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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Piper
Date: May 28, 2015, 1:41 pm
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I always love reading about people's gardens. I'm too busy
tending the animals to do much gardening myself, but I enjoy
picturing folk tending all their little plants. One of my
favorite childhood memories is gardening with my dad. My mom
wasn't into it and my brother never was, either, so it was
always special father/daughter time. :) I felt so proud that he
let me help him. He used to use a chalk-line to make sure his
rows were straight, and for some reason I was quite impressed.
;D
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 28, 2015, 8:44 pm
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--- Quote from: Piper link ---
>
> I always love reading about people's gardens. I'm too busy
tending the animals to do much gardening myself, but I enjoy
picturing folk tending all their little plants. One of my
favorite childhood memories is gardening with my dad. My mom
wasn't into it and my brother never was, either, so it was
always special father/daughter time. :) I felt so proud that he
let me help him. He used to use a chalk-line to make sure his
rows were straight, and for some reason I was quite impressed.
;D
>
--- End Quote ---
I think I'm boring people to death at LGO with my talk about my
adventures in my garden. What I'm doing with my rosemary
plant, what weeds are getting my attention at the moment --
right now it's plantain. I've got to get it before it seeds.
My attacks on ivy, poison ivy, and Virginia creeper. I love
the peppermint I just got.
How I'm going to protect the catnip. That was interesting since
when it sprouted, I realized I didn't have anything to protect
it. How I believe angels may have intervened to get me
something. This is the first year I put catnip out. It should
come back by itself next year -- but just wait until the cats in
the neighborhood find it. It's still very tiny -- not big enough
to get their attention yet. They'll have to wait. They can
look in at it and inhale the aroma -- but that cage will have to
stay there until the plants are big enough the cats won't knock
them over. I don't care what they do later.
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There should be enough of it left standing to blossom. I put
it in a place they'll not have to jump over other things to get
at it. That could be a disaster if they knocked over other
plants. I put some taller plants behind the catnip area; but
I'll move some ground cover right around it. There are already
some wild violets there. I don't know if I'll move some more of
them -- they're hardy and they bloom in the early spring. I use
them as ground cover here and there between other plants so I
don't have to weed as much. I also have wild strawberry plants
in the flower beds in several places as ground cover. I dug
them up out of the yard. I was hoping birds would come eat the
wild strawberries, but I've never seen any doing it. Maybe they
wait until I go into the house. But the cats could walk and
roll on wild strawberry plants and not do any real damage.
Let the neighbors wonder why their cats are acting strange. I
can't wait. :D
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: bradley
Date: May 28, 2015, 10:59 pm
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Thanks Poppy for your kind words. I truly love creating good
food grown with love and sweat. And I do think there is
something to adding our sweat into the ground we work, its a
spiritual thing I just cant shake as to its importance, I think
it goes back to Genesis and the sweat of our brow statement.
Kerry, although I dont always quickly respond to your garden
posts on LGO, I love reading them. When I dont have time to
reply, I try and go back and reply later as I have time.
Nancy, you love the gardening thing because of the love, time,
and kindness shared by your father during it. Glad you seen it
in the good light it should be seen in.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 29, 2015, 11:50 am
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--- Quote from: Poppy link ---
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> They only empty our green bins once every two weeks Kerry.
But it's not weeds we need it for - we don't have many of them -
but the stuff we cut have to cut back from our very mature
garden. We don't have a lawn so no grass clippings either but
we do have a hedge which needs trimming once or twice a year.
>
> We have a forty foot garden front and back and as we have no
transport we can't take our garden refuse to the tip. Plastic
bags are ok for emergencies but then it all has to be tipped
into the bin anyway as they won't take plastic bags. We mostly
do ok but have had to cut down a couple of conifers due to snow
damage and they have more or less filled the bins two or three
times over. We still have another to cut back as well as a lot
of other overgrown stuff and we can only do it when we get a
good day with the weather.
>
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Well, as frustrating as it may be, there is a little good news
-- it won't be quite as bad next year. I was imagining you had
this same struggle every year.
