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Has someone a cherry tree with two different varieties crafted onto one Gisela5 or really tiny cherry spindles/espaliers?
I have either space for two tiny spindles/espaliers or one solitary tree with two varieties (for pollination).
Hat jemand Erfahrung mit zweierlei Süßkirschen auf einer Gisela5-Unterlage oder wirklich kleine Säulen/Spalierkirschen?
Ich habe Platz für entweder zwei Säulen/Spalierbäume oder einen Baum mit zwei Sorten. #garten#pflanzen#obstbaum
Questo inverno l'ho messo a dimora ed ora eccolo qui, bello e profumato.
È l'alium roseum, per le sfumature rosate dei petali. In Toscana lo chiamano "aglio di serpe" o "aglio viperino".
Si trova selvatico sui bordi delle strade di campagna e nei campi, ovunque nella regione mediterranea.
In questa pianta i fiori sono raccolti in dense ombrelle, le quali sono inizialmente avvolte da spire papiracee.
Talvolta le ombrelle contengono anche piccoli bulbilli che, cadendo, possono dare origine a nuove piante. (Guardate bene la foto nel precedente tooth, ci sono!)
CURIOSITÀ: Le cellule intatte di tutti gli Allium contengono alliina, un amminoacido inodore che per azione dell'enzima alliinasi, liberantesi con la rottura del bulbo, si trasforma in allicina, composto fortemente odoroso.
Also, Fazit:
Hermannshof absolut besuchenswert, Abzüge in der B-Note für Pollenflug.
Pflanzenkauf: unbedingt kurz vor Öffnung da sein, schnell entscheiden und sofort bezahlen (nur Bargeld). #garten#pflanzen @gardening@plants
@gardening a few months ago, I saw a post from someone (maybe in Minnesota?) who was looking for a source for red-not-pink winter cactus that bloom in November, not December. I thought one of mine would fit her description, but adhd has eaten the link or bookmark I’d saved, or meant to save. So I’m just throwing this back out to the Fedi: hey, red thanksgiving cactus seeker, if you want me to mail you a cutting in a heat pack, let me know!
Tags/boosts welcome. #ThanksgivingCactus, #ChristmasCactus and #Schlumbergera too?
I have some chestnuts I want to try and cold stratify in the fridge. Every guide I have found puts them in peat moss in a bag or container. I don't want to use peat moss!
Can coconut coir work for fridge cold stratification? Would just paper towels work? My understanding is chestnuts need to stay moist, so that's what I need to mimic I think.
@jack@gardening Coir/coco fibre should be as good as any other soil/substrate- vermiculite, perlite etc (I prefer coir for it's provenance and natural look when mixed in soil outdoors--hate perlite for that reason; I also like zeolite or chicken grit- be sure there are no additives).
The only time coir may not be suitable is if you are trying to germinate something that needs natural soil chemicals to enhance germination- but no sterile media would have those, only natural woodland soil/duff.
So this came up in one of my pots. My app says it's a corn marigold. Do you agree? Although not originally a native plant, it's arrival in the UK is suspected to be via the ancient grain trade. I quite like it - actually lifted it from the pot & planted it in the garden - so will probably save the seeds, if it pollinates. There was a great bumble bee nosing around it, so hopefully, hopefully. #garden@gardening
It started raining the minute that wall was finished so rest of the afternoon was spent on spreading nematodes #everywhere in hope of better harvest of apples next year, weeding behind the logs and putting 1) cardboard and 2) mulched branches. Finally the gutter over the patio was rinsed, a lengthy business as it proved to be completely clogged.
It is raining really hard. Time to call it a day and go inside. Friday is indoor chores as It will rain all day #sarassummer23 @gardening
We planted lettuce this year, but we both found it inedibly bitter, so we just let it do its thing without harvesting or trimming it. Now it looks like a weird alien plant.
@emily@gardening Mine got bitter too. It happens when the weather is either too hot or too cold. I had a very cold summer with a few days being extremely hot. It is kinda fascinating though, how it starts flowering now.
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I wonder what’s going on with these beans? This is a new bed, made last fall with bulk soil and a couple inches of compost. I tried several different seed starts here, but we had such a cold spring, nothing stuck until I planted these bush dry beans in early July. The bed was fertilized for the corn that died of cold in June. Even then, I don’t think I’ve seen as much growth as I should, and what the hell, y’all? Why is half the bed nice and green and the other half all yellow? Any ideas?
There’s buried drip irrigation, 15 minutes a day from a well, and it’s enough for the leeks, squash etc so I don’t think it’s the water.
@donkeyherder@gardening haha, silly donkey. My mare is fond of her salt block too, I switched her to the hard Himalayan salt block on a rope and gave the big block to the other mare.
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I’m equal parts delighted and terrified by my #cucumbers. Two days ago I got 15, and forgot to pickle them, and today I got 28 more. Do I even have that many jars? I’m eating them as fast as I can but I’m losing the war. I’ve ordered some food safe plastic 2 gallon buckets to help.
