Planning for Next Season
Kes Z 7a E Tn
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Comments (11)I dont think you want to fall fertilize, usually you dont want a flush of growth before winter. Someone advise when the best time to fertilize and why please? 75% petal fall. I dont agree with spraying pesticides while bees are still interested. Usually a storm knocks the flowers off here before it even gets to 75% petal fall. If you dont want to use imidan, spectracide trizide once and done labled for fruit, has worked well for us in pc alley. Its cheap also, and is almost odorless unlike imidan. I stopped spraying on 1 tree june 20th , the others july 12th. Just to see what I can get away with. Seems like im in the clear. I think my schedule here next year looks like this: Green tip to pink oil and immunox ,100 % petal fall (imidan immunox + captan) and 3 cover sprays(also imidan immunox + captan). I am channeling harvestman.. "OK, I don't know where you live and your spray issues are going to be greatly affected by your location but here's my spray schedule for the scores of orchards I manage around SE NY. No dormant oil- do an oil spray somewhere between the point where emerging shoots are 1/2" and the flower clusters begin to show pink. Mix Nova (myclobutinol =immunox) at highest legal rate with 1 to 2% oil. If it's closer to pink use 1%.( Remember oil and captan are not compatible.) Don't spray again until petal fall when petals have mostly gone from latest flowering varieties and bees have lost interest. Than spray Imidan + Nova + Captan mixed together at highest legal rates. Repeat in 10 to 14 days. Where I manage orchards, the space between earliest flowering Japanese plums and latest flowering apples is only 2 weeks or so which usually allows me to wait until the latest flowering trees are ready to begin spraying anything. Plum curculio seems to time its appearence conveniently to the rythm of the last flowering varieties. This may not be true where you are. Sometimes it leaves me with plums too far along to spray oil by the time I do the apples and Euro plums sometimes get mites because of this- so you may need to spray oil on different trees at different times. If you can't find or bear using Imidan- an organiphosphate that is restricted in a few states, you best use Sevin instead but add an extra spray and apply at about 7 day intervals. (OR spectracide trizide once and done labled for fruit 10-14 days) All this is based on plum curculio being your primary insect problem which is the case most areas east of the Mis. River. These sprays will also absolutely control scab, CAR and Mildew as well as most of the crop fatal insects. Apple fly maggot is an exception, but I haven't had much of a problem with this pest in the orchards I manage. This pest can be controlled with a lot of fake apples smeared with tangle trap. If you don't want to use synthetic chemicals, you will probably have quite a battle on your hands. You'll probably have to do at least 4 applications of Surround about a week apart. Stone fruit will require the addition of another fungicide application or 2 (Indar) starting 2 or 3 weeks after final insecticide spray. Because I manage so many orchards so far apart I have to resort to a spray schedule that is based on expectations rather than actual monitoring. You may be able to reduce insecticide sprays with monitoring but PC are quick and sly. Other problems may occur later in the season and you will in time learn to monitor and react to the pitfalls. Good luck, Alan Haigh- The Home Orchard Co....See MoreWhat are you planning on growing next season?
Comments (10)Steve, that sounds glorious! Do you have any pictures? I bet you have cut flowers all summer long. Vases and vases full. Suzy, that's what happens when one has a blank slate! Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. It's rather ugly too. But mostly, I thought I'd get going so when it's time to leave in a couple of years, I can take some mature plants with me. And I miss all those listed. You hardly sound senile dear lady, brilliant in my estimation. It's what gives you pleasure and income. Couldn't be smarter in my book! Krista, let me save you the google. Ilex decidua, sounds delightful! A real lovely for you and the birds. Cardinals love those berries. Wonder if that's what makes their feathers red? Tibs, I have to tell you, Penstemon is a very forgiving creature. Neglected, they not only lived on, but were in glorious bloom even years later when I left my home in Shelbyville (before they tore it all out?!). What is japanese wood grass? Sounds intersesting. Garlic is great to eat, but the flowers are actually something I like even better than the plant, along with eggplant (and the fuzzy leaves!), squash, and tomato plants. Speaking of which, I have some Mortgage Lifter seeds I've saved. I can mail you some if you want. I don't guarantee they'll germinate, but it'd be free to you. I think your grape arbor sounds sturdy and you know me, I love recycling, so good on ya for that too! West, I wish I had the space for veggies. We really only will grow one tomato and some carrots, with some runner bean on the fence. Do you can what you keep so you have it year round?...See MoreEssay On My Garden, Or The Holidays, Or Both
Comments (6)Ah, I am so much like you in this regard! The holidays are a time of stress for me, but my garden is my year-round refuge where my passions and creativity can be vented. I am already planning some improvements and changes for spring and envision how much better it'll be next spring and summer. I finished planting my fall bulbs, but now the spring catalogs have hit for seeds, perennials, roses, etc. When I walk around my garden and look, it is so packed full there is absolutely no room for anything new, yet my dreams and catalogs keep stacking up and I try to get creative to fit in a few new special plants... For me, I have different stars of the garden at different times of the year. I love once-bloomers during their big burst, but then those healthy plants become the greenery and background to others. The Austins I love for their repeat blooming throughout the season. The climbers and ramblers drip from their perches for another showy display, but only a few have decent repeat. I enjoy the shift and constant change throughout the growing season, as well as the changing companion plantings -- bulbs in the spring, spring wildflowers, summer perennials flowers, autumn flowers, winter berries and flashy leaves, etc....See MoreLooking forward towards 2009
Comments (7)If you want to grow dahlias from seed take your own seedheads and let them mature and shuck them in January and plant them inside in March/April and transplant them after frost. You will have all brand new dahlias, some bad some good, but they will be yours and if you get a really good one you could even put it in a trial garden. Xanadu is correct in rooting shoots coming out of the ground. That is how I start many of my pot roots for the next season. Just pull them off the planted tuber carefully or you will jerk the entire plant out of the ground, put them in damp potting soil and in bright shade until they stand up. Harden them off in the sun and grow as pot roots....See MorePlumeria Girl (Florida ,9b)
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