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12-21-2010, 02:51 PM | #31 |
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Already mapped out my garden. Expanding it 10 more feet. Putting in; corn, tomatoes (globe, Roma, yellow pear, and grape), bush beans, squash, cukes (lemon and english), potatoes, brussel sprouts, garlic and peas.
Looking to start a third plot for an herb garden, maybe 10' by 10' for starters. Each year I rake my leaves to the corner of my fence and let them just rot. Then I till the in to keep on rotting. Good free compost. Hope to have better luck then last year. After getting everything in and started Nashville got flooded and I have 4 feet of water in my house. Most of the garden was a wash but I was able to get some yellow pear tomatoes out of it. |
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****in mess. Gonna have to let her freeze and take the chain saw to her to get it out. Shot the dog on the spot. mother****er. just gonna swallow it down take my loss and move on. already lookin for one to replace it.
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12-21-2010, 02:57 PM | #33 | |
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USDA hardiness zones http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html When you buy plants/seeds most of the time it gives what zones and when to plant.
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12-21-2010, 03:02 PM | #35 |
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Northeast (New Jersey) Vincas and Begonias. I planted begonias one year and put the steroids in the holes with them and they hardly even grew. have shitty soil in the area, a lot of shale and clay and the bed is sloped on a downward angle. so when I d water the flowers the water would run right down the bed and not go into the soil. the flowers hardly grew all year.
The next year I rototilled my compost mix in and threw the steroids in, and by September the begonias were 2ft high (as big as a smallshrub). the sand was the key for drainage, after I did all that I watered the flowers and the water wouldnt run down the bed anymore. it just sunk in. |
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12-21-2010, 03:02 PM | #36 |
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Ok, I got one for ya.
Not as much garddening as , uh, orcharding? I have some apple trees, some peach trees, some nectarine trees, and some plum trees I planted over three or four years. The youngest are the apples and they are about 3 years since planted. I get tons of blossoms on all the trees most years, but then shit goes haywire. For example, this year, only about 10 blossoms total on peach and nectarine trees, all fell off. A shit load of blossoms on the apple trees, they all turned brown and fell off. I got 1, thats ONE, effin apple. The plums seem to blossom every year, then I get tons of little plums the size of maybe three bbs, then they start to wither up and fall off. What gives? |
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12-21-2010, 03:09 PM | #37 |
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have you pruned them back?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o3rX3eMcj0 my plum tree didnt do anything until i had it pruned.
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12-21-2010, 03:11 PM | #38 |
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12-21-2010, 03:16 PM | #39 |
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i had a pro do mine but i remember him saying that he cut out all the underneath stuff that wouldnt get sunlight. It exploded the next year.
could be young trees,blossom rot,bugs, & lack of pollination or fertilizer. last year we had a leaf blight in missouri from some wasp or something. might have been that. did any of the trees leaves turn rusty looking?
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12-21-2010, 03:28 PM | #41 |
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the leaves were fine, but the blossoms fell off after turning brown. Interestingly, they actually reblossomed in september but I pulled them all off. I'm wondering about blossom rot or something.
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12-21-2010, 03:29 PM | #42 |
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thanks for the info MO. I'm gonna look into the pruning thing
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12-21-2010, 03:32 PM | #43 | |
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12-21-2010, 03:33 PM | #44 |
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Re: Orchard - prune in Jan/Feb, give 'em some stuff to fight scale (a parasite - ask your local garden center) and try to lure in some bees when the trees are in bloom. Be prepared to lose about half your apple & apricot crops around here due to freeze in bloomtime. I grow Japanese plums & cherries because they seem so hardy. And blackberries.
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