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I've had a little bit of Introducing my pink lemonade blueberry bush! When it fruits the blueberries will be pink! I haven't repotted it yet because I'm in the middle of moving and also just got the soil today. The FedEx jerks delayed my package for five days, but I'm not exactly sure what the spots on the leaves are indicating.  I think the fourth plant is gonna be a patio Meyer lemon tree or bush from the site Joburg posted. I don't know which would be more appropriate for my situation. I'm also gonna get another 13 gallon pot for it.
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Anyone grow potatoes in grow bags/potato towers? Got a question: if you get a plant that wants to get super leggy and is putting out a lot of leaves all along the new growth...how aggressive should you be about trimming off leaves and mounding up soil? Some of the plants are kinda creeping along where there's a pretty well-defined "crown" or whatever you want to call it on a potato plant, and so it's easy to just kinda mound up soil around the bare stem and leave the top of the plant to do its thing. But a couple are coming in kinda vine-like, with leaves all along the length of the stem. I assume the lower leaves want to be trimmed off before mounding up soil around the stem, but is there a rule of thumb or whatever about how much to do at a time? In other news, peppercorn flowers are starting to turn into immature peppercorns: 
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May 12, 2022 21:49
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stumblebum posted:are there any good resources/organizations that i can hook up with to learn about sustainable gardening and agriculture, particularly anything specific to the PNW/Oregon/Eugene? ideally not a group that preaches "sustainability" while using plastics and synthetic/imported fertilizers all over the place OSU extension is the Oregon ag extension. They offer master gardener certs, and I know some folks involved with it are pretty eco minded. Also, check into the tilth alliance. I always looked at Seattle Tilth, since they published one of my favorite gardening books, but there are others. I can't totally speak to their true sustainability anymore, as it's been several years, but that would be my starting point
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May 13, 2022 15:53
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I'm going to need more evidence that this is a real dog.
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May 13, 2022 16:10
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Joburg posted:You’ve discovered one reason people have kept cats and dogs throughout history. A rat terrier would solve your problem. Truth, we've had yorkshire terriers in the back yard terrorizing pests for years, but our last one just passed earlier this year. Lowes guy thinks it's squirrels, which is a fair point as we have lots them, I just always assumed they only ate nuts. He recommended Repels All repellent but over the last couple days it doesn't seem to have stopped it. Varmint even took a bite out of a pepper. Honestly not sure what do, trapping and relocating as many of them as I can seems the most reasonable option.
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May 13, 2022 16:32
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I think squirrels will eat just about anything. I saw this guy carrying a huge mushroom last month. Doggo in her natural habitat. 
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May 13, 2022 18:32
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May 14, 2022 17:30
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So i ended up getting 5/8"x6"x6' fence pickets, cut them into 9" sections, cut the dog ears, and fastened them to a 1"x2" box frame with construction adhesive and 15ga nails. assembling the first two were a pain in the rear end but by the third one i had a good process going and finished all 8 in less than three hours, start to finish. ~$1/linear foot. Might paint them white to match the house, i dunno. it was so easy and inexpensive that im considering doing the rest of my flower beds with it, and maybe pouring a 6"x"6 footing for it. to be determined ...  
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May 14, 2022 19:38
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They look really nice but the chore hater in me keeps thinking about mowing around them
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May 14, 2022 19:41
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PokeJoe posted:They look really nice but the chore hater in me keeps thinking about mowing around them Also how the grass is definitely going to grow back inside through the open space in it. Still looks cooler than 90% of the cheap solutions people come up with.
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May 14, 2022 20:09
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 Finally decided what tomato trellis system to go with. Don’t mind the rest of my yard. We’re doing some work on it.
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May 14, 2022 20:42
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niethan posted:Tromboncini are so good. They're like zucchinis better cousin. The seeds are all in the tip so you get that really good and firm homogenous fruit body. It's the best. This is true and they really are squash vine borer resistant. However, be warned: tromboncini grow so aggressively they will seek out and strangle anything else in your garden if you don't keep them in check. They put out a massive amount of vines, leaves and fruit and will laugh at any attempt to stake or trellis them. On the plus side I think they're superior for zucchini bread since the flesh is firmer and holds together better and, due to the long seedless neck, they make excellent zoodles.
