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Comments (3)Bryan~Thanks for your reply. I know I'm jumping the gun quite a little bit. I really do appreciate the heads up, as I know it would be in my best interest to be prepared as much as possible before I make my proposal. This open land is part of a little homestead, there are at least three houses and a barn on the property. I know they have well water, what I don't know is what that means exactly. They're obviously on the outskirts of town. Recently, I've gotten positive feedback from every resident I've spoken to regarding a CSA operation, so I am currently leaning to going with that approach, and starting small with the flowers as a sideline. The local government may be able to offer some assistance, at least spread the word in the town newsletter. If there is enough interest, I would have a diversified base of potential customers to begin with, between the CSA, the farmers market, and the florist. He mentioned zinnias, my floral instructor expressed an interest in cut branches of woodies (fall), so I am getting a sense of what the local market is looking for, and when. I need to do much more research and planning before I begin. Yeah good luck, I'm gonna need it....See MoreSteve Lau or someone else who doesn't use barriers
Comments (19)I tried to do without barriers for many years, but I have reluctantly installed some on about half of my 80 or so bamboo plantings. At first I was able to control my runners pretty well with rhizome pruning, but as they have gotten more mature over the last 12 years at my present location, they have started putting out larger and more aggressive rhizomes that travel farther. I have a large yard that is densely populated with a wide variety of other plants and I have gotten tired of dealing with 20 foot long rhizomes that come up in the middle of my daylilies, my rhododendrons, my maple trees, other clumps of bamboo, on the other side of concrete patios, and under asphalt driveways. It's one thing if you have fairly soft soil and rhizome prune religiously; however, I have clay and glacial till that is hard to dig up and remove rhizomes from. I have fairly large diameter barrier installations, and I have yet to notice any negative effects on the contained bamboo....See MoreCan someone tell me if this is weed or something else?
Comments (15)English sucks. I don't know how people learn it as a secound language. If you don't see the same plant growing in other places nearby it's likly a cultivated plant. If it's growing in the alley and behind the shed it's probably a weed. If it's a voliteer plant from seed of a cultivated plant and growing where it's not welcome that's a weed as well. Then you have wildflowers like Indian Blanket and Blue Bonnet that are nothing but weeds most of the season that happen to have pretty flowers briefly. If they are in the way chop them down. The worst weeds I've dealt with was Trumpet Vine and Bamboo but some folks plant the stuff and water it. Hey,I once smoked grapevine when I was a kid,I wonder if anyone ever tried smoking a Bamboo stalk? LOL...See MoreWho else grows Amsonia?
Comments (21)In addition to the four that Wantonamara noted... I have two other types seeded right now. I took half of each type, planted them into a seed tray and left them outside for two or so months through winter and then moved them under lights inside. The second half were cold damp stratified for the same period in the fridge before going into a seed tray under the same lights. In the end I got half to germinate from each tray….. The rest were rotten. So I ended up consolidating them into a single tray. Not that will try again … but if I did… I would cut the stratification period down to just for weeks or so. Maybe this would help on the rotting issue. Right now the seedlings are a few inches tall. The media is half seed mix and half vermiculite. Some seem to be struggle a bit. Even though I just started barely giving the weakest of fertilizer in the watering.. I am getting some yellowing of the leaves. Don’t know what’s going on. I have no idea what I will be doing with them all… I don’t have room for a fraction of them. I have issues....See Morerifis (zone 6b-7a NJ)
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