Green thumb is itching, anyone else?

[rancher hicks]

Went to a plant sale at the Trinity church and they had comfrey but I didn't buy any. I did buy Lily of the Valley and other stuff. This plant I believe to be Blood Root, but it wasn't marked. Does anyone know what it is?





Got all this too.

 

[Kassaundra]

I do not know what that flower / plant is, sorry. I would love some more comfrey, guess I'll need to get more roots this fall from the comfrey guy. Here are some pics from the yard this week

 

[rancher hicks]

I have not checked the Iris here lately. I have some that grow in the weeds. How they got there I don't know, but they seem happy where they are. I did weed whack around them though.

It's been rainy and cold here of late. I weed whacked the back garden around my raised beds and covered what tomato plants don't have milk jugs over them with plastic.

I wish global warming would come and change our growing zone by a number or two for the warmer. It's supposed to go into the 40's.

I've been researching on how to cut tires in half to use them as a path border in the woods. There are far too many back there to pay to take them to the dump.

Kass your flowers are gorgeous. Can't wait to have some color other than green around here. Well there were some Lilacs in the yard but just a couple of bunches on a small bush I planted two years ago.

The market is open tomorrow perhaps I'll go and see what's what. Plants are expensive this year.

I came on to see if there was going to be a Summer Granny Square Swap. This cold makes me want to crochet.

 

[queenchick16]

Rancher, I think that's a type of anemone.
Al the seeds from the trumpet vine you gave me are growing. Plan on transplanting them if and when it stops raining.
My flowers are really taking a beating from this weather.
The chickens have al but destroyed my fern garden. Really didn't think I needed a fence around it. Guessed wrong.
Salad counting out my ears. And the peas are flowering. Planted several type of red lettuces in a huge galvanized trough and it looks very neat. I need to get some pics.

 

[rancher hicks]

I've planted the corn and am getting ready to do the peas. It's been so cold. I did manage to clean up the garden a bit though.

I surround anything I want to survive with chicken wire and I will the Jostaberry cuttings. The ate all the leaves off the black currant bush but I planted it and surrounded it with wire and it's coming back.

I've had to start being mean to the rabbits as they've gotten to be too many and too friendly. I just yell and chase them away.

 

[Tomtommom]

We've been at it in the garden. My mom's visiting and she's a garden fiend *laugh*

Sadly, lost a bunch of veggies to my neighbor's lawncare spraying the joint fence.. my sweet peas didn't make it, and all my radishes were overgrown (I got flowers, but no rootbulb

) same things for the spinach... It just got too warm too fast. Corn is looking good, beans too.

My tomatoes have me stumped, I got some growing directly in the soil.. and it's rough looking soil. And I have some in a raised bed, with compost and bagged top soil... and the ones in the rough soil look better than the ones in the bed. Go figure. Peppers aren't doing too well in the bed either. Maybe the soil is lacking something, the beans, corn and squash in that bed are doing fine (the squash is planted between the corn and the tomato/pepper area. I know corn and tomatoes aren't too fond of eachother.)

Squash and pumpkins are growing wonderfully, they're loving the heat.

I got some new things 50% at Wal-mart yesterday haha. Some eggplant, muscadines and a fig. I love a bargain

 

[rancher hicks]

We've been at it in the garden. My mom's visiting and she's a garden fiend *laugh*

Sadly, lost a bunch of veggies to my neighbor's lawncare spraying the joint fence.. my sweet peas didn't make it, and all my radishes were overgrown (I got flowers, but no rootbulb

) same things for the spinach... It just got too warm too fast. Corn is looking good, beans too.

My tomatoes have me stumped, I got some growing directly in the soil.. and it's rough looking soil. And I have some in a raised bed, with compost and bagged top soil... and the ones in the rough soil look better than the ones in the bed. Go figure. Peppers aren't doing too well in the bed either. Maybe the soil is lacking something, the beans, corn and squash in that bed are doing fine (the squash is planted between the corn and the tomato/pepper area. I know corn and tomatoes aren't too fond of eachother.)

Squash and pumpkins are growing wonderfully, they're loving the heat.

I got some new things 50% at Wal-mart yesterday haha. Some eggplant, muscadines and a fig. I love a bargain

First I would so be blasting my neighbor and calling the town if they sprayed my veg garden and polluted it with their crap chemicals.

As for the tomatoes I can't say, but the peppers it may be too hot. Last year mine didn't really do well til things cooled down a bit, but by then I'd pulled the red pepper plants so only the Cubanna did anything. I also believe there was something I'd read about calcium but can't remember or was it nitrogen?

Everything here is fine and I don't think there was a frost or the Eggplant would be dead. I do mine in 10" pots set in the drive which gets hot and hold the heat through cooler nights. Their native to Thailand and the like so like the heat. I do wish I'd started different varieties on my own but I've so many seeds I'd need a garden twice the size.

Not to mention protection from my chickens.

Oh and I've planted corn here for the first time around my squash. I will need to figure how to keep the squash borer away though. I hate to use Sevin but it may be my only choice.

 

[Kassaundra]

Don't pull your overgrown radish, the seed pods are tastier then the roots.

 

[Tomtommom]

Too late. The chickens were quite pleased with their radish *laugh*

I'm not blasting the neighbor, she's an old lady and has no clue what her lawncare guy does, just that he comes every other week and makes her yard look good. She's a sweet thing, but as many at that age, they're not too aware of things anymore. I just realized it last week, as my fiance pointed out everything on the fence was dying and the neighbor had a 10 inch strip around the yard without any sort of vegetation.

I've altered my gardening plans some. Not about to start some feud over it.. they've been gracious enough not to complain about my accidental roo in the suburban hen house.

Speaking of which. I built them a big 4x4 compost out of cinderblocks, open on the side, so they can go in and scratch around. Stuffed the cinderblocks with soil, made a hoop type cover out of branches and planted green beans

They get the beans they can reach, I get the rest.

 

[Kassaundra]

Everything in the garden is getting flooded multiple times this year, but here are some things that are thriving






Onions










wild garlic, I can sympathize I have hair days like this all the time


The new raspberry beds are going crazy







fig tree, hoping for figs this year.