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Post by kazedwards on May 31, 2017 10:17:28 GMT -5
Well the tree is most definitely wild. So I don't know about a hybrid. It may have had cotton I just didn't notice. Could the mulberry be a black mulberry? The leaf does not fit a red mulberry. I have also read that white can have both black and red fruit. I will leave a few of them. Probably transplant closer together. I probably have a hundred of them growing out there. They are small maybe a foot tall. The land has been mowed quite often in the past but hasn't so far this year so a lot is coming up. This is from an upstairs bedroom. If you zoom in on the middle. You can see the tree. The mulberry is under very bushy under it. The tree is also the corner of the property. To the right of it you can see the mow line of the lot next to ours.
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Post by kazedwards on May 31, 2017 2:25:06 GMT -5
Yep, cottonwood. Lovely trees, when they shed their "cotton" in the spring it can look like snow. And yep, mulberry not sure which variety but they are delicious. [add] I looked closer at the picture, may have spoke too soon on the cottonwood. Leaves and habit just aren't quite right. Maybe birch or hybrid poplar even. Are they on your new property kazedwards? Yes it is on the new property. I didn't notice any "cotton" this spring though. The mulberry looks like a white mulberry form what I have looked at. The are coming up all over. I need to get a mower out there before it gets to out of control.
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Post by kazedwards on May 29, 2017 19:18:23 GMT -5
Any idea about these I'm not very good with trees. Any idea? This is a bush. Don't know about this one either. This last one I had growing at the old place but don't know what it is
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Post by kazedwards on May 24, 2017 14:00:38 GMT -5
Good. It's an attractive plant too. At least it caught my attention.
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Post by kazedwards on May 23, 2017 22:39:30 GMT -5
Out at the property today. I thought I would take a pic of the garlic. First pic is of the bulbils I planted that toomanyirons sent and the TGS cloves and bulbils. The TGS plant bulbils are very small. They are at the very bottom of the patch. This is of Chesnok Red, my first and main garlic variety. Pardon the weeds have weeded at all out there Also does anyone know what this is?
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Post by kazedwards on May 20, 2017 1:41:11 GMT -5
I hope so. I been looking at a lot of permaculture concepts to include. One idea I really liked was using French pipe for the gutter down spouts to feed swales.
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Post by kazedwards on May 19, 2017 0:15:48 GMT -5
Well it was been awhile since I've been on here. No garden this year except a little garlic patch at the new place to keep my garlic going. I've missed being on here and having a garden. The new house should be ready in September. Until then we are in an apartment, whit he absolutely sucks. We close on the old house on 6/7 so I plan on digging a few more bulbs and a good chunk on walking onions. The onions will be planted at the new place. The bulbs I will wait until this fall to plant. In the mean time I have been slowly planning out the new place but haven't gotten to far yet.
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Post by kazedwards on May 19, 2017 0:07:26 GMT -5
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Post by kazedwards on Mar 5, 2017 19:11:55 GMT -5
As far as the potato onions no. I had 4-5 bulbs that got to be around 2 inches. I saved them a replanted them last year and they didn't really do anything. Didn't go to seed or get bigger. I still saved them to replant this spring but all but one didn't make it through winter storage.
The house is on its way. Foundation is curing and the basement floor has been poured. Next week they will start framing. Looking more like a September move in date. I'm the mean time we will be selling our current home this summer so we will be in an apartment for a few months which will really suck. We are both dreading it. I do have garlic planted at the new place but it's just enough to keep the strains going until next year.
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 6, 2017 10:08:19 GMT -5
That will depend on wether I need the garlic in the ground for the kitchen or not. I prefer to leave them on the plant as long as possible because I noticed this year that the chaff was a lot harder to detach from the seeds. I'm carful when cleaning them because the seeds have a habit of crumbling. Then again the seeds that crumble might not germinate at all so I might be doing myself a favor by being rough on them. Not to be discouraging but the chaff being difficult to remove and especially the easy crumbling do not sound good to me. Have you noticed any difference in those things between ones left on the plant versus ones put in water? The crumbling seeds doesn't seem good to me either but I'm always hopeful. My guess is they are just immature seeds but I worry that I'm damaging good seeds. I haven't noticed a difference in the crumbling between the ones in water and the ones left on the plant. It's not as much the chaff being removed than it is the small round pod that the seeds are in opening. I had to pinch them between my to get them to pop. I think them drying down outside on the plant would help weather them down and make them more brittle.
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 6, 2017 9:58:03 GMT -5
Good work Zack, very impressive. Like Megan ive given up on getting TGS this summer also yet its been a mild and dry garlic growing season for me, the rust has just been to hard on my TGS block but i have other hardneck types in other parts of the garden that have no rust, but the scapes are behind the garlic in the top photo. So i turn my sight to trying again, so that means taking bulbil from the most appropriate scapes, and would i be right in saying that i should take bulbils from umbels that produce the least and smallest of bulbils, Choosing umbels with large bulbils would be going backwards ? Wow, can't find a gob smacked emoji. Am super impressed and envious. Been a miserably mild and wet season down this way and scapes haven't unfurled let alone any sign of the umbels filling out. Looks like my tgs is back on shelf for next year😪 Sorry to here of your bad season down there. At least you guys have a good group going from the looks of it on Facebook. Richard the umbel in the first picture looks promising to me. As far as bulbil type and number I would think small bulbils would equal more flowers. More bulbils might mean a stronger plant too. I don't have much experience on growing any other garlic besides Chesnok Red though.
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 6, 2017 9:52:10 GMT -5
Finished cleaning and counting the TGS tonight. Chesnok Red produce over 1500 seeds. Great year!!! Please tell me you didn't actually count anywhere near that many seeds! That would be far too compulsive, even by my OC standards. I counted 100 out a few times then realized how many I had. Then separated them out into guesstimated piles of 100.
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 6, 2017 0:36:38 GMT -5
That will depend on wether I need the garlic in the ground for the kitchen or not. I prefer to leave them on the plant as long as possible because I noticed this year that the chaff was a lot harder to detach from the seeds. I'm carful when cleaning them because the seeds have a habit of crumbling. Then again the seeds that crumble might not germinate at all so I might be doing myself a favor by being rough on them.
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 5, 2017 22:04:37 GMT -5
Finished cleaning and counting the TGS tonight. Chesnok Red produce over 1500 seeds. Great year!!!
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 1, 2017 23:34:56 GMT -5
That's awesome Megan. Hopefully they will provide you with plenty of seeds.
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