Garden 2024

[pepperhead212]

I got my hydroponics set up, with the nutrients leveled out, and added some "Karma", and some micorrhyzae powder last night. Today, I got the rooted cuttings planted - all that's left to do is plant seeds (I'm just drawing it up now). I planted all of the basils, but I won't need 2 of any of them - I'll just wait and see which grow best. I have a few new varieties of seeds, but most are tried and tested. I semi-sterilized those cuttings, before planting them, by doing a dunk in a hydrogen peroxide solution - 1 tb/a pint of water.
All of the basil cuttings rooted in 7 days, the Thai basil with a little fewer roots. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The red Epazote all rooted strong, in about 15 days. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Epazote and basil cuttings, planted in the larger hydro tub. Seeds get planted later. 10-30 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The smaller hydro tub, for seeds later. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[Kathleen]

My rose bush is missing all its leaves. It looks like deer damage but I don't see where a deer could even get to the rose bush and the sunflower on the other side is just fine. Plus, all the blooms on it are still there, too. Do roses lose their leaves in the fall?

My roses will lose leaves at various times of the year only to grow them back. Right now, my roses look a little scrappy. And they will have a few leaves off and on throughout winter, but will bush back out come spring. I will advise that roses are hungry little bushes, so do feed them. I'm terrible at keeping on a feeding schedule, so I have been using this product for the past few years. It's spendy but a little goes a long way. I have two lines of rose bushes and purchased this in March of 2021. I still have some leftover.