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What type of plants are you interested in growing? This poll is closed. |
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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
| Annuals! |
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30 | 4.42% |
| Woody plants! |
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62 | 9.13% |
| Succulent plants! |
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171 | 25.18% |
| Tropical plants! |
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60 | 8.84% |
| Non-vascular plants are the best! |
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31 | 4.57% |
| Screw you, I'd rather eat them! |
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183 | 26.95% |
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All you people complaining about amending your dirt. Meanwhile, I've been trying to sift out white marble chips from some PO's top dressing 40 years ago judging from the depth. I'm so thankful I bought a hori hori. Best tool for planting in gravel there is.
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Apr 19, 2019 05:09
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Bean posted:So is this a thread for general yard poo poo? My yard looks like a war crime and I want to fix it up. I think I’d have more fun and be more successful if I documented it in a thread and had goons yell at me along the way. Would that be welcome here? Go for it. Mammal Sauce posted:Can anyone recommend some decent looking flowering plants that are 30-40" fully grown that will survive Indiana winters? We pulled some gross looking bushes out of the landscaping when we bought our house. They were non-flowering, prickly limbs and red/green leaves. Then, we went to Lowes and impulse bought some plants that included three hibiscus to replace the ugly shrubs we pulled out. They were really nice and flowered all summer and fall. Of course, we didn't research them and the tags didn't indicate that they wouldn't survive winter and they're dead now. The old ones sound like barberries. You need to plant hardy hibiscus this far north. Otherwise, they're house plants. Look up your USDA zone map. That will tell you what will survive the winters where you live. After that, you need to account for how much sun that spot gets. In the northern hemisphere, the sun moves across the southern sky. Also keep in mind shade from trees as well as your house, or even your neighbors' houses if they're like right on the property line.
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Apr 23, 2019 23:13
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Stakes are for 1. saplings that just don't want to grow up straight, 2. when you need to establish a lower branch as a leader if the old leader dies or 3. when you need to train a branch out away from the trunk and there is no good branch to put a brace against.
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Apr 24, 2019 04:19
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Nephzinho posted:Past couple of days have had some nice weather, gotten a lot of cleaning and reorganization done on the roof as various plants have filled out. 2 of my rose bushes still haven't seemed to start showing growth yet, the 3rd new one is growing like crazy but getting worried I somehow hosed up pruning the other two. You could do the scratch test. Scratch a stem with a knife and see if it's green and wet. Brown and dry = dead. Look near the ground too. If the winter was too cold, it may resprout from the ground.
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Apr 25, 2019 22:07
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Nephzinho posted:Are there any water barrels that don't cost an arm and a leg? A neighbor has a water pump that works that I can use to fill it up, but pretty mcuh everything I see costs $100 and sells a stand separately to make the spigot remotely usable. You can get 50-60 gallon food grade plastic barrels lots of places on Craigslist. If you have any factory food making places nearby, give them a call. All of the fittings on them are standard sizes for putting on pipes and such.
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Jun 5, 2019 00:42
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bring back old gbs posted:yeah! I didn't even know they did that, now I'm reading conflicting google results re: whether this means my plant is dying or not. Does this kind just flower one time? Nope, it will keep on trucking. Also, generally, plants that only flower once and die (pineapple, etc) will produce many offsets at the bottom before they kick the bucket, which in turn will become new plants.
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Jun 12, 2019 00:16
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Ooh, I didn't know that Ice Plants could be variegated:
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Jun 19, 2019 04:24
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ColdPie posted:Hi thread. Is my apricot tree saveable? It's just entering its third summer. The first year it grew fine. Last year it grew quite well, most of the growth in this picture was from last year. This year it's struggling to put out even a single decent leaf. We did have a very cold winter, and a very late spring frost, so I wonder if it's largely due to winter damage. Anything I can do to help it out this year? Just let it do its thing and hope it springs back next year? That's... pretty bad. Metaphorically speaking, your tree is on the ropes. I wouldn't touch it this year and hope for the best. At this young, even if it does survive, you'll be able to train it into the shape you want. That being said, right now I'd be looking up nurseries to replace it.
