how much to charge new cllient 4 container pots?
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Comments (37)Aha! Jay! We've found another tropical fruit junkie! Tj, it is OhioJay. Tropical fruit trees is the furthest thing from Chris in Iowa's mind. ;-) You should join us on the Tropical Fruit forum. It is a nice mix of people...some living in tropical zones and stubborn, temperate zone tropical fruit growers like OJ and me. Very friendly and helpful folks. There is currently a nice little discussion there on suggested containerized tropical fruit trees. Don't buy any dwarf guavas, bananas, or dragonfruits, we can send you seeds/pups/cuttings this spring. Talk to us before you order, we can guide you to the best nurseries. Also check Gardenwatchdog before ordering. Beauty of a GH. You have email....See MoreI ordered too much! What sizes pots to re-pot in?
Comments (18)70 miles away is far. If it must be pots, your plants can be OK in pots. Most gardeners have a more or less permanent pot ghetto in any case! I would keep the pots in part shade whenever that is possible. If they have to be in full sun for awhile, do check them every morning - as you head off for work, for example, or when you get home, if you usually get home before dark. Plant in a mix of potting soil and bagged topsoil. This would be my personal preference for water conservation, even though potted plants generally don't want heavy topsoil. I think any pots that give your plants some room to grow without being the size of Kansas should be fine. Trays or water-catcher things under the pots may help save you some watering work. In zone 5, if you can't get everything into a permanent planting spot by October, use the holding bed idea but just drop the plants (in their pots), into the soil. Plants in pots are vulnerable to freezing. Some people are able to overwinter stuff in pots in an unheated garage but from back when I lived in z5 I know for a fact that, when it was -12 outside, it was -12 in my garage. That's too cold for most potted plants, even if they're hardy in the ground....See MoreHow much sun for hydrangeas in containers?
Comments (1)I Looove Hydrangeas and have them in both the front where they get morning sun until about 11. The ones in the backyard get sun from 1- 5. I have Penney mac, Okleaf, Anabell, Forever and ever and Endless Summer. Your hydrangeas definately need more sun, as well as water. If possible, morning sun with shade comming in the afternoon due to our heat. ( I am in Beaufort) They like well draining soil and to be moist but not wet. I water mine in the mornings, but even with that, the ones in the back will "wilt' just from the heat on very hot afternoons, only to spring back later in the evening or morning. I feed mine regular MG and they do fine, although I do not have the Nikko blue. Prunning should be done when the bush is finished flowering, but there are tons of sites online that have pictures you can find. Hope this helps!...See MoreContainer Soils - Water Movement and Retention 4/11/20
Comments (123)Since I am new to Al's gritty mix, I got to start fresh looking for sifting solutions for the Turface. I thought I would share what I found. It may be useful to others, or it may be me doing it wrong and you can let me know. I ordered these screens off of Etsy, https://www.etsy.com/listing/1019347355/18-classifier-sifting-pan-stainless?ref=hp_rv-4 for about $28 each. I got the 1/8 and 1/12 sifter. They stack and are advertised to fit in a 5-gallon bucket. I don't have that but it fit in one of the larger planters I have. It is fairly easy to rock the bucket/sifters and the Turface grades pretty quickly. This is the material sizes you get: Complete dropthrough fines Caught by 1/12 screen Caught by 1/8 screen Because a significant amount falls through as fines, I decided I would use the two larger sizes and just sift with the 1/12 screen to separate the fines. This leaves a mix that looks like this: Hopefully this is not too great a variation in size and I hope you let me know. But if I sift to only use the largest size, then a significant amount of a 50lb bag of Turface is not usable. Here is the breakdown of the amounts I got. For the amount I sifted to both screens, I got a huge amount of fines (on the left). Two pots of the 1/12 sift, and only one pot of the larger 1/8 sift. That is not much useable material unless I accept everything but the fines. I am planning to use the fines in the drainage for another rain garden I am planning as part of an absorbent filter along with maybe a thick layer of peat moss. My theory is the layering of Turface with peat will help excess rain filter more efficiently into the ground. We have pretty heavy clay soil in our area....See Morecalistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
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