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Member since: Jun 09 | Last seen: Feb 13 | Years gardening: 1996 | Organic gardener
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16 Jun 20123 The Orchard garden and 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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Storms 33°C / 91°FOnly 1 day of rain in over two months. Irrigation is keeping the main veg beds healthy, but I have nothing set up for the orchard except the rain barrels. No rain, no working rain barrels. Strawberry harvest is done, much smaller berries and yield than last year and I’m sure that has a lot ...
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05 Jun 20124 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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6 more lbs strawberries today. This year we are hulking and freezing all until end of harvest when jams will be processed at one time. Did I mention we have not purchased commercial jam in at least two years, maybe three? We are jam self-sufficient! Strawberries are small this year. Lesson learne...Cloudy 19°C / 66°F -
04 Jun 2012
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Lost pepper plants & more miscellany
peas: burpeeana Harvesting, Potato Flowering, and Kale: Dwarf Siberian HarvestingHarvested 16 lbs. of kale and the first batch of shell peas today. I really need to get the clover cut back, it is heavily shading the broccoli. My helpers are gone for a few days and it’s difficult to get sustained work done in the gardens with my little guys constantly interrupting. Still...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F -
28 May 20123 The Orchard garden and 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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Storms 33°C / 92°FStill no rain here. At least half of the hot and paprika peppers I transplanted last week are in severe shock. I need to remember to turn their drips on every single day while this weather continues. In addition to lack of ground moisture, it’s been extremely windy this spring. The hot, dry...
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26 May 2012Plum: Superior Under Attack, Plum: Stanley Under Attack, Plum: Superior Treating, Plum: Stanley Treating, O...
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Fertilized the orchard with high Phosporous fertilizer Disease and pest inventory - red fuji = leaf spot looks like the 2011 problem on cherry tree - 2n1 apple cedar rust - plum leaves are curled, water? yellowing – iron chlorosis (treated with liquid iron spray and soil drench) Weeded stra...Storms 27°C / 81°F -
26 May 2012
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questions: pest and disease identification
strawberry hill (ozark beauty) Harvesting, hops: willamette Under Attack, 3 The Orchard garden , Hops: Per...Storms 27°C / 81°FChallenges continue to line up as we move into the main planting season. For as much work as I put into feeding and caring for my plants, I feel like I’m constantly inundated with disease and pests. Help me identify these problems if you can. photo 1: RED RASPBERRIES random leaves yellowing...
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03 May 2012
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Storms 29°C / 85°FAnybody able to identify this from the foliage? At first I thought it might be rudbeckia, but the leaves are not like my other black-eyed susan plants. I’m letting it grow out for now because I want to identify it, I figure I can cut it out before it goes to seed if it’s really evil.
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03 May 2012
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A warning on bean weevils (aka lessons hard learned)
Storms 29°C / 85°FEarlier this year I discovered part of my bean stash was completed destroyed by bean weevils. Undetected overwinter, they’d multipled and devoured nearly my entire bean seed stash intended for sale. Luckily, or so I thought, I had two reserves. My personal seed stock was in the fridge overw...
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03 May 2012
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MayDay Squared - Apple Aphids and Ladybug Sex
Collards: Georgia Bolting, herb: chives , Herb: Woad Blooming, Pea Lincoln Homesteader Bolting, peas: burpe...Storms 29°C / 85°FDiscovered aphid infestation in some of the apples today, they look to be the dreaded “red apple aphid” – worst of the worst. Yet another apple problem I was not prepared to deal with. I’ve never seen this problem before, noticed curled leaves on some of the new growth, op...
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01 May 2012Potato , 3 The Orchard garden , 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden , cover crop: white clover Sprouting,...
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sMy strawberries have baby fruits, as do the cherries, plums and apples. The currants look like they’ll ripen before the strawberries. There’s spot on my plums, likely cedar rust. Oddly enough, the apples look mostly awesome but I already see a few infected leaves. I’m starting ...Storms 29°C / 85°F
