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Daffodils for Fall
Apr. 14th, 2022 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithYesterday, Dad asked me to pick out daffodil bulbs for us to split this fall. Today, my partner Doug placed the order with Breck's. (They have a huge sale running through May 6.) Here's what we ordered:
Giant Daffodils for Naturalizing -- 70 bulbs
Spectrum Sweet Aroma Daffodil Mixture -- 70
Sinopel (green cup) -- 5
Jonquilla Daffodil Mixture (fragrant, multi-flowered) -- 15
Hybridizer's Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Late Spring Flowering Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Hybridizer's Pink Daffodil Mixture -- 12
White Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Weatherproof Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Riot (red cup) -- 5 bulbs
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Giant Daffodils for Naturalizing -- 70 bulbs
Spectrum Sweet Aroma Daffodil Mixture -- 70
Sinopel (green cup) -- 5
Jonquilla Daffodil Mixture (fragrant, multi-flowered) -- 15
Hybridizer's Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Late Spring Flowering Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Hybridizer's Pink Daffodil Mixture -- 12
White Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Weatherproof Daffodil Mixture -- 15
Riot (red cup) -- 5 bulbs
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Winter Gardening
Jan. 30th, 2022 02:46 pmysabetwordsmithI've done some winter gardening prep. I've written a few relevant posts on my blogs:
Landrace Chickens and Other Livestock
(somewhat inspired by this article on landrace melons)
How to Start a Garden
(loads of links to articles and nursery catalogs)
Community Supported Agriculture
(now's a good time to join most collectives)
These are some of my 2022 goals related to gardening:
* Finish at least two catalog orders for spring plants by the end of February. Orders sent in March or later do not count. [MET 1/17/22 ordered Monarch Butterfly Wildflower Seed Mix from American Meadows and Bee Lawn Mix from Open Seeds.]
* Complete at least one significant outdoor project.
- Build a hibernaculum?
- Make shelter pipes for tree frogs?
- Plant oak trees?
* Put some bee plants in the prairie garden for the honeybees in the bee tree. [Begun 1/17/22 ordered Monarch Butterfly Wildflower Seed Mix (also bee-friendly) from American Meadows and Bee Lawn Mix from Open Seeds.]
My relevant tags:
* Birdfeeding
* Gardening
* Photo (mostly my yard & wildlife, on LiveJournal)
* Recipe (if you like to cook produce)
Landrace Chickens and Other Livestock
(somewhat inspired by this article on landrace melons)
How to Start a Garden
(loads of links to articles and nursery catalogs)
Community Supported Agriculture
(now's a good time to join most collectives)
These are some of my 2022 goals related to gardening:
* Finish at least two catalog orders for spring plants by the end of February. Orders sent in March or later do not count. [MET 1/17/22 ordered Monarch Butterfly Wildflower Seed Mix from American Meadows and Bee Lawn Mix from Open Seeds.]
* Complete at least one significant outdoor project.
- Build a hibernaculum?
- Make shelter pipes for tree frogs?
- Plant oak trees?
* Put some bee plants in the prairie garden for the honeybees in the bee tree. [Begun 1/17/22 ordered Monarch Butterfly Wildflower Seed Mix (also bee-friendly) from American Meadows and Bee Lawn Mix from Open Seeds.]
My relevant tags:
* Birdfeeding
* Gardening
* Photo (mostly my yard & wildlife, on LiveJournal)
* Recipe (if you like to cook produce)
December Garden
Jan. 5th, 2020 08:43 amtielanAs you may have heard, rather large swathes of Australia are on fire. We're in a major drought.
Sydney has moved to Level 2 water restrictions, which means no watering/hosing off with a hose. Most of the listed exemptions are regarding either firefighting or making things look 'nice' (ie. green acres of suburbia; you can get a permit to put a new lawn in and water it with a hose for six weeks) rather than for gardening.
You can run a drip irrigation system in a garden for 15mins. Which isn't really enough to get the soil wet enough, even if things are planted right blow the dripper point.
Otherwise it's buckets all the way.
It does mean occasionally refilling the bathtub pond by bucket:
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It's gonna be a long summer...
Sydney has moved to Level 2 water restrictions, which means no watering/hosing off with a hose. Most of the listed exemptions are regarding either firefighting or making things look 'nice' (ie. green acres of suburbia; you can get a permit to put a new lawn in and water it with a hose for six weeks) rather than for gardening.
You can run a drip irrigation system in a garden for 15mins. Which isn't really enough to get the soil wet enough, even if things are planted right blow the dripper point.
Otherwise it's buckets all the way.
It does mean occasionally refilling the bathtub pond by bucket:
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It's gonna be a long summer...
