Floppy-topped Sapling
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Comments (13)Hi there. I have many baby trees and live in the sticks, I take the big pots that I,ve bought plants in from Lowes or wherever the pretty big ones and cut out the bottoms and put them around my babies and use big metal landscape fabric staples to hold the bottomless pots down cause the wind here will scatter them all over the yard and the bunnies don't bother them.If you don,t have these pots laying around get a couple foot tall cheap garbage can and jigsaw the bottom off. Works for me....See Morefloppy Fennel
Comments (15)wow, my thanks to everyone for all of this helpful information. What I wasn't very clear about is that the floppy fennel is recently purchased and is floppy in it's little 4 inch pot. This thread just goes to show that one size doesn't fit all. We each have unique growing sites and conditions. After reading through all the great growing tips, I think I'm going to try two different growing spots this year and see how it does this summer. One spot I've decided to try the green fennel in is next to the Rosemary. It's in a protected raised bed, gets morning sun and high shade during the middle of the day. I worked up the soil real good and will mulch the plant with decaying leaves. This should help the roots stay cool and hopefully keep me from overwatering! The other spot will get more sun so it will give me a chance to see how each growing area performs. I do have other food for the BST cats; lots of Italian giant flat leaf parsley, curley parsley and several plants of Rue. They all overwintered well in our very severe recent winter weather and the Rue is beginning to bloom now. So I've got backup food in case I need it. I tried Dill last year and it died an immediate death so figured I'd not waste my time on that again. This is such a fantastic forum. Thank you all so much for sharing your fennel growing experiences with me. I'll report back and let everyone know how the experiment turned out. Mary...See MoreSeqouia sapling top turning brown
Comments (9)"Like moist enough that the 50/50 mix of potting soil + local texas clay-dirt is clumping." This could be part of the problem. You NEVER want to use garden soil in a container. It is too dense and with too small a particle size so that both aeration and fast drainage - absolutely essential to container culture - have been compromised. And while it may seem contradictory given your location and the type of container, it is quite possible that overwatering (due a perched water table resulting from the soil mix) has occurred. Regardless, the plant looks too far gone for any reasonable recovery. Next time, use a heavily textured, durable potting medium, like Al's gritty mix. No garden soil!!...See MoreSilver birch floppy
Comments (2)I haven't had this issue with birch, but am having issues with buckeye right now. There is too much rain and they put on a quick early burst of growth that is too heavy for the stem. I stake them up - they won't need the stake when it gets drier and growth starts to harden....See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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