All Things Gardening
 

I know one of the 68 guys loves gardening.

I'm not an expert, but would love to learn more. Lifelong learner, for sure.

Be it garden tools, funny stories, local tips, climate woes, air quality (humidity, cold, hot, frost, hail, dew, etc.).

I'll start off by saying dahlias make the best cut flowers hands down. They multiply on their own - just let them be. To the point they grow like weeds. I just learned this year that you can divide tuber clumps and start a new bush. I gave away half my clumps because it was getting ridiculous. Tubers I purchased last year (planted this year have really taken off. We have great climate for dahlias.

I also have multiple types of gladiolus. They attract a lot of beneficial insect. Just yesterday for the first time in my life (talk about a city slicker), I saw a hummingbird. They are simply amazing. I didn't know what this thing was. A bird that just hovers. Damn.

Butterflies and my favourite, dragonflies. Dragonflies are symbols of joy and happiness.

The hummingbird.........https://www.uniguide.com/hummingbird...-animal-guide/


People spend a lot of time and energy trying to lure hummingbirds by way of feeders and shit. I attracted one just for having gladiolus. Maybe wife was sending me a message........ "Stop wasting time on RS." Gulolol.

I’m looking for biochar and any good compost sources locally (as in closer than Abbotsford type thing)

If anyone needs worms or worm castings I actually have an amazing “worm guy” he lives near Metrotown fantastic passionate guy

There is already a thread here: https://www.revscene.net/forums/7173...-see-them.html

Worms are a sign of good soil. One of my garden beds used to have hundreds of them. The last two years, none. Something happened. I added mulch to protect the irises I planted there two years ago from frost. Nothing has been growing there since. Granted the heat this year is a factor, but the crazy bumper crop of zucchinis three years ago are not happening. Fricken mulch. I guess add more sea soil and hope things change for the better next year. Gardenworks has their Customer Appreciation Sale every third Thursday. First thing I'm getting is more sea soil.

Pictures........... I don't have any. Well, I do. Somewhere. Believe me, if I find them, there will be thousands to upload. The most amazing pompom dahlias and gladiolus, Lillies, carnations, roses, peonies - vegetables like garlic, peppers, and herbs, like rosemary. My pride and joy is the 30 foot walnut tree that popped out of nowhere about five and a half years ago. It could have been 40 ft tall by now, if I didn't trim it back. I have no idea where the roots are, because the tree is in a garden bed that is about a foot and a half off the rest of the property. The three garden beds I have are the standard 4 x 8 foot size with approximately three feet between them. No sign of roots. Like what the hell? In strong winds, that tree sways quite a bit. Anyway........... I also have two hexagonal plastic garden beds a 6 x 6 garden bed on posts and four Costco above ground garden beds. Then the two foot wide strip of garden against the fence along the entire length of the property. Not to mention the front yard, which I don't even touch. There's simply way too much stuff to deal with. Best thing I've done was to get rid of the front lawn. It's all rocks now. It's all bordered by Japanese boxers that are totally untouched, lol. Bushy as hell, but doesn't look too bad. I don't think I've watered that stuff ever.

Place I purchased some of my dahlias. I fell in love with dahlias when I saw some amazing perfectly geometric dahlias at a vendor at Riley Park Farmers Market. I went into obsession mode and looked high and low for places that had these dahlias..........

https://www.ferncliffgardens.com


Check out the ball and pom pom dahlias.



As for roses, the best place hands down is Select Roses. Brad is a very knowledgeable rose breeder.

https://www.selectroses.ca

I keep wanting the Canadian White Star, but always sold out. I love my Black Knight. I have this blood red rose (can't remember name) that has velvet pedals. Thick and texture of velvet. This year, the heat has taken its toll, but roses are tough plants. I had a mini rose that got lost between bushes and was given up for dead. I'd say three years of being in the shade. Looked like a Charlie Brown Xmas tree. I transplanted it in a small pot and just this month, it came back to life and is flowering.

Ferncliff Gardens website is now open for ordering. Items go very quickly, so if you want some extraordinary dahlias, don't sleep on it. Your garden will be, hands down, the envy of the neighbourhood.

I build gardens for a living now, no more high end millwork for me. too stressful, so now it's cedar gardens. it's all about growing food though, not flowers.

we take felled trees and mill them up with a mobile mill and them process the boards. for me it's easy work after what I've been doing for 30 years, but there's challenges still.

Cedar chips, shavings, and mulch are great for plants. Keeps insects at bay. My vegetable garden is all organic. Neighbour keeps telling me miracle grow is amazing. No thanks. Nothing like fertilizers and chemicals go into the vegetable garden. In fact, I don't use fertilizers on the flowers. Bone meal for the dahlias. I bough some liquid fish fertilizer, but not totally convinced it's organic.

https://www.heirloomsoul.com/blog/th...or-your-garden

Can anyone check if this is blight on my cherry tomatoes?

https://imgur.com/a/xitduHi

First picture was taken about a week ago when I noticed some new baby leaves at the top wilting. They were the only ones exhibiting this sympthom.

