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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/29/2007 : 13:43:39
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Carolyn, you need to get your hands on (and into) some chicken poo
 The humble apple |
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
871 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2007 : 13:47:32
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Originally posted by tisasawath
poor barney http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6698713.stm
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The humble apple |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2007 : 18:43:26
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Great pics Bedrock Barney and tisasawath. My front garden was a complete bomb, the back garden is below average and the vegetable garden looks like it could be decent. This is my first year so I can't be too hard on myself but it is discouraging. Anyone have some secrets to success they would like to share (other than stinky manure  )? Or is stinky manure the secret I am missing?
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Edited by - Daisy Girl on 05/30/2007 18:45:39 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2007 : 22:36:37
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get one of those water meters you can stick in the ground. that way you know for sure if the plant needs water or not. it's easy to overwater
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2007 : 18:42:08
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Thanks Floop! I will get me one of those fancy wiz bang gadgets. (I need all the help I can get!)
bluefinger |
Edited by - Daisy Girl on 05/31/2007 18:42:44 |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:27:10
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Chicken poo hey. Is it superior to other poo?
Even though not much for veg is growing yet I thought I'd post some pics as the perenials are starting to come up nicely. Maybe later I'll post the same areas for a before/after effect. I started a bit late this year so all I have in my garden growing so far are about a gazillion little maple trees thanks to both neighbours having huge maples in their yards.
(Sorry for poor pic quality, something is up with my camera.)
The veg garden with a few rows of flowers in front. I like to plant tulips between the daylilies, that way when the tulips are finished their foliage is hidden between the daylilies;
The border on the other side of the yard, virtually all perenial flowers;
(Notice how we have 2 fences, major disagreements between neighbours and previous owner, cracks me up.)
Front patch we just put in last year as there was the ugliest kind of juniper bush there before. Difficult area as its mostly shade. I didn't really want to shape it like that but Mike finished it while I was out...he's very primal.
These front four pots don't look like much now but I'll post again in about a month. They each have a few glad bulbs in the middle, and around that they have lobelia, nasts, wave petunias and a couple things I can't remember the name of;
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awestruck
= Cult of Ray =
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:44:17
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hey does anyone know if it would be ok to fertilize my cherry tomato plant with Miracle Grow for houseplants?
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:50:04
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| were you high when you took those? |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:51:22
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Um, no.
I said I was sorry.
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Edited by - Carolynanna on 06/01/2007 10:53:01 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 10:53:48
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| that was supposed to be a joke. how come they're all blurry though? it looks like you have one of those old-school lens filters they used dream sequences, or close ups on Lana Turner |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:02:54
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Jonas got a hold of my camera.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:05:12
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oh sorry, i didn't read the part about the camera.
how come they're all blurry though?
wait, you just clarified that. |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 11:42:45
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quote:
Originally posted by awestruck
hey does anyone know if it would be ok to fertilize my cherry tomato plant with Miracle Grow for houseplants?
Favorite Quote: awestruck is a she, she's a she. -trobrianders
I'm guessing that would be fine. |
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kfs
= Cult of Ray =
USA
889 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 13:23:16
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I like your pics, Carolynanna. They look kind of dreamy.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2007 : 15:33:01
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Caroly comes from the land time forgot: Canada.
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awestruck
= Cult of Ray =
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 06/05/2007 : 07:14:28
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My little cherry tomato plant has a few little tomatoes on it. I am excited.
Maybe I will grin but I won’t bear
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El Loco
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 08:11:00
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my strawberry plant is dieing
oh the humanity
IN MY PAST LIFE I WAS CALLED FARTBONE HERE. |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 06/05/2007 : 19:37:08
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my rabbits are eating my veggie garden....
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2007 : 08:00:57
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Originally posted by Daisy Girl
bluefinger
I have a few of those exact same tulips, they were really stunning.
These ones I thought were really neat as they are green (with a little white.) Not your usual tulips;
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 06/06/2007 : 19:11:39
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Carolynanna, those are beautiful. Green is my fave color... I will have to look into getting some of those for next year :)
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 07/11/2007 : 12:48:04
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peppers are starting to come in..
thai hot peppers
jalapenos
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2007 : 13:10:59
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Goddam you and your warm weather. My tomatos are really suffering on my balcony in this shit weather. This is like the worst summer ever!
