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To: dware
dware :" It (hail) battered the snot out of most of my garden, destroyed all but one hop plant, "

Bring the hops shreds indoors, provide bottom heat , give'em a shot of nitrogen fertilizer , and they may recover. They are a perrennial, after all .
Same thing for the tomato plants, but water down the nitrogen fertilizer so that they are encouraged to leaf out and recover, but not so much that they get "leggey'.
Same with squash plants since they don't like the roots disturbed, and don't transplant well.
That's why they call famers/ gardeners as the world's first gamblers.

38 posted on 05/08/2015 2:55:25 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Bring the hops shreds indoors, provide bottom heat , give'em a shot of nitrogen fertilizer , and they may recover.

I'll give it a go. I don't have a lot of hope, because I sprouted these from seed, and they were only about an inch and half tall, so I doubt any of the rhizome got to develop. I'm going to see if I can pick up some cuttings locally and try that way.

That's why they call famers/ gardeners as the world's first gamblers.

Ain't that the truth!

40 posted on 05/08/2015 3:10:59 PM PDT by dware (In 2016, the GOP has 2 choices: CRUZ OR LOSE!)
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