Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Jun 20, 2018 9:58:03 GMT -5
From Parks FB Page:
Marigolds are vegetables best friends. Plant these in your garden near your cucumber, corn, melons, and beans to deter veggie harming beetles.
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Post by steveg on Jun 28, 2018 12:23:20 GMT -5
So ok Shawn, I finally gave up on my strawberries because they had become so root bound in the coconut shell material it literally looked like one continuous root system. The actual green leafs were extremely abundant as were the strawberries themselves, but they were way to small to eat. Anyway on to flowers. I’m doing pretty good with these. My question is in transplanting them to the outside I had two of the mini petunias that I moved straight to the outside one did so-so and the other is doing pretty good. I now have two of the Durango marigolds that have exploded in just a few weeks and need to be moved...SOON!!! Any hints on how to cut them free from their plastic cages and their successful transplant to the outside world ?
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Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Jun 28, 2018 12:43:11 GMT -5
So ok Shawn, I finally gave up on my strawberries because they had become so root bound in the coconut shell material it literally looked like one continuous root system. The actual green leafs were extremely abundant as were the strawberries themselves, but they were way to small to eat. Anyway on to flowers. I’m doing pretty good with these. My question is in transplanting them to the outside I had two of the mini petunias that I moved straight to the outside one did so-so and the other is doing pretty good. I now have two of the Durango marigolds that have exploded in just a few weeks and need to be moved...SOON!!! Any hints on how to cut them free from their plastic cages and their successful transplant to the outside world ?
@cornne? Any help for steveg?
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MaryL
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Post by MaryL on Jun 30, 2018 11:08:41 GMT -5
When I’ve transplanted to the outside, which hasn’t been often, I just plopped the whole thing, cage and all, in the soil. I was afraid to damage the roots. But those plants were pretty far along with substantial roots, so I suppose if it’s younger with much fewer roots you could cut away the cage without doing too much damages. But I don’t think you need to. The cage won’t hurt it growling underground.
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