((Serious Gardening))

[Kassaundra]

Sounds like cut worm to me, put a "sleeve" around the plants for the first week or two, couple of inch tall rigid ( like a tuna can w/ top and bottom cut out, or a slice of a soda bottle etc...) they won't be able to get over the rigid object.

 

[Carols Clucks]

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Mom has had that happen, my guess is rats or the bunny we saw hopping through one day. We do the rings around seedlings (big pvc ones) and I added chicken wire around the upper garden. We also have the lettuce and spinach up in horse waterers, so far that has really been the trick (and it is easy to pick)

 

[NanaKat]

Thanks, Will put some out in the morning around the seedlings coming up.

 

[galanie]

My favorite trick is a little stick like a toothpick (but longer) pushed into the ground right next to the seedling. The idea is, a worm can't wrap itself around the stalk and so won't eat it down. I don't know if that's true but I can't remember having one eaten off that I've done this to.

 

[Kassaundra]

Got lot's o' plants today I'll be planting out today if it stops raining, and Sunday, hope it's not to late for them. This years garden timing is all messed up.

I was able to harvest and dehydrate cherries off the tree, they were great, but this was my first year to dehydrate fruit I was suprised at the volume difference.

 

[NanaKat]

What kind of cherry tree do you have that has had cherries already? My three dwarf cherries have fruit the size of the end f my pinky finger.

Saw the rabbit too...so it's not cutworms. Why the little cottontail didn't go after the corn, lettuce, carrots or spinach etc I have no idea. Gracie chased it1/4 mile up the pasture.

Put plastic rings around the seedlings in the hills anyway.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have no Idea, what kind of cherry tree, they are small red and tart. My tree is a start of one my gma had for over 20 years. It puts out young cherry trees from the roots.

 

[NanaKat]

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Checked the Forest Trees of Oklahoma guide book put out by the State Board of Agriculture. It's not a wild or Black Cherry since they fruit in late summer. It's not a choke cherry or a Mexican plum cherry because neither have roots that sprout freely....so it may be a cherry brought with your family from earlier times when they traveled from somewhere else to settle. in Oklahoma. It could be a tree your grandmother started from seed also.

Sounds interesting doesn't it.

 

[Kassaundra]

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Checked the Forest Trees of Oklahoma guide book put out by the State Board of Agriculture. It's not a wild or Black Cherry since they fruit in late summer. It's not a choke cherry or a Mexican plum cherry because neither have roots that sprout freely....so it may be a cherry brought with your family from earlier times when they traveled from somewhere else to settle. in Oklahoma. It could be a tree your grandmother started from seed also.

Sounds interesting doesn't it.

My vote knowing my gma and since they came to OK from New Mexico (but started in Maine) would be from seed. She was forever putting all kinds of tree seeds in the ground to see what she would get, she never got the concept of a seed not bearing true, if the fruit tasted great it would produce a whole tree that produced that same exact fruit in her mind.

My husband tries to mow the new seedlings before I see them and can offer them amnesty from the lawn mower!!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

I am soaked to the bone and Sunday is going to be a loooooooooooooooong day. I planned on planting a huge amount of plants today and Sunday. It has been raining crazy today I've tried to go out a few times in the lesser rain times and only got 5 tomatoes planted. So Sunday I am going to need to plant 25 tomatoes, 100 strawberries, 50 asparagras, three garden spots (20x20) in corn and lentils, and several other odds and ends.