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Fitzy Fitz posted:You can use cut bamboo instead of live bamboo. I build bamboo trellises for all of my climbers, and they last for several years before needing to be rebuilt. Live plants fall down or get tangled with the vines. Do this or some other dead trellis method. Building living trellises sounds like fun until the beans are dragging down your stalks in a storm and you don't have a wind break and whoops everything is laying on the ground in a pile.
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GlyphGryph posted:Yeah its mostly a space thing I think, but I dont have a ton of space. I had success with pole beans and mammoths, but I had the stake those anyway so it was a bit redundant. Cukes might be a problem weight-wise. 
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Apr 3, 2024 16:22
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yeah just keeping the fruit and leaves off the ground is very helpful -- cukes are thin-skinned and their leaves love to get powdery mildew/rot/etc, so anything that stops their leaves from getting wet when you water and having soil splash on them helps a ton
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Atahualpa posted:Well, it's a work in progress, but here's what I've got now:  GlyphGryph posted:Whats are some good plant to grow to use as a trellis for beans and cucumbers? I have heard corn suggested, but would like to consider other options. Zone 6b, for what that's worth.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:46
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Growing cucumbers on a trellis also makes for straighter and more visually appealing fruit, if that's something you are after. The effect is more pronounced on long varieties, but it is still very helpful if you were growing cucumbers to pickle since you can more easily pack straight fruit into jars.
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Apr 3, 2024 17:28
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Jhet posted:Do this or some other dead trellis method. Building living trellises sounds like fun until the beans are dragging down your stalks in a storm and you don't have a wind break and whoops everything is laying on the ground in a pile. I've tried sunflowers and maize and even crouching there in the rain screaming THIS IS WHAT PILGRIMS DID at the sky didn't save my early attempts.
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Apr 3, 2024 18:02
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I run my cucumbers single stem on strings and I won't ever do it any other way. When something sneaks through and grows on the ground the fruit quality is vastly inferior. Compared to before I started doing it this way I also have far less mould and pest problems because I can trim away dead and dying leaves and keep good air flow around the plants. I've done this with 4 different varieties and it has never presented a problem.
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Apr 3, 2024 18:09
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Atahualpa posted:Well, it's a work in progress, but here's what I've got now: Pansies aren't perennials, and in anything but the most moderate of climates they'll stop blooming when the temperature rises. I used to live in the South, where they were winter landscaping, and you pulled them out and threw them away at roughly azalea season. Just enjoy them now and treat them as disposable. The cineraria need to come inside. I've never grown euryops, but Dr. Google says they love hot weather. If it were me, I'd seriously consider putting up temporary shadecloth on the balcony around May or so. If you can, leave it up in the morning and evening, and down during the worst of the afternoon sun. It won't help with the air temperature, but it will help with the solar gain on the concrete.
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Apr 3, 2024 19:08
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I used a branch I cut while trimming my peach tree as a temporary fence post to protect the stawberrries. It is doing this now. 
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Apr 3, 2024 23:38
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Well, I guess you have a new friend now.
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My daughter had to take a botany class as part of her degree and didn’t want or appreciate any of it. She didn’t keep enough class material for me to piggy back off of and she threw away all her cuttings the instant each assignment was over. This made me sad, but to each their own and I love my baby very much
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Apr 4, 2024 00:14
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Well, I guess you have a new friend now. I don't know if it's worth trying to actually plant it. Isn't peach rootstock selected for pest and disease resistance, so trying to grow straight from the graft a bad idea?
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't know if it's worth trying to actually plant it. Isn't peach rootstock selected for pest and disease resistance, so trying to grow straight from the graft a bad idea? I for one don’t oppose bad garden ideas
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I guess worst case the free tree doesn't make it lol
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Shifty Pony posted:I used a branch I cut while trimming my peach tree as a temporary fence post to protect the stawberrries. All of the trouble people have rooting peach cuttings and you just loving stick it in the dirt and get blooms (and presumably roots?)  Shifty Pony posted:I don't know if it's worth trying to actually plant it. Isn't peach rootstock selected for pest and disease resistance, so trying to grow straight from the graft a bad idea? Peaches are often OK or at least not terrible on their own roots, grafting onto a random seedling was not an uncommon practice until surprisingly recently.
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Discussion Quorum posted:All of the trouble people have rooting peach cuttings and you just loving stick it in the dirt and get blooms (and presumably roots?) Welcome to the world of live staking 
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i similarly stuck some pruned peach branches in the ground and they fully flowered and now have leafed, but last time i checked had zero roots at all so i'm just kinda hoping they decide to root eventually
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I understand it's quite a long shot but I've wasted time on dumber garden things.
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Average last frost here is April 15. Looking at the forecast... I would be very surprised if I survive the weekend without putting out my tomatoes. We're supposed to get graupel or some poo poo today and I still put out an African marigold because it was getting too big.
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goatse guy posted:I don't really have any advice since my plants live in the ground rather than in pots, but wanted to say that this is a lovely little setup. It looks so serene and peaceful. mischief posted:Yeah, it sounds silly but I miss everything being smaller and well maintained and rewarding. Orbs posted:I don't have any advice about the care questions, but thank you for sharing the pic. Those look awesome, and I'm glad they have a lovely view, plus a cat helper. Arsenic Lupin posted:First, that's absolutely exquisite and inviting, well done.  Aw, thank you for all the kind words! I've been working on it in bits and pieces for a while as part of a larger project of trying to make my place feel like a home again after some major life disruptions a year ago that left me without much in the way of furniture/decor. Inviting, beautiful, and serene are exactly what I'm going for, so I'm glad it's hitting that way for others.Thanks as well for the advice, AL. Not sure where I got the idea that the euryops prefer it cooler since everything I'm finding now suggests the opposite.
