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22 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by morilote in Containers, Fruit, Indoors/Houseplants, Master Gardener, Ornamentals, Shrubs, Spring, Trees, Vegetables, Winter

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dahlia, daylily, elder, juniper, maple, raspberries, sedum, tomatoes

Well, I’ve had a look at the potted plants that have been overwintering in the garage and although it’s to early to say for sure, most of them seem in pretty good shape. A lot of the very hardy plants have already started sprouting, such as the sedums and daylilies (Sedum spp. and Hemerocallis spp.) The baby junipers have also started greening up. An interesting thing about a lot of evergreen conifers is that when they’re very young (say 5 years old or less), they go brown in winter. Everything that’s already sprouted is now outside under plastic domes.

Had a look in the backyard today and boy, those rabbits have done a number (and that number is two). They’ve chewed on everything they could reach, including a potted Norway maple (Acer platanoides) sapling that I left outside hoping winter would kill it (it was a donation to last year’s plant sale even though Norway maples are on the do-not-want- list). They even clipped the wild raspberry canes (Rubus occidentalis). And I’m pretty sure they had a go at one of the elderberry bushes (Sambucus canadensis)

Unfortunately I left the ‘Arabian Night’ dahlia tubers in the garage too long and they rotted away. I won’t say I’m not disappointed, but I’m not devastated either. In fact, I’d already ordered a new kind (‘Karma Chocolate’) before I’d even inspected the old ones.

And most recently, I got seeds for ‘Lemon’ cucumbers and ‘Black Krim’ tomatoes at Canada Blooms on Wednesday. I’m a little nervous about the cucumbers; last time I tried, a couple years ago, there was a terrible cucumber beetle festival. They’d always been around in small numbers because of the pumpkins, but the pumpkins don’t seem to be as bothered by them. Actually, it’s not even the beetles themselves that are the real problem; it’s more the bacterial infection that the beetles pass on to the plants. Anyway, I stopped growing cucurbits entirely for two years. I think I’ll hedge my bets and try growing a couple in pots in the bay window.

Spring is in the…ground.

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by morilote in Ornamentals, Spring, Weather, Winter

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I checked today and the first little tips of the tulips have just started to poke out of the ground. That’s always heartening. Of course, the tulips are in one of the sunniest and warmest parts of the garden, so they always sprout a little early, then realise it isn’t as warm as they’d like and stop growing until the air warms up a bit more. But it’s still nice to see something growing already.

Actually, a mystery lily left over from last year’s plant sale, which I’ve been keeping in the garage, started to sprout over a week ago. That’s both the benefit and the problem of overwintering things in the garage…it’s always safe and consistently so, but I find that most things also consistently sprout nearly a month earlier than the same things planted in the ground. And sometimes when that happens, there’s nowhere to put them outside…at least, that isn’t under a layer of frozen snow. Fortunately by now most of the snow has melted. They’ve forecasted another late spring, but I’d say things right now are pretty much average for mid-March around here. Hell, I remember a year when it snowed in May.

I’d like to take stock of everything I’ve got overwintering in the garage and move outwhat needs to be moved out, but I probably won’t have time until the weekend. Canada Blooms (a garden show held in Toronto) is on right now, and I have a shift there tomorrow night.

Soon I’ll have to start sorting out pots and planting trays and things to start seeds and summer bulbs in pots. Finally, some real gardening.

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