2022 Garden Thread

Cold shitty weather seems to screw up what ever you plant outside. I still have freezing temps at night. Will have for at least a month. That's why nothing grows in Butte. A very short growing season. And I got tired of bringing stuff in the house.
 
Old Man said:
Cold shitty weather seems to screw up what ever you plant outside. I still have freezing temps at night. Will have for at least a month. That's why nothing grows in Butte. A very short growing season. And I got tired of bringing stuff in the house.
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Cabbage, Chinese greens. Dutch corn salad carrots, arugula some hardy lettuces. All cold hardy
Then there are fava beans… winter brussel sprouts or Red Russian kale… mostly green stuff
 
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I bought a couple fuchsia hanging baskets yesterday. Can't really hang them in the usual spots on the deck yet, what with near freezing nights. I left them in a protected corner on the deck last night, but wonder if I should keep them in the garage for a week or so.
 
Salmo_g said:
I bought a couple fuchsia hanging baskets yesterday. Can't really hang them in the usual spots on the deck yet, what with near freezing nights. I left them in a protected corner on the deck last night, but wonder if I should keep them in the garage for a week or so.
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You could put them out and move them in for the night
Hard freeze wouldn’t be good but I think we’re past that
 
Salmo_g said:
I bought a couple fuchsia hanging baskets yesterday. Can't really hang them in the usual spots on the deck yet, what with near freezing nights. I left them in a protected corner on the deck last night, but wonder if I should keep them in the garage for a week or so.
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Jeannes grandkids have a pullup bar in a door way by the back door to the kitchen . I take the hanging fuscia basket off an outdoor tree limb in the evening and hang it there… a little outdoor reflected light
 
I overwinteted mine in the garage, they are now in the seed house. Keep them in a place where the low temps are around 42-45 at night, and move them to a morning sun place during the day.
I won't leave mine out till it's 60's more often than not.
 
My in ground hardy fuchsias I planted last year didn't turn out too hardy.
Maybe I should have removed the snow from them in December, but didn't think about it at the time. Too bad, as they were really starting to look good.
There is a bit of green starting to appear near the base. I'll cut them back and see how things go to determine whether to pull them out or not.
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
My in ground hardy fuchsias I planted last year didn't turn out too hardy.
Maybe I should have removed the snow from them in December, but didn't think about it at the time. Too bad, as they were really starting to look good.
There is a bit of green starting to appear near the base. I'll cut them back and see how things go to determine whether to pull them out or not.
SF
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15 degrees is a bit low even for hardy fuschias...
They usually come back from the roots, and the snow on them insulates the ground, if it doesn't break all the branches.
 
Up here, there's hardy and very hardy fuschia varieties.
I grow a few hardy ones, they won't even begin to bloom till late July or August, they look like like yours do, barely any growth so far.
Fuschias like food, balanced slow release fertilizer like 16.16.16, I usually feed them as soon as that new growth at the bottom is a few inches tall.
Very hardy types typically start blooming in June, some even in May. I'm going to start a few of those for the garden, and just spread them around the place and see what happens.
 
Mossback said:
Up here, there's hardy and very hardy fuschia varieties.
I grow a few hardy ones, they won't even begin to bloom till late July or August, they look like like yours do, barely any growth so far.
Fuschias like food, balanced slow release fertilizer like 16.16.16, I usually feed them as soon as that new growth at the bottom is a few inches tall.
Very hardy types typically start blooming in June, some even in May. I'm going to start a few of those for the garden, and just spread them around the place and see what happens.
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I've had good luck with a variety named 'Army Nurse' for over 20 years. Only two cold winters where it had to grow back from the roots. Those two years we had to wait until July to start enjoying blooms on a shorter plant.

Otherwise, it will show top growth, I prune it down to around two feet tall in April, and it blooms beginning in June.

Tough...Lives upto its name! Allegedly.
 
Stonedfish said:
My in ground hardy fuchsias I planted last year didn't turn out too hardy.
Maybe I should have removed the snow from them in December, but didn't think about it at the time. Too bad, as they were really starting to look good.
There is a bit of green starting to appear near the base. I'll cut them back and see how things go to determine whether to pull them out or not.
SF
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They'll come back fine. Do not cut them back until all chance of frost is over. Let them get really going as some stems my start yet. Patience..
 
Was enjoying the flowers while in the hot tub
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When the doorbell rang and FedEx dropped off my carnations.
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Might have to hold off, it's been doing this on and off deal for 6 days
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Happy Easter everyone
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