It surprises me a little though that your local government
didn't arrange for special pickups for people with trees with
snow damage from last winter's arctic freeze. The town I live
in is pretty good about such things. If bad weather damages
lots of trees, they have a special pickup for tree branches in
addition to the annual one. Maybe you should talk to someone in
your local government. I don't think it's reasonable that
they expect you to stuff damaged conifers into your green bin.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 29, 2015, 11:56 am
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--- Quote from: bradley link ---
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> Kerry, although I dont always quickly respond to your garden
posts on LGO, I love reading them. When I dont have time to
reply, I try and go back and reply later as I have time.
>
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That's kind of you to say. I'm not always sure if I'm boring
people or not. I updated the thread just now. I ordered
plants from that supplier, so I'll be letting you know how
things turn out so you can get goldenseal there if they're a
good company. I still can't believe how reasonable their
prices are -- it makes me wonder if maybe they're too low.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Poppy
Date: May 29, 2015, 1:18 pm
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Kerry our council are not flexible and won't even empty bins if
they are not fully closed, even an inch open and they won't take
them. There are out of town facilities just after Christmas to
turn the used trees into chippings but anything else and we're
on our own. These ones we've just finally got rid of have been
hanging around for about four years from one of our very sever
winters. We have to use secateurs and long handled loppers to
cut them up small enough for the bin. It's a lot of cutting and
has taken till now to get rid of it all. Even old conifers are
considered to be garden waste and as such go in the re-cycling
bin. I have requested a second bin but with no luck. We don't
have our own transport or we could have got rid of it all a lot
sooner. What's LGO?
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 29, 2015, 2:08 pm
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--- Quote from: Poppy link ---
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> Kerry our council are not flexible and won't even empty bins
if they are not fully closed, even an inch open and they won't
take them.
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I can see them insisting on the tops being closed maybe since
some people might be tempted to load them down with stuff
leaning out of them otherwise; but maybe you should start
thinking about getting a new council. Maybe run for it yourself
if it's elective.
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> There are out of town facilities just after Christmas to turn
the used trees into chippings but anything else and we're on our
own. These ones we've just finally got rid of have been hanging
around for about four years from one of our very sever winters.
We have to use secateurs and long handled loppers to cut them up
small enough for the bin. It's a lot of cutting and has taken
till now to get rid of it all. Even old conifers are considered
to be garden waste and as such go in the re-cycling bin. I have
requested a second bin but with no luck. We don't have our own
transport or we could have got rid of it all a lot sooner.
--- End Quote ---
I find that outrageous that things are such that you've had
trees you couldn't get rid of for four years. Your government
sounds almost oppressive. It's simpler here. Every spring we
can put out branches -- but they have to smaller than so many
inches around and cut so they're not too long. And they have
to be tied with string. No bins required.
What's LGO?
HTML http://What's LGO?
That's a forum I had before Mike started this one and then gave
it to me. This one has almost no rules -- LGO has tighter
rules. It stands for "Love God Only." It's a slow forum. You
can join it if you want, but I warn you it is slow at times.
I think maybe I drove some people away when I wouldn't let them
be rude. They left.
Right now the thread about gardening is ten pages long. :) It
wanders at times. Brad and I were discussing rhubarb, and I was
telling him how I used to make rhubarb-strawberry jam. Since he
likes the pies, he liked the idea of the jam. I'm all excited
by the rhubarb since my previous one died and last year I didn't
have one. The new one I planted this year is really growing.
I have it in with the flowers if you can believe that. It's
close to the butterfly bush.
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Today we were discussing concrete blocks which Brad wanted to
get, and I'm talking about wild ginger and other plants I
ordered by mail for a shady area.
#Post#: 2122--------------------------------------------------
Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Poppy
Date: May 29, 2015, 3:11 pm
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I like rhubarb plants and used to have one in my flower beds too
- lovely leaves. We just had a local election on the same day
as the general election and the same Labour council got back in.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 29, 2015, 6:32 pm
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--- Quote from: Poppy link ---
>
> I like rhubarb plants and used to have one in my flower beds
too - lovely leaves. We just had a local election on the same
day as the general election and the same Labour council got back
in.
>
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I may have killed my other rhubarb that died two years ago by
not paying enough attention. It started to go to seed and I
took out that stalk, but maybe I was too late. I wasn't out
there every day, and maybe by the time I spotted it, it was too
late to prevent the plant dying. Yes, I like how the leaves
look and I can eat them too.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: bradley
Date: May 29, 2015, 7:47 pm
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You eat rhubarb stalks, the leaves are poisonous. ;D You
been feeling okay Kerry?
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