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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:37 pm
Oriole Lyric Telith @Dragon of Emry Thanks for the advice, though I don't use eggs or milk so that might be hard for me sweatdrop I'll ask around some of the local nurseries find me some gypsum. You can also bury bone fragments into the soil too. We use to make soup from pork or cow bones, and after we're done with the bones and scrapped all the edible meat left over we give it an extra rinse and scrub and bury into some parts of the yard, and after a month or so depending on how lively your soil is, it will be gone. Think about why they might not use eggs and milk wink I don't think bones would be an option any more than the other ideas lol I went to Michaels today to get some thank you cards and came out with....more than thank you cards, let's just say. I only did half the store and spent more on off-list items than list items. They had adorable wrapping paper with strawberries on it, it was completely out of my hands! 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:42 pm
Oriole Lyric Telith @Dragon of Emry Thanks for the advice, though I don't use eggs or milk so that might be hard for me sweatdrop I'll ask around some of the local nurseries find me some gypsum. You can also bury bone fragments into the soil too. We use to make soup from pork or cow bones, and after we're done with the bones and scrapped all the edible meat left over we give it an extra rinse and scrub and bury into some parts of the yard, and after a month or so depending on how lively your soil is, it will be gone.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:43 pm
xd I love long posts! We don't have basements here either. I know nothing of Texas. I would never of thought you had floods there. Glad to hear that solar panels are used well down there. Too bad people don't have a bit of foresight... they could save themselves quite a bit of heartache (and walletache) in the future. I came home to day to a few of my pots toppled onto the deck. One of them was my succulents with my little wee hens-and-chicks. I nearly cried as I thought my hens-and-chick fell through the cracks of the deck and into the abyss below. This damned squirrel keeps digging in my pots. There's nothing in there, at all. It's so frustrating. My pots are tiny and the plants are tiny so they're too fragile for this. I took a bag of chili powder and pretty much doused everything, including the table and fence in it. I hope he gets a face full. scream Recovering well from my cold. Just a bit of coughing here and there and still a bit stuff with the nose. I got a sample of a locally made facial cleanser and creme. I really like the cleanser, not sold on the cream. Well, I like the cream, but it comes in a large bottle and the stuff either goes bad or my skin starts having a reaction half way through. I haven't done anything on my school work. I was made a goal of having my essay done this week. Haven't started on it at all. I suck. sad I participated in a live chat with the guy who runs the Minter Gardens. That was really... awesome.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:22 am
yesterday i transplanted my elephant garlic and broccoli plants from the back garden into the front so they could get more sun, today I erected sun shades because it's been really hot and i dont want my plants to burn.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:05 am
I woke up with the most brilliant plan! And it solves the whole "You can't use the front lawn as edible landscaping!"
A single milk crate planter is cute.
Many milk colored crates filled to the top brimming with flowers and foliage arranged in a fun pattern on your front lawn.
Flower tetris anyone?
You can arrange/rearrange it any way you want, if anyone complains you can easily move them. And you can dump all the soil into your compost pile at the end of the season or just simply stack them!
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:09 am
Oriole Lyric I woke up with the most brilliant plan! And it solves the whole "You can't use the front lawn as edible landscaping!" A single milk crate planter is cute. Many milk colored crates filled to the top brimming with flowers and foliage arranged in a fun pattern on your front lawn. Flower tetris anyone? You can arrange/rearrange it any way you want, if anyone complains you can easily move them. And you can dump all the soil into your compost pile at the end of the season or just simply stack them! Brilliant! Today I re-did the font set-up on my blog so it is easier to read, as much as i love homemade apple as a font, i realize it's eye-straining. I'm also making kale chips from all the kale i had in the garden to share with one of the waitresses at the diner, and I'm taking her a half-dozen eggs from Gina, since I dont actually use that many eggs.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:55 pm
Found planter plants for cheap today. 2.99 and 3.99, not bad, took them home and tried my milk crate idea, it doesn't look half bad. Maybe I'll make a second one next week. I'm not sure how the drainage is going to work not sure if it will work well, I just put down several layers of news paper instead of card board.
hn, also ripped open the bags of grass my dad had in the shed and poured all of it into the compost pile I've been trying to grow. It now has greens! yes!
Trying to figure out a way to protect my strawberries from being eaten by slugs. I found a copper pan scrubber and it worked around the string beans I planted, but I don't think that will work. cut a few pieces of my old shower loofah and hn.. "bagged" around the swelling strawberries, maybe ...maybe not will work?
I would try the beer trick, though no one in my family drinks beer, Will wine work? What about just yeast and water? Soda?