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 00:33:48
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yeah, and i think gardening is, like, overrated anyway
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 00:55:03
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My garden has been fairly disappointing. I don't why, but nothing is growing quickly. First of all I had one tomato plant die (an Early Girl) maybe because of the heat, and many of my tomatoes had flea beetles which left the leaves looking like they had been hit by tiny shotguns. Those seem to be gone (the beetles), but none of the plants (with the exception of a Cherry Tomato plant in a half barrel) have grown big. We've had maybe 20-30 small tomatoes and we're about to get a rush of another 30, but only one big tomato is on the way. In addition, my beans just starting to work their way up the trellis. (We did have a bumper crop of plums, many we ate, and some we turned into jam.)
The weather has been pretty good. One very hot week, but otherwise pretty mild. All I can guess is that I've used the garden spot for 3 years now and I didn't add enough nutrients back into the soil. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2007 : 15:49:55
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I've been having some bad luck this year.
I bought a bad package of corn and not a one grew.
I transplanted some of my perenials last year and they aren't flowering as much.
Damn rabbits have been eating all my lettuce and we had to put chickenwire around everything.
My front pots of flowers are starting to fill in nicely.
Here's before;
And right now with a skanky pose of me included;
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2007 : 16:05:34
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
And right now with a skanky pose of me included;
I wanna see a skanky pose of floop with his peppers.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/14/2007 : 02:24:09
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Originally posted by coastline
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
And right now with a skanky pose of me included;
I wanna see a skanky pose of floop with his peppers.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs.
Bell pepper?
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2007 : 06:55:30
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the jalapenos are starting to come in
ok. the jalapeno is starting to come in.
on a tangent, has anyone from the UK tried this sauce?
http://www.thechileman.org/naga_morich.php
(and lived?)
floop, with your climate you should definitely get hold of these naga morich seeds to grow. and report.
this variety also looks interesting - the Trinidad Scorpion
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 11:55:54
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i was away from home for quite a while and my friend taking care of our place isn't quite so good at taking care of gardens. ie, all our pepper plants have been massacred. the scotch bonnets, chocolate beauties, anaheims, thai hot peppers.. it's a graveyard. to add insult to injury my dad is now growing peppers, to try and outdo me, and he's got this gigantic garden going full of every kind
oh well, there's always next year
"I am a troll.. and a fag." -LBF |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 08/27/2007 : 19:54:37
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sorry to hear your story, floop. If it makes you feel any better I WAS home and nothing grew. Except for one beautiful tomato plant that sprouted up in the middle of the front yard (keep in mind that the only tomatoes that were planted in the BACK yard). It must have been a bird that ate the seed out back and then pooped it out in our front yard. Go figure.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2007 : 07:56:26
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I planted too many zuchinis.
I've got zuchinis that I can't even carry.
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2007 : 07:41:10
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i too had some casualties due to insensitive caretakers during my absence, plus these plants really can't take even a few days of colder weather.
photo angle of the week
and this is how the unknown variety turned out
they're small but sturdy plants and can take worse weather better than the jalapeno plants
lessons learned:
use bigger pots. pepper roots need more space - the plants in the middle of the pots (narrow rectangular pots) grew almost twice as high as plants at the sides.
don't use that limestone sand from the construction site to mix into the soil again, it made the leaves on one plant all white and fall off.
it's probably better to avoid sticking your head out of the vegetables on the window to say hi to your boss coming in from the parking lot in the future.
jalapenos turned out ok. good size, very nice taste, should use bigger
pots to improve yield; the roots have reached the bottom too soon.
tabascos never flowered, they're just growing and producing more foliage. maybe in spring.
i'll try to overwinter all the plants (esp. tabascos) and then we'll see. might try some other things as well.. is it possible to cross peppers and strawberries? where's the forum botanist?
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fumanbru
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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Posted - 05/05/2009 : 01:24:56
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my garden is going to dominate this year
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/ cause I'm a real go-getter!"...long live snitz!! |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2009 : 01:28:47
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Right now only mint for chutney.
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