Oh no, why'd you have to tell me about The Great Outdoors 50% off sale?! I was driving by TGO a couple of days ago and thought I saw a 50% Off Everything sign, but I turned my head away and refused to look back. But now you've confirmed it, and I must go. In the heat. To look at plants. Argh.
Hi RR! I love to brew, and I make a nasty one! Lots of crawlers, lots of stink! My garden has been smelling like the Scottish cattle barns I used to play in as a kid of late. Strange, but I love that smell! The brew seems to help the plants, but more importantly, it helps me emotionally, bringing back memories of wet days, wellies, and the damp smell of cattle, silage and crap! Ahhhhhh! ESP.
Hi ESP - I'm a gardener/client of pam's.... found your link off of her site.
I'm interested in adding bamboo to my backyard garden. How have you controlled your beautiful bamboo? I'm assuming they are runners, not clumpers. Where did you get your beautiful bamboo? Chris cgiaraffa@austin.rr.com
Hi Chris, glad you found me. The bamboo I have in the patch is nearly all clumping so no control required...just quite a decent diameter of space for them to grow into. The largest bamboo I have is Giant Timber then I have a few Mexican Weeping bamboos and a variegated Alfonse Karr. All are growing well. I got my Giant Timber bamboo,and Mexican Weeping bamboos from the Great Outdoors, the Alfonse Karr from the Natural Gardener. I also have black and golden running bamboos, but these I keep securely contained in large "Callahan's Store" stock tanks. Hope this helps. ESP.
I'm so pleased you (and potentially Pam) are keeping on under these extraordinary circumstances. I am determined not to spend money on new plants while I can yet barely afford to water what we have in a way that will guarantee their survival. And there's the question another garden blogger/I wrestled with earlier today amidst generalized hand wringing. Which is more thrifty? Watering what I have or letting the thirstier plants go for now with plans to buy other new plants once it begins to rain again.
Because it will begin to rain again, right? (right???)
Hi TD. It is a chore isn't it! It feels like I have been lugging buckets of water around for months now - It really is no fun at all doing anything in this heat. I have soaker hoses buried in all of the places I can logistically, it makes life so much easier.
I hear you on the watering vs new plant dilemma, but with 50% off, and being the certified plantaholic that I am,(I am in a program), that is just too good of an opportunity to not buy anything. The plants are also for the most part drought tolerant, they have to be it seems!
Keep those plants alive! Only a couple more months to go! ESP.
I laughed and LAUGHED at the thought of your cat bronco-busting the white feral kitty! And then I laughed some MORE! That is something I would have paid real money to see
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Oh no, why'd you have to tell me about The Great Outdoors 50% off sale?! I was driving by TGO a couple of days ago and thought I saw a 50% Off Everything sign, but I turned my head away and refused to look back. But now you've confirmed it, and I must go. In the heat. To look at plants. Argh.
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They still had a good selection of agaves and grasses, they were running out fast in the bamboo arena! Happy shopping!
Don't forget your "iced turban" Pam.
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I love to brew, and I make a nasty one! Lots of crawlers, lots of stink! My garden has been smelling like the Scottish cattle barns I used to play in as a kid of late. Strange, but I love that smell!
The brew seems to help the plants, but more importantly, it helps me emotionally, bringing back memories of wet days, wellies, and the damp smell of cattle, silage and crap!
Ahhhhhh!
ESP.
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I'm interested in adding bamboo to my backyard garden. How have you controlled your beautiful bamboo? I'm assuming they are runners, not clumpers. Where did you get your beautiful bamboo?
Chris
cgiaraffa@austin.rr.com
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The bamboo I have in the patch is nearly all clumping so no control required...just quite a decent diameter of space for them to grow into. The largest bamboo I have is Giant Timber then I have a few Mexican Weeping bamboos and a variegated Alfonse Karr. All are growing well. I got my Giant Timber bamboo,and Mexican Weeping bamboos from the Great Outdoors, the Alfonse Karr from the Natural Gardener. I also have black and golden running bamboos, but these I keep securely contained in large "Callahan's Store" stock tanks.
Hope this helps.
ESP.
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Because it will begin to rain again, right? (right???)
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It is a chore isn't it! It feels like I have been lugging buckets of water around for months now - It really is no fun at all doing anything in this heat. I have soaker hoses buried in all of the places I can logistically, it makes life so much easier.
I hear you on the watering vs new plant dilemma, but with 50% off, and being the certified plantaholic that I am,(I am in a program), that is just too good of an opportunity to not buy anything. The plants are also for the most part drought tolerant, they have to be it seems!
Keep those plants alive! Only a couple more months to go!
ESP.
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