Posted on 02/17/2024 5:36:12 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Goood morning....got the dining room table covered with seed pkgs...looking forward to Spring! Love planting flowers with veggies...well in my garden it is more interspersing veggies with Flowers.
Borage warning, unless you have tons of room.
I like Irish spring to repel deer, I cut them in quarters and use small mesh bags to use to hang them around. You can drill holes in soap pieces too to hang them too
A few of the companion planting guides here include flowers and of course herbs and also Integrated Pest Control. https://permasteader.route66custom.com/cloud/index.php/s/eMgoEdoxFRje73X
Companion Planting & some Integrated Pest Control in the Gardening folder and also in the Pests folder and don’t overlook the Bees folder(Bees love Flowers and visa versa)
Good Morning! :-)
My onion seeds are up and the lavender and rosemary are starting to make appearances. Nothing on the columbine yet.
I found that out the hard way.
Holy cow can those things get BIG!
Uffda! Do you have a date in mind when you go to bed at night at “home” and that is where you stay put?
Good advice on spraying for spider mites. ‘Way back in the day when I lived in an apartment, my roomies and I washed an affected plant in the sink with a weak solution of dish detergent in tepid water, patted it dry; then sprayed paper towels liberally with the pesticide labeled for spider mites and mealy bugs, piled the towels loosely around the branches, and covered the plant in a twist-tied dry-cleaning bag for the night. This way we could control the spray from blasting outward. The fumes from the towels and the no-escape bagging did the trick.
I had to use this method recently when no-see-em bugs came in throught the screendoor and one of them gave birth inside my laptop—they were crawling out through the keys: I sprayed a paper towel with Raid, and placed the open laptop with the paper towel across the keyboard into a garbage bag, twist-tied. Did the trick overnight. Hate to think what the inside beneath the keyboard looks like now. I don’t have one of those tiny screwdrivers to open it up.
March 10 or 11, depending where you are in the country:
Couldn’t open your link, Pollard. Is it just me?
I planted my first tomato seeds Wednesday. My master gardener friend suggested Rutgers tomatoes as a trial getting away from all the hybrid plants we normally try.
The almost impossible goal is ripe tomatoes by the fourth of July
Here's a page from the web site "The Spruce":
Companion Planting Flowers and Herbs in the Vegetable Garden
At the bottom of the article are links to 16 related articles about companion plants for specific veggies.
Maybe a non-standard(French Marigold) variety?
https://www.rareseeds.com/marigold-crackerjack-mix
Grows to 3, 4, 5 feet tall. Baker Creek used to have more wilder type marigolds. Now they have mostly the familiar French ornamental types.
I’ve got some marigold seeds from last year called Sweet Mace or Mexican Mint or Mexican Tarragon. An edible with licorice scent/flavor. https://www.johnnyseeds.com/herbs/mexican-mint-marigold/mexican-mint-marigold-herb-seed-2273.html
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/tagetes-lucida/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes (Marigold)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes_patula (French Marigold)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes_lucida (Mexican marigold, Mexican mint marigold, Mexican tarragon, sweet mace, Texas tarragon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes_minuta (wild marigold)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes_erecta (African/Aztec marigold)
They’re perennial shrubs in Central/South America.
Well can you speed it up a little? I'm tired of the cold.
What a beautiful garden that is. As someone who shoots,photos, that would be a great place to hang out to watch for insects for close up macro shots, birds etc. So relaxing in such a surrounding
Supposed to be 60 on Tuesday!!!
It's Oklahoma!!
I want to be moved by Easter. Mom is now saying by May, but I’m sure we’ll be spending most of our time at the new house before May. She is 90 yo & has lived in our current town for the last 70 years & attended the same church (she/dad were charter members). The majority of her friends are connected to the church - most are now widows or in very poor health. The last meeting of the church ladies group before the summer break is in May & that’s when she plans on telling them she’s moving away. I pretty much have to move at her ‘speed’ .... she’s in good health, very active, but mentally getting more fragile & dad dying just tore her world apart, understandably.
Nope. Evidently sharing is broken for some reason. Checked settings. Tried creating new share links, no luck.
Now that I look, my websites are down too. Crap.
Aha, my root domain name, route66custom.com expired today.
Just renewed it and it seems to be working but since I created a new share link for the Agriculture folder, I’ll have to update my profile page with it. Here’s the new link - https://permasteader.route66custom.com/cloud/index.php/s/jM2Epa5YgmNNg9j
Talk about timing. I tested the first link in a private tab. Shortly after that, they shut down the domain.
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