How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[too larry]

I side dress everything that hadn't had it before. Well, everything but the okra. The saved seed okra just isn't growing. If the bought seeds do well, I'll till up the others and put something else there.

My fert mix was a little different.I found a little 10-10-10, so I added it to the mix. As well as some time release. {I have several bags of it, and it needs using} And I doubled up on the mushroom compost.

 

[too larry]

And yesterday I had cleaned up two grapevines {of the dozen or more I had planted a couple years ago}. Today I added some soil mix, tilled it in and mulched them good. Then lots of water. Sister built an arbor over her grapevines and now the wife wants one like it. This is the kind, although hers is just one section long. Ours will be two sections long. Of course the two vines are not lined up. One in one row, and the other in the next row. So I will buy two more vines and plant the skips.

 

[farmerfischer]

Alright. I can upload files today..

 

[farmerfischer]

Well like I started to post last night.. veggie beds and flower beds are almost done.. got the veggie garden amended just got to turn it one more time..
This is one if the front beds. Going to be mainly flowers with some veggies.. probably zukes or cucumber..

 

[farmerfischer]

This is the small bed.. going to be mostly poppies. Not quite done with it. Going to make it a few feet longer..

 

[too larry]

Alright. I can upload files today..View attachment 4130557

Nice.

One of the grapevines I worked on yesterday.

 

[too larry]

I got three blueberry bushes cleaned, the Holly-Tone ferts added {1 cup per foot of canopy} and tilled in, then mulched and watered. About 6 more bushes to go.

 

[farmerfischer]

Nice.

One of the grapevines I worked on yesterday.

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That something I've been considering, growing grapes for wine or jelly. Your vine looks happy.

 

[farmerfischer]

I got three blueberry bushes cleaned, the Holly-Tone ferts added {1 cup per foot of canopy} and tilled in, then mulched and watered. About 6 more bushes to go.

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You all ready have berries ripening.. nice.. my blue berries haven't popped their leaf buds yet..

 

[too larry]

That something I've been considering, growing grapes for wine or jelly. Your vine looks happy.

I'm not great about remembering to tend to things like that. I had about a dozen vines, and now I have 3.

 

[too larry]

You all ready have berries ripening.. nice.. my blue berries haven't popped their leaf buds yet..

These here at the house had good timing as far as the late cold went. There is a blueberry patch my daddy planted 30 years ago in front of the old house in the edge of my cousin's pines. They have spread over a pretty wide area, maybe 60 X 25. That is where we do most of our berry picking. The frost got all of those. I was over there last week, and didn't see a single berry.

 

[blake9999]

I bought a blueberry plant from Lowes and it turned out to be a dud! There is a blueberry farm in town, somewhere, and I may look them up some time and see if they sell small bushes. I know they offer a pick-a-basket routine, but I would like a few plants.

 

[farmerfischer]

These here at the house had good timing as far as the late cold went. There is a blueberry patch my daddy planted 30 years ago in front of the old house in the edge of my cousin's pines. They have spread over a pretty wide area, maybe 60 X 25. That is where we do most of our berry picking. The frost got all of those. I was over there last week, and didn't see a single berry.

That's a shame about your patch.. the whole woods around here is nothing bud blueberry and winter green, arbutus and mertle .. miles and miles of blue berries though..lol. last year was the biggest I've ever seen them get wild..

 

[too larry]

I bought a blueberry plant from Lowes and it turned out to be a dud! There is a blueberry farm in town, somewhere, and I may look them up some time and see if they sell small bushes. I know they offer a pick-a-basket routine, but I would like a few plants.

I have 4 from Lowe's. The others are off shoots from Sister's plants that she potted for me. She only has 5-6 bushes, but they are huge.

 

[farmerfischer]

I bought a blueberry plant from Lowes and it turned out to be a dud! There is a blueberry farm in town, somewhere, and I may look them up some time and see if they sell small bushes. I know they offer a pick-a-basket routine, but I would like a few plants.

I have low bush blue berries here .. from what I've read about them they prefer a neutral pH and nitrogen base fertilizer and they need to be pruned to produce many flowers..

 

[blake9999]

Down here this far south there are blackberries as far as they eye can see. I am tired of using round-up on them because they pop up everywhere, even in the crack in the street.

 

[too larry]

That's a shame about your patch.. the whole woods around here is nothing bud blueberry and winter green, arbutus and mertle .. miles and miles of blue berries though..lol. last year was the biggest I've ever seen them get wild..

We have some wild bb's too. Down at the pond I have at least 4 bushes. And where I had the JP patch last year has 15-20 bushes that I have seen. They get ripe later, but are not as sweet as the store bought bushes.

 

[too larry]

I have low bush blue berries here .. from what I've read about them they prefer a neutral pH and nitrogen base fertilizer and they need to be pruned to produce many flowers..

The older bushes at Sister's and at the old house are about 8' tall. The ones at Sister's are about that wide too.

The Holly-Tone Azalea food is supposed to be the shit for blueberries. You feed in spring and fall.

 

[farmerfischer]

The older bushes at Sister's and at the old house are about 8' tall. The ones at Sister's are about that wide too.

The Holly-Tone Azalea food is supposed to be the shit for blueberries. You feed in spring and fall.

wow.. those are huge..are they good producers?

 

[too larry]

wow.. those are huge..are they good producers?

Yes. The ones at the old house have gone wild. They are fighting with oaks and pines for food, light and water, but they are always loaded. The ones at Sister's have mulch and water, so they produce more per plant.