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geofflambert -> RE: The Gorn Supremacy; stock AW1Steve v. geofflambert (4/16/2017 3:05:42 AM)
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I’d like to apologize for not being more entertaining. I’ve been consumed with my garden, and no, there’s no carnivorous plants present that I know of. I’ve even had help, with a woman digging some trenches for me. I’ve been taking old soil and amending it extensively, with perlite, peat, vermiculite and horticultural charcoal, plus some special sauce of my own formulation. My plan this year is for a very pollinator friendly garden, for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. The only edibles I’m growing are blackberries from mature plants I started one to two years ago plus some rather interesting raspberries I’ve started this year. The birds will take their share but not the squirrels, as I periodically spray the fruits with hot sauce which the squirrels cannot abide but which have no effect on the birds.
Anyways, most of what I’m growing are flowering perennials and annuals and I’ve only deployed about a third of what I’ve prepared to this point. I’m spending a lot of time out there when it’s not raining preparing ground and sowing seed and that should continue for the rest of this month if not a week or two more. Once that’s done it’s mostly just going out and watering and once a week fertilizing.
The only stuff that’s really up this year to this point are things I started last year or before that. I’ve got a fair amount of milkweed up for the Monarchs, they can lay eggs now. I’ve got some Royal Catchfly and Fire Pink up, though it’s not flowering yet, but the hummers will appreciate that. I’ve got a Red Buckeye tree that I planted last year but didn’t exactly thrive. It looks like it is taking off now though.
This game will pick up as the summer arrives if not before.
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