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Shifty Pony posted:I understand it's quite a long shot but I've wasted time on dumber garden things. I had two trays of roses cuttings do this one year (and they had even been stuck for a few weeks before they leafed out) and got so excited and then so disappointed when none of them had any roots at all.
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Planted my basil seeds today! It's a week or so early, but I'm chancing it. I also put down some dwarf fernleaf dill seeds; I am pretty sure my volunteers are some kind of Dukat/Dwarf hybrid based on how big it's gotten so far (but with the ferny dwarf structure). I'll snip a leaf soon to see which one it tastes like. My beets didn't have great germination success, so I've sowed more of those. It's been a month and each variety only had a 25% germination rate. Hopefully I'll get more soon. My swiss chard is doing well; I except to have more than I need in a month. I've had a few more carrots sprout, some in random spots (it was windy during sowing). Carrots come up on their own sweet time, so I am not overly concerned on those. It's like succession planting without having to sow a second round! (I have a few "It's January, I we'll sprout now?" carrots I sowed back in September that should be good to harvest in a few weeks.) Just a few more weeks until cucumbers!
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Went around the garden poking the ground with a thermometer and got low to mid 60s everywhere. Decided to say gently caress it and plant some poo poo.
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Marigolds and basils went in today. Tomatoes go tomorrow.
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It’s happening.
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you're not gonna leave even a teeny little space for the cat to push its whiskers through the balcony fence and survey its domain?? or is there another, better vantage point for mr./ms. orange
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So we planted: Black turtle beans Provider green beans Sugar snap peas Cucumbers (pickling and slicing) Bicolor corn I trimmed down the clover which was acting as a cover a bit in the areas we planted, but i didn't get a chance to completely clear it out because we have a nearly 4yo who soaks up 99% of our time. I was thinking I would keep things manually trimmed back until the seeds spout, mulch about 4-6" on either side of the rows, and let the clover hang out as a living mulch other than that. Bad idea? I intend to give the clover a haircut occasionally with the string trimmer, with the mulch giving a buffer to keep from putting the plants in too much danger.
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boofhead posted:you're not gonna leave even a teeny little space for the cat to push its whiskers through the balcony fence and survey its domain?? or is there another, better vantage point for mr./ms. orange Oh believe me, she finds a way. One of her favorite spots to hang out now is in the larger jasmine pot, where she either keeps an eye on people walking their dogs below, chitters at the birds on the feeder, or just curls up and enjoys the dirt.
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Shifty Pony posted:I understand it's quite a long shot but I've wasted time on dumber garden things. Funny thing considering I brought it up - when I tried to graft a nectarine onto Lovell rootstock, I kept the bit of rootstock I cut off and stuck it in a cup of coco coir, put it in a closet, and basically forgot about it for a month. Last night I saw roots. Now I have a problem because I'm going to want to graft it and keep it. 
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I'm very hype to see and share all of the plants of everyone experiencing spring, like I am right now. It's been raining so heavily that it's hard to get good pics recently, but I actually got a couple good ones of some tulips during the eclipse on Monday.   The white clover ground cover is coming in nicely in most places... mostly where I can clear the creeping charlie from coming back in time, lol
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confused little guy thought he was outdoors
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The war against aphids is renewed. I always forget this is like 90% of tomato care.
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this is a good reminder to start doing some preventative neem spraying before all my poo poo is covered in leaf-footed bugs in may (gently caress leaf-footed bugs)
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freeedr posted:confused little guy thought he was outdoors eke out posted:this is a good reminder to start doing some preventative neem spraying before all my poo poo is covered in leaf-footed bugs in may (gently caress leaf-footed bugs)
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Does neem work on true bugs? I thought their mode of feeding left them relatively resistant to neem, spinosad, anything short of contact pesticides really Also I got into peaches impulsively this year before I realized what a pain they are in my climate. Between catfacing bugs, OFM, borers, and at least two generations of plum curculio, it looks like I'm going from "well I try not to spray anything stronger than BT unless I have to" to "say hello to my little friend [brandishes bottle of Sevin]"
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For mulch I have the free option of shredded cardboard or wood chips. last year I did wood chips and they were fine, but just fine. Anyone have experience or thoughts on this choice?
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Got the first plants in the ground yesterday, felt pretty good to do. Relocated all the lilies to elsewhere to prep the rest of the garden. I have no idea what I am doing and expect everything I tough to die, but it is what it is, and I'm hoping to be surprised. Really wish I could find a decent gardening book that actually dig into the fundamentals to a level where I could feel like I understand what I'm doing, but all the ones I've found have, perhaps not surprisingly, been less than useless. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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If you contact your state's master gardener program they will likely be able to point you in the right direction.
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That sounds like a fake thing you made up. I mean I looked it up and my state absolutely has one, but it still sounds super fake
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My experience is if you have plants die it's because of not realizing how much water they really need or annoying pests.
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