Did your Rose de Rescht really, really sleep its first year
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Really , really gone organic this year and it's a freaking jungle
Comments (42)The discussion of minerals is very interesting. I read Teaming with Microbes last year, and I thought it was fascinating, as well. I may have missed it, but I don't remember a discussion of minerals. I do live in a cool, moist environment in the glaciated zone - New Hampshire. There are rocks *everywhere* on my property. Every time I put in new plants, even in the veggie garden where the soil was once upon a time double-dug, somehow a rock turns up. (We joke that we have magic rock seeds.) In the front yard and near the house in back, there is a varying amount of top soil with yucky sand underneath from the builder carting away the soil ~40 years ago. In the woods in back, there is about 6" of lovely forest humus with clay underneath. I've been gardening seriously/more intensively for 5 or so years. (I've always done OG and we've owned the house for 11 years.) Assuming my soils were decent in minerals originally (I don't know), what's the best way to keep them that way for the long haul? I do use compost, manure, and a complete OG fertilizer (North Country or Espoma). I just sent my soil for a "real" test at the Extension for the first time - they usually measure some of the trace elements in the OG panel, right? As far as the idea of bringing in praying mantids, I'd advise against it. I let my nature-loving son get a PM egg case 2 years ago. Last year was the first year we ever had insect problems. We noticed a definite change in the overall insect population, including a lot fewer beneficials. We're hoping things will gradually balance themselves. It's like bringing in a T-rex or something - those suckers are a little scary.......See MoreWhat did you WS this year that you're really excited about?
Comments (24)I'm excited for everything that I've winter sown! Some aren't new to me, but they were ones that I had difficulty germinating last year. Evening Primrose Bleeding Hearts Gaillardia Bells of Ireland 3 Dianthus varieties Delphinium Ladybells Carnations Texas Redbud Clematis Texas Bluebonnet Echinacea Balloonflower Aster varieties Sedge Wild Bergamot Jacob's Ladder Eastern Bluestar Persicaria Garlic chives Breadseed poppies @ docmom: I planted delphinium last year during the spring and they never made it past their second set of leaves. I randomly tossed a seed or two into an urn with petunias in it during the summer, and sure enough it sprouted and eventually bloomed in October. It's doing great now. I recently transplanted it because a mum had taken over. A week later and no issues with it at all. I'm beginning to wonder if their poor record is a bit over exaggerated. We'll see. Good luck with yours!...See MoreRose de Rescht - Can RRD look like this?
Comments (7)First off, your Rose de Rescht has a symptom that is often caused by phytoplasmas. Phytoplasmas are submicroscopic particles; most often we see them manifest with this odd stem on dandylions in the spring. I visited the Missourit Botanica Garden and one of the guys there had collected dried phytoplasma stems from about thirty different plants. In my garage I have one from a rose, one of the double once blooming spring red ramblers. That odd width of stem was the only thing wrong. We let the stem live, and the next spring only one side of it (about a third) was still alive. So we cut it off. That plant never developed RRD in that place, but six or seven years later it did get RRD when it was along a fenceline where other roses had sickened (bad wind flow situation there that tends to drop mites.) Also, in the E-book you'll see a photo of a RRD-sickened Rose de Rescht (at the feet of Dr. Mark Windham who's chairing the RRD thing at the ARS meeting.) That Rose de Rescht was chock full of symptoms and IIRC none of them were this sort of stem. Let's be kind to Auburn and point out that they are not seeing a lot of RRD on Knockouts so may have missed one. Again, take a look at Mark's article in the ARS earlier this year. It has a lot of pictures of RRD on Knockouts. Ann Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Rosette e-book...See MoreIt's really, really hot - How is your garden doing?
Comments (28)Such a hot dry summer here in Austin. I live on a creek that has dried up for the first time since we moved here 10 years ago. It's not so much my beautiful St. Augustine and annuals I'm worried about, but my trees are looking very bad. I've already lost a couple of young pecan trees. We have a huge elm tree that is shedding a lot of leaves now. I just don't know if I can water enough to keep them alive. Evidently I made some good choices in perennials because they are doing fairly good. The bed is heavily mulched and every well established. I have hardy hibiscus that are really showing off this summer. I have put off any kind of summer pruning or thinning. Anything to give them a little more shade. We havenÂt mowed in 3 weeks, IÂm kinda afraid to, it might cut all the green off the top and leave us with hay. I have noticed that people who mow their yards weekly are having a harder time keeping them green. I really donÂt want to start all over on lawn grass. If I do I will replace it with something more drought resistant. Although I do love that beautiful St. Augustine. I have double potted all of my hanging baskets and still had to set them on the ground in shade to keep from watering them every day, cause frankly folks it's just to dang hot out there for me. I also started bringing plants back in the house to save them. It's just so sad to have to decide on who lives and who dies. They say we are supposed to have a wet fall. If not, I think we are going to lose a lot of trees around here....See Morejaxondel
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