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Jun 20, 2019 05:42
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there wolf posted:Can I get a recommendation for a container plant? I've got this fat Grecian-urn shaped planter, about the size of a beach ball, and the thing I bought to put in it died before I could transplant. It was an impulse purchase and probably a bad choice for my climate. I'm in zone 8 and need something that likes sun, heavy rainstorms every week, and doesn't need a lot of attention. Seconding crop plants. You'd like Sun Gold tomatoes. They're like candy. Also, I found this guy online and I like his silly shape. It looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. The Disc Houseleek: 
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Jun 21, 2019 05:15
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drat. I've never seen anything like this. A succulent vine, with umbrella flowers? Ceropegia sandersonii, the Parachute Plant:
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Jun 22, 2019 07:23
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Platystemon posted:The whole point of sexual reproduction is to produce some variety in offspring so that some of them might be fitter than their parent. Then there's F1 hybrids. To get the seeds for F1 hybrids, you need one specific mommy cultivar and one specific daddy cultivar, only those specific cultivars. That's necessary because breeders still haven't worked out the kinks in making the desired child plant consistently reproduce-able, while mommy and daddy already are. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jun 24, 2019 |
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Jun 24, 2019 03:40
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Sir Lemming posted:So one of my grape vines just did this: I'd just bend it over and wrap its tendrils around the top row wire of the fence. Eventually it will get the idea.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:06
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Sir Lemming posted:It's an absolutely gorgeous plant, really, but it is indeed a poisonous weed. Ain't that the truth. So pretty! It's very much a "look but do not touch" plant. Fitzy Fitz posted:First is pokeweed. It's a native wild-growing thing with some interesting cultural history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4csFnpZXek
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Jun 30, 2019 07:45
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FreelanceSocialist posted:So zero of the loving peonies are flowering You didn't do a Final Solution on the ants and gas them, did you? Peonies actually need ants to open their buds. My great aunt actually did that.
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Jul 1, 2019 16:49
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Well, I can tell you that your plant is definitely not a burro's tail. The leaves on a burro's tail are much closer together, the stems barely stand up and any one leaf will snap off if you think about giving them even the slightest stink eye, in a dream. It looks a little leggy and might need a bigger pot. Try this. Pour out the decorative rocks as best as you can onto a towel (to make it easier to pour them back in), then grasp the root ball as best you can and lift it. How dense are the roots on the outside? Post a picture of that if possible. Move it to a sunnier window too. Finally, I wouldn't worry too much about the very bottom leaves wilting. You have tons of healthy growth up top that's surviving and branching to replace it. No one leaf lasts forever. For healthy plants, new growth will always be there to replace it. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 05:56
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I wouldn't even cut them. I'd just carefully untangle them from each other.
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Aug 23, 2019 01:08
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Is it outside? Where do you live? Is it already fall there?
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Sep 17, 2019 03:43
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:i'm thinkin about buying a mulcher. At this point I could keep the grass down on my 2 acres with a whipper snipper in 5 minutes but holy poo poo there are a lot of big eucalypts that drop loads of leaves and sticks like crazy FYI, mulchers can be jammed by stringy stuff. Don't throw vines in.
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Oct 1, 2019 20:37
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ReapersTouch posted:Going to dig up the grass in the back few feet of my yard where my utility easement is and plant wildflowers. Anyone have any experience with any online seed places? I might try a local nursery instead. I've used JL Hudson before. His website looks like it's from 20 years ago, but that's because he's been around that long. They have a surprisingly deep list of seeds. http://jlhudsonseeds.net/ ReapersTouch posted:Yea, all my utilities are below there, but all the videos I have watched dont mention any digging, just removal of any turf grass you have. You know that you can always call 811, right?
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Oct 20, 2019 03:52
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bobmarleysghost posted:what is a good way to cut this one down a bit? Just bite through it. 
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