2019 Gardens

[rosarugosa]

Love your garden, Razz!

[iris lilies]

Iris, do you notice bees or butterflies liking the plumbago?

There are butterflies hanging around all of these flowering plants.

[Tybee]

Catherine, lots of stables will let you haul off horse manure for free from their pile. It smells better than cow manure and is easier to work with.
We use horse manure in our garden, and lots of straw.

We have so many monarchs this year compared to last year.

We have a professional beekeeper down the road and I swear we feed his seeds free all summer.

[herbgeek]

It smells better than cow manure and is easier to work with.

More weed seeds though, in my experience.

[catherine]

Catherine, lots of stables will let you haul off horse manure for free from their pile. It smells better than cow manure and is easier to work with.
We use horse manure in our garden, and lots of straw.

Composted cow manure doesn't smell bad and my gardener friend tells me that makes a difference.

I do love the straw idea though. I do occasionally use that.

[razz]

Serious question. Is composted cow manure better than sheep manure. My favourite store has one discounted sheep manure to half of the discounted cattle manure. It is so tempting to get a bunch for next year.

[Tybee]

Serious question. Is composted cow manure better than sheep manure. My favourite store has one discounted sheep manure to half of the discounted cattle manure. It is so tempting to get a bunch for next year.

I'd read this and see what you think for your situation:

https://gardening.stackexchange.com/...d-sheep-manure

[razz]

Thank you Tybee. I will take a look at the actual N/Ph/P ratio of each, both are composted and in bags.

[Tybee]

today I am potting up herbs to put in the kitchen window this winter. I am cleaning old ceramic pots for this and am happy to see them and reuse them in a new way. Found an old blue green cracked mccoy pot and now it has a little lavender plant in it. Very satisfying.

Have lots of tarragon this summer so will find a pot for one of those.

[KayLR]

today I am potting up herbs to put in the kitchen window this winter. I am cleaning old ceramic pots for this and am happy to see them and reuse them in a new way. Found an old blue green cracked mccoy pot and now it has a little lavender plant in it. Very satisfying.

Have lots of tarragon this summer so will find a pot for one of those.

My tarragon is my nemesis! What on earth do you do with all of it? I started with a small plant and it just grows and grows and grows. I've dried a lot of it, but frankly, just cut it all back and tossed it on the compost pile.