tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461773919826323402012-02-08T21:25:26.327-07:00Specializing in low maintenance, usually low cost, desert gardening.Lazy Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06417141746817369210noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046177391982632340.post-20148835370292377492010-07-27T07:57:00.001-07:002010-07-27T08:11:29.090-07:00

Through a chain of gardening blogs, I found Garden Rant's rant about the inability of Scotts Chemicals to comprehend that diversity in lawns is a good thing. To Scotts, the only good clover is dead clover, the only good dandelion is a dead dandelion, and the only good lawn is one that soaks up several hundred dollars of their product every year. Dandelion For Sale In Seoul, Korea Does this

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This is my experimental lettuce patch, in a photo taken early this morning. It was planted about 2 months ago in an old compost heap that was planted with tomatoes last summer.  The location under a mesquite tree was too shady for tomatoes, so I tried lettuce, mizuna and Swiss chard. It's leggy and pale from being in the shade, but if it were in the sun it would be dead. It's surprisingly not

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It's tough being on the bleeding edge of lawn management. For example, how long should I run my lawn sprinklers to water my buffalo grass? How often? No one knows yet, but I think I'm on the right track. Step 1 was to find out how much water my sprinkler system delivers. The "tuna can" method as explained by the University of Arizona's agriculture department measures your lawn sprinkler's

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Two of the gaudy xeriscaping plants, my rose bush and the neighbor's cactus. I am tempted to sneak over to his yard and steal a few pads to start my own cactus. Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basilaris) Lady Banks Rose (Rosa banksiae)

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Happy birthday to my buffalo grass lawn! It was one year old on Sunday, and a long way from the sea of mud we had last year. This coming year I'll be reporting on the mowing and watering it needs to keep it attractive. it's about 80% greened up, and with the predicted warmer weather this week, it should be completely green by the first of April. Our goal is not a putting green, our goal is a

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After a very rainy, almost freeze-free winter, it's warming up. The low temperatures have been mostly in the 50s and the highs in the mid-60s to as high as 78. With that bit of encouragement, the buffalo grass started sending up a few tiny green blades of grass. I responded by cutting them all off. Mowing the grass short in early spring lets the sun reach the base of the plant where the new

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Look at the picture, taken January 23, 2010. Those are tomatoes I picked from my garden in the middle of  winter. The fine print: They were picked when they were barely beginning to ripen and ripened indoors. They taste better than most store-bought tomatoes, but nowhere near as good as they do in warmer weather. Cold nights gives tomatoes the same mealy texture that they get in the

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The grass is now mostly khaki, not green. We had a 1-night cold spell and the temperature dropped to just below freezing. Apparently that's enough to trigger dormancy, because over the next week or so the green color vanished. This picture was taken December 12th. The next question will be "How soon does it get green"?

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As the title says, I'm still waiting for the grass to go dormant. Daytime temperatures have been in the 70s and nights about 50 for the past couple weeks. The grass is still growing, but more slowly. I'll probably mow it one more time this year. Wayne Thorsen, Mr. Buffalo Grass, was here in early November. He doesn't know if the UC Verde cultivar will go dormant at all in this climate. It seems

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One of the burning garden controversies of the 1840s was using okra seeds for coffee. The proponents were proclaiming it as the best thing since ... well, coffee. Okra Seeds A Substitute For Coffee.—We find in the papers* a letter signed J. F. Callen, addressed to H. L. Ellsworth, declaring that the seeds of Garden Okra, when roasted and used as coffee cannot be distinguished therefrom, and many

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The mystery rodent of late August has been identified. R.I.P. Rattus rattus, who was found floating in the swimming pool today, dead. This is annoying, because they are the attic-invading, wire-chewing sort of rats. It's time to alert the neighborhood. Rattus rattus, the "black rat" has recently invaded Phoenix, where the abundant citrus drop in some suburbs provides it with food. You can

