How would you prepare for a freeze right now?
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Comments (1)lilacs: No one can predict this sort of thing, not even a professional. Depending on how cold it gets, and for how long, some of your blossoms may survive, or they may not. A great many of us are going through this right now. When it is all over, and we begin to get some warm days and warmer nights, I begin to watch to blossoms to see which of them falls off. Those that will survive can be identified because the style of the blossom begins to elongate. That also means the blossom has been pollinated. I hope you get some survivors. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See Morehow many plants are you 'holding over' right now?? -- newbie hint
Comments (39)Too many. I had to remove plants from a large holding bed and don't have new beds to put them in as it has been too cool & wet or hot & wet here all summer to make new beds. And just where will I put a long bed for lilies, daylilies and mums/asters? More will be potted up when we redo the driveway this fall but those will go back into the same beds. Other plants are being removed as beds are reconfigured due to construction of a new deck late last fall. Visitors took home 6 plants today and I have more to give away or sell this fall....See MoreWhat do you know right now that you will plant next season?
Comments (48)woodyoak wrote: I was washing this year's plant tags this afternoon in preparation for updating my tag binder - I dump all the tags from things I plant into a pot and then clean them up and record them when it's cold and I need a dose of the garden! :-) I didn't think I did much planting this year as there's not much space left, but there are quite a few tags... a lot of them are plants that were recommended here! I did exactly what you did, this past Sunday! Okay to be honest I don't put them in a binder but instead I sloppily throw them all into a large clear ziploc bag or two with the date 2013 very visible on both sides of the bag. I staple the appropriate tag to its receipt, for the more expensive perennials (and this year for the few pricey Japanese Maples I acquired). I decided to count these tags and I am shocked to say that there were almost 100! (I hope my partner does not find this particular post as I will never hear the end of it)...See MoreHow often are you watering your tomatoes right now?
Comments (14)Oh yes, it is red clay. Rock hard, concrete-like red clay to be exact. When I first started the garden 3 years ago, I tilled down about 12 inches into the clay (took several days)and added some pine bark fines (soil conditioner) and a lot of compost to try and fluff up the soil some. But when you consider in planting deep, there was only a couple of inches of "soft soil" under the plants. Believe me when I way it sounds easier than it was. But it was worth it. Now the worms have taken over and helped to aerate the soil and it is not too bad now. One good thing about clay though is that it holds water and nutrients very well. You have to keep a good layer of mulch to keep the top layer from crusting though. On the reverse, compaction can be a big problem, which is why my planting beds are mounded so that I don't walk in them. Maybe one year I can talk the wife into letting me make some good raised beds. jj...See Morenemiractfairfieldcountyzn7a
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