2022 Garden Thread

Mossback said:
and actually do some lawn renovation (I hate lawn, but the circle by the perennial garden needs serious work and has for years) as my better half would like it done, so not waiting another year after successfully putting it off for the past five.
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I resemble that remark! Keep us posted. Our front yard is moderately sloped, and doesn't lend itself to a retaining wall for leveling. Over the years, despite aeration; drainage flows, compacted shallow soil, and moles(I have to let it go dormant late summer) have all taken a toll.

What specifically is a lawn mix?
 
Typically lawn mix is a compost/ sand mixture, often sold as 50/50 or 70/30 commercially.
I'll probably do my lawn reno in the following order :

Thatch
Aerate
Top dress
Overseed

This is a typical procedure for the diy type lawn fix. I'm not a lawn guy, so even this is more than I care to do, but it needs it.
Lawn is about sols sun, pH, drainage, water and fertilizer...I hate em.
If your subsoils don't drain, or if your slope is such that it's hard to hold water the lawn will struggle a bit. Keep in mind where I am (Pnw) we grow what are called ' cool season turf grasses', and their going dormant in summer heat is part of their natural cycle. Only by pushing them with fertilizer and watering the shit out of them will they stay green all Sumner.
I hate lawns, did I mention that...
😆
 
Mossback said:
Typically lawn mix is a compost/ sand mixture, often sold as 50/50 or 70/30 commercially.
I'll probably do my lawn reno in the following order :

Thatch
Aerate
Top dress
Overseed

This is a typical procedure for the diy type lawn fix. I'm not a lawn guy, so even this is more than I care to do, but it needs it.
Lawn is about sols sun, pH, drainage, water and fertilizer...I hate em.
If your subsoils don't drain, or if your slope is such that it's hard to hold water the lawn will struggle a bit. Keep in mind where I am (Pnw) we grow what are called ' cool season turf grasses', and their going dormant in summer heat is part of their natural cycle. Only by pushing them with fertilizer and watering the shit out of them will they stay green all Sumner.
I hate lawns, did I mention that...
😆
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Mine lawn is south facing with a slope.
Last summer turned it into hay and dust.
Count me in the I hate lawns crowd.
I used to care about it, now it so much
Add in one neighbor who is vying for the blue ribbon at the Puyallup Fair in the dandelion category, I’ve pretty much given up. ;)
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
Mine lawn is south facing with a slope.
Last summer turned it into hay and dust.
Count me in the I hate lawns crowd.
I used to care about it, now it so much
Add in one neighbor who is vying for the blue ribbon at the Puyallup Fair in the dandelion category, I’ve pretty much given up. ;)
SF
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I went urban 4 years ago. I had to get rid of stuff..7 hp chipper and 3 lawnmowers… it was very freeing… no grass mowing but i do still enjoy that fresh cut grass aroma
 
A balmy 40 degrees out, after a nice cool Friday that saw us get an inch of pea sized hail in about 15 minutes, really hard traffic stopping storm cell. We have a seed house full of plants ready to go in, but temps at night are close to freezing all week so another no planting weekend in the veg beds.

Friday

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Mossback said:
A balmy 40 degrees out, after a nice cool Friday that saw us get an inch of pea sized hail in about 15 minutes, really hard traffic stopping storm cell. We have a seed house full of plants ready to go in, but temps at night are close to freezing all week so another no planting weekend in the veg beds.

Friday

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I do not know what you plan to plant but seems kind of unsettled weather for plants needing 50 to 55 soil temps to thrive. Jumping the gun in a new garden is an annual phenomenon
 
I was really stressing that I havent had a chance to get the plants going but yea its hailing right now and 40 degrees... If you think about it, May, June, July, August, is roughly 120 days, most plants are 60-90 days to maturity. I always jump the gun every year and end up with plants stunted in their grow cells, so I'm hanging back this year.
 
FontinalisFin said:
I was really stressing that I havent had a chance to get the plants going but yea its hailing right now and 40 degrees... If you think about it, May, June, July, August, is roughly 120 days, most plants are 60-90 days to maturity. I always jump the gun every year and end up with plants stunted in their grow cells, so I'm hanging back this year.
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Started my tomatoes and peppers 3 weeks ago but with grow lights and heating mats. Plant out after mid May… very mild here so i am picking tomatoes into October
 
Smalma said:
Mason bees are pretty interesting - have been providing nesting blocks for a dozen years ago. The first year relying on whatever local bees there were 9 tubes were filled. By year 3 exceed 100 tubes and have been varying from a couple hundred to as many as 450 tubes of eggs annual. Live in town and all the fruit trees within a couple hundred yards seem to benefit from those pollinators!

Curt
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I'm envious. I've had a small colony going for many years. They slowed down last year only filling 20 tubes. None have opened so far this Spring. Hopefully some wild bees will find the tubes and keep me going..
 
Wetswinger said:
I'm envious. I've had a small colony going for many years. They slowed down last year only filling 20 tubes. None have opened so far this Spring. Hopefully some wild bees will find the tubes and keep me going..
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How many years have you been using the same tubes?they can get disease or have predatory visits…
 
I am building a greenhouse that will make my wife very happy. I built a basic one for her at our old house five years ago but couldnt move it with us and we are now in a place we will be for a long time so no corners cut and doing it right.

I am building a kit with glass panels that is very English looking and doing a red clay brick floor. The kit is from Charley’s Greenhouse in Skagit. The green trim on the green house and bricks looks very nice to me.

My wife can do the gardening, I like the landscape projects and labor intensive parts most. It was a fun weekend.
 
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