A Once and Future Georgia Garden
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Rose rosette disease showing up in more Georgia gardens
Comments (1)Saturate the rose with insecticide as a deterrent from April to October. Why not cut the rose to about a foot tall, and saturate it there, so that the insecticide does not interfere with the good atmosphere you try to create without spray. Oh, well. I do appreciate the article since the disease has affected so many of my roses. Sammy...See MoreSo what are you doing in your gardens right now?
Comments (34)So far we've applied a pre-emergent to the new (last year) zoysia and done some spot weeding in the beds. All the plantings we had put in as part of a complete front and side yard re-landscaping survived the Winter well and are or have been blooming (see my posting in Georgia Gardening forum for a pix of our "Weeping Cherry's First Spring"). The bonsai will need to wait to go back out to make sure the last frost has passed, and I'm still carrying the new composter around in the back of the truck, but will at least pick a spot for it soon. The backyard, heavily treed, shady, and with a good crop of English Ivy (at least it's down from most of the trees) will be the focus of this year's efforts. We plan on erecting a fence along the back and one side (our neighbor has fenced in the other side), removing much of the ivy, creating pathways, planting some shade tolerant trees and shrubs,and leveling the one area that does get pretty good sun. Also on the agenda is moving our garden work table from inside the storage area under the sunroom to a covered patio area that is next to the area that will be leveled. Finally, we'll be looking at what to plant in a sloped raised bed area on the side of the house that was formed when we had the grade leveled and a retaining wall built along the side lot line. Our neighbor subsequently partially landscaped this area and we are cooperating on completing it. All this would probably make more sense were I to post pictures. I'll do so as we focus on the various "projects" that I've enumerated. Best Wishes--Carl...See MoreHardwood cuttings in Georgia Gardener
Comments (2)I shall have to hunt down a copy of this and buy it (don't worry, I know what garden centers have it but I dread going there knowing I will walk out with more than the magazine!). I have recently ventured into the world of propagating shrubs by cuttings. I have had a 30% success rate with oakleaf hydrangea ... ending up with 5 good plants after trying 15 cuttings. To be fair, I was purposefully trying both hard and soft wood cuttings to see which would fare better. I have done this twice now, once last fall and once this spring. Hard wood cuttings did better. I am encouraged enough by my success to try other shrubs (and I have a viburnum nudum experiment going on right now). It is really is fun to make more plants! I am terrible with seeds, preferring to cast them to the wind and let Mother Nature handle that task....See MoreI'd like input from Middle Georgia gardeners
Comments (4)I live in Rockdale County. Our garden is small - we live in the city limits of Conyers. Even though we don't have room for a garden big enough to have abundance for canning, I will share a few things since we are not too far from Madison. Lettuce has done fine for us as a spring crop. Heat turns it bitter very quickly. Others may have different experience, but for us, it is usually finished by early June. We have planted it as a fall crop with some success. We tried Brandywine tomatoes a couple of years ago and were mostly disappointed with them. I learned on the Tomato Forum that the early heat in Georgia can make it hard to grown them here since they are particularly sensitive to it. I was advised to get them in the ground as early as possible and the year we tried them, I was able to plant in March and keep them alive by covering them on a few cold nights. They grew beautifully, but we were disappointed with yield and also didn't think their taste was worth the effort. Other varieties have worked much better for us. Again, I have read others on the forum with much better results from Brandywine and also most people really like their taste. We planted Cayenne Peppers this year for the first time. I started them inside and we planted them out end of April. Very big harvest but it did seem like forever before they started turning red. Ours are still producing. The heat this summer did not bother them at all. (When you harvest, you may want to be sure to wear gloves. I found even the leaves of the cayenne pepper plants caused a burning sensation and I even got a rash from them.) Bell Pepper plants this year didn't do much of anything until the heat broke and then late in season they took off. Ours are still producing very nicely which I find a little odd. We always grow cucumbers but have found it necessary to keep them sprayed with insecticidal soap or we lose them early in the season. We usually do a second planting of them in July and we always train them on a trellis. You may already know about the following link, but if not check out the info. at the UGA site. If you search on Home Gardening, it will return a list of lots of good info. At one time they had publications on vegetable gardening plans for the home gardener. Here's hoping we get regular rain next season. Rain his winter would be fine with me also :~). Here is a link that might be useful: UGA College of Agriculture...See Moreapprenticegardener
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