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| I got replacement plants from Bluestone and an order from Santa Rosa - about 24 plants - sitting on my porch waiting and waiting to be planted. I had injured my knee and was not mobile enough to do any gardening and it's getting colder every night. Today I finally just dug one big hole about 8 feet square and stuck them all in it just to get them into the ground. I watered them in and mulched with leaves for a little protection and put a little wire fence around them so they don't get walked on. I hope they make it until spring when hopefully I'm more mobile and can get them into their permanent spots. They're all pretty durable plants - my neighbor and I joke that a plant has to be tough to survive in our yards - no wimps allowed. |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 17, 11 at 22:06
| Sounds good. I hope they make it. |
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| They should be fine. In the fall I regularly sink potted plants into the garden for my mini plant sale in the spring. It works really well. I just have to pop them out of the ground and they don't have the set back of transplanting. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 22, 11 at 10:35
| that is what i call.. HEALING THEM IN .... seems like 8 feet was a large area ... i probably could have gotten them all in in 2 feet square.. since its temporary... they didnt really need to be spaced out ... just make sure they dont dry out .... ken |
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- Posted by aklinda 7 (lindanewland@myway.com) on Tue, Nov 22, 11 at 16:33
| *G* Middle age brain freeze - I meant 8 square feet, not 8 feet square. 2 ft by approx 4 feet, which includes a berm around them since I am in very dry New Mexico - 2 inches of rain in the last year. I filled up a 30 gal trash barrel with water and placed it next to that little patch so it would be handy for watering thru the winter no matter how gimpy I get. I planted them with an inch or two in between and left them in their coir pots, hoping that would make it easier to pop them out of the ground in the spring. |
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| I still need to do this with the potted chrysanthemums... I do the same thing and dig them in, pots and all, and mulch a bit. They come through fine. Ken - I think it's *heel*ing them in! I visualize shoveling a hole, dropping in the plant and using you heel to crush the dirt in around the plant :) |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 23, 11 at 15:58
| you expect speeling perfection also ??? .... lol ... and i suppose typing.. lol ... whatever you call it.. or spell it.. i think we are all agreeing.. 2 by 4 feet sounds like a lot less work than 8 ft sq ... lol .. ken ps: yes i spelt it wrong on purpose ... in this post ... |
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| I'm one of the last people who has any right to come across as the spelling police! I wasn't sure if you really meant "healing" in.... To me the spelling changed it from a manly throw it in the ground- kick it with your foot kind of activity to one where you are trying to heal the poor plant of some kind of late season planting insult.... Maybe even talking to the plant and trying to work through a couple of its overwintering fears.... Ok I'm reading way too far into this. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian (My Page) on Thu, Nov 24, 11 at 8:49
| heeling.. is something the british perfected.. with plants like hosta.. to crush the crown of the plant with your heel .. to stimulate release of dormant buds.. to make a larger plant ... heeling in .. is temporarily planting stock .... to hold them over for a season ... actually i think they are spelled the same ... but google has failed me.. and with the caffeine rush.. i am not caring any more right now.. lol |
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