THE FLOWER TEAM!

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Comment by Missi Wallace on April 12, 2013 at 2:00pm

Hi all. Happy Spring to you, too. We're supposed to get rain/snow mix this weekend but my buds are coming up.

FFT, for a raised flower bed over tree roots I layed a piece of ground cloth on the bottom (the kind you normally put on top to hold weeds out), then covered the sides with a roll of thick plastic, then filled in the soil. It's held up for 3 years now. To keep critters out, I arched chicken wire over the top just 2 or 3 inches off the soil, then planted thru the holes. Hopefully you don't have stray cats or squirrels looking for tender bulbs :-/ Cheap and easy! Good luck

Comment by FFT on April 9, 2013 at 9:29am

Hi,

I'm going to try a raised flower bed this year for the first time.  I'm hoping to have it waist high so I don't have to bend too far.  I know how to build it but how do you keep the soil in?  Do you put a mesh fence on the bottom then fill it with soil?  I'm assuming if you put the soil on just a "floor board" that the board will rot and also rot out the flowers?  Any ideas?  Thank you for your help.

Comment by Filippo Biondo on April 8, 2013 at 9:59pm

HERE IS A HAPPY SPRINGTIME

HELLO TO ALL FROM MOM & I !

Comment by Filippo Biondo on February 1, 2013 at 7:31am

Hey John,

Great page! My mom & i in the spring & summer

do a lot of gardening together & it's super fun!

It helps me forget about my epilepsy!

Thanking you again for your wonder-filled gardening page!

Hope to be hearing back from you soon.

Green Gladiator Zero

& his grand battle against epilepsy!

Comment by John scott Wagner on August 5, 2012 at 9:22am

The garden been ok but not great, just enough rain to make weeds grow/and my friend     if you wish to talk you can instant message  me at plantman002@yahoo.com  anytime my friend. waiting for your call John

Comment by Missi Wallace on August 5, 2012 at 12:52am

I am so frustrated, John! 2 days of chaos we couldn't avoid, my flowers are fried and Jimmy is so off-normal. I'm listening to thunder but doubt we'll get much rain - not enough to quench my yard. Tomorrow am isn't looking too good for yard attention, either....sometimes I have to be a mom instead of a gardner. I'd never heard of the Tums or Epsom salts! But we did just get 2 tomatoes, fully ripe with no blossom rot! Oh, soooo good!

Comment by John scott Wagner on July 27, 2012 at 5:13pm

One piece of advice to Gardening fellows is when planting tomatoes use 2 tums in planting hole when planting! as we do plantt as tomatoes need calcium as we do. Also crops that are alot of water like cabbage.brusselsprouts, watermelon,cucks  use 2 tablespoons of epsom salt, John

Comment by John scott Wagner on July 27, 2012 at 5:06pm

even my tomatoes had a hard time this year! no way to stop it unless you had a hot house with black film on it with fans all the time!

Comment by John scott Wagner on July 27, 2012 at 5:04pm

Go to your profile and look for +add text hit it, than choose photo hit ok

 

Comment by Missi Wallace on July 27, 2012 at 3:25pm

Arghh, getting really frustrated.. Trying to post plant pictures and only a link showed up. Then tried to write and every time I hit the space bar it went to a new comment space. Help? anyone??

Tried to say we had to go to buckets in a sunny corner for tomato plants because we found the black walnuts have our yard destroyed for vegetables. Cherries are doing great but the bottom branches are dying off. Others are getting blossom rot or not filling out. Tons of little green ones, but none have made it to ripen. I believe we're in zone 5? Any ideas?

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