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  • vogonpoetbythelake
    vogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    Wonderful to see your little one digging along.. that's a lot of soil to move!! You have inspired me to at least get my seeds started here...thanks for sharing!!
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

    Transplanting seedlings day!
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited April 2020
    Chemlawn was at the neighbors today. In the 20+ years we have lived here, they have never had their lawn treated. Their yard borders our new garden bed. Perennials and vegetables. I now have to plant my vegetable plants in my flower beds in the backyard since I'm not a big fan of having my homegrown food sprayed with their chemical crap. :angry:
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    deadendp said:
    Chemlawn was at the neighbors today. In the 20+ years we have lived here, they have never had their lawn treated. Their yard borders our new garden bed. Perennials and vegetables. I now have to plant my vegetable plants in my flower beds in the backyard since I'm not a big fan of having my homegrown food sprayed with their chemical crap. :angry:
    Yeah, I would be angry too.  That yard treatment shit is ignorant. I'll never understand the money and effort people put into their lawns, trying to eradicate dandelions and stuff.  
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Yeah, it was a big fat fuck you. He's most likely trying to kill everything I planted over there. (The fence we put up and the garden is all on our property.) He took down trees bordering our driveway and put up a big fat stack of wood along the neighbors garage...it a way that was leaning and was getting ready to roll right into our driveway and under our cars. The wood? It's from the huge oak tree that used to sit at the corner. It was 86' tall. He's a terrible neighbor. 


    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576

    This is my wacky setup.  I don't waste things so I've been using this half-deconstructed grow unit until the bulbs die and I can do something more conventional.  This is my last year, I'm done making do lol
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    We completely understand using something until it is dead. 

    I've got a lot of reuse going on. I have a garden window and a seedling warming mat. My husband bought it for me for about $4 maybe 15 years ago. Works like a dream. He said he had no idea what he bought, but it was flying off the shelf so he grabbed one. (At a discount store.) It would have been $25. Came with a window greenhouse tray and all of it sits into a styrofoam base. 

    I am battling gnats. Never had them with my seedlings or transplants before. Everything is getting a gnat treatment tomorrow.  

    Had to wait for the soil to dry out first. Have you ever had that problem? 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    deadendp said:
    We completely understand using something until it is dead. 

    I've got a lot of reuse going on. I have a garden window and a seedling warming mat. My husband bought it for me for about $4 maybe 15 years ago. Works like a dream. He said he had no idea what he bought, but it was flying off the shelf so he grabbed one. (At a discount store.) It would have been $25. Came with a window greenhouse tray and all of it sits into a styrofoam base. 

    I am battling gnats. Never had them with my seedlings or transplants before. Everything is getting a gnat treatment tomorrow.  

    Had to wait for the soil to dry out first. Have you ever had that problem? 
    Ah, fuck, gnats, flies, mice, brown marmorated stink bugs...I live in a damn cesspool with all of them. 
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,360
    Transplanted some lavender a few weeks ago into the earth from a neglected potted plant from the winter. I think it loves it's new freedom. The tips are turning bright purple and it smells amazing...
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    We have lavender under our apartment windows.  I love it.


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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    still a frost risk so found these belle cloches in my friends  shed he no longer needs. Perfect for my brasaicas  and as a covid protector. 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Nice cloches!  We are still quite frosty around these parts as well, it got to heavy frost last night and I haven't checked on my snap peas, spinach, kohlrabi, and and beet sprouts out there...fingers crossed, they are all still pretty tender so I hope they weathered...no too late to replant, but I'd rather not, obviously.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    hauntingfamiliar said:
    Transplanted some lavender a few weeks ago into the earth from a neglected potted plant from the winter. I think it loves it's new freedom. The tips are turning bright purple and it smells amazing...
    Beautiful!
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    My peppers love the window.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,360
    lastexitlondon said:
    still a frost risk so found these belle cloches in my friends  shed he no longer needs. Perfect for my brasaicas  and as a covid protector. 
    Ha ha, great for many different uses! I love your garden. Have you cooked or baked much with the lavender you have? I've used it in the past for tea and aromatherapy but haven't ventured much farther with it than that. 
  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,360
    deadendp said:
    hauntingfamiliar said:
    Transplanted some lavender a few weeks ago into the earth from a neglected potted plant from the winter. I think it loves it's new freedom. The tips are turning bright purple and it smells amazing...
    Beautiful!
    Thanks, I've been enjoying it!
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    lastexitlondon said:
    My peppers love the window.
    Yes they do. Did you start those from seed, too? 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    Yes all from  seed its my most  rewarding part. But part  of me dies when a frost or a slug ruins everything. 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    lastexitlondon said:
    Yes all from  seed its my most  rewarding part. But part  of me dies when a frost or a slug ruins everything. 
    I've lost 40 "teenage" pepper plants transplanted into the garden to a single deer before lol  an entire years pepper crop, gone.
    That was hard, I dry enough cayennes to have hot pepper flakes for 2 years now, just in case lol
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    The most rewarding part for me is the point when the kitchen table is lost under produce and I have to shift into preservation mode.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?

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