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Posted by lpater z8 GA (My Page) on Fri, Feb 6, 04 at 19:44
| What do ya'll do around this time of year to prepare your beds for the coming year? What kind of gardening do you do in February?
Laurie |
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RE: Winter Gardening
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| Zone 9 - I prune my one hybrid tea rose and my one grandiflora back. I weed if I have time and a nice day. I replenish my mulch. I move my tender plants in and out depending on the weather (freezes or not). I do not usually cut back freeze damaged plants until mid march. I move some things that are dormant around if they don't like where they are or I don't like where they are. |
RE: Winter Gardening
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I have just finished pruning 34 roses and my hands look like I've been shoving cats in bathtubs. Then I cleaned out two of my bed and pruned back perennials. I also top dressed the two beds with this stuff from Home Depot called "Robin Hood Soil Conditioner" (looks like compost and small chips of pine bark) and Black Kow manure. I then mulched with hay from the family farm (old round bale). Now I only have 3 beds to go. I should buy stock in a liniment company.
Laurie |
RE: Winter Gardening
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Laurie: Isn't it about time to put out "vadelias" in Ga.?
I put out several rows of spinach (small sq. gardening) and a new bed of lettuce last week. Will put out cabbage some time next week. |
RE: Winter Gardening
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Redroseman,
I know this is probably sacrilege to some, but I don't grow produce. Just flowers and other ornamental plants. Further north Georgia is known for its Vidalia onions. In fact, there's a Vidalia, Georgia. In Valdosta, here, we are a mere 17 miles from the Florida border and have a climate very like that in Tallahassee Florida. Some day I may venture into growing vegetables. It just seems that every square inch of bed space I cram full of flowers or interesting foliage plants. One of my concerns about growing veggies is dealing with our prodigious insect population. I'm worried that I'd have to do a lot of spraying.
Laurie |
RE: Winter Gardening
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| HAD roses!! Thought I would contribute to their well-being and sprayed pruning cuts with canned "tar" substance. Had die back to the grafts on over 100. Two reds survived."tworedrose..." |
RE: Winter Gardening
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| Work my soil, work my soil and then work my soil! Mushroom manure is a wonderful thing! |
RE: Winter Gardening
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Tworedroseman:
OMG! That is one of the worst gardening nightmares I've ever heard. You must have been sick! I can't even imagine. What do you grow now besides veggies, anything? Pam:
I think mushroom compost is wonderful too. But, I've heard that it can make soil alkaline. I don't know if that's true or not, but I stopped using it because I have hydrangeas that I want to remain blue, blue, blue. Have you heard anything about that?
Laurie |
RE: Winter Gardening
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| I planted peas the first week of the new year and have sprouts already climbing the strings. I also HAD an awesome patch of Collards going until yesterday. Turns out, on my way to feed the chickens in the morning, I didn't shut the door to the pen all the way. When I came home, they had eaten 95% of my collards. But they didn't touch the spinich. wierd. And they ate my Brussels Sprouts. I was P.O.ed! In short, Peas, Spinich, Brussels, Collards. I'll be plant'n 'Taters and a new patch of Brussels Sprouts this weekend. |
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