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Jhet posted:Also how the grass is definitely going to grow back inside through the open space in it. Still looks cooler than 90% of the cheap solutions people come up with. true, it's not edging so much as a fence to keep folks from stepping in them as they walk past. i dont want them to get stepped on while they're still young and getting established regarding the mowing, well, gotta pay the toll if you wanna rock n roll 
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May 14, 2022 22:58
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stumblebum posted:are there any good resources/organizations that i can hook up with to learn about sustainable gardening and agriculture, particularly anything specific to the PNW/Oregon/Eugene? ideally not a group that preaches "sustainability" while using plastics and synthetic/imported fertilizers all over the place Heck yeah! Dude you are in Oregon, tons of great permaculture resources there! Oregon State University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mwRAf3z9ag https://open.oregonstate.edu/textbooks/free.htm If you explore that guy's personal channel he has a bunch of useful videos for systems and designs https://www.youtube.com/c/amillison/videos
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Solkanar512 posted:Thanks for the corrections, all the pictures I saw online had these weird orange masses and whatnot. I took a bunch of cuttings, placed them in a tray full of well watered soil, put a humidity cover over that and slipped that back in the hotbed. I may get some more seeds going as well. Squash vine borers are the worst. This year I have given up trying to prevent them. I am just going to wait until July to plant and hope for a late summer/fall harvest. Supposedly the moths will be done laying eggs by then.
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May 15, 2022 14:42
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Peppers are finally planted! This year's varieties: Bishop's crown, Alma paprika, Habanero sweet red, Chocolate ghost, Carolina reaper, Thunder mountain longhorn, Giant white scorpion, Thor's hammer, MA purple
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May 15, 2022 17:46
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I’ve been slowly ripping out English ivy in front of our house and putting in various random semi shade natives. I guess I’m kind of going for a native woodland cottage garden. Last year I put in a few red columbines. They did pretty well but almost succumbed to powdery mildew so I wasn’t sure how well they’d come back this year. Guess I needn’t have worried.  Tallest one is around 3 feet.
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May 16, 2022 00:48
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That Old Ganon posted:The FedEx jerks delayed my package for five days, but I'm not exactly sure what the spots on the leaves are indicating. 
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May 16, 2022 01:04
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Tremors posted:Peppers are finally planted! Those all look like really good strong starts, that's a huge part of the battle with those plants. Looking forward to more pictures of them getting huge!
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May 16, 2022 01:07
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That Old Ganon posted:The leaves that get the spots darken and die. Any idea on what it could be? They came out the FedEx box like this. Leaves start to die when they sit without sunlight for days. You’ll probably lose a few of them for no apparent reason, but the plant still looks fairly healthy. Let it drop some leaves and establish a root system and see how it does with recovery. So long as it doesn’t continue to spread to new leaves then you’re as good to go as you can be when you try to grow blueberries.
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There was a study done on soil quality in my neighborhood, and it turns out my yard has 27 parts per million of lead. Is that a dangerous amount, should I not eat the vegetables I grow in the garden?
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I've never looked into this before (so don't necessarily trust me with your health), but that seems to be a fairly normal level. https://ag.umass.edu/soil-plant-nutrient-testing-laboratory/fact-sheets/soil-lead-fact-sheet I would love to see the numbers from before leaded fuel 
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Gripweed posted:There was a study done on soil quality in my neighborhood, and it turns out my yard has 27 parts per million of lead. Is that a dangerous amount, should I not eat the vegetables I grow in the garden? That’s really very low. https://extension.psu.edu/lead-in-residential-soils-sources-testing-and-reducing-exposure
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z0331 posted:I’ve been slowly ripping out English ivy in front of our house and putting in various random semi shade natives. I guess I’m kind of going for a native woodland cottage garden. Last year I put in a few red columbines. They did pretty well but almost succumbed to powdery mildew so I wasn’t sure how well they’d come back this year. Guess I needn’t have worried. Thanks to your post I've finally identified a 'wild' plant in my garden! It's been bugging me for a few months now and I couldn't find it. Thanks! I'm gonna let it go to seed and hopefully next year it will fill out that part of the garden. It seems to like the conditions there.
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Draadnagel posted:Thanks to your post I've finally identified a 'wild' plant in my garden! It's been bugging me for a few months now and I couldn't find it. Thanks! Glad I could help! Each of those flowers releases a lot of seeds so if they like that part of your garden, it'll definitely fill in. We have several popping up.
