Garden

Beyooootiful! Wish I just had weeds. I just hacked all my shrubs back to the

ground and now need to pull out a bunch of ivy, leaves & dig stumps. Trying to decide if it is more than I can handle by myself. We can only put yard waste out for disposal once a month and my week is this coming one so I need to decide quickly.

 
Beautiful Richard...

Please share more throughout the summer.

I LOVE to garden - have really gotten into it the last 10 years or so. I keep asking my husband to dig up more of our back yard for more gardens:) we are in the midst of pitching 7 yards of black mulch into wheelbarrows and putting it throughout the front and back gardens.

On a sad note - 2/3 of my parrot tulips were eaten by moles:(

Thanks for sharing

 
How lovely, my smile for the morning!! I hate to ask....Have you started thinking about your

veggie garden? I will be working on last years "clean up" this weekend.

 
stated thinking??? smileys/smile.gif

My fortress vegetable garden currently is growing and harvesting:

Radishes, French Breakfast and Red Globe
Beets
Chard
Kohlrabi
Green Onions
Peas, English, Snow, and Shell
Arugula
Bibb Lettuce
Escarole
Cress
"Mesclun", 5 various mixes
Spinach

I bought my peppers and tomatoes Thursday. They will go in apres le deluge:

Chiles--Red & Green Bells, Black Czech, Sonoran, New Mex, Anaheim, Paprika, Poblano, Banana, Santa Fe Grande, Serrano.

Tomatoes--Beefsteak, Big Beef, Roma, Cherokee Purple, Grape, Cherry, Sun Gold, Gold Brandywine, Ponderosa Pink, German.

 
deb, I constantly battle the local fauna...

Crown Imperials and daffodils are your friends because they are nasty poisonous to the grazers. And the crown imperials have a repugnant odor to moles in particular.

Plant these around and amongst. Enough so that you have to make them think it's not worth the effort ; )

Also sprinkle moth balls around when you're planting. I usually dig a trench or area, place bulbs, scatter the moth balls, then cover everything up.

When all else fails, line your bulb pits with screen. You can build cages for your bulbs that they can't get into.

 
Richard, your veggie garden sounds amazing. So far I onlhave a few tomato plants and two peppers .-)

 
Gorgeous! Hey, Joe may have a goat to rent... I'm sure it would take care of those weeks for ya

 
Fantastic suggestions, Richard...

Thank you!!

The odd thing is that its only my parrot tulips (which of course are my expensive) that get ravished by the moles. My regular ones, as well some of the unique varieties, do just fine. I can't figure it out but this is the 3rd year of the parrot's failing so I give up.

But I'm definately giving your suggestions a try this fall!

Deb

 
Deb, if you want a good price on bulbs

shop at Van Engelen. They have a plain catalog with no pretty pictures, although they do have photos on their Web site now. You're buying in bulk, so you can get 50 parrot bulbs for $20-25.

 
OMG - the prices are fabulous - thank you!

Unfortunately, however, the four tulips I was interested in purchasing are sold out? I'll call tomorrow to check it out...

Thank you!

 
HA!! Reminds me of a gopher problem I had... you could watch the bulbs being pulled straight down

I was told a good spraying of garlic juice would stop the gopher. HA! I think he ate even faster than before. We named him Luigi.

 
Deb, that's probably the

status from the end of last fall when people were buying bulbs to plant. They'll probably up date in the summer. Like I said, it's very low glitz and high end bulk buying, so that's why you're saving so much money.

I absolutely love putting in 500-600 bulbs in every fall for the prices that most people are paying for 50-60 bulbs buying at the local stores.

I've shopped them for 10 years at least. Quality is excellent.

I told a co-worker about the site, who was complaining about the price of her 10 tulip bulbs at the local store. I told her she could have bought 50 or more for the price from Van Engelen. Her response was, I can't use that many.

Uh, so you buy the 50 for the price you paid for 10, force some in the winter, give some to your gardening friends and spread the joy, and I think the problem would solve itself.

The response: "Nah, I can't use that many.

 
That was so odd...

Those were the very last of my late tulips and they had been hanging around for nearly 3 weeks. The day after I took this picture, the rain the night before knocked off all the tulip petals and it was the end of that seemingly impossible display.

 
Oh...I can use that many!

My because aside from my front gardens, which are more to be decorative and look nice (but not for cutting) by back gardens are for solely that purposes. The more bouquets I can cut - the happier I am!

How often do your replace your bulbs?

I'm call your store to see when I can order:)

Deb

 
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