Thread: In the garden 2021

Sandhill cranes in the yard
The babies are almost fully grown

There's a young guy up the block who I talk with when walking Travis and come to find out he took over the hydraulic shop that was in Dayton where I grew up. He makes the 70 mile round trip every day but he says he doesn't mind.

Anyway, he does a lot of container gardening and I noticed some big blue ones and I asked him where he got them. Seems that he gets them from his father in-law and they contain some kind of horse feed or something. I offered to buy one as I had a project that would require a pretty deep pot and with me a bit on the cheap side I figured they would be much less than store bought containers.

He said I could have one! The only ones he had that wasn't in use he'd turned upside down and use to stain the boards of his fence. I told him no worries and brought it home.

One of the local ranch and home stores was closing out their gardening things like big bags of steer manure, potting soil and such so I bought two big bags of potting soil and two big bags of steer manure. I dumped some of each in and mixed it well then repeated. Once full I planted my project.







I was really late with this as I'm sure it should have been planted in the spring. But I'm hoping that I'll be able to use part of it Christmas or New Years with a rib roast----that's a hint to what it is.

I should be able to break off a chunk and it should send out new growth.

I planted a Walla Walla Sweet for seed in the same planter. It should be coming up also. One of the oldest families to grow WW Sweets came up with a RED WW Sweet. I may pick on of those up and see if I can get it to produce seed. I'll let you know.

Even though I was late planting looks like with a little luck the horseradish just might make it.

Squash, cuke's and zuchinni starting to overwhelm us

Us to. I’m giving away more than half f ours to neighbors and friends, been eating all the blueberries though, I want them all!

I eat blueberries every day. Cost is irrelevant.

This s true, even when my bushes aren’t producing we buy them, it’s so cool to walk out on my patio and pluck em off and eat

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

This s true, even when my bushes aren’t producing we buy them, it’s so cool to walk out on my patio and pluck em off and eat

I have to find a spot to plant a bush
Do you keep yours well cropped? they get big

We have 2 Rabbiteyes and 2 high bush, both of out variety gets to about 6’. After they are mature, in the fall I get rid of the oldest branches that are getting brown and hard, leave all new growth. New branches seem to be good for about 2-3 years before you prune. Then I just go around the bush and take out branches that didn’t have berries..

I think mine don’t get too tall cause we wrap them in Tulle to keep birds off. Tends to bend the branches downward, but works really good, till the berries are blue I just spray them with grape coolaid, that’s right coolaid grape. It works. Birds don’t like it. Look it up. First year we let the berries go, started harvesting the second full year, for 5 weeks she gets about 3 quarts every week

Oh and Dave find you a spot that gets decent sun, mine gets shade in the late afternoon maybe 6 hours direct sun, I use a mix of composite, vermiculite, and soil, then planted them and mulched, try to water once a week at least for sweet berries.