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We have some of the same flower in pots on the driveway and it is a surprisingly resilient little plant. Our front bed is full of hostas across the whole thing or I would really consider just going wild with the columbine.
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It's springtime! It's past mothers day! It's above 50 at night and in the 80s during the day! What a beautiful time of year, let me just put all my plants in the ground! Wow they are so happy and thrivi--*record scratch*
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taqueso posted:I've never looked into this before (so don't necessarily trust me with your health), but that seems to be a fairly normal level. https://ag.umass.edu/soil-plant-nutrient-testing-laboratory/fact-sheets/soil-lead-fact-sheet I would love to see the numbers from before leaded fuel Jhet posted:That’s really very low. drat, the letter we got made it sound super high. Thanks for the fact check!
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ixo posted:It's springtime! It's past mothers day! It's above 50 at night and in the 80s during the day! What a beautiful time of year, let me just put all my plants in the ground! Wow they are so happy and thrivi--*record scratch* We've had three false springs this year. My new next door neighbor is a California transplant who is running the community garden and it's completely died twice!
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ixo posted:It's springtime! It's past mothers day! It's above 50 at night and in the 80s during the day! What a beautiful time of year, let me just put all my plants in the ground! Wow they are so happy and thrivi--*record scratch* This might be the coolest May I can remember in D.C. My pepper plants are extremely unhappy. A few days in the 90s coming up should do the trick. Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 17, 2022 |
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Chad Sexington posted:This might be the coolest May I can remember in D.C. My pepper plants are extremely unhappy. We’ve had six weeks of days in the 50s ans nights in the 40s. A couple days with 60s, but that’s it. I had to move my peppers into a row cover because they got too big for inside and finally I just planted them and am still covering them. Two years in a row with this colder spring, just give me a few days of 70+ already.
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I guess it could be worse. Just walked through the garden while lunch was heating up. Sunflowers, marigolds, cilantro (!?), potatoes, thyme and one of four tomatoes are flourishing. Asparagus (crowns planted last year) is ferning like a motherfucker. Two of four tomatoes are doing OK, as are lettuce, carrots, poppies, pole beans. Peppers and the amish tomatoes look sad. Goddamn chipmunks or birds keep sabotaging my squash, but there are a couple seedlings going now.    
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ixo posted:It's springtime! It's past mothers day! It's above 50 at night and in the 80s during the day! What a beautiful time of year, let me just put all my plants in the ground! Wow they are so happy and thrivi--*record scratch* lol it was above 90 this past weekend and a whole bunch of my azaleas got their leaves baked right off lmao lol
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i know i kind of just breezed in and out with my questions but thank you to everyone who provided answers, it really helps me to get rec's from actual people without having to spin the wheel on google hoping to find things that actually exist
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stumblebum posted:spin the wheel on...things that actually exist They were marketed as blue raspberry seeds but had the black raspberry scientific name, and I'm aware it'll be years until I find out. They also claim they're a west coast native and that confuses me further.
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I assume you just bought himalayan blackberries
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I assume you just bought himalayan blackberries For the love of God, do NOT sow them in-ground. Himalayan blackberries are the devil in photosynthesizing form. If you must, put them in a pot, then scrutinize them
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Arsenic Lupin posted:For the love of God, do NOT sow them in-ground. Himalayan blackberries are the devil in photosynthesizing form. If you must, put them in a pot, then scrutinize them Maybe just toss them in the bin. They are the absolute worst. They're also invasive on the west coast and we very much hate them. Get canes of something you know you want to put up with, you'll be much happier. We have lots of varieties of much less terrible berries on the west coast.
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That Old Ganon posted:I spun the wheel and bought bogus seeds lmao We've got black cap raspberries (Rubus leucodermis) as natives on the west coast. Maybe it's that?
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sexy tiger boobs posted:We've got black cap raspberries (Rubus leucodermis) as natives on the west coast. Maybe it's that? To give you some idea of how much a hassle it is, seed companies will sell you asparagus seeds, which have the same problem of having to grow the plant before you can harvest anything a year later. They don't sell raspberry seeds. If it were practical to grow your own, they'd be selling them. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 20:16 on May 18, 2022 |
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