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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #275 on: March 18, 2015, 08:03:55 AM »
ben ji--glad to hear about the greens you put in. I'm sure the seeds will work out great. I'm also happy to hear you're trying strawberries. Mama WM grew a bunch of them growing up, and we'd pick them and make strawberry pie.  :love:

Dang. Wish I could've grown up in a house like that. My dad just cooked us spaghetti and fish sticks.


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Man. I would love to try my hand at growing some of those.
jalapenos are pretty simple. actually never had a problem the last five years of growing any kind of peppers.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #276 on: March 18, 2015, 09:17:20 AM »
Yeah, in my limited experience, you can put peppers directly in the hottest part of the yard where nothing else likes to be.  then mostly ignore it and it will do well.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #277 on: March 28, 2015, 09:47:18 AM »
So I had this brilliant idea to plant some Kale in a raised bed that was at the house I just bought last November.  I planted two packs, we eat the crap out of Kale chips!  Now I'm reading it needs to be 18 inches apart.  I have 200 little plants coming up, this will take up my enitre garden!  I've already got beets, radishes, carrots, lettuce, and sugar peas in the garden.  I planed for a row of Kale, not a whole garden of it!  Am I just screwed any ideas?.?

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #278 on: March 28, 2015, 09:52:39 AM »
So I had this brilliant idea to plant some Kale in a raised bed that was at the house I just bought last November.  I planted two packs, we eat the crap out of Kale chips!  Now I'm reading it needs to be 18 inches apart.  I have 200 little plants coming up, this will take up my enitre garden!  I've already got beets, radishes, carrots, lettuce, and sugar peas in the garden.  I planed for a row of Kale, not a whole garden of it!  Am I just screwed any ideas?.?
Put a couple raised beds in your front lawn

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #279 on: March 28, 2015, 10:12:30 AM »
The fittest kales will survive

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #280 on: March 28, 2015, 11:09:00 AM »
Stuff is sprouting!!!

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #281 on: March 28, 2015, 11:40:15 AM »
Thin them so only the best remain and so they have the right spacing. 

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« Reply #282 on: March 28, 2015, 01:11:53 PM »
I hadn't thought about just thinning the strong.  I just got done taking care of the leaves around the house.  I can easily put a bed on the south side and put them in there, problem with thinning where they are is that there isn't much space.  I just started them there thinking the raised beds warmer, I think I read that somewhere...

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #283 on: March 28, 2015, 02:04:55 PM »
I hadn't thought about just thinning the strong.  I just got done taking care of the leaves around the house.  I can easily put a bed on the south side and put them in there, problem with thinning where they are is that there isn't much space.  I just started them there thinking the raised beds warmer, I think I read that somewhere...

Do that other bed, thin the one you have, plant the thinned ones in the new bed.  BOOM!

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #284 on: March 28, 2015, 02:17:34 PM »
You can donate them I think...maybe  :dunno: #sproutsoflove

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #285 on: March 28, 2015, 03:24:09 PM »
You ever perennialize those pepps, @cDubya?

Nope, but I really wish I had. We have sprouts inside at the moment though, including a few bhut jolikia!!

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #286 on: April 09, 2015, 10:39:08 AM »
My gma passed away over 20 years ago but when she was alive she had a big row of tulips and irises along the back fence line.

By the time i bought my gpas house a couple years ago this was pretty over grown so i replanted all the bulbs in a different location....well i thought i did.

This year one random tulip plant popped up and it made me think of my gma :-)



I will wait until its done blooming then replant it with the rest of the flowers i moved.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #287 on: April 09, 2015, 10:41:07 AM »
Can someone tell me a plant that I can plant in a pot that would repel spiders?

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #288 on: April 09, 2015, 10:42:54 AM »
Can someone tell me a plant that I can plant in a pot that would repel spiders?

Get some garter snakes  :dunno:

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #289 on: April 09, 2015, 10:44:47 AM »
Can someone tell me a plant that I can plant in a pot that would repel spiders?

Get some garter snakes  :dunno:

Would rather have spiders.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #290 on: April 09, 2015, 10:28:25 PM »
Stuff is sprouting!!!

 :Woohoo: :Woohoo: :Woohoo:
When seeds start sprouting is my favorite time of gardening--even moreso than harvesting. There's just so much possibility!

Can someone tell me a plant that I can plant in a pot that would repel spiders?

I don't know of any plants that repel spiders, but I bet you could help your problem by attracting insectivorous birds to your yard. Blackbirds, blue jays, crows, and sparrows all eat spiders. Put up a feeder with the proper food and some fresh water and I bet your spiders will be gone.


This year one random tulip plant popped up and it made me think of my gma :-)


That's awesome, ben ji!

One of my favorite things to do in my garden is to plant flowers in memory/honor of people. Hydrangeas, roses, figs, gardenias, and peonies all honor different family members in the WM clan. It's even cooler if you can root a plant from the person's yard! (Or in your case, plant the same bulbs!) I have some hydrangeas rooted from Gma WM's favorite bush that I've been taking care of for several years, just waiting for their forever home.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #291 on: April 09, 2015, 10:47:14 PM »
The spiders are on my front porch and I really don't want birds hanging out there either.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #292 on: April 10, 2015, 05:34:32 AM »
The spiders are on my front porch and I really don't want birds hanging out there either.
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Spray them with an insecticide. It will repel the hell out of them little suckers.

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #293 on: April 10, 2015, 11:10:25 AM »
My lettuce and Rosemary has went nuts. Carrots popping up and strawberries getting close

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #294 on: April 10, 2015, 07:56:16 PM »
I installed a 4 x 4 starter raised bed this week.  Tomorrow we're planting pepper, cilantro, strawberry, spinach, and lettuce.  Also going to plant three different types of tomato plants and basil in the flower beds next to our house.  I'm also replacing the shrubs in front of our house.  I'm uncovering a lot of earthworms as I dig up the old.  Filling up the raised bed with those.
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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #295 on: April 11, 2015, 07:07:51 AM »
Can someone tell me a plant that I can plant in a pot that would repel spiders?

Can you find hedge apples out there? If so, lay them around your porch and any other area you don't want pesky insects. Works like a charm, and they last for ages.


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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #296 on: April 11, 2015, 09:20:10 AM »
the house i grew up in had approximately 2 million of those things in the backyard
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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #297 on: April 11, 2015, 09:33:30 AM »
the house i grew up in had approximately 2 million of those things in the backyard

Did it have any spiders?

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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #298 on: April 11, 2015, 09:34:28 AM »
yes, but not 2 million
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Re: sd white/non-white midwestern thread topic of the day (garden)
« Reply #299 on: April 11, 2015, 10:55:15 PM »
raked up last fall's leaves from my 15x30 mint plot, this year's crop smells delicious :excited: