Comments on: Pull Up A Chair http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:08:21 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: val in canada http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688492 val in canada Sun, 13 May 2007 00:50:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688492 <p>Here’s a tip to keep bugs away from tomato plants; my gramma who was a great gardener gave this suggestion to me. Plant little marigold plants<br /> around each tomato plant; bugs loathe the marigold plant and<br /> so you suddenly have a slugfree bugfree set of tomato plants growing up happily.</p> Here’s a tip to keep bugs away from tomato plants; my gramma who was a great gardener gave this suggestion to me. Plant little marigold plants
around each tomato plant; bugs loathe the marigold plant and
so you suddenly have a slugfree bugfree set of tomato plants growing up happily.

]]> By: Youffraita http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688334 Youffraita Sat, 12 May 2007 22:55:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688334 <p>For flowers: have you ever tried geranium Rozanne? Mine went from, say, July until frost, with little need for supplemental watering; just kept putting out those flowers.</p> <p>I envy you: Long Island has a terrific climate. You’re zone 7, right? Wish I were there instead of here (PA sucks). Good luck!</p> For flowers: have you ever tried geranium Rozanne? Mine went from, say, July until frost, with little need for supplemental watering; just kept putting out those flowers.

I envy you: Long Island has a terrific climate. You’re zone 7, right? Wish I were there instead of here (PA sucks). Good luck!

]]> By: kovie http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688154 kovie Sat, 12 May 2007 20:12:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688154 <p>An awful winter here in Seattle–the worst on record, in terms of low temperatures (which killed a lot of plant that are usually perenials here), rain, snow and wind–made it hard to get started this year, especially with my balcony container garden. I had to buy and replant lots of plants that had made it through the past few winters (herbs, fuschia, trailing geraniums, mini roses).</p> <p>Nothing special I’m planting this year, just the boring old usual favorites–cherry and grape tomatoes, lettuce, jalapenos, dill, cilantro, sweet basil, radishes, carrots, beets, parsley, snap peas, sweat peas, calendulas, marigolds, impatiens, petunias, nasturtiums, violets, verbena, allysum, lilies, nicotiana, daylilies, and various perenial herbs.</p> <p>This spring and summer better be hot and sunny to make up for all the lost time!</p> An awful winter here in Seattle–the worst on record, in terms of low temperatures (which killed a lot of plant that are usually perenials here), rain, snow and wind–made it hard to get started this year, especially with my balcony container garden. I had to buy and replant lots of plants that had made it through the past few winters (herbs, fuschia, trailing geraniums, mini roses).

Nothing special I’m planting this year, just the boring old usual favorites–cherry and grape tomatoes, lettuce, jalapenos, dill, cilantro, sweet basil, radishes, carrots, beets, parsley, snap peas, sweat peas, calendulas, marigolds, impatiens, petunias, nasturtiums, violets, verbena, allysum, lilies, nicotiana, daylilies, and various perenial herbs.

This spring and summer better be hot and sunny to make up for all the lost time!

]]> By: Boston1775 http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688055 Boston1775 Sat, 12 May 2007 19:21:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688055 <p><a href="#comment-687881"><em>Marion in Savannah @ 208</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-687745"><em>Boston1775 @ 201</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>D</p> <p>There’s a great website kitchengardeners.org which is an inspiration.</p></blockquote> <p>Wow! Thanks for this link!</p></blockquote> <p>No, Marion, thank <b>you</b> for being there every morning.</p> Marion in Savannah @ 208

Boston1775 @ 201

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There’s a great website kitchengardeners.org which is an inspiration.

Wow! Thanks for this link!

No, Marion, thank you for being there every morning.

