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I suspect zinc deficiency. I treat it with zinc sulphate. It only takes something like a tenth of a gram.
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Jhet posted:Trellis is fine if it's big enough (but it won't be). Hops need a ton of space (could maybe get away with a 3' cube), so your container needs to be really very large or they'll be sad. Hops are beautiful and enormous plants with large root structure. I tried looking through my phone to see if I could find any pictures for scale, but I only have close ups because they're too big. I'd recommend taking a look at some pictures on google image search and see if it'll fit for you. Thanks. I have about a 14x11 section of lattice, east-facing that gets a lot of morning sun and good mid-day sun, on my deck that I might try to use. I can plant them in the ground next to it and try to keep my dogs away from it I guess? edit picture for reference, got the OK from my wife to add lattice to the ground and give it a shot. I could also plant on the left of this, that gets south sun but it's mostly indirect through the day. 
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Apr 22, 2021 23:04
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skylined! posted:Thanks. I have about a 14x11 section of lattice, east-facing that gets a lot of morning sun and good mid-day sun, on my deck that I might try to use. I can plant them in the ground next to it and try to keep my dogs away from it I guess? Yep. That would work great. Just keep your dogs from eating the cones especially. They're very bitter, so unless your dogs are dumb (it happens), they won't want to eat them. It tends to come up when brewers just toss their spent hops, which are covered in delicious barley sugar, into a compost pile or something. My dog never gave the plants a second glance, but I took care to dispose of the spent grain and hops where he couldn't get to it. If you want to be extra careful, you could build it a box to put on the ground. That would mimic the mounding technique that growers have used for a long time, and make it a little harder for the dog to reach maybe. Cascade is a super good variety to grow too, its a very good and adaptable variety. Any friend of yours who brews would be happy to take those fresh cones off your hands.
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Hi again. A few days ago I posted about getting some Thuja Green Giants in ahead of schedule. I planted two of them today. Here's how they looked coming out of the container. Is this good? Bad? I have no idea. My question is about planting the rest of them. The first two were in relatively dry soil, but it gets wetter very fast as I move along the stretch these are being planted. This is the area I'd be planting the next one:  And here, running along that driveway, are where I'd be planting several more. You can there are basically a couple ponds running where I'd be planting the next trees. This is where I dug bushes out last year, and never got around to filling the holes back up with soil.  My question is about how long I should wait to be planting them. They need to go right where all that water is. Right now, all my unplanted trees are still in the containers they were shipped in. I presume I can't plant them in literal pools of water, right? I bought a bunch of ultra cheap disposable pots that are a bit bigger than what they came in, with the expectation that I might need to re-home them to bigger pots for a few weeks while we get past the wettest part of spring, and then fill those pits in with soil and plant them in early May. Is that my best bet?
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I transplanted my wasabi to a larger pot with some pearlite-heavy potting mix and set it next to a north-facing window and it seems happy
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CommonShore posted:I transplanted my wasabi to a larger pot with some pearlite-heavy potting mix and set it next to a north-facing window and it seems happy if you actually manage to grow harvestable amounts of wasabi a) king, b) please share with goons if you have extra
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Chard posted:if you actually manage to grow harvestable amounts of wasabi a) king, b) please share with goons if you have extra Well that's probably a year off so we'll see how she goes
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The Wonder Weapon posted:My question is about how long I should wait to be planting them. They need to go right where all that water is. Right now, all my unplanted trees are still in the containers they were shipped in. I presume I can't plant them in literal pools of water, right? I bought a bunch of ultra cheap disposable pots that are a bit bigger than what they came in, with the expectation that I might need to re-home them to bigger pots for a few weeks while we get past the wettest part of spring, and then fill those pits in with soil and plant them in early May. Is that my best bet? In general you're better off with the plants in the ground as long as it isn't freezing. I haven't grown them but my recollection is that Arborvitae is subject to root rot. How well does your soil drain? You definitely don't want to site them in standing wander, and if you have ponds just hanging around for long periods you probably need to address your drainage in some fashion.
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Apr 24, 2021 14:22
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Platystemon posted:I suspect zinc deficiency. How do you do this? dissolve it into water? Is there an easier way to do this?
