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Is it worth saving my basil plants?
Comments (4)Glad to hear it! Sounds like you're in the clear! I was cautious on your basil since it has been having a major problem with basil downy mildew in the last few years. One of the symptoms is that they look yellow as if they have not been fertilized! The disease is a real nasty one -- like late blight of tomato, it can travel miles and miles on the wind, and no organic fungicides have been found to treat it. Although in the North it typically doesn't overwinter (so far) and it doesn't like cooler temperatures, lots of us buy our basil plants that are greenhouse-grown, and thus the possibility of its survival in the North and the cycle continuing exists. (Seed can also carry the disease.) I know Rutgers has been partnering to develop resistant varieties that are now for sale at wholesale level, but I'm not sure how far into the retail market they have managed to penetrate. Has anyone seen basil for sale yet that is marketed as disease resistant?...See MoreAre these two baby trees worth saving?
Comments (21)Red Oak is THE Red Oak planted in @newhostalady's area. The tree in the photo is a Red Oak. Pin Oak is also planted but tends to do poorly in the typically alkaline soils of the area. A Shumard Oak would be an exceptionally rare find, planted as a one-off by a very dedicated geeky municipal forester or a local plant nut/collector. Ditto for Black Oak which we see planted at small sizes really only for habitat restoration projects. Definitely European Horsechestnut for both....See MoreIs my Begonia Maculata worth saving? Please help
Comments (10)I agree with Dave on this being a fussy cane begonia. Root rot comes from too much watering as well. I keep mine in the basement and have learned to keep them on the drier side in winter. Mildew is the one issue that can make these types quickly turn ugly. I don't mist my canes but I do water by hose so if some of the leaves get wet, not a huge deal. I have several I've grown from seeds collected off the mother plant that seem identical or slightly different. I wished I had known about watering back when I started getting canes. Here was the mother plant back in Sep, 2009 in the same 18" pot of Encanto Bronze (the bigger cane), Mrs. Hashimoto (the plain green one with white blooms, and Morocco. close up of it, Mrs. Hashimoto and Morocco. Here it was in bloom that year. The seed grown ones last Sep in a slightly smaller pot (maybe 15") and blooming. The plant to the left is Begonia platanifolia (another good sized begonia) This same pot the winter before had mildew so bad that I lost some stems and almost all the leaves before I did anything to remedy the situation. Now if I had a big GH like at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, we could grow them to 12 to 14 feet tall....See MoreIs this frame worth saving?
Comments (49)For Linda Campbell: Those photos were FIRST sorted through by others (my paternal great-grandparents' siblings, my paternal grandparents' siblings, my dad's brothers and their kids) in my family - I'm the last to get them. They were offered to every single person on this planet that I'm related to. NOBODY wanted them, and NOBODY wants them now. NOBODY knows who they are. There's NO WAY to find out, because anyone who could name them is long dead. My children will not be having children of their own, so there's NOBODY to hand these off to. I have no siblings. My mother was an only child. My maternal grandmother's siblings had no children. My maternal great-grandmother's siblings had no children. My maternal great-great-grandmother had only two siblings, both of whom died in childhood. My maternal 3great-grandmother was a "dock worker" if you get my drift... so there's zero record of who she was, or who actually was the father of my maternal 2g-grandmother. For you to ASSUME I'm not interested in my heritage is hilarious. I am the family genealogist, along with one of my 1c2r. We've documented everything that's documentable. There's NO WAY to tie photographs to the letters we have, the church records we have, or the census records we have. They're just pictures of unidentifiable people standing (for example) on a porch of an unidentifiable house in an unidentifiable town in a year that's only sort of identifiable based on their clothing or horse wagons or Model T's in the yard. So. Stop with your ASSUMPTIONS about me and my interests. Telling me I'm trashing my history is also silly. ASSUMING that I've not digitized old letters/records is also silly. All of my research is publicly available to anyone with an Ancestry or Family Search account - but there's NOBODY in my family who even cares because my direct ancestors had few siblings and even fewer children....See More- 7 years ago
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