Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

[armorfirelady]

Quote: Great thanks. I read that the LAB is suppose to help treat the ground and plants. If I am awake enough when I get out of work I think I will try spraying it around the ground. Even some of my pumpkin plants got yellow leaves & died. They were planted in a new area this year that I just turned into a garden this year. I had hoped that would help

I got everything planted early this year, than a month long of rain stunted everything. My tomatoes sort of recovered but not much fruit. Peppers never grew bigger than what I planted with tiny fruit not eatable. My best tomato plants are the ones I didn't plant :/

 

[AletaG]

Love this gardening thread... my mom and the kids and I will be on the island Monday... would love to say hello! Or, at least give us a tip as to where to eat lunch. We haven't been to Whidbey in years!

Aleta G.

 

[Jessica Lynn]

Such beautiful pictures! I wish that someday my garden will be as nice!

 

[DeesHens]

Thank you Sally and Dee. You are very kind. If I lost my pictures or eye sight tomorrow, the memories of a life time will keep me happy.

Borage! Thank you Dee for sharing that! I couldn't remember this plant but did remember the flower. The cut leaves smell like cucumber? Yes?

There are plants that I can close my eyes and recall the fragrance and it transports me back to my childhood. Borage, Nasturtium's, and Carnations. The first reminds me of my first herb garden. The second reminds me of my mothers first garden when I was a small child. She let me pick and play with the blossoms. I pretended they were dancing ballerinas. And carnations remind me of my Grandmother. She wore Carnation perfume. I miss her hugs. The scent of Carnations would linger on my hair.

My daughters tell me the scent of old roses reminds them of me. I'm glad it's not the smell of chicken poo!

Yes indeed! I gave it another go today. I cut a stalk of blue borage for my chickens to sample again. Thought perhaps since it was new to them maybe they just needed to get use to it? They played around with the flowers for awhile but didn't eat anything. I grew impatient and tore up a leaf for them to sample. Ahhhh! That did it. I left them happily pecking at it. LOL I took a pic to share with you all.


Also I had never seen nasturtiums this cherry color before so was excited to buy the seeds online last spring and grow it myself. My chickens haven't been interested so far in eating them though. LOL




I also have fond memories from the scent of carnations. My dear mom for many years during my childhood wore toiletries with this wonderful spicy sweet fragrance. I had forgotten all about it until I read your post tonight. ~Dee~

 

[aoxa]

Mumsy,

Willow cutting I'm trying to root: Is rooting at the bottom, but the leaves above are drying up and falling off... abort?

 

[Sally8]

Mumsy,

Willow cutting I'm trying to root: Is rooting at the bottom, but the leaves above are drying up and falling off... abort?

I would say no, should be fine. We root by placing the stems in the rain barrel until roots are 6 - 8 in long. sometimes the leaves fall off.
ps, I'm not Mumsy. lol
I just got through planting pussy willows that I had left in the rain barrel for over a month. It's doing great.

 

[MumsyII]

Leaves fall off my rose cutting sometimes as well. I don't root things in water but the leaf drop is normal for shrubby stem things. Not for herbaceous cuttings like herbs and perennials. Those should keep their leaves and begin growing after rooting in the medium.

 

[MumsyII]

Looking through my old images and found one that makes me cringe and laugh simultaneously. My husband does the pruning of anything over five feet on our property. That's pretty much just about everything since I'm five feet tall. He is just a little taller than that. He has a huge collection of ladders at his disposal but sometimes he just climbs up on anything to get the job done!


The weeping willow behind him is twenty two years old. Grew from a twig I pulled off a tree at the county dump and stuck it in the ground the year Puppy girl was born. It wants to take over the world.

 

[Sally8]

Have you seen all the little clips on how to root a rose in a potato? Very interesting. Thought I'd give it a try.

 

[Jessica Lynn]

Have you seen all the little clips on how to root a rose in a potato? Very interesting. Thought I'd give it a try.

I've never seen that! I need to go look it up and give it a try. Is it on YouTube?