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GreenBuckanneer posted:How do you do this? dissolve it into water? It dissolves readily in water. I look up the rate recommended for treating crops commercial, divide it down to the approximate area of the canopy, as viewed from above, then use that. quote:One application of 5 to 10 pounds Zn per acre, 15 to 30 pounds of zinc sulfate (36 percent Zn) should be sufficient for two or three years of production. However, test the soil again to adjust the zinc recommendation for following years. One pound per acre is, somewhat conveniently, about ten milligrams per square foot. If you’re with a square foot, give it at least a hundred and fifty and no more than three hundred milligrams. For small plants, I dissolve it in the same amount of water I would use when watering the plant, and then do that. Err on the side of underapplication because it acts fast and you can always give it a second dose if symptoms improve but do not fully lift. I will now quote some paragraphs that follow the one I quoted above because they’re good to know. quote:In season, zinc deficiency may be corrected by spraying the crop with a 0.5 percent zinc sulfate solution (1 percent for potatoes) at the rate of 20 to 30 gallons per acre. A 0.5 percent solution is prepared by adding 41⁄2 pounds zinc sulfate (36 percent Zn) to 100 gallons of water. Include a surfactant (wetting agent). Foliar applications are effective in greening foliage but are not as effective in producing yield response. Consider them as a salvage measure. https://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/crops/00545.pdf The first paragraph is as simple as it sounds. A fine surfactant is dish soap, just a few drops. You can use an ordinary spray bottle. You don’t need a special ultrasonic fogging tractor attachment or anything like that. This acts in old growth, unlike a soil application that’s only good for new leaves. Chelated zinc is fine; it’s the silver bullet option, but you probably don’t need it. Chelated versions of any deficient metal can be a bandage for serious soil problems. Now here’s some more zinc deficiency information from Florida. quote:Zinc deficiency has traditionally been the most widespread deficiency in citrus. Zinc deficiency is commonly known as “rosette” or “frenching” in Florida. Rosetting does not usually occur in citrus. Zinc deficiency symptoms are characterized by irregular green bands along the midrib and main veins on a background of light yellow to almost white. The relative amounts of green and yellow tissue vary from a condition of mild Zn deficiency in which there are only small yellow patches between the larger lateral veins to a condition in which only a basal portion of the midrib is green and the remainder of the leaf is light yellow to white. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss423 They’re not wrong, but if you have symptoms of zinc deficiency, and you don’t have any reason to suspect anything else is at play, and you don’t have a laboratory at your beck and call for a positive confirmation, the thing to do is to treat for zinc deficiency and see what happens.
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Is raw wool any use in the garden? I have a line on basically infinity raw wool, in the rawest bale form. I'm thinking that it might be alright to keep around for insulating my cold frames in the fall but then I also have to store it until then....
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Apr 25, 2021 15:35
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CommonShore posted:Is raw wool any use in the garden? I have a line on basically infinity raw wool, in the rawest bale form. I'm thinking that it might be alright to keep around for insulating my cold frames in the fall but then I also have to store it until then.... spin the wool into fiber, fiber into thread, sell the thread to pay for gardening supplies
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Apr 25, 2021 15:43
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Irrigation Gotta build a trellis for these cucumbers.
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Apr 25, 2021 21:39
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FogHelmut posted:Irrigation looks excellent although the gif is giving me acid flashbacks
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Chard posted:looks excellent although the gif is giving me acid flashbacks For real, what the heck is going on here
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I started all these sunflowers inside and now I don't know where I'm going to put them outside 😬
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I started all these sunflowers inside and now I don't know where I'm going to put them outside 😬 I have a very similar problem with sunchokes. I gave away a bunch and only keeping the damaged or sprouted ones, I still have way more than I started with last year and way more than I need.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I started all these sunflowers inside and now I don't know where I'm going to put them outside 😬 oh hey it's me except with all my plants for my entire garden
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Paradoxish posted:oh hey it's me except with all my plants for my entire garden Yeah, I have double eggplant and okra starts now myself. Along with extra super hot pepper plants, and basically everything except for cucumbers. I normally only start extra peppers, but I’ve not started the eggplant and okra from seed before and well, oops? I’ll have to give them away so someone else can care for or kill them.
