Your summer garden plans?

[carnation]

You can pretty much plant a peony plant any time of year but the seeds go in in spring or fall around here. With the seeds, you can just store them in a cheesecloth bag until spring.

Honeychile, you know how I have the best luck with killing weeds? Cut the weed off an inch or so from the ground, then apply herbicide to the cut surface.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by carnation

You can pretty much plant a peony plant any time of year but the seeds go in in spring or fall around here. With the seeds, you can just store them in a cheesecloth bag until spring.

Honeychile, you know how I have the best luck with killing weeds? Cut the weed off an inch or so from the ground, then apply herbicide to the cut surface.

I managed to select three dead peonies from the garden center this year, so I think the seeds may work better. I've let them dry - so now, into the cheesecloth?

This weed is some sort of mutant! Picture a dandilion that grows up to five feet tall, with tiny thorns on all of the green parts. It's miserable to pull out, and simply will not die. My boro will not allow the use of napalm, and I can't afford to have all of the dirt removed. SO MANY YARDS have this, it's a real nuisance. I've never hated a plant quite so much! Is it restricted to my area, or have others seen it, too?

[carnation]

It's been a frustrating year gardenwise. The southeast has had awful heat--I don't remember the last time that our daily temperature here didn't rise about 90. So...we've lost a lot of plants, not to disease or lack of water or plain stupidity but to the heat. I think that both new hydrangeas may not make it and there are others too.

[Jobellesis]

After the May floods, it's been mostly hot and dry here, so not a good year for a brand new yard. I moved a couple of years ago from the house I had planned to die in. I didn't dig up most of my plants because I thought the buyers would want them. I drove by about a month after I sold it, and my neighbor, who bought my house, had just plowed most of them under. I wish I had known he was going to do that! One thing that made itto my new house in a potted plant was my hummingbird vine. I didn't know I had it. It was hiding in a pot with hollyhock. I planted the hollyhocks. They didn't do so great, but the hummingbird vine did. It is absolutely beautiful, but I don't have much else. I have to start all over again because I have a new house without an established yard. This is the fourth time that I have started with a new yard. I hope it's the last.

[ThetaPrincess24]

A lot of our garden veggies didnt do so well in the heat and lack of rain here, despite daily watering. We did however learn things that we will make note of for next year:


-Tomato, eggplant, peppers, cucumber, & squash do best here when bought as a high quality plant from a nursery, not trying to start from seed.

-Onions do outstanding in the garden.

-Blackberries LOVE the soil and weather here.

-Grapes need netting to keep the birds away from them.