judgment. A fine book and well worth a re-read.

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Great black & white movie I saw as a child. Not a happy child with the ending.

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45
Hello, gardeners. Has anyone ever raised giant sunflowers?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 08, 2025 02:35 PM (lCaJd)

46
Our bird feeders are attracting not just birds but also quite a few bees. I found that odd, but apparently they get nourishment where they can find it.

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Posted by: Ciampino - Busy day at February 08, 2025 02:47 PM (KjLnc)

48 41 Last week I planted primroses all around the back yard for a party. Not a big primrose fan but the nursery didn't have much else at this time of year for color.

The party is today. The squirrels have already eaten every flower.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2025 02:24 PM (vYDwg)

Thank you, Cicero!
--the squirrels

Posted by: m at February 08, 2025 02:47 PM (v0TzN)

49 Last week I planted primroses all around the back yard for a party. Not a big primrose fan but the nursery didn't have much else at this time of year for color.

The party is today. The squirrels have already eaten every flower.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2025 02:24 PM (vYDwg)
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Mmmm...tasty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 08, 2025 02:48 PM (BpYfr)

50 “ The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

Isaiah 40:8

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 02:49 PM (R0/k0)

51 We started with an 8' fence. Hog wire on the bottom with t-posts. 1/2" conduit to take them up the next 4' (conduit comes in 10' sticks, so you have 1' to overlap onto the t-posts).
Chicken wire on top. It works, but heavy snows wreak havoc on even chicken wire.
We went to electric fence. Actually probably cheaper.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:50 PM (cPGH3)

52 Oh, we also found for any wiring needs, rebar pre-formed wires with the twisty tool is the schnizzel.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:52 PM (cPGH3)

53 >> From what I've read you can use either an 8 foot fence, which is difficult and expensive, or you can use a 'double' fence of two parallel but lower fence lines, maybe 4 feet high and 4 feet apart. Supposedly the deers can't figure out if they can clear both lines. Still more expensive but probably easier for most people to do.

You can also hang the severed head of one of their ex-herd members from a stick right outside your garden. Maybe make their legs into a set of wind chimes. It works. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 02:52 PM (R0/k0)

54 Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore
Tra la la lala
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 08, 2025 12:43 PM (5qniO)

Dang. Beat me to it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Monty Python Enthusiast at February 08, 2025 02:55 PM (bDNzX)

55 All kidding aside. A 4 or 5 foot fence with at least another 4 foot of deer netting (holes big enough not to trap the smaller songbirds) usually does the trick. I used some cheap wood poles zip tied to the fence stakes/post to hold the deer netting.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 02:55 PM (R0/k0)

56 Marcus, that's funny!
But I've seen deer walk right up to the gutpile, where I tie down the heads of bucks. Just acting curious.
No deterrence at all!

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:55 PM (cPGH3)

57 Beautiful echinacea mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 08, 2025 02:57 PM (RIvkX)

58 Tammy-al-thor
If y0u're gonna put 6" of compost over the area, why not just till it in? Compost settles to half volume pretty quickly.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:57 PM (cPGH3)

59 >> Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:55 PM (cPGH3)

Deer are weird like that. Some of the herd will actually be attracted by the scent. Maybe because it’s familiar? I was gonna ask them why, but my deer vernacular is a little rusty. I’ll end up insulting their mother or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 02:58 PM (R0/k0)

60 You can also hang the severed head of one of their ex-herd members from a stick right outside your garden. Maybe make their legs into a set of wind chimes. It works. Ask me how I know.

This also works with gang members.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 08, 2025 02:58 PM (3gkNj)

61 The soil here is unique. It's limestone mostly. All of our cars get covered with white dust. It bakes hard in the summer. You can't dig a hole with a shovel or digging fork, without soaking the ground. The yard has an ancient planting of grass. I'd prefer clover here, which I know tolerates drought pretty well. I need to have my planting areas marked as I don't have advance notice of the guy that cuts my grass. Lost my elderberries that way.

This is going to be a deliberately small garden, low raised beds with composted soil on top. I have berry bushes and strawberries to plant. Will be closer to a square foot garden than anything. I want to dig up an area, rake off the junk, set up beds and add the soil. Will likely have to cover these as we get grasshoppers. It is very different from PNW gardening. If I get it set up right, I should be able to manage it without doing much next year. Will be interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 02:59 PM (EV2jz)

62 Top picture looks cold and beautiful.

Posted by: Eromero at February 08, 2025 03:00 PM (jgmnb)

63 >> This also works with gang members.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 08, 2025 02:58 PM (3gkNj)

More appropriate for the pet thread, but I tell the story of how my GSD tore the pants off a trespasser who happened to be casing houses. She ran a good 80 yards to make that grab. Anyway, I hung the pants from a tree thinking someone would come back to get them. They had ID and some other things in the pocket. Nope. They hung in that tree for months. Every time that dog walked by she was like, yep, that was me.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 03:02 PM (R0/k0)

64 More appropriate for the pet thread, but I tell the story of how my GSD tore the pants off a trespasser who happened to be casing houses. She ran a good 80 yards to make that grab. Anyway, I hung the pants from a tree thinking someone would come back to get them. They had ID and some other things in the pocket. Nope. They hung in that tree for months. Every time that dog walked by she was like, yep, that was me.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 03:02 PM (R0/k0)
Made me snarfle.

