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Post by coppice on Sept 28, 2011 8:09:34 GMT -5
Your tomato plants (mine anyway) look like a truck hit 'em, corn stalks are turning brown. Any fall cabbage you might be planting either are in the ground or are near to it. Its time to pack the garden in, isn't it?
Maybe, its also one of (two) best seasons to start or transplant woody plants.
Tree seeds just about all have a dormancy 'inhibitor' that makes them need a cold winters nap out doors in a pot (with a plank covering) or one spent in your cold frame.
Most all vegetable seeds get planted in the spring. *But* they don't have any inhibitors like tree (or woody plant) seeds do. Now is the time to get stone fruit (prunus), apple, nuts (& chestnuts), blueberry, mulberry, witch hazel, pawpaw, seed into pots.
Its cool out, fiddling with trays of perennial seedling plants you grew all summer long is pleasant. its also less stressful for woody plants as they head off to a winters sleep.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 8:57:40 GMT -5
Not fall here, yet. Temps still in the 90's, although below 95 now! Nights are still in the 70's, but should be lower by next week. My ONE tomato plant that made it through the long, hot summer, is blooming again, and I hope to have tomatoes for Thanksgiving! Got some cabbage in the ground, will be planting radish, carrots and broccoli in the next few days.
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Post by coppice on Oct 16, 2011 12:37:35 GMT -5
It's fall! Time to scrounge up the material sapling or seedling trees will need for next springs repotting.
A person growing just a few saplings in pots awaiting planting them to feild, can probably get by with a bag or two of crushed granite (chicken scratch), and a bag or two of crushed pine bark mulch; mixed one to one as tree soil for pots.
I try to be ready by thanksgiving with next springs soil needs for my bonsai. Spring comes and everything gets busy, around me anyways.
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Post by paulf on Oct 18, 2011 8:22:28 GMT -5
I packed it in yesterday. Time to move into the planning stage for next year after a couple weeks vacation from the garden.
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Post by coppice on Oct 19, 2011 8:35:37 GMT -5
Now is the time to put on your "honey-do" list, to scope out local grapes to take semi-hardwood cutting of. Mmm and maybe sample a few of the grapes to see if that the one you wanna propagate.
How to propagate a grape? stick a cutting that is as thick as a # 2 pencil and long enough to have three bumps of where next years leafs come out, bury it two internodes (those bumps) deep and leave the last one above ground.
Take (and plant) cuttings while vine is dormant. Spring will come, some will callus roots. Plant to trellis on year two or three.
Yes, you can plant grape seed. it adds years to getting a crop.
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