What did you do in the garden today?

[SkyAJK]

Garden lime

I added a handful of garden lime in my compost bin when it started to smell. It started to smell whenever there are black soldier flies in it. The garden lime stopped the smell.

Last year, I added in this particular compost that had quite a bit of garden lime in it in my plant pots and they plants died. From my internet search it says that too much lime caused the soil to Alkaline thus killed my plants.

I am thinking of adding some garden lime to my chicken runs to ease the lice/mite in the ground.

Will this help ease the soil of lice/mites or will it turns my soil too alkaline? Thanks.

 

[cj2024]

This Carrie mango tree is classified as a medium size tree. It looks kind of big but compared to my giant Pirie mango tree that I had to cut down, its medium size. My Pirie mango tree had a 4-foot-wide main stem, and it was really vigorous. It became a safety issue as its branches arched over to my neighbor's yard with infants running around.

The second picture is a dwarf Julie mango variety that I got from my local Lowes. I killed one a few years ago after pruning it. There is a termite kind of bug that eats the tree, I just figured out how to kill them with Seven insecticide. Dwarf trees are a little harder to grow in my opinion, because it takes a long time to grow new shoots. They are not as vigorous as medium and large trees. I want to plant it in a larger pot, but my pot seems to be too large for it. I have decided to plant it in a 10-gallon pot first and move it in the larger pot next year. This is my baby; it flowered recently but I didn't let any fruits set, the plant is too small. I am thinking about letting it fruit next year, depending on how it grows.

 

[cj2024]

That is awesome!

Do you feed it special fertilizer?

I killed a lot of mango trees with granular fertilizer, so I lean more towards organic Alaskan fish fertilizer 5-1-1 and Alaskan Bloom 0-10-10. When the mango tree is dormant and not sending out new shoots or fruiting, they don't need a lot of nutrients. During that time, they can live off a time release Osmocote fertilizer. I feed them fish fertilizer when they get active. Its mild enough not to clash with the time release fertilizer.

 

[SkyAJK]

This Carrie mango tree is classified as a medium size tree. It looks kind of big but compared to my giant Pirie mango tree that I had to cut down, its medium size. My Pirie mango tree had a 4-foot-wide main stem, and it was really vigorous. It became a safety issue as its branches arched over to my neighbor's yard with infants running around.

The second picture is a dwarf Julie mango variety that I got from my local Lowes. I killed one a few years ago after pruning it. There is a termite kind of bug that eats the tree, I just figured out how to kill them with Seven insecticide. Dwarf trees are a little harder to grow in my opinion, because it takes a long time to grow new shoots. They are not as vigorous as medium and large trees. I want to plant it in a larger pot, but my pot seems to be too large for it. I have decided to plant it in a 10-gallon pot first and move it in the larger pot next year. This is my baby; it flowered recently but I didn't let any fruits set, the plant is too small. I am thinking about letting it fruit next year, depending on how it grows.

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Wow, that first photo is a big mango tree and those fruits!!

2nd photo of a small mango tree, it flowers already, that is awesome, that means it will fruits if you let it.
Fish fertilizer, I will check it out when I go to Bunnings here.

The fertilize I often use is blood and bone, but with great difficulty as I must hide it well from my dogs, they seek it out and eat it. I actually never look it up what in it, I just use it because I grew up seeing my mom used it in the garden. Until just a minute ago I looked up the ingredient to check if it has fish meals in it and behold......

 

[cj2024]

I killed a lot of mango trees with granular fertilizer, so I lean more towards organic Alaskan fish fertilizer 5-1-1 and Alaskan Bloom 0-10-10. When the mango tree is dormant and not sending out new shoots or fruiting, they don't need a lot of nutrients. During that time, they can live off a time release Osmocote fertilizer. I feed them fish fertilizer when they get active. Its mild enough not to clash with the time release fertilizer.

However, that is for container mango trees. The ones planted in the ground are fed a fruiting 10-30-10 granular fertilizer around the branch perimeter away from the main stem in the month before it usually starts to flower. My chicken spends most of their time under the tree, so I don't have to fertilize my trees for growth.

 

[cj2024]

Wow, that first photo is a big mango tree and those fruits!!

2nd photo of a small mango tree, it flowers already, that is awesome, that means it will fruits if you let it.
Fish fertilizer, I will check it out when I go to Bunnings here.

The fertilize I often use is blood and bone, but with great difficulty as I must hide it well from my dogs, they seek it out and eat it. I actually never look it up what in it, I just use it because I grew up seeing my mom used it in the garden. Until just a minute ago I looked up the ingredient to check if it has fish meals in it and behold......

I am famous for killing my plants by over fertilizing them. They die if I use too much at one time. They die if I apply it near the stem. And lastly, they die if I feed them too often which stacks the strength of the previous application. However, my plants never die if I don't fertilize them. They usually show tell-tale signs it needs to be fed.

In conclusion, the moral of this story is to follow the directions on the bag and keep the fertilizer away from the main stem.

 

[Appalachickens]

I emptied out one of my two compost tumblers to plant potatoes. As I was fertilizing with a bag of chicken manure, I was thinking about how it is the last bag I'll have to buy now that I have chickens to provide fertilizer! I'm trying the Ruth Stout method of growing potatoes. You put a little compost on the ground and then cover it with straw, and add more thorugh the season. I used bales I bought last year that saw out all winter, so they are nice and decaying.

I also put some potatoes in cardboard boxes behind the coop, in a modified-Ruth Stout method - compost and soil on the bottom, another layer of soil over the potatoes and then straw.

And finally, I finished filling the raised beds and got two of them mostly planted. I have five tomato plants in the middle one and plan to add three more. In the narrow bed, I have cukes, yellow squash, zucchini, a delicata squash and red pepper. I'm using some of the straw for mulch there, too.

 

[SkyAJK]

I am famous for killing my plants by over fertilizing them. They die if I use too much at one time. They die if I apply it near the stem. And lastly, they die if I feed them too often which stacks the strength of the previous application. However, my plants never die if I don't fertilize them. They usually show tell-tale signs it needs to be fed.

In conclusion, the moral of this story is to follow the directions on the bag and keep the fertilizer away from the main stem.

Sound like too much love there

My pot plants now died of drowning from the excessive continuous rain.

Some of my pot plants died before because I added in compost from my done compost bin, I think the garden lime I put in killed my plants. Might be too much lime.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I usually overwater and underfeed.

One day before I die, I'll get this figured out.

 

[jerryse]

Sound like too much love there

My pot plants now died of drowning from the excessive continuous rain.

Some of my pot plants died before because I added in compost from my done compost bin, I think the garden lime I put in killed my plants. Might be too much lime.

I am confused. Do you mean potted plants? You growing pot? Which is it?