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05-09-2013, 01:55 PM
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Dianthus (Garden Pink)
Cheddar Pink "Firewitch" (Feuerhexe) is the cultivar name.
I usually buy small pots of these in the spring/early summer. but I got this gallon size pot full of little pink fragrant blooms.
I will have to give it away to someone who has a garden though. I really thought about putting the whole thing in the fridge for the winter too, which might work, but well...
For now, my eye candy.
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05-09-2013, 04:52 PM
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I need to buy more of these. They didn't return this year...I think a rabbit got to them. I absolutely love them.
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05-09-2013, 05:32 PM
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That is bad! Catch those rabbits! They taste so good! lol
By the way, these usually set lots of seeds and spread them. Is yours all completely gone???
Yeah, there are some really cute cultivars available and I just wish I had a garden.
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05-09-2013, 07:43 PM
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I have grown them from seed but I have never had them 'volunteer'. On the other hand, tansy and lemon balm seed themselves everywhere!
We have a small yard but grow fruit trees, nut trees, grapes, herbs, berries, flowers, roses, veggies, etc. It really takes a great deal of time and effort and still looks a bit...untidy (very untidy!). Most of the neighbors grow absolutely nothing but grass and green shrubs for that reason. :|
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05-09-2013, 08:08 PM
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I got a greengage plum 10 years ago. Its the genuine one - French variety. I have never seen the fruit for sale as it doesn't store or transport well.
Last year I told it I was chopping it out if it didn't bear fruit in the next year. The ultimatum was a fair 12 months.
Lo and behold this year the tree is covered in flowers. It was supposedly a dwarf, but its about 18ft tall x 8ft wide.
Hopefully I get at least a dozen fruit.
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05-09-2013, 10:08 PM
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Do you spray and prune your fruit trees? We spray the peach, apricot, plum and sweet cherries with a borer spray and then all but the cherries with fungicide and insecticide every two weeks from blossom drop until a month before harvest. We also buy those big fertilizer spikes to hammer into the ground. Unless we have a late frost or someone steals the fruit, we typically get a nice harvest. Yes, someone stole the plums last year.
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05-09-2013, 10:23 PM
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I only have a peach and the plum. I use a systemic insecticide - I actually applied it yesterday. I am scared to use a spray because most of it will end up on me !
I have pruned, but don't do it every year. I know you are supposed to, to stimulate blooms.
The peaches last year were really tasty, only problem was they all ripened at the same time.
I have asparagus - look at how long it grew in 2 nights !
The older spears we use to make soup.
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05-10-2013, 12:13 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Leafmite
I have grown them from seed but I have never had them 'volunteer'. On the other hand, tansy and lemon balm seed themselves everywhere!
We have a small yard but grow fruit trees, nut trees, grapes, herbs, berries, flowers, roses, veggies, etc. It really takes a great deal of time and effort and still looks a bit...untidy (very untidy!). Most of the neighbors grow absolutely nothing but grass and green shrubs for that reason. :|
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Yeah, that is strange. They should selfseed and come back or the clump grows larger as they are perennial.
Some are annual though, so you might want to check.
Garden is a lot of work. I used to have a small one to myself too and yeah, it is quite the work to do.
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05-10-2013, 01:02 AM
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These are very drought tolerant. I have many growing in my veggie garden. I grew tired of rows of vegetables so now I have small areas throughout the garden that grows these, roses and Russian sage, all of which are crack for bees. Since doing this, my veggies yield better produce and more of it thanks to the bees doing their thing.
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05-10-2013, 11:15 AM
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Yes, I hate spraying the trees. We have dwarf trees and try to keep the trees smaller to make spraying easier. We use goggles and a breathing mask, then rinse out the clothes and shower. Very nasty. The only trees we don't need to spray are the North Star Cherries.
At one time, we used a systemic that we put around the base of the trees but that was banned and is no longer available.
Soup? What a great idea! My kids get tired of eating the asparagus no matter how I dress it but I haven't tried soup.
To attract bees, we start out with crocuses and keep flowers blooming all summer. Right now, we have lilac and the irises are about to open. Grapefruit mint and milkweed (for the monarchs) are also a bee's delight. Yes, good fruiting depends upon bees. That is why we never spray our trees when they are in bloom (even though that is what is recommended).
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