Posted on 04/29/2023 7:01:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Want your dahlias to flourish? Look up and order some “Organic REV”. You just add it to the water. Its basically natural carbon and fulvic acid. I had some giant dahlias a couple years ago that got to be 4 foot high with tons of 8-10” blooms. The stuff works incredibly. Great for transplant success too. It works great on pretty much all plants
I appreciate it every day! Well, maybe not when the steer is unruly, or the mule pulls my ponytail, or the neighbor’s dairy cows (that I’m supposed to be tending) break the fence, or part of my greenhouse blows away or there’s a foot of snow to shovel down to the barn and it’s 20 below! ;)
But, it took me 50 YEARS to get to a real, working farm. Can’t imagine anything better. Carry me out feet first, Boys, LOL! :)
Sounds like good stuff. I ordered a FREE 4 oz. Trial bottle. Thanks. :) ($5 S&H)
I will know more tomorrow when I can take a closer look, but I think I saw one of the ‘slow’ dahlias peeping through! I was mowing at speed around the garden to make a path so I don’t have to wade through tall grass in the morning. It would be the dahlia I want to grow the most 😁
Stopped by the new Amish store and grabbed a couple of those stout looking tomato plants. Red Deuce variety and for some reason, I was thinking the Amish would be the type to grow nothing buy heritage. Looked it up when I got home and it’s F1 Hybrid.
Surprised me but maybe they keep some heritage varieties going for themselves and sell the hybrid plants and maters. They are business people after all and the hybrids are better for that.
I have a pretty small backyard less than 1600 sq. ft. and much of it is low to no direct sun, and the best sunny areas have very bad soil; clay and shallow roots of now dead trees that will take years to go away. I live in southeast michigan.
I have yet to begin any rain barrel irrigation, but have planned on it for years. We had a pretty good tomato harvest last year two celebrity plants, half day Michigan sunshine but I'm hoping to do better this year.
I'm thrilled with the concept of totally automated rain barrel irrigation in my backyard that seems to suffer drought at least once or twice a summer.
If anyone here is utilizing SIP, I'd love to compare notes. I'm designing use of humidifier float valves perhaps both in the planter and the rain barrel to ensure foolproof hydration regardless of weather trend.
My concern and question involves oxygen; Albopepper's design uses an open air fill tube that he apparently filled till overflow everyday or whatever his time period was/is, my design so far has no entry for oxygen so far and that is my concern.
I’m going to re-post your question on the new thread I’m posting for the week and will ping our gardeners that love to ‘tinker’ and one that gardens in MI, as you do to see if they have any answers for you!
New thread will be up in about 15 minutes. :)
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