Winter Gardening...

[mountaingal]

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thanks, Sandi. i'm really looking forward to being a homeowner again, and getting my hands in the soil. I've been borrowing books from the library and the whole concept of winter gardening is quite intriguing - plants that come up from amid the snow (some hellebores); as well as plants that add structural interest during the winter - not just evergreens, but some grasses and trees/shrubs with coloured bark...fascinating stuff.

on the broadleaf thyme matter [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] i've been sticking a piece of it in water. but no roots grow. the stem just turns black and rots. i think i even tried sticking it in soil once and same thing happened. don't know why...bummer...

[777]

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I dont know if you can grow scotch bonnet in a pot during the cold season, but I know that there is a variety of plant that I had once gotten from Home Depot that was the chotch bonnet, but it had a spanish name, that grew beautifully in the ground during the summer. If this thread lasts to the spring, I will send the name.

[Green_Biscuit]

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I am so sad in a way. Took us 3 yrs to raise enough $ to finally get the excavation done that will help make this woeful plot of mine a basis for beautiful gardens. Now we unexpectedly have the house on the market, and have an offer in on another house that I have yet to see without snow. I LOVE the house, and the acreage is even more (1.5 acres) but we just built a shed....got beds laid out...have some planting done.....I am taking my Japanese maple that was a wedding present! I put that in the listing. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[SandiF]

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Oh, sorry to hear that GB. Was that the same house you had some landscaping pics on here during the summer?

Better secure that Japanese Maple, those are beautiful soft wood trees, and I plan on planting on in my yard come spring.

[Green_Biscuit]

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Yes, Sandi, it is....we obviously weren't planning on moving but.....we'll see. We have an accepted offer on the house we want to move to, and we are waiting for two to come in on this one. I am actually about to leave to go see the lawn at the new house without snow.....wish I could take my new shed....

[Blackfoot]

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How to plant Cuttings, Best to use Vermiculite, Peat Moss or Sterilized Potting Soil, (no beach sand too much Salt).
For Hardwood cuttings like Rosemary or any other Woody stem Plants, take a cutting about 6 Inches long, make sure you cut on an angle, strip off the bottom 3 Inches of leaves, bash the bottom of the stem just a little, (drinking works good), dip the end in water and then in a Rooting Powder such as Rootone, (Garden Centers sell it), place cutting into a pot and water in good,(Rain Water best, too much Chlorine in tap Water), do the same for other cuttings but do not bash the stems.
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May Your Garden Smile At You Like Well Fed Children Sweetwater

[grandma2]

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lawd call mi nut or someting but (((mountiangal))) i do appologist for this,i remember reading it and say i would come bak,well girl as yu knoh de head tek mi an mi figet, till mi just read it soooo sorry,ok

first of all congrat on you new home,love a single ooman wid house [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

G2 - i'm still having a hard time getting broadleaf thyme to root. the last one I tried to root did the same thing as all the others, the stem turned black in the water and started to rot. i was so upset i almost cried...

girl yu have to start it in dirt,but in the winter it has to be in your sunny window...mine dem dead all de time,but mi get bak clippings in the summer from gwangu

on the other hand, someone had given me a leaf of life cutting and it rooted beautifully, except my bad broughtupsy parakeets loved it to death and nyammed off all the leafs. So, I'm cleaning up the sill and noticed that a coupld of the leaf of life leaves had fallen off the stem, and lo and behold, they had new plants sprouting round the edge of the leaf...i was a little creeped out at first, but I jumped on a good thing, and now I have a bunch of little leaf of life plants growing in a pot. I hope they grow big enuff to survive the onslaught of the birds (they are supposed to get some greens in their diet, and this met their needs perfectly).

G2 - I greatly admired your SIL's bay plant, and am hoping to get one for my kitchen. Also, at some point, I'll beg you for an already rooted piece of broad leaf thyme. I also want to grow scotch bonnet in a pot, and eucalyptus, and bamboo outdoors!

well girl upstairs,she use her guest bedroom as her garden,caw it gets so much sun, as to the scotch bonnet pepper plant it in your garden out side and then bring it in in the winter thats what i do,need lots of sun also.

come over in the spring fi all yu cuttings [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[SandiF]

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Most thank you sweetwater.

I'm so anxious for spring so that I can be outdoor in my garden. The winter has been good to my house plants... mi feel so proud wid miself the way how mi care for them during this season.

Originally posted by Sweetwater:
[qb] How to plant Cuttings, Best to use Vermiculite, Peat Moss or Sterilized Potting Soil, (no beach sand too much Salt).
For Hardwood cuttings like Rosemary or any other Woody stem Plants, take a cutting about 6 Inches long, make sure you cut on an angle, strip off the bottom 3 Inches of leaves, bash the bottom of the stem just a little, (drinking works good), dip the end in water and then in a Rooting Powder such as Rootone, (Garden Centers sell it), place cutting into a pot and water in good,(Rain Water best, too much Chlorine in tap Water), do the same for other cuttings but do not bash the stems.
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May Your Garden Smile At You Like Well Fed Children Sweetwater [/qb]

[ohliz]

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Here in Ohio we haven't even seen crocus greens come up yet. As soon as it's above 50, I'll go out and cut down whatever plants I didn't cut down before winter...any day I can go take a few branches of forsythia and bring them inside...put them in water and they open in about 3-4 days...nice yellow flowers in winter.

THis spring i promise to mulch better so I don't have to fight weeds so hard....

MG, congrats on the house!

[mountaingal]

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thanks, ohliz!

((G2)) - you bet a gwain come fe some clippings. me wi gie you notice. btway, me leafalife plant dead now to, died during the move from the apartment to the house.

Sweetwater, thanks for those tips, i'll try that next time i try to do cuttings...

777 - is it the habanero pepper you bought? i think that's what they call scotch bonnet ova yahso.

GB - that's toug, moving house after putting so much into your current landscape. then again, 1.5 acres is a decent amount of land - you could have a fair sized pond in a yard that size...i did't see your pics last time, maybe i'll see them this time rouind when you start working on your new space.

[Green_Biscuit]

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Oh, MG.....we went to see it yesterday. It was raining, but the snow was all gone.....what a mess. Tons of junk where the land has not been cleared (obviosly there for decades...) supposedly, the sellers will get rd of that....there are 5 foundations to old out buildings (chx coops and the like, I imagine)....we'll have to see if I can transform those into raised beds or something. From teh looks of the water table, I could create a natural pond in places, let alone a man-made one....lots of mud, some good areas. The soil near the house looks to be completely depleted...dead. It will need lots of organic matter to bring it back to life. A couple of huge trees near the house are diseased and need to come down. That's okay. I can see the potential, but I assure you, the before pics will be scary!

[mountaingal]

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dang, greenie - i guess you're looking at a five year plan at least, for renovating your new yard, unless you get in professionals.

what was the land being used for? and i hate to say this, but i doubt the current owners will clear it before they leave - you'll be lucky they don't add more junk to it when they move.

is it in the country, your new space?

[Green_Biscuit]

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Well, I am sure it will be a 5 yr plan, but I don't see having the do-ri-me for professional help this year...we are buying it from contractor's who have gutted it and renovated it. It was built in 1820, and was likely a "farm" house of sorts, but all but the 1.5 acres has been sold off....I guess a lot of people would call it the country....not as remote as other areas of western mass, and certainly not the midwest, or even what I have seen of Canada. To me, it is sort of boondock (sp?) suburbia. It will require a "grand" plan, that's for sure....

[SandiF]

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Now that Winter is officially over...
Thread closed, and join us in the Spring/Summer Gardening Thread.