Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

Apple and Cherry trees in full bloom!

Here's the apple trees. The nearer one is a golden delicious and the further one, a granny smith. Crosspollenators. htt...

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posted by cshenk

4 comments posted 2yrs posted by cshenk

4 more seedling trays setup

rI got 2 more in yesterday. Delicata squash and parsly. today lavendar and ancho chiles. Over the next week we finish t...

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posted by cshenk

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One of the issues with container gardening

They eventually get so root bound you have just replace the soil. While some of mine are still workable, fully 10 are at...

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posted by cshenk

4 comments posted 2yrs posted by cshenk

Seedlings at last!

This is new for me. Other than lettuce or herbs, I've always gotten starter plants from various places. Tomatoes, bell...

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posted by cshenk

2 comments posted 2yrs posted by cshenk

snow...

not a big surprise to me as it is quite possible to have snows here into April, but we were spoiled by the warmer weath...

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posted by songbird

2 comments posted 2yrs posted by songbird

0°C.

should i plant beets in the ground in the greenhouse like a n*****ts, knowing they will likely die and I might cop a cru...

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posted by zerda

6 comments posted 2yrs posted by zerda

YUGE Blueberry

Hi All, This is a massive blueberry. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/worlds-heaviest-blueberry-grown-in-aus...

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posted by T

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gardening season opener

yesterday it was warm enough to get outside and start some gardening tasks. i scraped a few hundred square feet after b...

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posted by songbird

30 comments posted 2yrs posted by songbird

Beatin' the Bolt

In the past I've always had problems with lettuce/spinach/bok choi bolting way too soon . So this year I decided to pla...

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posted by Snag_one

4 comments posted 2yrs posted by Snag_one

Gou Qi Zi raisins

Hi All, I have four prolific goji berry (Gou Qi Zi) plants in my garden. https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbs...

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posted by T

3 comments posted 2yrs posted by T

Polyhalite for organic gardening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhalitehttps://www.icl-uk.uk/product/polysulphate/ 48% SO3 as sulfate 14% K2O as from...

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posted by T

8 comments posted 2yrs posted by T

maybe maybe

the weather may cooperate enough with me this week to be able to get back outside to finish off a few more gardens to h...

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posted by songbird

2 comments posted 2yrs posted by songbird

First seed catalog for next season has arrived

Yeppers, the Pinetree seed catalog has already found its way into my mailbox. A lot earlier than usual this year too. I...

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posted by Nyssa

0 comments posted 2yrs posted by Nyssa

Tip: mosquitoes

Hi All, This year, I could not step outside without being tagged three of four times. Half my time watering the garden...

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posted by T

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over winter onions?

Hi All, My onions are just starting to bulb up. Some are the size of golf ball. Most are smaller. The first freeze will...

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posted by T

5 comments posted 2yrs posted by T