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Jhet posted:Yeah, I have double eggplant and okra starts now myself. Along with extra super hot pepper plants, and basically everything except for cucumbers. Years ago I apparently deeply internalized people saying "starting from seed is hard!" so now I always end up starting way too many plants even though I've never, ever had an issue with germination. So now my back porch is just filled with plants that I've had to repot into bigger containers because I don't know where they're going to go. Doesn't help that crazy lumber prices have my garden expansion in limbo at the moment.
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Hello garden thread. I'm looking for resources on DIY greenhouses. Mostly small and low budget. I get a zillion results on youtube and pinterest, but am wondering if there are any, just, websites that will teach me about their working principals, dos and donts, basic plans and the like. I've made a raised garden box for my gf and am considering going further.
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Paradoxish posted:Years ago I apparently deeply internalized people saying "starting from seed is hard!" so now I always end up starting way too many plants even though I've never, ever had an issue with germination. So now my back porch is just filled with plants that I've had to repot into bigger containers because I don't know where they're going to go. Doesn't help that crazy lumber prices have my garden expansion in limbo at the moment. I just added hooks and hanging baskets around my garden area for more places to dump starts that I don't have room for.
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Red columbines are a very cool plant.  I’ve been slowly ripping out the massive amount of ivy that was just about the only decorative plant around the house when we bought it. I’m mostly trying to replace it with native plants with some non invasive other things. Blurred in the background are some Virginia bluebells and phlox stonolifera. Also planted some cardinal flowers, a painted trillium, maidenhair fern, a mountain laurel and a couple of red chokeberries that I’m very excited to see in the fall.
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z0331 posted:Red columbines are a very cool plant. Where are you sourcing your local stuff? I've mostly focused on our vegetable garden but my wife has struggled to find native plants for our new place in Maryland beyond some meadow mixes for bare patches.
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Chad Sexington posted:Where are you sourcing your local stuff? I've mostly focused on our vegetable garden but my wife has struggled to find native plants for our new place in Maryland beyond some meadow mixes for bare patches. We're in NJ and actually have a nearby nursery with a surprising number of natives. They don't have quite everything I'm looking for, but I've been able to grab a few things or good alternatives. They even have native hydrangeas, which I plan to pick up when they put them out in a week or so. Have you checked with a local ag extension program? I've looked at the one for Rutgers and, when I was helping my mom try to find natives, UMaine and both had (probably somewhat old/outdated) lists of nurseries that sold native plants.
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Just a heads up to gardeners in MN and surrounding areas - https://www.startribune.com/jumping-worm-invasion-upends-spring-plant-sale-season/600049305/. Basically we have crazy wiggly invasive worms that are causing a lot of damage to gardens, causing erosion, and just being a general menace. Watch where you get your plants and mulch from!
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Count Roland posted:Hello garden thread. Hey Count Roland I don't know about websites specifically, but I too have been educating myself on the same stuff over the last winter. I have found that this guy's channel is pretty good, and he has a series in which he builds a tool-shed sized greenhouse from the ground up with basic home centre materials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv9ITE5nuShQ37Xd-NVkdcg You could also use "polytunnel" as a keyword for searching for info. This guy does a ton of work in his polytunnels and I learned quite a bit from him over the winter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9U-gJ1LtDCE4W5BhEDFSQ FWIW it's worth I'm putting up a 1200 square foot greenhouse this week (I hope), and I found that it wasn't that much different in price just to buy the thing prefab from steel and purpose-made poly sheets than to build the thing myself from home-store materials. From what I've seen the two big questions if you're greenhousing are 1) how do I want to grow, and 2) how do I want to water, which I guess are basic garden questions. There are a few things with making sure that you have air circulation and ventillation, and that you're tracking temperatures, but none of that has struck me as being much other than intuitive (i.e. it works exactly how you'd expect it should, if you've ever dealt either with structures, or with gardens, or garden structures). If you want to do all-season growing there are a few more things to consider. If building out of lumber make sure to use pressure-treated lumber (not the green poo poo) anywhere that will be in contact with the soil, and if you're using PVC pipes, not to let the PVC contact the poly directly - put an intermediary layer like white gorilla tape in between because I guess PVC can react with and degrade poly. You can message at me in the FI discord if you want to do garden chat, too. There are at least two other regulars in there who are experienced growers.
