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josephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years ago
Cold nights, warm, sunny days - good recipe for growth! :D
Things are moving along nicely and only 12 days behind last year.
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josephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoSagae
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June Fever, new late 2015. Sure came up bright! If it grows half as nice as Barb's I will be very happy. :-)
As you can see from the photos, there are many different stages of growth. My new (2015) bare root Touch of Class is so slow (but pipping) that I bought another one, lol.
The blue behind it is 'Moody Blues', also new this year.
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Comments (7)I'd say you're overthinking/worrying. Not really uncommon for the beginner, I was the same way. As time goes on you will learn lessons that will change how you approach gardening in the future. Gardening is a constant learning experience, treat it as such and it's a great hobby. If you expect to just throw some seeds in the ground and start producing mass quantities of (great quality) food, you're most likely going to end up disappointed. However if you expect some failures and are prepared to learn from them, it's very rewarding when you fix your technique for the next time and everything goes much smoother. I'd guess you're over-fertilizing, but without exact amounts and dates it's impossible to say. When it comes to fertilizer, less is more. Plants IMO do much, much better when they lack certain nutrients, than when you over-fertilize and shock/burn them. So it's safer to under-fertilize than over. At least IMO. I gave my beds blood meal a few months ago. Right now all I'm fertilizing with is compost tea. My plants are doing fine, although one of my tomatoes did develop BER, so it might be time for me to step up my fertilizing regimen a bit. Cucumbers and green beans are doing just fine without anything beyond the compost tea though. As for your whens and how much, I can't honestly tell you. I'm not experienced enough to know what is generally required like some of the veterans here seem to. I know after I gave my plants nitrogen burn I'm being very cautious about how I approach fertilizing. I'm basically just letting things go more or less naturally and keeping a sharp eye for the first sign of any problems. When a problem pops up (like the BER) then I'll consider increasing my fertilizing. I'm going to use this process for at least the next year or two, until I become better at judging what the plants need before a problem develops. Oh and all fertilizer definitely does not have higher nitrogen content than the other ingredients. This seems to be the case at like Lowes and Home Depot though.. Their selection, at least at my stores, are total crap. It's basically limited to about 3-4 different kinds and that's it. And that's counting miracle grow original and miracle grow tomato as two separate fertilizers. This post was edited by IAmSupernova on Mon, May 20, 13 at 11:48...See MoreGarden update!
Comments (2)I wish I was emmers.Truth be told I got a late start this year because I had to hand dig this year. And that was in strips not the traditional way I normally do. It took me over a month to dig it all up cuz I have a heart condition so I had to take breaks often. A lot of stuff did not get out till the first week in June. But I should have tomatoes getting ripe and ready in two weeks. Peppers about the same. I have however gotten some 38 cucumbers so far which turned out good. My French pumpkins got hit hard by SVB and one of them may be a total loss.But getting back to Vorlon and Black Krim I have some really nice fruit set and Black Krim should be ripe in a couple of weeks and Vorlon by the end of the month. I am really excited about these as they are looking really nice.Heard a lot of good things about them so I hope they will live up to their reputation. Kevin...See MoreYa'll come !
Comments (6)moongirl, please remember if you use this method that I'm really, REALLY serious about the water even sandy soil will hold water better than most mulches and I recommend the most dense or smallest particle size and oldest. This method is similar to a raised bed with all the same cautions, raised beds are othen used to improve drainage which hosta don't need they need water. I would also dig a small hole or impression in the area planted for example 2 inches if you can get down that far. If anyone considering this can tell me their source of organic matter I will contact the company and help you decide the best product for your planting....See MoreKeeping Up With the Veggie Harvest
Comments (14)Carol, For me, the likely difference this year is both that the combination of rain and some irrigation kept the garden producing AND we've had very few grassfires at our end of the county, so I haven't been running all over feeding/hydrating firefighters. In a drier year, I wouldn't have a lot left to harvest by now, and that's assuming I wasn't running to fires and even had time to harvest and put food by. The bulk of my food preservation is usually in spring/early sumer when the broccoli, corn, potatoes, green beans, onions and tomatoes are in production big-time. Okra, peppers, melons and black-eyed peas are usually a bit later, and then from late July on, there usually isn't much to put up because I cook it and we eat it about as quickly as I harvest it. So, in August and September, I'm more likely to be harvesting and drying herbs or deadheading flowers/seed saving, etc. This year is just odd all around....everything was late. Most of the tomatoes had to be dealt with in July, although there's enough every week to put up a couple of quarts, eat all we want, and give a few away. The peppers, though, just keep coming. If the fall green beans, black-eyed peas, cucumbers and sweet corn do well, I'll have no complaints....the spring green beans and corn weren't that great in terms of quantity produced. Ilene, I think I am going to pull most of the squash and all of the melon plants today. They've had every pest and disease problem under the sun in August and aren't healthy enough to bother with at this point. I really miss having the guineas and the free-range chickens. My garden is completely full of grasshoppers, squash bugs, stink bugs and leaf-footed bugs and the dreaded spider mites. I haven't seen any lady bugs this week. I wonder where they went. At least pulling the melons and squash will leave me some space for cold-season plants. Game bird, Sorry to hear about the pesticide burn. I just won't spray hardly anything at all in my garden other than Spinosad, which is organic. I was going to spray it today, but it is rainy, so there's no point. I hate using any spray at all, even organic ones. My melons have really declined, so I am yanking them out today. I think their problem mostly is red spider mites and there is nothing much you can do about them (or, at least, nothing I'll spray in my garden). I need to get the cold season stuff in the ground ASAP now that we're not having 100-degree days any more. Seems like we had to wait forever for the August temperatures to break here. Gardening is always a learning experience, and sometimes I think I have to re-learn the same lessons over and over again. Most years, some things produce heavily and others don't, so this year has been that way for me. My usually reliable potatoes and onions both did poorly, apparently because they didn't appreciate receiving 18" of rain in 4 or 5 weeks. Everything else, except beans, has done well though. Still, I am glad we don't rely solely on the garden for our produce. I am hoping for a late first freeze so the fall plants have a chance to be as productive as the spring plants have been. Dawn...See Morejosephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years agoI dunno, Denis! Yes. It does the job itself! Lol. I have a few different euphorbias, love them. As far as maintenance goes, after the flowers just start to set seed, I cut stalks back to the base (where new growth is already in progress) to tidy up (reducing it by approx. half) then leave it alone. It stays evergreen under the piles of snow. Tough plant! :-)
Sandy, this is one hosta that just gets better, and better, and better each year. It is not a diva, likes sun and.....you will love it! Some prior seasons...
Did I push you over the edge? ;-)
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