Yes I am going to put new plastic on next week but for now it's tarped. The front beds are done for today. I will be making them deeper this coming week too..
It was 3 years old and started to get brittle then we had a tornado and that did it in. Last year I decided to use a tarp over top for winter to protect the greenhouse and it worked perfect!!!
I went two years without much of a garden at all, but this year my son and his family live here. They cleaned out the solar space and set up the gardens again. On my, things are popping up. I have stuff going in the solar space and soon will be moving into the cloche. Just need to get new plastic cover in place. We will be growing peppers a low growing tomatoes in the covered cloche. Cakes and beans will be on vertical supports
Anyone heard of Blue Grama grass? I am looking at it for mud control in my dog's yard (new septic tore up the ground last fall).
Any opinions on this grass seed for me? We do not have water, WWW hauls home 400 gal at a time a few times a week for the house and that goes quickly, so I wont be watering it after it has germinated. Goal is some help with the mud control, not for a "pretty lawn" http://www.avseeds.com/bin/286.pdf or http://www.avseeds.com/bin/288.pdf http://www.avseeds.com/bin/400.pdf
I don't like the last one containing Mix contains: 10% AC Saltlander Wheatgrass "aggressively spreading Rhizomes " We have "quackgrass" here which has "aggressively spreading Rhizomes" and it is nasty sh!t to try to get rid of. A grass that spreads by rhizome can be an advantage as it will fill in dead spots from dogs morning pee nitrogen and salts death or winter plowing, etc - rather than having to spread new seed in the spot to try to beat weeds seeds. But I'd be wary of "aggressive rhizomes" anywhere near a house where you might have a garden some day. One advantage to a mix is the strong survives which on a fancy front suburban lawn the different colors and textures might be a bit off-putting but for field grass that may never get mowed - let the strong survive. Beyond this I know not about the specific grasses mentioned if any of them can become pests/problematic or not.
I found how to's at the USDA, here are the species (numbers are percents of each kind) Needleandthread 30 Streambank wheatgrass 20 Indian ricegrass 15 Silver sagebrush 10 Threadleaf sedge 10 Bottlebrush squirreltail
Had a bit of a funny conversation with my neighbor today. She asked me today when I was planting things. She had a few packets of seeds that her mother brought from Turkey and asked me if I wanted to try any of them. I can't read a word on them. Going by the pictures the first three packets were various hot peppers. 4th package I can't figure out. She says its the best stuff and she can only find it in a specialty store and its a few dollars for a small bunch. I look at the package a bit closer and the only word on it that I recognize is purslane. Its a weed, there's scads of it growing in the yard. Its listed along with dandelions on what lawn weed killers will kill. I've been using the flowering variety of purslane (or portulaca) for years in the planter boxes on my deck. Its indestructible, heat, drought, heavy rains, it still thrives. I knew it was edible but have never eaten it. I'll till the outer border of the garden fence to their side and plant it. There will be plenty this summer.
It might be a cultivated variety I got some commercial dandelion seed to try for food for a turtle two years ago and it was different from the dandelion weeds that grew in the lawn.
I was at a nursery today and they had seeds for sale and I noticed all of the bags of seed were marked as poisonous with all kinds of warnings as to what to do if they were consumed. I read all of that and thought why the hell would I plant any of this to eat? Does anyone know what's up with that?
The seeds were coated with chemicals, biological agents to improve germination rates and storage of the seed. For organic growing coated seeds are not allowed. They also do not want you consuming leftover seed. So it has to be labelled as such. The coating(s) break down and decompose in the moist soil pretty quick. You should also wash your hands after handling coated seeds so that the seed coating doesn't end up in your nose or mouth or any other orifices. Just like you would clean yourself up after spraying pesticides on fruits and vegetables. Or wash any fruit and vegetables you purchased in the store before consuming them.
22 san marzano, 18 celebrity, 6 yellow plum, 7 tomatillo, 9 habanero, 10 jalapeno and a few flowers waiting for warmer nights. mothers day hanging baskets are always pot bound in need of a bigger container to make it thru Summer let us eat lettuce some hostas left over from a divide and transplant project, they get donated to a garden club to raise money for a scholarship
New beds are out back! Plastics over the greenhouse and busch beef steak tomatoes have gone inside. The strawberries have taken off and I have butter crunch lettuce and a few beans outside but it's far to cold to plant anything else. We had sleet and snow yesterday!
