neko nomad
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 11:14 am
The 2009 gardening season is hereby started.
These large stones will be used as stepping stones
elsewhere.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0157A.jpg
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neko nomad
 
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Reply Sun 22 Mar, 2009 09:09 am
Work in progress. Will be back.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0158A.jpg

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neko nomad
 
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Reply Wed 25 Mar, 2009 07:07 pm
Three down, and a couple of more to go
before I can work on the bed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0160A.jpg



alex240101
 
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Reply Fri 27 Mar, 2009 11:33 pm
@neko nomad,
What a spring day today. Reached fifty five. Sunshine. Oregeno, roses, asparagas, raspberries, tulip, lavendar, beds were cleaned of leaves. Hm. Spring.
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neko nomad
 
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Reply Fri 3 Apr, 2009 06:00 pm
I managed to crop the privet down to about 4 feet before
a cold rainshower moved in for the day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0163A.jpg

It'll be maintained at five feet or so.

Good luck with your garden yhis year, Alex, and feel free to post a pic or two to show off your work for added interest, okay?
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 3 Apr, 2009 06:07 pm
It's never ending innit? The bastards just keep growing.
neko nomad
 
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Reply Fri 3 Apr, 2009 06:19 pm
@spendius,
Got that right - no slack.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Fri 3 Apr, 2009 06:20 pm
@spendius,
spendius wrote:

It's never ending innit? The bastards just keep growing.


Where are pictures of your garden, spendius?
spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Apr, 2009 02:59 am
@CalamityJane,
It is inconsistent with minimilist philosophy to take pictures of it or even to own a camera.
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solipsister
 
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Reply Sat 4 Apr, 2009 03:57 am
@CalamityJane,
growing bastards is more difficult than one might imagine, keep up the fertilising jane
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 4 Apr, 2009 09:27 am
@solipsister,
Oh no, solipsister, I don't fertilize bastards Wink

I don't really know what this is, but it's doing well at my house.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/147/img5601.jpg
spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Apr, 2009 10:38 am
@CalamityJane,
It's just another of the myriad versions of the come on and fertilise me brigade.

Knowing its name explains nothing.
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neko nomad
 
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Reply Sun 12 Apr, 2009 12:42 pm
My crocus show for 2009:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0168A.jpg
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neko nomad
 
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Reply Sat 18 Apr, 2009 02:44 pm
A potted mum, brought in to the garage last October for
the winter, was brought back outside yesterday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0170A.jpg

Last year's growth is now for another season. trimmed off,--click pic to see--and it's now on ready for another season.
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 18 Apr, 2009 03:21 pm
@neko nomad,
Spring is coming to nekoland - how nice.

For us in southern California it will be a grim summer with water shortenings
and triple increases in water utilities, so today I bought a rock purslane plant - so nice and the flowers are just beautiful in color. It should bloom all year
around here.

http://www.daylilyhill.com/images/Calindrina%20spectabilis.jpg
neko nomad
 
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Reply Sat 18 Apr, 2009 07:57 pm
@CalamityJane,
I'm hanging on to this one fom last year as well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0107A.jpg



However, it may need repotting this year, its third in this pot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/nekonomad/nekonomad0172A.jpg
Notice my landscaping work in progress in the background. Two rock slabs are about to be set into the ground as part of a path.



Don't be too shy to show off your handiwork in the garden, though, and pass on
tips on dealing with your challenges. Do you have any rosebushes?
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mismi
 
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Reply Sat 18 Apr, 2009 10:03 pm
@CalamityJane,
Save your white water Jane...I think I see those flowers at the beach...they are beautiful!
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 19 Apr, 2009 08:59 am
@mismi,
We have no choice, mismi, than to conserve water. I get more and more into
drought resistant flowering plants (I love flowers) and I am amazed how much
is available. The plant I pictured above comes originally from Chile and hardly
needs any water all year long.

Neither do these ice plants. I took this picture on the roadside to Legoland.
Pretty eh?
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8536/img5667z.jpg
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eoe
 
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Reply Sat 25 Apr, 2009 04:31 pm
Finally got my tomato plants in today. That's all I'm doing this year.
Butrflynet
 
  1  
Reply Sat 25 Apr, 2009 05:24 pm
@eoe,
Me too. I mixed a big sack of peat moss and Miracle Grow potting soil into our raised bed then planted bunches of marigolds and snapdragons, 6 strawberries, 4 tomatoes and 3 leeks before the high winds returned. Guess I'll be putting the bell peppers and zucchini in next week when the soil has a better chance of staying in the box.

The hard part will be doing battle with the birds and the dogs over who gets the first strawberries and tomatoes.
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