NFR 2025 Gardening Growing Thread

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Yeah overdue starting a new thread. Not much news other than i have dug up all our begonia bulb and put in the greenhouse . Raked swept the balance of leaves . Digging another yard of my compost tomorrow and planning greenhouse starting dates . Still have a lot of parsley and oregano growing and shallots , winter stuff all growing swiftly. Favas and biennial broccoli from Sept planting about 30” tall. Temps very very mild . Lowest temp here so far since winter began is about 38-40 degrees. Garlic is taller than usual for January. Narcissus , and other bulbs on there way. Have made a soil amendment list. Will get it in the ground/ raised beds in the next month- 50 lbs cottonseed meal, 25lbs kelp meal, 12 lbs bonemeal , some worm castings(12. Lg bags) maybe ght grab 30 lbs of alfafa pellets. Happy gardening!

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Flowers in lots of pots are showing up quickly in the yard, tulips lenton rose, narcissus dafodils herbs. Such a mild winter it was. So today is the first ospring and now I may have jinxed us all!

 

[Uptonogood]

If you want research based gardening input here is a good place to start:

https://extension.wsu.edu/king/mg-home/gardening-resources/

 

[NRC]

Caught an onion dapping. Dabbing? Can one of you old gardeners ask your great grandkids which term is correct?

 

[Gary Knowels]

Caught an onion dapping. Dabbing? Can one of you old gardeners ask your great grandkids which term is correct?
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Dabbing (doing the dab) a dance move created and named because it is reminiscent of someone coughing up a lung as the result of taking too large of a dab. A dab being a method of smoking concentrated cannabis oil extract, known the be harsh and potent and leading to spectacular coughing fits and even more spectacular intoxication.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Dabbing (doing the dab) a dance move created and named because it is reminiscent of someone coughing up a lung as the result of taking too large of a dab. A dab being a method of smoking concentrated cannabis oil extract, known the be harsh and potent and leading to spectacular coughing fits and even more spectacular intoxication.

Hash on a hat pin stuff through a paperback book under a tall wine glass nose hit coughing

 

[albula]

Hash on a hat pin stuff through a paperback book under a tall wine glass nose hit coughing

Now that explains a few of your posts.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Winter Fava beans and biennial purple sprouting broccoli will be first harvested soon

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

I have a large bed of Russian Red Kale as well, hollow crown parsnips and a winter leek variety. Forgot the name

 

[Bambooflyguy]

Rebuilt two raised beds yesterday….and if that wasn’t enough I weed eated then mowed the semi wet thick lawn for the first time this year……feeling it today! Gotta get the sugar snaps in.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

I have been digging a drain ditch filled with 3”minus rock fill and silt that has filled it up. Sifting out rocks from silt. Silt is ammended and into layers in compost towers . Rocks back into drain fill. I have a heavy soil screen I use for clean up.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

working on yard/garden art, apologies if this goes against the grain of what the gardening thread should be, but worked on this deep sea fish mobile. I suppose if you looked at it you might also take away these could be bird heads facing left. Probably will shorten the black bamboo stays to more uniform length and groove them in a little into the driftwood rib, I lucked out with the form for the creatures, never found a piece of wood like it before, decided to carefully section longitudinally and ended up with four creatures, debating on the bleaching of them vs just see what happens with time:

 

[JimTravers¤£a!!Travers]

These "garden stores" are extremely currupt. It's a KNOWN FACT that there is dark basement money runnin the show in the GARDEN STORE INDUSTRY. Runnin the show big time!!! Never know who to trust you walk in to one these places. They're trying to get me involved the PYRAMID SCHEME!!!! trying to take from me!!!

 

[Zak]

I'm not sure what this shrub in our yard is, but it smells better than anything!

 

[Zak]

I'm not sure what this shrub in our yard is, but it smells better than anything!
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Google lens says:

Korean Spice Viburnum
Korean Spice Viburnum
Jerry Pavia
Viburnum carlesii is a bushy, deciduous shrub that bears exceptionally fragrant white flowers in mid- to late spring. The toothed, dark green leaves redden in fall. It grows 6 feet tall and wide. Zones 5-8.

But the leaves don't look toothed (whatever that means).

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

These "garden stores" are extremely currupt. It's a KNOWN FACT that there is dark basement money runnin the show in the GARDEN STORE INDUSTRY. Runnin the show big time!!! Never know who to trust you walk in to one these places. They're trying to get me involved the PYRAMID SCHEME!!!! trying to take from me!!!

I am afraid you have it all wrong. It is an adoption agency and as an heir to your trustworthiness, stability and responsibility is necessary. Seed saving will help you feel less abused.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Thinned and transplanted tomatoes and peppers today in greenhouse. Amazing how much time goes by when doing it. I got my Makah Ozette seed potatoes which I will plant tomorrow in a big raised bed in my neighbors backyard across the alley. I got some curious little tomatoes as a freebee with the potatoes. i planted a few of them this afternoon - 4 weeks later than my first seeding of other varieties. They are called Bosc blue bumble bee. I was aware of the bumble bee crosses but never interested but wth… might as well!

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

The camas bulbs now in bloom in traditional DNR protected sites and by Lacamas lake are a different botanical specimen. Camassia quamash is a protected plant. I bought some of the native variety in the early 90’s in Lake Oswego from an indigenous plant company called Russell Graham purveyor of plants. As a museum staff member and designer I had an opportunity back then to plant an indigenous garden including Camassia quamash and a water feature that had wapato planted as well . This simple blooming of the flowers above has brought back memories of where when and what I was doing back then. Hence I babble…

 

[SilverFly]

Finally getting back into the gardening game after several years. 3 raised beds down, at least 3 more to go before switching projects. Ultimate plan is a dozen. MIL is living with us now, and itching to takeover the planting and tending.

 

[Matt B]

The camas bulbs now in bloom in traditional DNR protected sites and by Lacamas lake are a different botanical specimen. Camassia quamash is a protected plant. I bought some of the native variety in the early 90’s in Lake Oswego from an indigenous plant company called Russell Graham purveyor of plants. As a museum staff member and designer I had an opportunity back then to plant an indigenous garden including Camassia quamash and a water feature that had wapato planted as well . This simple blooming of the flowers above has brought back memories of where when and what I was doing back then. Hence I babble… View attachment 150575

Very nice! Neither my great camas (Camassia leichtlinii) nor my common camas (Camassia quamash) blooms have opened yet, but the biggest great camas' lead stalk is very very close.

There's no scale in your photo but with the apparent size of the inflorescence I would've guessed that is great camas. But, hard to tell from here!

I stumbled on a camas patch (also great camas) in a local park this weekend. I've been going to this park for over 10 years and never noticed them before. I think they must've been planted a year or two ago...which reminds me of a time about a year or two ago when I was playing with the kids at that park, was chasing them and ran full speed down a hillside that now has camas blooming, I hit some kind of hidden hole and rolled my ankle, went down HARD, it was a whole thing with getting the kids (and myself) home etc. I wonder if I stepped in somebody's poorly re-filled camas bulb hole! Anyway, here are some photos of their patch.