My little slow Canadian garden is a month or more behind all the other nice postings I see here from people further south! Tomatoes and cukes started, green beans and Asian long purple beans seeded. Made some trellises with netting for climbing snap peas in 3 different beds, which shown here are a couple feet tall now. A white wisteria is blooming, and it has a sweet floral scent. Also a shot of my indoor African Violets and a couple orchids. And yes, some beet greens nestled in there under lights as an experiment, and I had a few meals off it. No bugs to eat them indoors!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Looks about a month ahead of mine. Very nice.
HeathenFarmer
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June 16, 2018
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@Silverwhisper I would miss them though, so I veto that idea. I am about 120 km north of Calgary.
Do you do anything special to get your wisteria to bloom. My father planted ours and it has never bloomed.
AstralSmoke
Level 8
June 14, 2018
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@Silverwhisper Thanks for your answers. Our wisteria must be 20 years old. I've read about pruning it (doesn't seem to phase it and no one prunes them in the wild). I've read about digging around it (18"-24" deep all the way around it, 4' from the plant - crazy). I can't believe it has too much nitrogen. Perhaps I'll dig the stubborn thing up and buy a new one!
@Silverwhisper Unfortunately for me, I have a stubborn streak.
Very beautiful! I know what you mean about having to wait. I enjoy raising monarch butterflies and have dozens of milkweed plants just waiting for monarch eggs. So far, I'm still waiting.
By the way, don't try to ship any of those African Violets to the USA. We'll slap a tariff on you! Now, if you have any Swedish Violets...
MikeEC
Level 7
June 13, 2018
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It's tough being a Northern Gardener, you never know when that last frost is going to hit and wipe out all the hard prep work you put into a garden each year. I started inside in March just to get ready for planting from seed, it'll come.
Surfpirate
Level 9
June 13, 2018
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@Silverwhisper I hope that hot air isn't too foul, DC being what it is these days.
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