Let's talk about the Weather in the colder zones-2-3-4.
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Best tasting plum or plumcot for colder zones 3-4
Comments (16)Folks, Gracious, Pembina, Toka (and Kaga are almost identical) and Kahinta are much better (in my opinion) than Lacresent, Underwood, and Waneta for the "superhardy" plums. Pembina cracks readily, but it is so prolific even if 80% crack you still get a good crop. We use the cracked ones to make "Smiling Plum Jam" which sells very well. Pipestone is much like Pembina (flavorwise) but larger and drops when ripe so you have to pick them before they are ready and let them sit a day or so. Underwood is the hardiest, but has a very sour skin and less flavor. Waneta can be wonderful, but is astringent until perfectly ripe then it drops, and the fruit ripens over a long period so most of the fruit drops. I pulled out all my Underwood, Lacresant, and Wanetas this fall as they were taking up space I could use for better fruit (and got a run of firewood out of them). Opal does well here but was affected by the freeze of 2012 (1/2 of my trees did not have fruit that year) so it is not as bud hardy as others. Ember has been a total disappointment, little fruit (but the fruit was a pretty yellow orange), lots of disease (for some reason lessor peach borers love them), and the fruit was not good enough to put up with the lack of productivity, so I pulled it out as well. Mt Royal (round blue European about 1") is a very hardy plum, tastes good and is prolific I would recommend it. Stanley is pretty tough as well but need heat in Sept to ripen. In colder climates date of ripening is important. Even if the temps get to 70 during the day in Sept, they are only there for a couple of hrs which can lead to the fruit not ripening and lack of sugar and flavor. There have been years here when the Stanleys and Empress plums have not ripened due to low temp in Sept. So it is best to pick varieties which ripen earlier if you are in the North. Eric...See MoreLet's talk about Dormancy with Mr. Charles Barnhoorn
Comments (55)Back to the topic... Sir Hans...Thanks for that info. You are right(as always). I have seen a pic of hippeastrums(for cut flower) with scapes and almost no leaves. I think it is in Ludwig's website. "defoliated for hygienical reasons"...How is this so? During winter time, I do not have enough growing area inside that can give my amaryllises enough sunlight. I wish I did. I do not have a greenhouse or indoor grow lights. Again, I wish I did. As much as I want my amaryllises to continously grow all year long, I can not do so. Putting them to dormancy is a MUST for me. This is my plan for this winter. Since the unheated garage is dark, I will have to let the leaves dry out and then cut them. Give them maybe a week or so to dry out a bit and then unpot, dip in fungicide, repot in fresh soil. Water a little bit and mulch to keep moisture in the roots. I have fed them well and given them as much right caring as I know this spring/summer. I think I will be getting a very good performance from them next spring....See MoreLet's talk about the weather
Comments (22)I know you're all jealous...-38C this morning! (without the wind chill...but no wind yet anyway thank goodness) Garden chicken, goofy here too...up to -2 for Thursday as well. Its going to feel like t-shirt weather :^) What's really goofy is that the birds were still chirping this morning even before the sun was up. They're sure tough little guys. They're tougher than the dogs who stayed out for less than 5 minutes to eat and do their business. They come barrelling in the door when its opened like bowling balls! Toots...See Moresummer 2011 lets talk about rm weather!!!!!!!
Comments (26)Steve, My peppers in the hoop house in gallon and a half or larger pots produce in mass .Many have been potted up since the end of April.I have about 70 others to plant up who were not picked up when I offered free plants,,LOL,,Mostly the super hots,just cannot toss them to the chickens..so I am doing that today.In the greenhouse we will end up with about 200 pots of peppers when I finish plus a mud tub outside.Last year we picked the last ones with the tomatoes around Christmas time..When I do them out in the garden I get probably about a 1/4 of what I can harvest out of the greenhouse in a season.. Wait can one have to much basil???? hehehehe We added a second house just for the tomatoes this year have about 72 of them in it.It is time to get the support system figured out there as well since they are chest high. Stinking slugs with another cool year,,they do not seem to like the cedar shavings I like to use on the greenhouse floor to much.Just in case though I do have sluggo sprinkled around the perimeter and a bottle of ammonia water to spray them down. LOL oh well they do give us a romantic midnight walk with a flashlight and a bottle of ammonia ,hmmm last night was chilly though.. Dan not sure if this will help or not but it is what we have going up in from the Missoula to Glacier. Up in the Glacier Park area they are looking at one of the latest Going to the Sun openings since it opened.One of the hike in lodges just opened but they are saying very limited hiking around it due to the heavy masses of snow drifts still about 15 ft deep...In Kalispell there is still quite bit of high water moving through and some flooded areas.They are still monitoring the lake and running Kerr Dam open because of of high waters.My son lives on the Flathead river out by Buffalo much of which the bike trails and such are still under water.My other son lives down in the Missions just below McDonald lake area, Post creek is running off pretty high yet with some lower flooding there. I have not been down to the Bitteroots area. But the Clark Fork moving through Missoula and over past the family ranch at Tarkio is riding high and very dirty yet..No one has mentioned any thing about the rafters running yet there.. Mary...See MoreBillMN-z-2-3-4
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