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I enjoy gardening and wanted to have a place where people can talk about gardening, ask questions, etc. I have a gardening question myself: A friend gave me some sedum plants this past summer and I planted them in containers. They grew very well and bloomed, but since cold weather set in, the plants have lost all their leaves and just have the stems with flower heads at the top. I've never had this plant before, so I'm wondering whether I should trim off the bare stems, pull up the plants and throw them away, or just leave them alone. Will they come back up next year?

Hi furrypurrykitty, I love gardening too. Sedums are perennial so you should leave them in the ground to grow again next year. Hope you haven't already dug them up since it is a while since you posted, I only noticed this post today.

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Thanks for your reply, flowerz. I thought the sedum was supposed to be perennial, so I just broke off the dried up stems. I have it planted in containers, so I put the containers in the garage. Do you have any flowers in the winter, like pansies? I like them, but I don't like tending flowers in cold weather, so I don't plant any.

I do love a gardening thread I can't think of any questions at the moment, but I'll be back!

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You don't have to ask questions - you can talk about the kind of gardening you like to do, tell us about your plans for your garden next year, anything you want as long as it's gardening-related.

Well, I'm hoping the chicken manure I've been collecting will turn into a massive amount of compost by spring, if not I'm thinking about a cover crop come early spring. Clover, probably. It's time to improve my soil and get serious!

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beadnik, do you have a compost pile that you put the chicken manure on? My dad has a compost pile and several years ago had an opportunity to get some chicken manure to put on it, but my mom vetoed that idea because she was afraid it would stink.

Try sprinkling a little lime on the manure, then cover with newspaper and/ or then straw or just cover with a good deep new layer of whatever comes next.
We no longer have such good stuff to add to our compost pile, but in the past sometimes used to fork the manure through the pile, cover with some straw or leaves or whatever was around and just let it settle down. A shame to miss the chance for real organic matter. .

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I have a big, loosely covered compost bin that is stuffed with shavings and manure, and amazingly it doesn't stink at all! The chickens love to stand on it and try to break in.

Anybody have cold frames going? I've read that certain varieties of lettuce can grow at 17 degrees, and always mean to do that. Somehow winter always sneaks up on me though!

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I have pansies growing in a container on my patio. I let nature take care of them all winter. When it is cold they flop over and look pathetic, but as soon as it warms up, they spring back up. I took a few photos of them just yesterday for my blog.

I have lettuce growing in my garden right now. I meant to put some sort of cover over them, but haven't
found anything to use yet. I imagine they are still alive since we haven't had any very cold weather yet.

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flowerz, what kind of flower is that in your profile pic? Is it a gloxinia? It's beautiful.

Thanks furrypurrykitty. It is a flower called Cathedral Bells (cobaea) that I grew for the first time last summer. It didn't start to bloom until August 31. Funny thing about one of these plants, it was damaged as a seedling, almost broke right off, so I taped it with scotch tape and it recovered.

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