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Plantindude
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 03:03 pm EST : |   
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Plantindude
- Ohio,
Zone "5B"
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Growit
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 04:04 pm EST : |
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What beautifully looked after plants. They all look so healthy. Love the windchimes too.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 04:43 pm EST : |
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You are most welcome! That is a beautiful photo, Michael. You certainly have a knack for container gardening. How do you manage in all of this wild weather that we're having this year?
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Plantindude
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 05:14 pm EST : |
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 Thank you very much DJ,good words from other gardeners means alot,tells me alot on how others see my container designs. It's not been easy on the care this year!! we've had some real blistering heat this year . I've been soaking everything aleast twice a day. I go through them all bout every other weekend deadheading ,fertilizing and rotating {turning} planters and hanging baskets.I use alot of terracotta planters,just like the look ,especially as they age. but they take alot care and maintance. I also use alot of the new dense foam planters. The half barrel planter in the first picture is actually foam. The real fun is when I gotta clean all this up in the fall :}. .........Mike
Plantindude
- Ohio,
Zone "5B"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 05:34 pm EST : |
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I hear you, Michael! Instead of asking how you deal with this wild weather, I almost asked you how you deal with the blistering heat. Ugh! But now I see... you work like a dog! No wonder everything looks so great. My baskets are lucky to get watered every three days, and not that I can really get away with that, either, mind you. I had no idea that was a foam pot. It's beautiful! I take it that you don't have any spinners for your hanging baskets? That's going to be my next "big" investment. See, that's why your containers look so great and mine, well, you notice that I don't post photos of mine. HAHA! I'm too lazy to even turn my pots. HAHA! (BTW, if you're like me (and I can tell that you're not!), your foam pots will crack in half in winter storage and you won't have as much clean up to do.  ) I think I'm going to make sticky labels out of what you said and post them on my calendar next year. Then we'll see if I can have pots even half as nice as yours.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Seil
My Weather
My Time
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 06:00 pm EST : |
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I'm so impressed. My pots start out looking great in the spring but by this time of year leave much to be desired. I've been watering like crazy and I do rotate them every so often but they surely don't look as healthy as yours.
DJ, spinners? Never heard of them, tell me more.
Seil
- Michigan,
Zone "6"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 06:29 pm EST : |
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Stores sell something to hang hanging baskets from and it allows the pots to spin, either on their own with the help of a breeze or with a little help from a human. I've read that you can buy the same sort of thing in the fishing tackle department of any store (I would think that would probably be cheaper). I've wondered if swivel hooks for leashes would work. I guess that would require manual turning, though, because they're pretty sturdy and stiff to turn.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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