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:21 pm
For sluggers: http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htmWe set up our passive aggressive planters today. Our duplex has a shared deck and the neighbours will walk across our side to get to theirs... all while looking in at us in our living room. We got three big tall planters to put across the deck to stop them. We didn't get enough soil, so only made two. $100 each for the pot, soil and plants. :heartattack: We were also helped by the most unhelpful helpful old lady today. I was in a rush to get plants and she kept bringing me plants I hated. And she didn't really know the names or anything and couldn't read the tags. Cute, but so annoying. I'm also running out of tea. Might order some from this store I shopped at back in Ontario. The tea store here, David's Tea, isn't very tea like. The shop is very cold and sterile looking. Neh.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:11 pm
@Oriole Lyric: That is so annoying when an HOA or other organization says no edibles in the front yard. The people who make those silly rules generally are not gardeners. (If they were, they'd know the sheer joy that comes from growing one's own food and they wouldn't want to squelch it.) I have a few tactics of my own to share. Kale makes a beautiful border for beds, and (in my area) does not raise any objections. Although the ornamental kale is showier, the edible kale has become a popular choice as well. Rainbow Swiss chard is a great way to get a pop of color into both garden beds and salads. The leaves are so colorful that many people enjoy them as much as flowers and don't complain when it is grown in the front yard. Garlic has nice flowers and an attractive foliage which adds a great texture to landscapes. We grow a bunch of society garlic here, and it repels bugs as a bonus. I wouldn't put it too close to the front door, though, or the first impression a guest will have of your house is the overwhelming scent of garlic xd . I once had a garden where I mixed parsley in with butterfly iris which looked (and smelled) very nice. People always asked me what that cool leafy plant was that was in with the iris and were shocked to find out it was parsley. (Then they always had to taste it.) Cilantro (coriander) can be used the same way- just stick it in where you would normally plant a fern to soften the texture of a pot or bed to create contrast. I LOVE your planter tetris idea- let us know how it works! Now I am suffering from garden envy. Gardening season is over here for the summer (with the exception of some more permanent heat-hardy plants). My satsumas are about the size of ping-pong balls and my lemons are about the size of baseballs. Neither will be ready until mid-October or early November. I have to wait till about the third week of September before I can start a fall garden. In the meantime, one of my friends posted a link on Pinterest to this awesome blog with ideas and instructions for some amazing crafts from recycled materials. Now, I can beat the heat and save the planet all while crafting. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:02 pm
I updated MyFolia and archived a bunch of my plants that never made it through the winter. sad
I also planted six cherry pits, and cut my aloe so the ends can dry so I can attempt to propagate it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:39 am
Been working a ton lately and getting the rest of the garden squared away. Also been getting some dental work taken care of so i haven't spent much time online lately. Can't wait until fall when i can can some tomato's and jams and jellies.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:55 pm
There was a snake in my back yard today. I was trying not to injure myself walking down the little hill to the creek behind us and it caught me by surprise and I almost fell on some (sharp) plants.
It looked harmless enough though.
Needless to say, we walked back up the proper way even though it seems intrusive to the neighbor who lives in the back house (we had to walk on her patio) because I did not want to find more. I don't necessarily hate or fear snakes, but I still don't need to have one touch me!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:04 pm
Nasturtiums are seem a little stressed these day, and are finally dropping seeds. Harvesting and drying them in an garlic net sack. They're very...prolific, if you just take a fat stem cutting they take root very easily in wet soil.
Harvesting seeds from dried carnation heads are a pain, very few seeds in the heads if you don't catch them early enough. This is what I get for wanting to put carnations in other parts of my garden.
Harvested my first strawberry from the garden with only minor slug/ant damage. Luffah netting with twist ties work pretty good!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:20 pm
today me and my dad picked cucumbers and yellow cherry tomatoes and reagular cherry tomatoes from the garden we have in our back yard then i checked on my pitcher plant and its gotten soo huge heart and i am reseaching if their are any wood working classes around me.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:16 pm
rilsin-b There was a snake in my back yard today. I was trying not to injure myself walking down the little hill to the creek behind us and it caught me by surprise and I almost fell on some (sharp) plants.
It looked harmless enough though.
Needless to say, we walked back up the proper way even though it seems intrusive to the neighbor who lives in the back house (we had to walk on her patio) because I did not want to find more. I don't necessarily hate or fear snakes, but I still don't need to have one touch me! HAHA The snake snuck in to the people above me! There was screaming and I thought "Oh man, I bet the snake got in", then I went to check on them and she said it was. They got it out. I was all ready to help and everything xd Poor girl was terrified.
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