score. free plants.

[CJ1]

So after our ride this morning a friend from town came out. Her mom is moving to a care facility and was renting the hose she's been staying in. She's healthy but apparently can't really be on her own anymore. So yeah. Anyway.

The property owner didn't want all the plants left in the yard so I'm fixing to head to town and pick up what's useable. I hear there's a large black raspberry patch and some other stuff. I'm going to try to save what I can and plant them here.

I'll fill y'all in on the haul once we have them in the ground again.

Was really hoping to nurse this hangover. But. No rest for the wicked.

 

[CJ1]

Well there weren't many that were saveable. It looked like it hadn't been pruned in years. It was all overgrown with vines and was just nasty. So I was only able to kind of save 3 plants. And even those lost a lot of the root when I du

g them out. So we will see if they take in their new home.

 

[sumi]

Extra water and TLC for a few days and they'll hopefully be o.k.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm wondering if they would benefit from being cut back a little? I'm no expert, but it might be worth a shot?

http://empressofdirt.net/transplant-raspberries/

 

[MoonShadows]

Wish I could send you some of mine. I can't wait until raspberry season. I just picked about 3 quarts of strawberries. We started with 25 plants a few years ago. Now, we have more than we know what to do with. They are planted all around the outside of our chicken run, so any that are malformed or have bird or bug holes go to the chickens. They love 'em; so do we...and out next door neighbor. I gave her about a quart of them.

 

[CJ1]

Ok so,,,, these hours are killing me.

Last week I went back to third shift hoping to finally get back into my garden and weed and prune. Its a frigging jungle. I put in 24 hours of overtime this week and we'll the last two weeks before as well as 8 hours of double time on Sunday. I'm off tomorrow and all next week. Finally.

So I finally made it into my gardens. Cucumbers are overrunning peppers. Tomatoes are overrunning carrots. Corn has weeds as tall as the corn. I actually had to mow the weeds down. Like litterally with a push mower.

And to top it off. All my strawberry and raspberry bushes are dead. Every one of them. I don't know how. Yeah I was worried about the transplants. But the ones I bought from the store and planted? How the hell did they wither and die? Seriously.

But on a good note. I do have a cucumber and two tomatoes that I picked. Hehe

Sorry. I thought it was funny. But I'm very tired.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

LOL... I have a picture of a radish that I grew that looks amazingly like... umm... well... you know!

But, congrats on cuke and maters!

 

[MoonShadows]

Naughty little girl!

hey, how are those transplanted raspberry bushes doing?

 

[baymule]

I've had gardens I had to mow the rows because of working too much...... You do what you can do. Nice tomatoes and cukes!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Awesome! I had a volunteer cucumber that has been producing pretty well. Made a nice cuke salad the other day. I think there are a couple more about ready to be picked.