Garden Thread
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I reset the fabric pot with lettuce plugs, sowed cilantro in the 2 dry looking pots behind it, and sowed carrots in the black wet looking pots.
Get those seedlings going in the basement!
I got down and dirty today and my back is feeling it. I have a pluerry (plum and cherry cross) and shiro plum just waking up from dormancy, so I fertilized all my stone fruit trees and added fresh mulch. I'm really stoked on all my stone fruit since I bought them all last season, so I have yet to try any of the fruit (multiple varieties of nectarines and plums). I picked up a jalepeno and habanero plant at Home Depot when I was shopping for fertilizer and they have been sitting in the yard waiting to get planted, so I potted those bitches up. I wasn't paying attention when I bought the habanero, but I picked the bushiest one. Turns out there were three plants in the container, so BONUS. I separated them out and potted and fertilized. I need some more peppers, but I have some over-wintered tabasco and serranos. I then fertilized all berries, one of my lettuce beds (the newest one), herbs, citrus, carrots, radish, passion fruit and just about everything else, then mulched what needed to be mulched. It's supposed to rain late tonight through Monday morning, so this was the golden opportunity to get everything fertilized and rocking.
I harvest the last of my winter lettuce today.
Chopped and dropped stalks and bad leaves, then mixed into the soil and fertilized.
Then I reset 3 beds (whiskey barrels) with new plugs. My back hurts, but a productive way to end a beautiful day.
We've had lots of rain and it's done wonders to this bed I reset 2 weeks ago. Amazing how rain can boost plants better than just about anything.
Rainwater has a small amount of hydrogen peroxide in it and the plants absolutely love it, both the leaves and the soil/roots.
Nothing better to water with.
I knew it was something from the atmosphere, but didn't ever know exactly what it was (or a combination of things).
anti bacterial
anti fungal for leaves and roots
gives oxygen to leaves
gives oxygen to roots
soil also becomes slightly more aerated
Indoor plants love to be sprayed with it
fungus gnats
all types of other great stuff
In Moderation of Course
I found what killed one of my blackberry bushes. Gross!
I planted some fall gold raspberry plugs in the pot after digging out the grubs.
Then I hit all plants with a healthy dose of fish emulsion.
The radish are the only plants that didn't get the fish juice. They are just starting to bulb up. I have French breakfast, champion, and easter egg (not pictured).
Planted 3 small Kiwi vines into 6 gallon pots yesterday, gonna get back into the Kiwi business.
I've thought about growing kiwi's but never took the plunge. What type of trellis system are you working with?
nothing yet, still deciding. Possibly a redwood dual rail 2x6or 8 trellis about 16 feet long about 8.5 feet off the ground
I maintained my parents for 20 years or so in this exact same environment so I know what to expect, you can get huge yields here and they keep fairly well so you have amazing kiwi for a few months during winter
There aren't any that are self-fertile that work in my zone, so that's been my stumbling block (also a reason I don't grow apples).
I got two females and one male. The females are different strain.