80 percentile plants
bea (zone 9a -Jax area)
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juneroses Z9a Cntrl Fl
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10' x 80' of very wet peaty-soil- any suggestions for plants?
Comments (7)I am mystified by the universal recommendations to use a well drained soil and avoid damp spots for fruit plants of species that will tolerate considerable periods of flooding in the wild. None would probably do you any good in Z6 though. Muscadine grapes and pawpaws are obvious examples, and guavas are another when you consider the escaped reverted guavas in South Florida. Rabbiteye blueberries and mayhaws may be others, though I don't know the exact conditions of wild rabbiteyes other than in broad stream valleys, and don't recall whether mayhaws are recommended just for well drained soil. One aspect that makes this all the more mystifying is that (except for guavas) these plants have only recently been selected and bred. They are still very close, literally just a few generations at very most, from their wild relatives. A good number are simply selected FROM the wild. They are not highly modified from wild plants. I know the experts are not just knee-jerking: they specifically mention experience with root rots on muscadines and pawpaws (and perhaps the others). Yet I see wild muscadines and pawpaws flooded all the time, including occasions (several a decade) with substantial flooding for a week or more in the growing season, in cases when heavily laden with fruit, in cases with 2 feet of water, in rarer cases with 6 feet (after tropical depressions pass upstate). They seem to do fine. I am foraging the fruit a few weeks or month later. What gives?...See Morein the 80s?! Too hot to plant out?
Comments (11)If it's hot and the seedlings are ready to plant out I just plant out in the morning or evening and water in well. Planting out is tough love time around here. I'd love to do what Bakemom does and plant out before rain, but Ohio rains have a really rude way of breaking up when they hit our county and then reforming once they've passed. Then they all go up to Bakemom's house and water her flowers. Meanwhile I spend half my life toting around a watering can! :) I guess I should point out that the seedlings are all getting planted out in hunks without having their root balls disturbed. If I was separating them into individual seedlings they'd have a much harder time of it. In a hunk it's not all that different than their cozy little WS container as long as the surrounding soil doesn't leach all of the moisture out of their soil ball. Lynda...See MoreNotice to all containers on the patio!!! 80-80-80 warning
Comments (27)REVENGE OF THE PLANTS: I did dump everything un-sprouted yesterday. Couldn't see wasting any more water...ghetto is gone, yard looks lovely. ANYHOO...just as I was dumping last containers when walking by a rose bush it reached out and grabbed my shoelace and tried to wrestle me to the ground in retribution for my actions against its cousins. It succeeded to making me go flat on my face into the mulch. I just laid there think, "Please, God, don't make me have broken my arm or make me die here out in the sun among my beautiful garden" I didn't do either, but that rose bush is going to get a severe pruning! I'm glad to be done...learned quite a bit and am already planning for next year. Like let my grandson WS tomatoes for me, his are doing fabulous. Mine didn't do anything....See More80' x80' fig
Comments (11)Hi, Wow! It doesn't look exactly a fig tree, I would call it "a fig forest"! It is such an overwhelming sight!!! I only have 1 almost 4 feet tall fig tree. Next spring I will have 4 more to add to my collection. If I have to prune through this "fig forest", my first step would to remove all the blackberry branches to clear the way so I can see the fig branches much better. And I would do this before the fig tree and the blackberry tree put out leaves. It would be much easier and safer to prune as animals or little creatures during this period of time are less likely to hide, nest or eat the fruits of the trees. You certainly don't want to be surprised or worse be bitten by those creatures since they carry harmful viruses!...See Morebea (zone 9a -Jax area)
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