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Six months into this experiment, I'm happy with the buffalo grass's performance. So are the quail.There are still some questions about buffalo grass performance in Phoenix:When will it turn brown this fall?When will it green up next spring?How easy or hard will getting rid of the remains of the Bermuda grass be?How little water can it get and still stay reasonably green next summer?What will it

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I saw a 6-pack of locally grown Early Girl tomato seedlings at the big box nursery yesterday, which reminded me to remind you: We get another chance at killing growing tomatoes between now and the first frosts.Here's the secret. Use varieties that can mature a crop in a very short time. Almost anything with "Early" in its name, or "short season" in its description will be able to grow, flower,

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See this woodland creature nomming on the mesquite beans by my barbecue? It's a rat! My dilemma is deciding whether it is a native rat or an alien species of rat. Should I feel flattered that I have created a welcoming micro-habitat or should I plan its demise?The suspect imports are the wharf rat (Rattus norvegicus) or the black rat (Rattus rattus). Wharf rats have small eyes and ears, black

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Finally we're getting a summer rainstorm. (The summer rainy season usually starts in early July.) There were some out of season showers during the last week of May and then nothing for over two months but a few clouds, some virga, and just enough rain to make the windshield dirty. This storm looks serious.If you see the arrows - that's the direction the storms are moving. When two (or more)

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This is the post where I point out my errors, hoping you won't commit the same ones.The weather, and some lack of foresight on my part, made the conversion go less smoothly than it might have. None of the errors were serious - in only 3 months I grew a nice lawn - but they have created more work than was necessary.NOTE: My planting schedule was constrained by having plants shipped from Nebraska

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The main claim that attracted me to the UC Verde strain of Buffalo grass was the claim that it would require less water than Bermuda Grass after it was established.Here it is, 4 months after setting out the plugs. It's a lawn, it's green, and it's not stressed by the temps hovering near the 110°F mark. It was 112° when I took the picture and scurried back onto air-conditioned safety.And how is

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Wow, give buffalo grass a week or two of 105°F+ (over 40°C for you metric people) with Arizona monsoon humidity and it turns into turf! Real, fine-bladed grassy lawn kind of turf!The annual weeds are quitting faster than an Alaskan governor, and the Bermuda grass is ducking for cover like a politician caught hiking the Argentine trail. Even the spurge is being displaced.I am watering every 4 days

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Buffalo grass passes the doggy taste test. The photo was taken a couple of months ago, and she still likes to eat the grass.Like any grass, however, it does get brown spots if the dog urinates on it.

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Birds love my buffalo grass lawn, or maybe it's the weed seeds! This are three species of Arizona doves. The tiny one is an Inca dove. They are often mistaken for the babies of other dove species, but they are just sparrow-sized doves. A mourning dove is at the upper right, and a whitewing is in the foreground. Whitewings are the biggest of the native doves.The annual weeds are slowly being

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The buffalo grass responded to the first mowing by sending out a lot of side growth and getting thicker, so I mowed it again!Weaning it off water starts real soon, when the relative humidity goes up. Right now it's getting watered every other day, so I'll go to three days, then four, increasing the length of the waterings as I decrease the number.

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quailnest0609B, originally uploaded by Lazy Gardens.A quail nest inside one of the Roma tomato cages. Their camouflage is amazing. We had been searching the plants for ripe tomatoes for a couple of weeks and didn't see the nest until May 8, although we searched for a nest on the 7th when a quail launched itself out of the plants.Quail will nest in big flower pots on busy porches and patios, so I

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I wasn't planning to mow the lawn until after the summer rainy season started, but I noticed that the grass nearest the sprinklers was tall enough to block the spray. That gives it more water, it grows even better and it's a self-feeding monster.June 3, before the mowing, showing the obvious clumps where the plugs were planted.June 6, after mowing. There's not much difference, except that the

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This week I have some comparison photos. I took these by standing at the edge of the patio, with the camera pointed straight down.March 24, 2009 is really wimpy. It's a few days after planting.April 27, 2009 is not much better, and the weeds are sprouting.May 21, 2009 is starting to look like it might be a lawn. The runners are criss-crossing the bare patches and starting to root.June 3, 2009

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You've done it, it's embarrassing, but you didn't know what to call it when you typed in the wrong chat window. Misfenestration! If one can defenestrate, one can certainly commit fenestration wrongly and misfenestrate.

