Posted on 08/12/2011 5:28:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. There is not much garden news to report from East Central Mississippi this morning. I am just trying to keep everything watered and alive and picking a couple of peppers and a zucchini every once in awhile.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
Brussels sprouts take a LOOOOOOONG time, and prefer sprouting in cooler weather...
See FReepmail in a few.
Okee, dokee!
You need to do some research on what will grow with that walnut tree so close. Many plants will not grow near them.
Hi Gardeners,
I am a somehwat lazy, fair weather gardener (I hate going out when it’s 90 degrees plus) but manage somehow to have gardens that look pretty good. I am having a problem with a plant and am looking for advice. I have a common Trumpet Vine (orange) that has 2 problems. It sends volunteers everywhere (I do not want them and they are a dickens to pull out) and,
It has been in the ground 6 years and produced 1, yes 1, orange flower. I have fertilized, used bloom booster, etc., but no flowers. I put it on a wall that would look stunning with a bunch of orange flowers.
It was really cool here in the Colorado Rockies yesterday. The high temp was 64F. Have lots of flowers on the squash and zukes.
Thanks, I pretty figured they were. I will try cooking some with bacon. That makes everything takes better :-)
End of April? You’ve got a ways to go...some take 130 - 140 days to mature, maybe longer. I would bet your plants are just fine...
I did a search and now I know why my apple tree doesn’t appear to be bearing fruit and not growing.
Apparently you can plant cherry, peach, nectarine trees no problem (my cherry trees were full this year) but apple trees do poorly within the drip line of a walnut tree.
Looks like I will be transplanting my apple tree. I got 2 seasons with apples and then nothing the next 3 and the tree is very slow to grow.
If I had my druthers, I would take out the walnut tree but it’s as old as the neighborhood and provides great shade. I’ll have to think about it a bit.
The Walnut tree is a good 50 feet from my raised garden and even more from my potential garden. Only mistake I made was putting in an apple tree when I re-landscaped the backyard. I had never heard of Walnut tree toxicity to other plants. Learned something new on FR
I am LOADED with tomatoes, but they are still green as of early August. Some just hitting ‘breaker stage’, but others just aren’t turning...we need a warm September up our way.
Lack of flowers is a bit more complicated. Without doing a soil sample, you will never know for sure. I have trumpet vines all over our fencerows and up in the trees in thickets. They are never fed anything and they bloom heavily.
If you are giving them nitrogen fert, you are going to get a beautiful green vine and not much else. Flowers like phosphorus. It could also be the pH of your soil ... if the pH is not in the right range, you can feed a plant till the cows come home and the plant will not be able to utilize the food.
Good luck.
Thanks. I won’t give up on them yet. :-)
When I lived in Tennessee (sigh...); my wife was picking sprouts on Christmas Day...they were planted in mid-May.
Our weatherman has not predicted rain in 68 days and I’m afraid he won’t be predicting rain for ?? more days. My raised gardens are capoot.
We have a bunch of okra still and I want to save some of the seed for our community gardens. I know this is a stoopit question...how does one collect the seeds. Leave the okra on the plant?, pick it and allow the pods to dry?
Fishing? I flew some fishermen there many years ago, the salmon were running and the passengers sure had fun.
It’s a good question. Any FReeper have knowledge about harvesting seeds from the various vegs? I know we can get some of that info online, but personal experience is best.
Just had one of those ‘well, duh’ moments. If you’ve never produced blooms and seed pods, of course the volunteers must be coming off of the root system of the main vine. If that is the case, herbicide is not going to be a good option.
No, I work at National Weather Service.
I’m not much of a fisherman.
Leave the okra pods on the plant until they are brown and starting to separate at the seams. Then cut the pods from the plant and allow them to cure somewhere where they won’t get wet for a couple of months. Harvest the seeds and keep them cool and dry. I store mine in old prescription bottles, in a box, in a very cool room that we use for storage. You can put them in the freezer for really long term storage.
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