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688037 LS Sat, 12 May 2007 19:07:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-688037 <p>Here’s something weird I just recently came across: <b>Grow tomatoes upside down</b>!! You get a 5 gallon bucket (like a paint bucket), make a 2″ hole in the bottom of the bucket. Hang the bucket up on something secure. Place a coffee filter over the hole in the bottom of the bucket. Then cut a slit in the coffee filter that is covering the hole. Place a tomato plant upside down, through the hole/slit, leaving most of the plant (the more the better, because extra roots will spring from the stem too, as well as the existing roots) inside the bucket. Carefully fill in potting soil all the way to the top of the bucket (leave an inch). Water carefully. Place a coffee filter in the middle, on top of the soil. Take the lid, make a 2″ hole in the middle of it. Place the lid on (with the coffee filter under the hole. Hang the plant in the sun on something secure and at least several feet off the ground. Grow as usual. It produces more tomatoes with less bruising, diseases, and bugs. The plant gets really big and hangs down under the bucket. Voila!!!</p> Here’s something weird I just recently came across: Grow tomatoes upside down!! You get a 5 gallon bucket (like a paint bucket), make a 2″ hole in the bottom of the bucket. Hang the bucket up on something secure. Place a coffee filter over the hole in the bottom of the bucket. Then cut a slit in the coffee filter that is covering the hole. Place a tomato plant upside down, through the hole/slit, leaving most of the plant (the more the better, because extra roots will spring from the stem too, as well as the existing roots) inside the bucket. Carefully fill in potting soil all the way to the top of the bucket (leave an inch). Water carefully. Place a coffee filter in the middle, on top of the soil. Take the lid, make a 2″ hole in the middle of it. Place the lid on (with the coffee filter under the hole. Hang the plant in the sun on something secure and at least several feet off the ground. Grow as usual. It produces more tomatoes with less bruising, diseases, and bugs. The plant gets really big and hangs down under the bucket. Voila!!!

]]> By: Allison In Seattle http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687931 Allison In Seattle Sat, 12 May 2007 18:01:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687931 <p>Please plant some veggies. It helps with global warming. (No oil, etc. used to truck plants to us from wherever.) </p> <p>Since you asked….</p> Please plant some veggies. It helps with global warming. (No oil, etc. used to truck plants to us from wherever.)

Since you asked….

]]> By: cando http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687906 cando Sat, 12 May 2007 17:35:15 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687906 <p><a href="#comment-687889"><em>morphosequence @ 209</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Who owns the garden pictured at the top of this post? </p> <p>It appears the boards surrounding it are pressure treated lumber, or should I say poison treated lumber. I wouldn’t eat anything out of that garden. Pressure treated lumber is toxic!</p></blockquote> <p>If they were treated, the boards would not be gray. Treated wood maintains its color for several years.</p> morphosequence @ 209

Who owns the garden pictured at the top of this post?

It appears the boards surrounding it are pressure treated lumber, or should I say poison treated lumber. I wouldn’t eat anything out of that garden. Pressure treated lumber is toxic!

If they were treated, the boards would not be gray. Treated wood maintains its color for several years.

]]> By: cando http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687903 cando Sat, 12 May 2007 17:33:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687903 <p>Gardening is one of my favorite activities. I am moving into a rental that has a wonderful back yard. My son built raised beds for me and mesclun & lettuce are ready to use, broccoli is beautiful, peas are about to bloom, thinned beets and carrots this week, and I just put in tomatoes that I started from seed. They are in water walls because nights are cool in Oregon.</p> <p>I’ve made a few new flower beds. One of my favorite cut flowers is fragrant lilies and I put in a dozen. But there are more flower varieties because cut flowers must always be indoors at my house. Best wishes to you.</p> Gardening is one of my favorite activities. I am moving into a rental that has a wonderful back yard. My son built raised beds for me and mesclun & lettuce are ready to use, broccoli is beautiful, peas are about to bloom, thinned beets and carrots this week, and I just put in tomatoes that I started from seed. They are in water walls because nights are cool in Oregon.

I’ve made a few new flower beds. One of my favorite cut flowers is fragrant lilies and I put in a dozen. But there are more flower varieties because cut flowers must always be indoors at my house. Best wishes to you.

]]> By: morphosequence http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687889 morphosequence Sat, 12 May 2007 17:15:53 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687889 <p>Who owns the garden pictured at the top of this post? </p> <p>It appears the boards surrounding it are pressure treated lumber, or should I say poison treated lumber. I wouldn’t eat anything out of that garden. Pressure treated lumber is toxic!</p> Who owns the garden pictured at the top of this post?

It appears the boards surrounding it are pressure treated lumber, or should I say poison treated lumber. I wouldn’t eat anything out of that garden. Pressure treated lumber is toxic!

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687881 Marion in Savannah Sat, 12 May 2007 17:12:11 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/12/pull-up-a-chair-47/#comment-687881 <p><a href="#comment-687745"><em>Boston1775 @ 201</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>D</p> <p>There’s a great website kitchengardeners.org which is an inspiration.</p></blockquote> <p>Wow! Thanks for this link!</p> Boston1775 @ 201

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There’s a great website kitchengardeners.org which is an inspiration.

Wow! Thanks for this link!

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