I’m growing two varieties, “Mideast peace” and “Addis pickle,” and Mideast is far and away my favorite. I’m only going to grow it next year. https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/cucumbers/cucumber-mideast-peace-organic/
@donkeyherder@gardening 😳 monsters!!! I have two as well and now I am scared. They have lots on them but so far paced nicely. That might change though 😳😳
@donkeyherder@gardening they can be cooked too, like blanched courgettes, in fact I like them better that way. I think they could be frozen after blanching
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I’m beyond proud of this Kazakh #melon plant for setting fruit! I found three little fuzzy balls (heh) today. Melons are pretty marginal up here by the Puget Sound, so I did everything I could think of to maximize my chances. I started seeds twice, one in May (still too cold) and again in June. The first seedlings included two watermelon, in case we got a blazingly hot early summer. (Spoiler: we didn’t.) By June I’d tempered my hopes and just started the three most cold-tolerant, short season varieties I had. When I transplanted the second batch out, I put them in the warmest part of the garden. And they’re doing it! Go melons! https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/melons/melon-kazakh-organic/
@gardening#gardening look at my #potatoes! These are all from one volunteer plant (one of the not-gingers)!
I harvested the squash today so it got to be in the picture too. Tomorrow I’ll roast potatoes, garlic, and squash!
I harvested them because that plant abruptly fell over today and started looking wilty, and I’ve read that that’s a sign of disease. Sure enough, a couple of the taters look lightly scabby.
Hey, #garden friends, can we talk about #compost? They’re not all created equally, and it does matter. Commercial compost made with sewer sludge contains all the contaminants of the sludge. All the drug residues, all the pesticide runoff, and all the PFAS, apparently.
I started looking into this when Lake Tulare started to form this spring. One of the big fears was that if it got too big, it would breach one of the Los Angeles area biosolids composting sites, and that would’ve been catastrophically bad. One of the predicted bad impacts was spreading all the contaminants from the composting site all over a larger area - but I know how composting works, even on the industrial scale, and that just means that whatever toxic contamination is in the biosolids is definitely going into the compost.
I’ve noticed that some of y’all have weird problems with your soil, and you often use bagged compost to amend it. I don’t buy compost because I have equines, and I deal with plenty of my own problems from that. But I do buy various bagged soil products, and they all have composts in them … ugh. @gardening https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/30/kale-pfas-forever-chemicals-contamination
@donkeyherder@gardening understood well here we do none of that and try to make a circular product that come from healthy organic matter produced on site.
Limitation of the intrants for a better quality control is the way to go for us.
Zucchini/courgettes are fun to grow. They can climb, too. Really entertaining when they get tangled in a hedge: your harvest festival feels like an Easter egg hunt. Just watch out for slugs and snails: they mow down young plants like a combine harvester.
Despite drought, the hollyhocks, milkweed and roses are all blooming today (zone 5). You can see the completely brown grass to the sides. @gardening #bloomscrolling #garden
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The first proper hatful of #strawberries! They look like crap - lots of incomplete pollination, the strawberries bloomed ages before the bees woke up - but omg, what a haul! I topped them and put them in the freezer; they’ll make a couple days’ worth of top-tier smoothies. I’m in 8b West Coast.
From time to time my parents take care of the neighbors chicken. One of them lays incredibly giant eggs. We don't yet know who it is, but every time anew it dazzles me, how such 'small' birds can produce such monstorous eggs. @gardening#chicken
Hi, good morning @gardening,
I’m a real gardener! I harvested an entire bed of #garlic! I made food!
This is the bed the chickens marauded through the worst, so a lot of the garlic is stunted or damaged. Most of it should be edible and I’ll do a lot of roasted veggies to use it up. The ones that look good enough can go to share, but I think this first bed is mostly ugly food.
I’m absolutely delighted with this 100% #NoDig soil! Two years ago it was weedy clay lawn. I put cardboard and wood chips down and grew potatoes in fabric pots on top. After I got the potatoes out, I put some boards around the new bed areas and filled them with my horse manure and bedding compost. I planted garlic, inexpertly, in October, and mulched this bed with leftover hay. Scraped off the top layer of hay in the spring, let the garlic go, and now it’s just the nicest, fluffiest loam! I know you’re supposed to dig garlic, to not damage all the roots, but all of mine just pulled with a gentle tug.
I’ve got some Brussels sprouts seedlings in the grow tent to set out in the garlic beds. Maybe I’ll start some cauliflower too?
I GREW FOOD!
@gardening oh! I forgot to show off my current Wild Success: #leeks!
Growing Veggies West of the Cascades had a really clear description of how to grow leeks, so I gave it a shot. I have two varieties, a short fat kind and a tall kind. When they’re “the diameter of a pencil” they’ll be ready to transplant into, honestly, whatever beds are open at the time!
@donkeyherder@gardening I have them too!
But they have just sprouted, still definitely too small for transplant.
Let me know how it goes with yours, it's the second time I try to grow them and the first time wasn't exactly a success, so I will be very much glad with every advice you can think of. :D
