Sugar bush in Alberta
Sherwood Botsford (z3, Alberta)
12 years ago
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Comments (8)Jennie, I can't help with your climate questions, but snap peas are wonderful fresh. Since you've never grown them before, you could always start small and see what you think before committing a large space to them. But if you've got the space available, definitely go for it. (As for the weather, if you're only talking a couple dollars for a packet of seeds, try it and see what you get -- if they don't grow well, save the rest of the pack for late winter/early spring and see if that works better.) As far as support, I've grown dwarf snap peas in containers with an inexpensive tomato cage (the flimsy WM kind) in the middle to help get them started. They do cling to each other, but they also cling to the wire cage and I think this helps them withstand wind a bit better. For harvesting, snap peas are eaten whole -- you eat both the pod and the peas inside, all at once. The pods are nice and crunchy when raw. You can also add them to stir-frys or just steam them as a side dish. We tend to mostly eat them raw in our house. They are one of those "pick a handful while out in the garden and eat half of them before you get back to the kitchen" kind of veggies. :) Good luck! Kathy...See Morewhy is there this unreasonable???? attachment to elm
Comments (29)I ran a kennel in Selkirk, Manitoba that had the runs settled under huge elms dating back to the year dot. DED hit while I was workign there, and they all had to come down. Oaks ahve their points, but they are not fast growers. A street lined with 60-75 foot high elms is something to see. I would consider some of the maples as suitable replacements. If I can convince Jeffries to sell me liners, I'm going to try to start a small sugar bush here in Alberta, now that Jeffries has a prairie hardy one. Vancouver found to their sorrow that planting a lot of one thing is a mistake, especially if it is cloned, and not grown from seed. So now they try to plant only a few blocks of a given street tree, and try to make sure that they use enough different kinds that there are buffer zones. So too on my tree farm, I put a block of pine, a block of spruce, a block of something else. A bug that has to look for the next victim is a bug that is more likely to be chickadee lunch. Find a DED elm. Plant 1 or 2. Maybe plant another kind of elm. Plant several oaks of different kinds, a weeping willow, and a clump of paper birch. Diversity in trees is every bit as important as diversity in your stock portfolio...See Moredon555
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