Hydey's Garden Corner - Your Problems Solved With A Smile

[Hydey]

Originally posted by ravagon
Wouldn't the dead matter still provide some sustenance if left where it is - My fern having canabilistic tendencies and all?

leave the dead leaves until you see some new growth , it helps the plant get over the stress but if its too late and you have already followed finbars bad advice , don't panic , the plant should still recover it will just take a little longer.

[Hydey]

Originally posted by finbar


I gather Mrs Hydey once sent him out for tan bark chips and he came back with ... you know what ...

euca mulch as tan bark leaches poisons into the soil.

[Hydey]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Are there many plants that can stand being uprooted and replanted about 15 minutes later? Only there's all these plants in the Domain, they've far too many than they need...

Most plants can withstand this type of treatment, if they die steal some more.

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
But please leave the camelia bush, they are very pretty.

Iwas but now finbar is a butcher

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Hydey schmydey, my mum knows more about gardeing than he does.

Good she can answer all these idiot questions

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Wilderess
I love white clover, and I never cut the lawn (cut? why not mowe, as in lawnmower?) before white clover has flowered. The grass grows quite long, but the clover flowers are so nice, plus the grass grows in both ends, above the earth as well as down under. So the roots get longer, and simsalabim! after that the grass tolerates drought much better even when you cut it short again.

And another thing: IIRC, clover develops nitrogen in soil. Ecological fertilizing, that is!

Very good, that is good for you lawn, now if can teach Horse how to mow instead of butcher his lawn. never mind he is too thick

[Wilderess]

How embarrassing. There is a verb to mow. How stupid of me. I looked it up in a dictionary, I swear I did, but I wrote mowe. Sigh.

Here you see the blessings of a book: if I had used a book instead of a web dictionary, I would have found it.

[Hydey]

Look Wilderess, finbar is the spelling and grammer expert, please keep comments regarding these subjects off my gardening thread.

We don't want this thread full of spam.

[Wilderess]

(It is slowly dawning on me why this thread has a title 'Your problems solved with a smile'. I still love this thread. )

[Hydey]

No smile here. I have to put up with idiot gardening questions allday and now bloody finbar wants me to do it online.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm beginning to wonder what value Hydey actually adds to this thread

[Wilderess]

You have to put up with idiot gardening questions all day...? You a gardener?

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I'm beginning to wonder what value Hydey actually adds to this thread

Twice as much as you, now lets see 2 times zero =

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Wilderess
You have to put up with idiot gardening questions all day...? You a gardener?

I'm not quite sure , let me check my profile, yes for occupation it says Gardener.

Hydey looks out the window and sees the frost is off the grass now, best head out to work.

[SuperSneak]

OK...I have a common houseplant (don't know the variety, but it has thin stalks and long, tapered, dark green leaves).
This plant is a *****. If it gets too hot, it wilts. If it doesn't get enough light, it wilts. If it gets too much or too little water, it wilts...you get the picture. I have moved it away from the window, on a bookshelf, where it is a few feet from a heat register. I'm assuming that this combination of low light and heat when it is cold has been the cause of its current happiness.
But upon returning from Vegas, it is a wilted mess, probably due to too much heat while we were gone.
I have a strange attachment to this co-dependant plant, but I wonder if there is any way to "beef it up" and get it to stop being so neurotic.
I swear, it is as sensitive as a woman...and it actually had white callilily like blooms at one point, but not since.

How do I encourage this plant to thrive without being so needy!!!!?