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Posted by bananasinohio 6 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 07 at 9:23
Howdy;
Fall is definately here and it feels like winter is nipping at our heels. The wind blew so hard last night, our patio umbrella decided to go for a ride!
My hubby cleaned up some of the annuals (I hated to see the zinnias go even if they were brown) and planted a few bargain perennials I had sitting around. Most of my perennials are still green so I have to wait for a good freeze to clean those up.
Any suggestions for a good organic fall fertilizer? What are you doing in your yards now?
- Elisabeth in Dayton |
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RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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| Well, I'm spreading a little organic fertilizer called compose to make room for the load of new compose I'll be gathering for next year. It time to cut the garden back for Winter. So far about eight wheel barrels full. Then I'll be cutting the garden back and digging up the Cannas to put in the basement for Winter. I'm in Miamisburg and new to Gardening Web. I think this is my third visit to the web site. Hope all is well with you. |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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| It's getting too cold for me to be outside for very long, so I'm glad I finished up most of the garden work earlier. I have cut down some perennials, mulched, raked, cleaned up and dug up dead annuals, including pots. The trees are late this year, so I'll probably be raking leaves in December! Cant wait til spring, I have so many plans. Jen |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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| Welcome wildtek. I am not too far from you. I am in Centerville. Where did you buy your fertilizer? Jen, I hear you about the leaves. We have about a dozen mature trees in our yard and half still have leaves clinging to them. I am always burned out at this time of year on the garden but by January am eagerly pouring over gardening catalogs. What plans do you have for Spring? We are working on our vegetable garden. We had to put a fence around ours (even with a fenced yard) as groundhogs were munching everything. They even ate the stems of my tomatos. I think it was due to the lack of rain. Anyway, I convinced my hubby, who does all the hard labor, to attach an arbor with a swing near the veggi garden. We are still working on that. I want to make a childrens bed around my kids play equiment. This way they can plant all the flowers they want and not pick mine!
Stay warm,
Elisabeth |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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| Hi Elisabeth, I really want to work on making my soil richer. I have lots of clay that is difficult to work in, so I want to amend that. I want to build a few raised beds and include more daylilies, my favorite plant. Maybe try some strawberries this year. I'm having a huge tree in my front yard cut down that is hanging dangerously over my house. I'm really wiped this time of year too, but I have to keep at those leaves! That's a good idea about the childrens garden. Im going to get my little cousin interested in the plants next year. Jen |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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After we got some good rains in late October, I was able to dig out an additional garden bed. My plan for removing as much lawn from my yard is working. I'm going to use it for test plantings; annual plantings; cold-frame storage for winter.
I usually leave the "skeletons" of most plants up through the winter; purple cone flowers, asters, tansy, blackeyed susans. It's so flat without it and if we get any snow, it makes some great sculptures to be able to look at. I cut them down in early March.
Today I dispatch the remaining leaves in my yard to the compost pile. I raked just this past Tuesday, and then conveniently the rest of the leaves came off the trees.
I saw the Miamisburg and Centerville folks posting; I'm in Germantown. Howdy neighbors! |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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Howdy Queenann,
I haven't touched my perennials yet either. Although, I have to take out some native Monarda in my cottage border. It had terrible powdery mildew this summer. I am interested in cold frame storage. I have never used one. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving,
Elisabeth |
RE: What are you doing in your garden now?
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| i'm in NE ohio, and am just looking at that snow. It's sucha good reason not to rake. leaves were still in the tree until december-- the city even scheduled an extra week of leaf pick-up thru december 5th to help deal with them. i figure once it snows i'm done for the year. hi wild tek, be on the look out for the annual spring central ohio swap. its an event you'll not want to miss.
check in with storeygardener or princess mimi . time to start planning for next year-- i'm ordering catalogues. diggerb |
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