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When I'm not obsessing over the lawn, I'm growing heat-tolerant, extremely productive vegetables like tomatillos, tomatoes, squash, chili peppers, eggplant, and okra.Along with the lawn's watering system, we installed several lines for drip irrigating. Two lines are for the few landscape plants that aren't able to survive in Phoenix without a bit of supplemental water, and the rest are for herb

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It's Memorial Day. I'm sitting in the shade with a beer! We had several cool, cloudy days with light rain, which is unusual for May, and now it's back to the usual hot and dry.The Buffalo grass continues to spread, and weeding by hand is making slow progress. The grass is spreading and rooting under the spurge where the dirt is cooler and moist all day.Pics are coming, I promise.

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Not using a pre-emergent to prevent weed growth in a new lawn area is a major mistake, especially in Phoenix. The abundant water has encouraged astounding numbers of weeds to sprout. Arizona's warm-weather weeds are mostly waxy-leaved like spurge, or fuzzy-leaved desert plants, and herbicides aren't absorbed well. Most of the weeds barely slowed down when I sprayed them with a broad-leaf

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Good grief! I had forgotten how much of a pest spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata) can be in a well-watered area of exposed dirt. What I should have done was apply a pre-emergent, but the schedule didn't permit. Fortunately, spurge is an annual weed so I get another chance next year.The buffalo grass is sending its runners right over the top of the ground-hugging spurge, so maybe it can choke it

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The weeds are finally starting to discolor and shrivel, and I spent half an hour tracking down and spot-spraying glyphosate on any Bermuda grass sprouts I could find. I even found a pine seedling, probably left from all the pine needles, cones, and other debris that I used to compost before the neighbors removed their overgrown trees.I forgot to turn off the sprinkler system for the required 48

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If you are replacing a Bermuda grass lawn with buffalo grass, you will have to kill any Bermuda that survived the pre-planting attempts to kill it. There will be sprouts for several months, maybe even years, depending on how long the Bermuda Grass had to become established. You can either dig out the sprouts, removing as much of the roots as possible, or carefully spray them with a grass-killing

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This week I was watching the weeds. The constant moisture that it takes to get the grass to spread is encouraging a huge crop of weeds. I identify spotted spurge, wild chamomile, tomatillos*, lots of junk grasses, annual bluegrass, cranesbill and others. I don't like to use herbicides, but there are too many weeds to control by hand pulling and using the scuffle hoe would rip out the spreading

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The grower, Todd Valley Farms in Nebraska, assures me, "As soon as the heat hits the plugs will explode". But they didn't define "heat". Is it 70°F (warm in buffalo grass's native area), 80°, or what? This month has seen daytime high temperatures from the low 60s to the low 90s, with as much as a 30° jump or drop between days. Overnight lows are in the 40s and 50s.That's typical for Arizona at

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Affiliate marketing must sound fabulous to a business - pay a small commission and you multiply your web presence by hundreds or thousands of pages, all pointing back to your site and your products. Instead of a tiny hook with bait, you have a bloody trawler net. There's no way customers can escape your reach. To the affiliates, it must sound like a great deal too. Just put up a web page, using

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Urban Quail-boy up to no good! I have mixed feelings about the flocks of Gambel’s quail that roam the neighborhood. On the one hand, they are handsome native birds, eat weed seeds, and I know I should be honored to have the mob strolling through the landscaping. On the other hand, they devour the fresh tender leaves from my vegetables, make dust wallows in the cilantro patch, and dig holes in the

