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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/