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Paradoxish posted:Years ago I apparently deeply internalized people saying "starting from seed is hard!" so now I always end up starting way too many plants even though I've never, ever had an issue with germination. So now my back porch is just filled with plants that I've had to repot into bigger containers because I don't know where they're going to go. Doesn't help that crazy lumber prices have my garden expansion in limbo at the moment.
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guri posted:On the other hand that's how I've always operated but this year I thought "I'll just start just about exactly as much as I need" and now am going oh poo poo oh poo poo because some things aren't going quite as I expected. This is the 2nd year running I’ve forgotten that you can create infinite extra tomato plants by just snapping off a sucker and potting it up. So I have probably 3x what I need.
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CommonShore posted:Hey Count Roland Thanks for the links and the tips. I'll decline the discord invite-- I don't know enough yet to ask good questions, and need to confer with the gf on what we're actually doing before proceeding much further. In the meantime, I'll go through those channels.
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So there was a bit of a winter event this year in Texas. You know minor thing, was 4°F, whole cities lost water due to burst pipes, entire state's unregulated power grid collapsed resulting in over 100 dead, etc. Annnnnyway. My blueberries were starting to bud out before it happened, so we had another migration this year. They huddled next to the garage for warmth:  Even though the halogen lamps which were under the tarps to provide heat failed due to the state being run but a bunch of incompetent fuckwits who intentionally cut the state off from other grids to avoid federal regulations harming their oil buddy's profit margin, they survived:  Last year some squirrel figured out that it could chew through plastic and went through my bird netting. This year I moved the tomato enclosure over the blueberries because gently caress that squirrel.  I crushed one of my blackberry bushes while moving it but The more I neglect the thing the better it does so I'm sure it will explode this year.
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Count Roland posted:Thanks for the links and the tips. I'll decline the discord invite-- I don't know enough yet to ask good questions, and need to confer with the gf on what we're actually doing before proceeding much further. In the meantime, I'll go through those channels. I mean we're already in that discord together so you can just shoot questions at us there if you ever feel like doing garden chat, which happens quite a bit in the off topic channel already. Another thing I forgot to mention earlier was your growing zone and your plans for seasonal growing. There will be different design considerations for a zone 3 4-season greenhouse than for a zone 6 3 season one.
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Well that was fast. Cascade hops plants showed up today, so had to get the rest of the lattice up, and also make little barricades so my male dog wouldn't immediately mark them. Hops vendor is on the nursery container.  The culprit. Fucker pissed on my garbage bin full of dirt while I was planting the hops.  Confederate jasmine is starting to really latch onto the lattice - this is maybe 3 weeks in with plants that were 2-3 feet tall when I got them.  
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Does anyone know what is wrong with my two bushes on the ends? The middle one is growing as normal. It had flowers a few weeks ago and now the leaves are all growing. Normally all three do this at this time every year. The two on the end seem to have stalled or stunted or something. I'm not sure what the issue is. They have water, and nothing has changed from year to year.  
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*weeping* Something keeps eating every single leaf off every pepper plant I put outside. I grew them pretty big and healthy, hardened them off correctly, they were thriving in the ground for a few weeks and then i come out and everything is stripped away. Every lettuce plant too.
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Apr 28, 2021 23:10
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You’ve got deer or bunnies. Time to fence up BRAH
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Oil of Paris posted:You’ve got deer or bunnies. Time to fence up BRAH Ah poo poo bunnies make sense. Tons of them around here. Weird how they dont care about other poo poo I plant.
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FogHelmut’s problem could also be rodent/lagomorph damage to the base of the shrubs. My first thought was mites, though. The photos don’t rule them out, but they don’t confirm them either. Look at the leaves under a loupe and see if you can see the beasts and/or the mess they leave behind.
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FogHelmut posted:Does anyone know what is wrong with my two bushes on the ends?
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