BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

Well, aargh, it seems I got booted from the thread for not being active on it, but they can't get rid of me that easily. Trying a few new tricks in the garden this year. I've kept the carrots covered with cardboard to try to increase germination. Not sure how that's going. A few are up but I think there should be more. Peas are up! And spinach, lettuce and radishes are beginning to take off here in the far north. Been putting mounds of pine needles in the raspberry bed and still have tons more to rake up. Great exercise out in the warm surroundings. And you all are an inspiration!

Covering carrots works like a charm.

 

[jerryse]

I visited a nursery yesterday and bought a nice Carpathian walnut . I think I will try grafting some of it on black walnut . I have had poor results on walnut trees . Only 1 success 2 years ago . I think I figured out the problem . I think I was grafting too early . Nut trees are slower to wake up compared to fruit trees .

 

[chickadoodles]

I visited a nursery yesterday and bought a nice Carpathian walnut . I think I will try grafting some of it on black walnut . I have had poor results on walnut trees . Only 1 success 2 years ago . I think I figured out the problem . I think I was grafting too early . Nut trees are slower to wake up compared to fruit trees .

Good luck I hope it takes.

 

[Ardj]

I love English cottage gardens. They are fabulous absolutely brilliant. I am trying to do something similar in front of my house. Its hard work when one has a husband with a crooked eye on flowers......

 

[jerryse]

Frugal tip . I bought a 4 pack of tomatoes . Cut the tops off above a leaf . Potted the cuttings . They will wilt . Keep in the shade and warm . Within a week they will perk up . Meaning the cuttings have rooted . They will catch up with the originals . You loose a few days but they grow fast .I potted the originals into solo cups also . In a couple of weeks I will plant them in the garden .

 

[lazy gardener]

Frugal tip . I bought a 4 pack of tomatoes . Cut the tops off above a leaf . Potted the cuttings . They will wilt . Keep in the shade and warm . Within a week they will perk up . Meaning the cuttings have rooted . They will catch up with the originals . You loose a few days but they grow fast .I potted the originals into solo cups also . In a couple of weeks I will plant them in the garden .

You get every single bonus point I have saved up for the week with this idea! Awesome!!! Hope you have a nice big jar on top of your fridge to put those points in!

 

[jerryse]

You get every single bonus point I have saved up for the week with this idea! Awesome!!! Hope you have a nice big jar on top of your fridge to put those points in!

You can do peppers this way also . They root a little slower . I did some last year in a cloning bucket . Basically a spray system . You can find a do it yourself on YouTube . Not planting peppers this year .

 

[Ardj]

I will plant few peppers in the big pots this year. Last year cayenne peper that I was growing for my brother were a big success. Every year I am trying something new.

 

[chickadoodles]

I would like to ask if any of you know what kind of tree this is? It smells heavenly sweet like honeysuckle or something similar.


I pinched this bit off for a close up.

Here are some tiny peaches the first ever on my 6 yr. old peach tree that I hand pollinated with a real human hair paint brush.



I only pollinated a few flowers as the tree stayed stunted all this time.

 

[Ardj]

Chickadoodles great trees. The white tree it can be Japanese lilac. They smell divine. And its just the time when they bloom.