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Re: Prepping the Garden [ateixeira] by pf_flyer HOST
Mar 15, 2007 (11:41 am)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Mar 15, 2007 11:32 am)

I have that clay problem in my front yard, but fortunately not in the garden. I guess you could chip away at the clay a little bit each year to increase the depth of the good garden soil over time. Slow and steady wins the race!
 
Maybe you could even use the clay underneath tocreate sort of an underground "pot" to help hold moisture in the bed. Sort of scoop out the clay deeper in the center and leave a "lip" around the edge to keep the water around the roots of your plants. I know that leveling out my tiers made a HUGE difference in runoff. The downhill plants were always better watered and larger than those uphill.
 
I'll have to cogitate on that one some more
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Re: Prepping the Garden [pf_flyer] by ateixeira
Mar 15, 2007 (11:52 am)
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 15, 2007 11:41 am)

I should try to level it. Right now the water pools on the back of one side.
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Re: Prepping the Garden [pf_flyer] by steve_ HOST
Mar 15, 2007 (2:06 pm)
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 15, 2007 11:19 am)

after visiting Monticello and seeing Jefferson's gardens
 
We have a short ha-ha in our front yard. Never get cows in the yard either (although the llama's across the street showed up once).
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Re: Prepping the Garden [steve_] by ateixeira
Mar 16, 2007 (12:30 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (Mar 15, 2007 2:06 pm)

All sort of animals around me. Let's see:
 
* whitetail deer
* fox
* coyote (!)
* tons of squirrels
* chip munks
* rats
 
That's just off the top of my head.
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Re: Prepping the Garden [ateixeira] by steve_ HOST
Mar 16, 2007 (5:06 pm)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Mar 16, 2007 12:30 pm)

Fun bunch of critters. Except for the rats.
 
We get a few mule deer browsing the rose bushes on their way to the neighbor's pond. But we have no big trees in our yard so we have few squirrels visiting and no chipmunks show up to eat my Subaru wiring (hopefully!).
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Critter control by pf_flyer HOST
Mar 16, 2007 (5:10 pm)
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We have rabbits up the wazzoo...
 
But when you have rat snakes your rodent problems are minimized
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Re: Critter control [pf_flyer] by ateixeira
Mar 19, 2007 (9:05 am)
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 16, 2007 5:10 pm)

I see rabbits, too. Forgot to list them.
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planting by steve_ HOST
Apr 07, 2007 (10:32 am)
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It was 75 here in Boise yesterday and looks to be the same again today, before cooling back to the more usual 60's for the rest of the week.
 
So I planted a palm.
 
It's actually our second outdoor palm - the other survived last winter ok and is looking good. This one will be more marginal but who knows. There are about a dozen around town that we know of, including two at one of the car dealers.
 
Our microclime falls in zone 7.
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Surprise Snow! by ateixeira
Apr 07, 2007 (10:33 am)
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Wow, it's April and we just got about an inch of snow...good things I hadn't planted yet as the seedlings could have been frosted.
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Re: Surprise Snow! [ateixeira] by pf_flyer HOST
Apr 07, 2007 (4:09 pm)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Apr 07, 2007 10:33 am)

Our last forst date here is like May 15th, and usually is later than that. We're not down with winter by a long shot here

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