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Kapiolani Community College Cactus Garden
Comments (6)Awesome garden! must have been a blast, even with the heat. They sure grow them fat over there! I'm totally impressed with the Pachy lamerei! Those are some seriously stout plants. Ultimately, the spiny forest they have just started will look spectacular. I might not have gone will such a formal layout, but that's just a matter of taste. It was also a treat to see all the Adeniums. Very rare to see them in the ground, and with little to no pruning. What I would *really* love to do is dig up one of the larger ones and see just how big it is. Talk about buried treasure! Why was the Alluadia growing so oddly? Is there a tree or something shading it? In any case, that has got to be one of the fattest Alluadia ever! Is 4181 F. formosa? Thanks caudex!...See MoreKapiolani Community College Cactus Garden
Comments (2)The KCC gardens are really nice. They have a great open market on saturdays as well. There is a sign at the gardens that says if you want cuttings to go to a certain room and they will help you. So I guess that means you should visit during the day when school is in session....See MoreHelp with my community garden- newbie
Comments (18)I asked some local growers - Johnson Grass spreads by rhizomes, so chopping it up or tilling in a cover crop just spreads it around - it's not as aggressive that way as bermuda grass but it's persistent. It is CRITICAL to keep the tops from doing what yours did, which is thrive and set seed. In fertile uncompacted soil, you have tertiary roots 20-30 inches down which are capable of sending up sprouts all summer. The vineyards use geese, which may be organic as heck, but impractical in a shared garden. They leave NOTHING behind that they think is edible. A "flame weeder" might work if you repeatedly use it on the new sprouts - the idea is to exhaust the root's stores of energy by forcing them to grow leaves faster than the leaves can resupply the roots storage. ==================== This OLD research explains the root development cycle and where to interrupt it: http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/ORC00000094/PDF They are in favor of repeated SHALLOW cultivation to force the roots to resprout to the point of exhaustion, and even (if you have repeated freeze-thaw cycles) shallow cultuvation in winter to expose and freeze the roots. They are also in favor of close mowing or grazing to keep the plants too small to support the big, deep problem roots, what they call the tertiary roots. ========================= If you are in the "organic" section, that limits your chemical options. You might kill it with repeated applications of "horticultural" vinegar (the 20% stuff, or a minimum of 10%) but it's nasty to use. Be sure to read the MSDS and wear appropriate skin, eye and lung protection. http://www.groworganic.com/organic-gardening/articles/help-johnson-grass http://www.gardenguides.com/139610-organic-control-johnson-grass.html They claim this works: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Avenger-Weed-Killer-128-oz-Organic-Weed-Killer-Herbicide-Concentrated-AVGR-Conct-128oz/204336249 NOTE: the "organic" solution you see on Pinterest and other blogs, with vinegar, dish soap and salt is really bad for your soil and doesn't work worth a darn....See MoreHelp with my dissertation on community gardens
Comments (4)4) Other. A church in our town donated land to create a children's garden. After school programs and various classes, K-12 grade, planted, weeded, harvested. This was a vegetable garden area of raised beds. Let me tell you my story. I led a group of middle school kids to the garden where we watered and weeded. "Where does food come from?" I asked them. "The grocery store," they answered. We are in the Midwest, the bread basket of the nation with fields of grain on every side. How could these kids be so disconnected? I tried another question. "Name something on a pizza that you can grow in a garden." "Pepperoni!" answered a girl. "Well," I said softly, "that's meat. Meat comes from animals. What else?" "Hamburger!" said a boy. Again I assured them that was meat. They were stumped. "How about tomatoes?" I asked them. They looked at me questioningly. Tomatoes on a pizza? You could see the cogs in their mind turning. "Tomatoes are in the pizza sauce," I explained. "Ohhhhh," they said. We went on to talk about green peppers, onions and other well-known pizza toppings. "What about corn?" asked a kid who was trying to be funny. "Well, corn can be a grain like wheat and wheat is in the pizza dough." He couldn't believe he'd stumbled onto an answer! I really could not believe how disconnected these kids were from their source of food....See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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