Best time to plant Clematis?
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Comments (32)Persicaria "Firetail" blooms all season long for me. If it gets ratty looking all you do it whack it back and it comes back in no time. Here is a picture of it amongst other things including a brugmansia that is just now coming into bloom. Down lower right is Salvia 'Hot Lips' that also blooms all season long. Dr. Moy, a hardy ginger for me at least, also blooms late in the season for me. Just yesterday cut a few of the flower stalks and brought them inside and the scent wafts through the house. While not a perennial flower, the male gingko tree also adds its presence in the fall garden. As do witch hazels....See MoreWhen is the best time to plant pepper plants
Comments (1)Okiebaker, You can transplant pepper plants anytime after the soil temperature at planting depth (2" to 4") is consistently staying at 55 degrees or warmer and has been at that temperature for at least three days. Peppers transplanted into soil colder than 55 degrees won't grow until the soil warms up to 55 and their roots can be damaged if they sit in cold soil too long. The soil temperature is half the equation. The other half is the air temperature. Once the soil temperature is at 55 degrees, watch the air temperatures and do not transplant your peppers until the air temps are consistently staying above the low 40s, and I think the high 40s are even better. Pepper plants that are exposed to air temps in the low 40s for even a brief peiod of time can remain somewhat stunted and nonproductive for the rest of their life. This seems to affect some pepper varieties more than others. Peppers do best in loamy soil, whether it has a heavy clay or heavy sand component. So, no matter what kind of soil you're starting with, add some sort of organic matter like compost or composted manure to it to improve its fertility and tilth. Soil pH should be between 5.5 and 7.5. If you regularly add compost or composted manure or some other form of organic matter to your soil, that's really all the plants need. If you use chemical fertilizers, you can add a pelleted, slow-release fertilizer with a 1-2-1 ratio, like a 10-20-10. If you use organic fertilizers, you can add the proper amount of the organic fertilizer of your choice. I usually feed my peppers with an organic fertilizer formulated for tomatoes called Espoma Tomato Tone by putting 2 or 3 tablespoons of it into the planting hole as I plant. I dig the hole, toss the handful of fertilizer into the hole, use the trowel to stir the fertilizer into the soil at the bottom of the hole, place the transplant in the hole, return the soil I'd dug out when I dug the hole, pat the soil down, and then water the soil with a watering can to settle it down around the plant's roots. Then I mulch to reduce soil splash which can carry soil-borne disease up onto plant foliage. You plant your peppers at the same depth in the ground as they were in the container. Unlike tomatoes, peppers will not form adventitious roots along the stem if planted deeply, and deep planting can harm the pepper plants. If you don't know your soil temp, you can either check it using a common kitchen thermometer or you can check the website of the Oklahoma Mesonet. In the case of peppers, you'd check it at planting depth, which would be abbout 2-4" depending on the size of the pots your transplants are in. Here in southern OK, our soil temps have been in the 60s for several weeks, although an occasional cold front will push the 3-day average back into the 50s. I would think in central OK, your soil temps would be about the same as mine. I transplanted about 50 pepper plants into the ground last week. I've linked the OK Mesonet below. Once you click on the link and go to the OK Mesonet page, just slick on 'Soil Temperatures' on the left menu and once the soil temp map pops up, you can use the left menu to check current soil temps, 1-day ave. and 3-day ave. at several different depths. For planting purposes, I use the 3-day averages. Hope this helps. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Oklahoma Mesonet...See MoreBest care for store bought plants until planting time?
Comments (6)Thanks, Dave. Yes, they have been hardened off. I was thinking that they would need some acclimation to our weather, since they came from a shade house and were accustomed to warmer temperatures. I would rather plant them, but I was worried about our erratic temps as of late. Highs are running upper 50's, and lows went into low 30's, but averaging around 38-40. We're going to move up to highs in the 70's this weekend before cooling back off into the mid 60's, which is still warmer than what we've had, and getting more rain. (my yard is saturated!) Low's staying consistently around low 40's. Not sure of my soil temp, but I'll check those tomorrow in the various beds...it's still pouring out there today. I'm outside of San Diego about 2K feet up in the local mountains, so we get a bit cooler here at night, but warmer than the coastal areas in the day. I'll give it a go and see what happens. I have so many plants, seedling, and seeds waiting to come up, that it's a bit like running an experiment at this point. I'm recording what I've done with each one, so I can determine what worked (and didn't) for the next go around....See MoreBest time to move a clematis?
Comments (4)i like flora's idea .. but if not.. then mark this one completely ... so that when the ground thaws.. you can dig a big gob of soil ..... and move the dormant root mass .. gob and all ... to a new spot .. why mess with worrying about winter .. just do it in spring.. and move enough soil.. that it never knows you moved it ..... btw .. gob is a highly technical gardening term.. flora might not even be aware of that ... ken...See MoreUser
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