Posted by: Eromero at February 08, 2025 03:04 PM (jgmnb)

65 What's a GSD?

Posted by: Ciampino - Busy day today at February 08, 2025 03:05 PM (KjLnc)

66 GSD= German Shepherd Dog

Posted by: Marcus T at February 08, 2025 03:06 PM (R0/k0)

67 My guess a
Great Shepherd Dane

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2025 03:07 PM (fwDg9)

68 Welcome home KT
b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 08, 2025 03:07 PM (RIvkX)

69 I had a sunflower grow from bird seed. Was about four foot tall and starting to flower. Next day, the flower had been cut off. I suspect the squirrels. It's Kansas and I could grow them here. I may try them alone the south side of the house for shade.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 08, 2025 03:08 PM (EV2jz)

70 We built extensive terraced beds for flowers and veggies as well which I physically could do years ago.
Posted by: whig at February 08, 2025 01:05

Yes indeed, age has impacted my gardening. I look at some off the work I did yrs ago and think...I really did that? Not gonna happen nowadays, lol.

Seeing this thread inspired me to start planning. My big step today is soaking some asparagus seed to plant tomorrow. It takes time when starting from seed but well worth it, for many yrs to come.

TY MisHum and KT, be well.

Posted by: Farmer at February 08, 2025 03:15 PM (55Qr6)

71 Pets be up.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 08, 2025 03:19 PM (mEJdU)

72 KT, Hope to see you hopping around like a bunny soon. You too, MisHum, just because.

Posted by: Eromero at February 08, 2025 03:20 PM (jgmnb)

73 Love the flowers! We are getting false spring right now so things will decide to get ready to bud out before we get more colder weather.
Our neighbor for the past few years did milky spore treatment on our yards and we have had very few Japanese beetles are a result fwiwi.

Posted by: Paisley at February 08, 2025 03:26 PM (ny1NG)

74 Hello, gardeners. Has anyone ever raised giant sunflowers?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 08, 2025 02:35

Yes, we have. Had some tall ones, tied them to the rail on the deck for support. Yrs later we still get volunteers. I pick a few to nuture, they are usually much smaller but produce some seed for the birds.

Posted by: Farmer at February 08, 2025 04:01 PM (55Qr6)

75 From Boise area: Lows 20-37 F, highs 35-52. Nighttimes predicted to get as cold as +8 this week.

Thursday night we had about 6 inches of global warming, so Husband and I shoveled the driveway and some paths Friday afternoon.

The only gardening-related thing I've done is inventory my vegetable, herb, and flower seeds, to figure out what I'll order from Territorial Seed Co., and what I can just grab locally (probably borage, marigolds, potatoes, onions). Then I thought about which seeds will get started indoors - it looks like I'll be starting a lot of 6-packs this March.

I still need to remember about digging up the beds that the spearmint got into - but there's still snow on top and the ground is very frozen, so that waits for a while...

My only puttering is sorting my stamp collection - does that count?

Posted by: Pat* at February 08, 2025 04:09 PM (qHI+E)

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me. Anyways, I'm certainly delighted I found it and I'll be bookmarking it and checking
back regularly!

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77 Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2025 02:57 PM (cPGH3)

Part of the benefit is keeping weeds down. Tilling causes a lot of weed seeds to come up to the surface. It allegedly also preserves the soil structure, keeps the soil microbiology intact, blah blah blah.

I don't know that it's any better, just a different ( and easier in some ways) method.

I like it for my flowerbeds, because we have 6 acres of Bermuda grass, and it's been the best way to sorta, kinda, somewhat control that.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 08, 2025 04:54 PM (Vvh2V)

78 KT, be well!

I had tomato blight to the max last year - and my soil has been inching up into the mid 7s in ph.

So have been doing a bunch of research. I got the good black cloth mulch roll. I need to do another sweep of the garden to make sure I have any remnant of blighted leaves left in the garden. Then I need to sprinkle in Aluminum Sulfate I believe and add a bunch of organic matter and then cover it with mulch (2 inches) and then wait to roto till it in close to planting in May.

What a pain. But my salsa garden must recover!

I wish it wasn't in the mid 30s for the next 2 weeks.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 08, 2025 06:10 PM (uLt48)

79 Had to go shopping. Bought a pack of Lupine seeds. I think they'll look great around the deck!

Posted by: JQ at February 08, 2025 06:58 PM (YoCnN)

80 Colorado's version of Texas bluebonnets.

Posted by: JohnB at February 08, 2025 07:09 PM (IdOED)

81 Several comments in this thread feel like deja vu. Am I really here?

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