THE 2025 OFFICIAL BUFFALO SPORTS GARDENING THREAD

herodotus said:
They come in pink? Beautiful man, just beautiful.
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Apparently. What’s crazy is most of these bearded irises…well actually all of them were all in the woods surrounding my property. I dug them up and put them in a proper setting. Talking to a neighbor he said my house was built in 83 and one owner, an old lady who was a master gardener. When she died the house and land sat abandoned and neglected. After a decade someone bought it, fixed it up and flipped it. That’s when I bought it about ten years ago. The landscaping was a blank slate…or so I thought. Soon all these ornamental plants started to pop up…albeit buried in weeds, scrub, and overgrown shit. Same goes with the peonies. That pink one easily could go for 100 bucks.
 
seandelevan said:
Apparently. What’s crazy is most of these bearded irises…well actually all of them were all in the woods surrounding my property. I dug them up and put them in a proper setting. Talking to a neighbor he said my house was built in 83 and one owner, an old lady who was a master gardener. When she died the house and land sat abandoned and neglected. After a decade someone bought it, fixed it up and flipped it. That’s when I bought it about ten years ago. The landscaping was a blank slate…or so I thought. Soon all these ornamental plants started to pop up…albeit buried in weeds, scrub, and overgrown shit. Same goes with the peonies. That pink one easily could go for 100 bucks.
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My garden is a restoration and rehabilitation work. The soil was and is this ridiculously awful Missouri clay soil. Oddly, the roses loooooooove it and the herbs don't care. Tomatoes and peppers are possible, but you have got to give them plenty of calcium or they get end rot and over the past five years I have been working very hard to amend the soil. Lots of manure, lots of top soil, lots of potting mix, lots of compost and its beginning to pay off. The only good part of the garden that was there when I moved in were daffodils planted by the wife of the guy who owned the house from the time it was built in 1956 to his death in 2011. Its been nice restoring the yard and turning it into a pleasure garden of sorts. I am thinking of eventually getting a windmill for it, new doors for the shed, taking out the concrete patio and replacing it with cobblestone or brick, tossing in a picnic table on the southwest corner and just continuing to make it mine. Its my little quiet oasis in the midst of a working class neighborhood in south KC.
 
herodotus said:
My garden is a restoration and rehabilitation work. The soil was and is this ridiculously awful Missouri clay soil. Oddly, the roses loooooooove it and the herbs don't care. Tomatoes and peppers are possible, but you have got to give them plenty of calcium or they get end rot and over the past five years I have been working very hard to amend the soil. Lots of manure, lots of top soil, lots of potting mix, lots of compost and its beginning to pay off. The only good part of the garden that was there when I moved in were daffodils planted by the wife of the guy who owned the house from the time it was built in 1956 to his death in 2011. Its been nice restoring the yard and turning it into a pleasure garden of sorts. I am thinking of eventually getting a windmill for it, new doors for the shed, taking out the concrete patio and replacing it with cobblestone or brick, tossing in a picnic table on the southwest corner and just continuing to make it mine. Its my little quiet oasis in the midst of a working class neighborhood in south KC.
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Awesome. Yeah we have that same red clay soil in Virginia too. I did exactly what you did too. I wasn’t really much into gardening until I moved into this house and the first few years this yard was in bad shape. In fact it was when I stopped mowing every square inch of grass in my yard did cool plants start to pop up…some being those irises I replanted.
 
seandelevan said:
Awesome. Yeah we have that same red clay soil in Virginia too. I did exactly what you did too. I wasn’t really much into gardening until I moved into this house and the first few years this yard was in bad shape. In fact it was when I stopped mowing every square inch of grass in my yard did cool plants start to pop up…some being those irises I replanted.
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Sean -- Can I ask you a question?

Is it true that then only girls who are virgins in Virginia are the ones that can outrun their brothers?
 
SpikedLemonade said:
Sean -- Can I ask you a question?

Is it true that then only girls who are virgins in Virginia are the ones that can outrun their brothers?
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Samuel L Jackson What GIF by Coming to America
 
Dropping a yard of well screened mature horse shit on the Veggie Garden, Blueberry Patch and Kiwi Bed this morning.

The other beds have their own fertilization programs and do NOT require it.

For example, the Pink Flower Bed gets all the egg shells, espresso grinds and fish tank water.

Yesterday before the rain I sprinkled 5 bags of Miracle-Gro on the 3 front lawn beds, the Birch Bed, the Rock Garden Bed and the three trees.

Things are blooming and growing here.
 
Manure spread heavy yesterday morning and my buddy came and rototillered the veggie garden yesterday afternoon.

I wish I had the energy to plant the veggie garden yesterday late afternoon however I was spent.

Rain commences at 9:00 AM this morning so I doubt I can lay down the professional 6' wide landscaping fabric, mark the planting holes and plant before the 24 hours of rain commences.

Probably can plant on Friday afternoon once it dries up before more rain Friday night and Saturday morning.

Exciting times over here on the plantation.
 
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