Today, I noticed it spreading to other leaves and I've cut them off.

I've been spraying a solution of Safer End All and Sulphur Dust to help eliminate any pests and fungal diseases.

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/s...-0591131p.html

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/s...-0591130p.html

Thanks.

I personally wouldn’t put any chemical in the garden. The whole idea for most gardeners is to grow organic food. I mean, if that’s the case, we’d all be buying vegetables from chinar. I haven’t bought snow peas for eons because all of them are from there. I tried growing my own inthe garden, but this year was not great for those types of plants.

As for your tomatoes, I think it’s heat related. Mine looked like yours for the longest time. Now that the heat is gone, they’re coming back to life. I have tomatoes that are in the shade half of the day, because they are behind the fence, they are thriving like there’s no tomorrow. Looks like bumper crop. They’re Roma tomatoes. Easiest to grow. I hate tomatoes, but my kids like ‘em. They were on sale for $1.49 at GardenWorks.

Oh, shit, almost forgot………. GardenWorks Customer Appreciation Day is tomorrow. 15% off everything. Plus, it’s points redemption month.

After the last couple of days, I think it's blight based on information online and what is happening to them currently. More leaves started turning yellow with some black edges. A few leaves actually started turning grey and fully wilted near the edges.

I went and bought some copper fungicide today to try and stop the spread. Thinned the plants out a bit too to create some more airflow between the leaves and branches.

Not sure what is going on. More than half of my plants had issues this season and I used brand new Promix potting mix in grow pots. My peppers all turned yellow and died, and my broccoli had some weird disease that turned the leaves paperlike and killed the plant.

Wonder if pathogens are floating in the air and landing in my soil or something. Not a great experience as a first time gardener as I've had to spend money on so many things just to keep my plants from not dying to pests, black spot, and now what seems like blight.

I’d suggest spend $20 and buy the “picture this” app

It’s a plant identifying app that works amazing. It may not give you an exact diagnosis but it gives all sorts of run downs based on the pictures you give the app of any plant, flower etc.

So no new blighted leaves today after spraying the copper fungicide.

Apparently my dad saw a mouse take one of my cherry tomatoes when he was in the garden.

Very relevant post I saw today.

https://i.imgur.com/XUOdB8e.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5QSZX6i.jpg

can we not upload images here? da fuq

edit:

i'll put it on my website


https://www.birdsofbc.com/img/s/v-10/p2980161343.jpg

Did you build all those raised planters yourself or did you buy them?

Thinking of doing something similar next year.

When do you guys top your tomato plants? One of my indeterminate plants has a lot of flowers, but about only a dozen tomatoes.

As it's getting to the end of August, I am thinking of cutting the top off the vertical growing stems and hopefully that will force any pollinated flowers to grow fruit before the frost hits in what I think is late October?

built them from felled trees.

I feel like I've been catfished lol. The previous owner didn't take care of his lawn as well as I thought he did. After getting to know my lawn a bit better over the last few months, I've come to the realization that 50-75% of my lawn is actually just crabgrass or some other type of weedgrass (grows outward from a centre root). Should I just take my time over the next few years (it's a corner lot and I probably have 7000sqft to work with) and slowly use a weeder to remove all the crabgrass? Or nuke it with a rototiller and start over? We don't have any definitive plans at the moment, but we've considered adding a rock/mulch garden, some wildflowers, and some planters sometime in the future (at least 1 year away at the earliest).

Very nice work N.V.M.

I love wood work as a hobby, I wish I had more space like a small shop to do more.

https://imgur.com/bHfz3hC

https://imgur.com/j8WPjBt

Flowers for the wife. Every day, new flowers. Winter, it's silk flowers :okay:

Anyone know of local places that sell preserved moss living wall? Looking for a few small pieces for decor

Time to plant garlic. I bought two garlic plants this year for the first time and they were so easy to grow. As in, never touched them until they were ready. Apparently, you just plant any garlic bulb, like the kind you buy at Superstore and they grow like a weed. Not sure if the grown in china garlic works, but Gardenworks just sent out a memo that garlic bulbs have landed. Third Thursday of each month is Customer Appreciation Day. I'm in!

The thing is, you eat/cook half the garlic you have now and plant the other half. Win! Now I know what I'm getting at the Farmers Market. BC grown garlic.

I'm trying to get rid of all the weeds in my lawn. I want thick lushious green grass. I have crab grass, moss, white clovers, cinquefoil, black medic, those broadleaf plantain. I have them all on my lawn. But not much grass. I was wondering what are you guys using to control the weeds in your lawn? Do you guys have some kind of home remedies to kill these unwanted flowers. Any tip/hint on a healthy lawn is much appreciated. Thx

Well, getting a jump on the new season. The grow op is in full swing:

https://imgur.com/M7xWBXy.jpg