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mskitty38583 · 04-10-2008, 01:03 PM

lorax....the more you mulch...the less you mow. thats my story and im sticking to it!

harveyc · 04-11-2008, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by microfarmer

Thanks Richard. I've used the expensive kind called Roundup poison ivy and tough brush killer. I gotta say, it works well...even on my roses

I'll look for the Remuda.

Some of the "brush killer" sprays you can buy in the retail stores is the same thing as the Garlon which us farmers can buy, just less concentrated and a lot more expensive per ounce. Garlon works very well kiling blackberries (we have problems with them growing wild along our drainage ditch banks). I will pretty much spray them anytime I find the time but my brother was reminding me the other day that they are more easily killed in the fall.

One thing that works well with many hard-to-kill things is to cut the plant down low and then brush undiluted spray concentrate (I've mixed Garlon and Roundup) right onto the fresh wound for it to be drawn into the plant before the wound is healed over with sap.

Good luck!

Harvey

lorax · 04-11-2008, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by mskitty38583

lorax....the more you mulch...the less you mow. thats my story and im sticking to it!

Who mows? I borrow a goat.

Richard · 04-11-2008, 10:36 AM

This morning I planted out in the garden 3 tomato plants grown from seed:
Azoychka
Palla di Fuoco
Persimmon

mskitty38583 · 04-11-2008, 04:12 PM

my house is grandfathered for codes and stuff like that. i called the codes guy and asked if i could get a goat( being that i live in town) and he said sure, i just have to keep it 150 ft. from my house. well...150 ft is on the other side of my fence. so unfortunately the goat is out. and the fact i dont know how my dogs would take to a new "dog" in the yard. lol. wednesday i planted cannas, tropical ee's( under protection) and a "hardy" ee's.

Dean W. · 04-11-2008, 08:46 PM

Wow, I planted tomatoes, squash, repotted my Shibatea chineisis (bamboo), and will work on palm seeds later.

Dean

Richard · 04-11-2008, 10:39 PM

Way to go, Dean!

Mskitty: some dog breeders keep one goat in the yard to "train" young hunting and work dogs. Basically, the goat won't put up with any puppy nonsense and the puppy learns quickly to leave 4-footed animals that smell like that alone.

lorax · 04-12-2008, 12:11 AM

Wow, Ecuador's definitely different; people here keep milch cows just up the street, and I live just off a freeway in the middle of a big city. My next door neighbors, the ones with the corn, keep chickens and rabbits and cuyes (guinea pigs) and it all just sort of runs wild except the bunnies. Roosters wake me in the morning.

Today I planted sweet corn and repotted some volunteer sanseverias.

mskitty38583 · 04-12-2008, 07:38 AM

after the storm yesterday i planted 3 cannas, 3 hostas(called fried banana),and a yucca pup. today i have to mulch it all in.

Richard · 04-12-2008, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by mskitty38583

after the storm yesterday i planted 3 cannas, 3 hostas(called fried banana),and a yucca pup. today i have to mulch it all in.

Oh my, you're busy!

mskitty38583 · 04-12-2008, 10:30 AM

i would rather be in my yard planting things and playing in the dirt then be cooped up in the house. i hate being in the house thats why i hate winter. as long as my yard looks nice, i dont even care how the inside looks. that is horrible to say but its the truth. if i put a hammock outside id never go in the house. lol!

island cassie · 04-12-2008, 01:27 PM

Potted up about 15 rooted small flowered rose cuttings - the hybrid teas won't grow here but the little floribunda types do well in the sun.

Cassie

lorax · 04-12-2008, 04:57 PM

I'm potting up some hybrid teas, myself.

island cassie · 04-12-2008, 08:39 PM

Hey Lorax - how high above sea level are you? We are too humid for the HT roses but the little ones do fine.

Cassie

mskitty38583 · 04-13-2008, 08:11 PM

15 yellow neck squash seeds. 18 iroquois melon seeds( thanks deb). and an angle wing begonia. have castor bean seeds soaking( thanks lynn). and blue corn flower seeds( thanks sandy)

lorax · 04-14-2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by island cassie

Hey Lorax - how high above sea level are you? We are too humid for the HT roses but the little ones do fine.

Cassie

About 2800 meters (about 10,000 feet) - I'm in the paradoxically named high-altitude humid semidesert. It hovers around 75% unless it's raining, as it does at some point just about daily. I blame the volcano. This said, the soils are basically volcanic sand (super-drainage) and when the sun comes out we push 30 degrees C. I have a little pop-over "greenhouse" to shade my roses so they don't burn when the sun comes out.

You might not know this, but Ecuador is one of the world's largest growers of HT (ie florist's) roses for export. The really big operations are just 30 minutes to an hour north of me. This means, among other things, that I can buy 2 dozen longstems of amazing colour and variety for $2 US. I do this weekly. Today's roses are lime green with pink lips, and I'll be taking a sample to culture from because they're so very unusual.

mskitty38583 · 04-14-2008, 10:59 AM

i love ht, but i find the more of a hybrid it is the more bugs love them. so i try to stick with the oldfashion roses. like the cabbage roses. my mom has some oldfashion ones i might have to snip to get some going. rose wrangling in my moms yard. wahoo.

southlatropical · 04-14-2008, 02:26 PM

These were not all planted today, but over the last few weeks. I was out with the camera and snapped some pictures.

Chamaedorea microspadix (hardy bamboo palm)

Giant Red Crinum

I nearly fell out when I found a nice size Tasmanian Tree Ferns at HD.

Richard · 04-14-2008, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by lorax

... Today's roses are lime green with pink lips, and I'll be taking a sample to culture from because they're so very unusual ...

This is usually done by treating the roots with hormone or dye, so if the plants you propagate continue to show this feature it would be stupendous!

Cazieman · 04-15-2008, 01:28 AM

i planted my cannas and sewed coleus seeds

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