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What's growing in your MI garden?
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Posted by ruthiegarden z5 MI (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 05 at 21:22
| My tomatoes are looking healthy and getting flowers. Cukes are beginning to spread. Green beans are about 6 inches high. Ready to pull some green onions. Peppers are nice and green but not too big yet. Annuals planted from seed are only a few inches tall. Glads are up and looking strong. Seems like many of my usuals are running a little behind due to the cold May. How is your garden growing? |
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RE: What's growing in your MI garden?
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It's a frickin' jungle. I hit everything with 20-20-20 fertilizer early in the spring. The plants loved it. So did the weeds. I need to do some serious cleaning. Also some of the plants grew into monsters who are now shading plants that need sun. Must move them.
Anyway, roses of all types are blooming. Hydrangeas are budded like never before. Buds are just starting to open/color in at the edges. Geums, columbines, scabiosa, white bleeding heart, pansies, dahlias that I started indoors, Japanese iris, centaurea, mock orange, maltese cross and valerian are all blooming. Shastas are budded. Bee balm is everywhere and will bud soon.
Beats the hell out of winter, eh? P.S. I live in the Grand Rapids area. |
RE: What's growing in your MI garden?
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- Posted by Chills 6b (??) Mi (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 16, 05 at 23:11
| Roses are all blooming, Tomatoes have just taken off like rockets (I've got flowers and a couple small fruit forming, transplanted the last week of April) Lilies are budding well, daylilies are throwing up scapes and one has started blooming just today. Raspberries, currants, blackberries and cherries are all coming along nicely. The blackberries were so covered with flowers that my neighbor asked "what rose are they?" (My guess is she could smell the roses across my garden) My chives have already bloomed and been cut back. ~Chills <---In St Clair Shores |
RE: What's growing in your MI garden?
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| Tomatoes have gone nuts in their new raised bed. I set them out as 4" transplants around mid-May, and gave them a good shot of Tomato-Tone before leaving for a monthlong work excursion. (Thank goodness for mulch - not too many weeds to contend with!) When I finally came home Friday night, they were knee-high and all but the Maremmanos were putting out flowers. Other Fruits and Veggies: Squashes, melons, peas and beans have all put out flowers; we've already had four early peapods. We've been through the first round of lettuce, and the second is just coming up. Celery is taking off, and my brassicas (cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts) are all coming along nicely. Onions (bulb and scallion) are also doing fine, and garlic should be ready for de-scaping in a few days. I haven't gone back to look at our blackberry bramble yet, and am still looking for a better home for our two blueberry bushes - maybe I'll transplant them in fall... Herbs: Basil and thyme look beautiful, chamomile went nuts, verbena and mints are happy and thriving in pots. My cilantro and dill bolted after a week of warm weather, but that's OK - there's another couple pots of seed sprouting behind them... Flowers: Just about everything is blooming. Peonies finished up last week; heliotropes, coreopsis and buddleias are about halfway into their first deadhead cycle. Bee balm, cosmos and coneflowers should be blooming in a week or two, although one of my coneflowers is sulking a little. I dosed it with kelp tea - we'll see if that cheers it up any. |
RE: What's growing in your MI garden?
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The tomatoes are blooming, brocolli became giants after all the rain last week, but now need rain.
The flower beds are doing great and just finished with the weeding. The Sum & Substance hostas has leaves that are 16-1/2 inches wide. The mini hosta bed is doing good this year. Anyone attending the cut leaf hosta show on July 9th at MSU hort building?
The Canterbury Bells (white and pink) are in full bloom. Does anyone know if they reseed?Need some help with this. I think they are a Biennial. Thanks
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