Green thumb is itching, anyone else?

[Carols Clucks]

Anyone know why you are not supposed to plant raspberries under peach trees? Or if it is okay?

And what about an azalea by my blueberries? They like the same acid soil (the azaleas are on sale at Home Depot $3.33 and I thought they might make a good indicator that my soil acid level needs attention)

Tomorrow we go fill the truck with a composted horse manure again, I want to work on the drip system, dig up some more roots/stumps and get my citrus trees planted...oh and I have a ton of seeds to sort and need to get those started.... (think I have more than one days worth of work for tomorrow? More like a weeks worth!)

 

[Kassaundra]

I have never heard about raspberries and peaches before, but why would you want to plant an ivasive thorny bramble under a fruit tree? Would think it would make it more difficult to take care of and harvest your peaches. The only other issue I can think of is raspberries a very suseptible to fungal infection that might infect the peaches, but that is a pure guess.

I have had great success w/ raspberries here in hot summered OK by planting them on the east side of my home which means they get full morning sun until about noonish then they are in total shade they have loved that location for years.

 

[Carols Clucks]

We have volunteer peach trees all over the place, most 10-15years old or older. Being volunteers (from fallen fruit) they are not varieties we do much more than pick up and get rid of. On the other hand, we like the raspberries and they do not get as out of control as the blackberries

If it was up to me, I would have cut done all but 2 or 3 of the random peach trees (same with all the root sucker plums), but Mom seems think that "this" will be the year they produce something worth eating. I did manage to cut them down to a height I can pick with a fruit picker from below with out having to climb a ladder too.

I am more worried the peach tree will harm the raspberries.

 

[carolsaucier]

Today I put in a row of pink eyed purple hull peas and will add cream zipper peas and butter beans tomorrow. I harvested yet another small mess of English peas and planted out some shallots that were sprouting.

My John is busy making a compost tumbler from a food grade plastic 55 gal drum I found on CL. He is making it high enough that the wheelbarrow fits under it to ease unloading. I have a 5 gal pot full of scraps and of chicken poop to add as soon as he is finished. Our FL sand needs all the nourishment it can get, but I only want organic.

 

[happycountryhens]

Ordered seed, still have snow. Catch up with you guys in May.

From Zone 3 - 4.

PS: No mowing lawn tho

 

[Carols Clucks]

I should have mowed the lawn.....

We picked up 14 wheel barrow loads of composted horse manure and dumped in the garden. We decided that since we were going to be busy with garden gates open, we would just let the chickens have at it in what ever was left in the garden...boy were they happy! Sow bugs from the compost, some lettuce mix left and a few weeds. They were busy busy busy! Then I pulled out the sawsall and started cutting some roots off an old volunteer plum, we had cut the tree down last year and hoped the stump would die out, but no luck. Also cut out most of a big fig too. It runs under the neighbors lawn and fence, so only so much we can do. But I hope to cut it up so it gives up and dies!


And we got 3 of 5 citrus trees in.

Tomorrow...who knows!

 

[rancher hicks]

Hi Rancher,
Do you mean it is dry, but not wrinkled, or not throughly dry? If it is dried, it should do just fine. I planted decoration Indian corn once and only got knee high stalks, no telling what it was cross pollinated with, or where it had came from. I bought it on the ear at Thanksgiving, I think at Kroger.

This is what I've got. You can see the sprouts. They came from the one in the back that is wrinkled but the other two ears are not. I haven't tried to sprout those. They are hangin in my office. The temp is about 70-80* Perhaps it's not dry enough in here? Where is the ideal place for drying corn to save seed?

 

[afveteran88]

Ground is still frozen but I am itching to get in the garden. This year I will try my hand at Giant Pumpkins. Spring will be here soon. Hopefully.

 

[happycountryhens]

I finish drying my corn off the cob. I harvest it in late October, early November and store it inside on the cob for a month or so. By then the kernels pop off the cob, so I pop them off and dry them on plates for another two weeks or so. Then I store them in containers. They seem to grow well. So do yours, rancher, if your sprouts have anything to say about it. Our house temp is 66 - 72 degrees and humidity is very low in the house. I may have to buy stock in a moisturizing company.

Good luck with your giant pumpkins! Pumpkins are one of our money crops. My sister grows them and sells them in town. The town folks like the small to medium sized pumpkins. We sell ours out in the boonies. Everyone here likes the giagantic pumpkins. The hundred pounders are rarely on the stand more than 48 hours. Works out well. I can send my smaller pumpkins to her and she can bring her larges up here. Of course she grows specifically for the smaller sizes, so I have yet to have her bring big ones up here.

We will be making cardboard box greenhouses soon to start some plants in. They work amazingly well.

 

[rancher hicks]

Well Happy - I have mine on a plate in the office which plenty warm. I've been hanging these since the beginning of winter. The one ear dried outside before I brought it in. I've never grown pumpkins but what I've been doing is clearing a little area and planting it and then moving to another area. I lay tarps to kill the weeds over the winter and summer. Or in some cases cardboard boxes.

You must post pics of your Cardboard Greenhouses. It's sounds neat. I gotta see them. Please.

In other news , the chicks are coming , the chicks are coming. Pips and peeps today.

Lord I hope they do good. I always stress you know. Not to mention today is a day early by my count. Why do we say "not to mention" but then we do?

Take care, Garden on Wayne, Garden on Garth...................... (or is it the other way around).


Rancher