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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #285 on: May 17, 2011, 11:38:59 PM »
That's because yours aren't Japanese decorative cherries.  The trees here *do* grow "cherries", they are just tiny, hard as rock, and vile-tasting.  "Look, don't eat."  They smell pretty though, but I am still disappointed in them.
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« Reply #286 on: May 18, 2011, 12:58:34 AM »
Somebody may have posted this already but I stumbled across it just know as was poking around looking for info for a plant that I'd forgotten the name of, another one that was wiped out in the Enbridge debacle but it's back. Anyway it's an ...

An excellent guide to plants
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« Reply #287 on: May 18, 2011, 05:02:16 PM »
Last week I planted a few things:

Cherry tree grafted with 5 varieties of edible cherry (whee).

2 varieties of Saskatoon berry (or 'serviceberry as some easterners call it for inexplicable reasons).

1 Koch grapevine - planted next to the raspberries.

1 Fruiting red currant bush.

And 1 flowering red currant bush next to the property line.

The above were all Mothers day gifts from the boys & myself to R (though truth be told the Saskies were a gift to me as she does not know them).

Now we'll see if they grow.
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« Reply #288 on: May 18, 2011, 06:42:11 PM »
Is that why they call you Arborman?
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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #289 on: May 18, 2011, 09:39:36 PM »
Antonia, if I recall from babble, our arborfriend was a tree planter in his callow youth. Nice to see he is keeping it up!
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« Reply #290 on: May 19, 2011, 01:03:06 AM »
Quote from: lagatta on May 18, 2011, 09:39:36 PM
Antonia, if I recall from babble, our arborfriend was a tree planter in his callow youth. Nice to see he is keeping it up!

The name came from my ten summers as a treeplanter - it was an email address for my crew to contact when on the road.  Ye gods but that was awhile ago.

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« Reply #291 on: May 19, 2011, 03:33:13 AM »
I planted trees on summer in the Laurentians. It was a great summer, most of which I don't remember. 1970.  8)
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« Reply #292 on: May 19, 2011, 06:04:30 AM »
As they say, if you can remember it, you weren't there. ;)
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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #293 on: May 22, 2011, 11:49:02 AM »
Fun with stereotypes.
 
For those troubled by the omnipresent dandelion - here is what the Citizen thinks:
 
among other things:
 
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Conservatives, I would venture, want to pull up, imprison or outright kill every
 dandelion ...

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Liberals, as you might expect, are all over the place on this on this

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New Democrats, of course, will not harm them, except to gently harvest them for 
eating or fermenting, or for braiding in the hair. It’s a flower-power
thing.
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« Reply #294 on: May 22, 2011, 01:14:06 PM »
I suppose the Greens and the Bloc are pretty much onside with the NDP, but the Greens say NDPers are more interested in resource-extraction (hey, that dandelion wine!) than in the welfare of the dandelion, and the Bloc is concerned above all with the welfare of the DISTINCT pissenlit québécois...

The Cons will figure out a way of making car fuel from the poor fermented dandelions while ruining the dandelion habitat and the people who consume them (a huge mob of Southern European grannies will rise up in anger) and the Liberals will still claim they are the Natural Dandelion Party. (Someone will point out to them that this spells NDP...).
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« Reply #295 on: May 22, 2011, 02:28:17 PM »
Oh God, I have turned into my southern European Granny. I am seriously eyeing all the dandelions and it is only my fractured ankle that is keeping me from picking them as I can't walk on uneven ground and, if I bend too far over in my moonboot, I literally roll forward and do a face plant.

Meanwhile, yesterday, we went to Canadian Tire and bought the most awesome galvanized steel fencing, by the panel and the pole. We had to go to three different stores to get all the pieces -- and we still don't have enough -- but I just love this thing! It's a new product and I suspect CT did not expect it to be so hot. The rest of the fence stuff will be available in a couple of weeks.

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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #296 on: May 22, 2011, 04:15:23 PM »
20 years of living in middle class bliss taught me that dandelions are smarter than I - the best that can be hoped for is to live in some kind of tolerant co-existence.
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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #297 on: May 24, 2011, 12:34:28 AM »
I'm sort of OK with the dandelions - at least they are sort of manageable. One of the main things making me want to switch to a container-only garden is quack grass. Nothing eliminates it. It came up through my eco-friendly, lasagna garden boxes, and when I decided to bring out the big guns I discovered that even Round Up is powerless against it.
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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #298 on: May 26, 2011, 11:40:04 PM »
It is just POURING once again. Yet today I got out so many times to admire my pretties and do more weeding. The mozzies are going to be everywhere, just today I noticed the low flying swallows having a mozzie eating fest in the park today. Sadly the lilacs are about to turn brown, but the asparagus is in!
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Re: Outdoor gardens
« Reply #299 on: May 26, 2011, 11:43:40 PM »
What are mozzies?
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Re: Outdoor gardens
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