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Rough week for plants - we had a late winter storm run through with pounding rain, some hail and strong winds. The grass is still alive! Although a few plugs are wispy and wan, I still have 100% survival of the 600+ planted plugs.There are some visible results to report. Some of the plugs have sent out fresh runners 6 to 9 inches long. The runners are easy to overlook, because they are thin and

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February is the month for preparing the orchards, the fruit trees in the walled gardens, and planting the hardiest vegetables and flowers.FEBRUARYHath xxviii days, — long 9h — 24mSun rises 7h — 13m — Sets 4h — 45m To be doneIn the Orchard and Olitory-Garden. The rising and setting of the sun was computed for the first of the month, for London.PRUNE Fruit-Trees and Vines as yet; for now is your

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Still no change. None of the plugs have died, but none have obviously increased in size. I know the plugs are probably sending roots deep and wide, but I want to see grass. I want it now!The doves, quail, curved bill thrashers and towhees are going nuts in the planted area, feeding on bugs and freshly sprouted weeds. The beak marks are so dense in some areas it looks like someone in golfing

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Tomatillos (Physalis ixocarpa) are also called "ground cherry", or "husk tomato". They are a distant relative of the tomato, with a similar flower and fruit, except that the fruit is protected by a papery husk. The most common variety is the green-fruited one, but occasionally you may see a variety that turns purple when ripe. These plants are critical for the "salsa verde" of Mexican cooking.I

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Another blogger commented: How many of you have or know someone who has looked up the recent world cup soccer scores or the latest American Idol gossip? Now think of how many people you know who have looked up the Latin name for the potato beetle? Right. So if your site is about rare insects, you have your work cut out for you to get a high ranking in the search engine.Although it "sounds right",

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The calendar for January starts with the soil preparation necessary for the planting to come, working with the dormant fruit trees, and keeping the bees alive. JANUARY Hath xxxi days, — long 8h — 0m Sun rises 8h — 0m — Sets 4h — 0m To be doneIn the Orchard and Olitory-Garden. The rising and setting of the sun was computed for the first of the month, for London.Olitory = vegetable or

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I have a copy of the English horticulturist John Evelyn's month by month gardening advice Kalendarium Hortense, published in 1706. It was wildly popular then, with twenty or more editions published. As time permits I will transcribe and post Evelyn's gardening advice, annotated to explain some of the obscure words.The Evelyn family estate, Wotten House, was a wealthy gentleman's estate. When

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Gardening is hard work and gardening costs money.Lazy cheapskates should avoid gardening because of those factors. However, plants cast useful shade in the summer, screen unwanted views where you can't build a wall tall enough, are pleasant to look at, and increase the value of your property.Gardening can be worthwhile, but any lazy cheapskate worth her lounge chair can find ways to minimize

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I didn't really understand the phrase "watching grass grow" until I started a new lawn. It's been a week and a half and it still looks the same as it did the day we planted it. I stare at it several times a day, looking for signs of new growth in the plugs, and see nothing.This is an experimental lawn with the UC Verde clone of buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides) instead of the Bermuda grass

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After some final soil leveling, it took 2 people about 4 hours (with breaks) to plant 1200 square feet of lawn area.Mark the row with string. The string has been marked every 18 inches with a red marking pen.For evenly spaced plants on 18-inch centers, the rows need to be about 15 1/2 inches apart.Using nails tied on the string to mark off the spacing prevents errors. 2 nails and a 15-inch

Tsu Dho Nimhnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046177391982632340.post-59753377929341153312009-03-21T06:00:00.000-07:002009-04-30T18:59:19.416-07:00

The plan is to stay in this house for 2 or three more years, or until the real estate values crawl out of the toilet, then sell and move where the cost of living is lower. We're not going nuts on remodeling because interior decor is fad-driven. We're just taking care of some things that would make a buyer think "ewwwww!" that would slow down a sale. The Bermuda grass lawn was a major ugly spot

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