ITT: Gardening!

[summer_gphib]

We just planted our fall garden-- one of the pluses of living in south central Florida. But we had such a lousy crop in the spring/summer that I really hope this one does well. We were having problems with critters (we live in a nature preserve community), but we're going to start putting out or humane trap right when the fruit starts to come out, so maybe we can actually have some our tomatoes!

[carnation]

You divide iris rhizomes where they get narrow in between. You might want to go to a garden store and get some antibiotic powder to dust the cut surfaces with so that you don't get soft rot.

AOIIAlum, lol! I'd been working out in the gardens for hours and the Kappa national president showed up out of the blue, all dressed up, wanting a picture of the new KKG iris I'd bred. (The UK tee came from one of their cheerleaders at summer camp.) Words can not describe how awful I looked and *she put the photo in their magazine*. Aggghhhh!

[thetygerlily]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

We were having problems with critters (we live in a nature preserve community), but we're going to start putting out or humane trap right when the fruit starts to come out, so maybe we can actually have some our tomatoes!

Not sure which critters you're having problems with- but you could consider bird netting. We built raised beds for our tomatoes and screwed PVC pipe to the sides so we could insert thinner long pieces in them to form hoops for hanging bird netting. Amazingly we haven't had to employ it- but have it ready just in case!

Originally Posted by carnation

You divide iris rhizomes where they get narrow in between. You might want to go to a garden store and get some antibiotic powder to dust the cut surfaces with so that you don't get soft rot.

Awesome, thank you! I'll go find some of that to be extra safe.