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    fruiting trees and bushes rating

    Location will make quite a difference. For example, peaches do very well in the Sacramento Valley of California, but are very difficult here in western Oregon. Using your rating system I would give peaches a 2 in the Sacramento Valley but a 5 here in western Oregon. We have essentially 9...
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    Is this forum active?

    I check just about every day to see if anyone has posted any new messages. There are a couple of threads down below that you may fins intersting. They are blogs from a couple of universities and I have seen some pretty interesting stuff come across there.
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    Hey I'm a new gardener from Indiana

    Welcome to the forum. Do you have a special interest? I have never done anything with flowers but have spent my efforts on fruit trees and vegetables.
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    Strawberries

    At our last house, slugs were a constant problem but they have only been an occasional problem over here. The garden area is about 150 feet away from the house and we seem to have lots more of the slugs close to the house.
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    Propagating a Redbud

    I did that too. I had read about layering in the past but have never tried it. While I was reading, I went ahead and read about it again.
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    Propagating a Redbud

    I think you are in luck. The book I have is called "Plants-a-Plenty" by Catherine Osgood Foster. She suggests two propagation methods; softwood cuttings in early summer or layering. We are sort of in the tail end of early summer so now is the time. If the limbs are flexible enough, you could...
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    Propagating a Redbud

    I have a book down in the basement that may contain an answer. I'll check on it this evening.
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    Trax Veggies 2014

    That sounds good, Ron. My standard salad on Fridays contains one of the colored (other than green) bell peppers diced up in it.
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    Trax Veggies 2014

    I didn't plant any peppers this year but my daughter did. I think the only ones she planted though are bell peppers.
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    Strawberries

    I know the beer works on slugs. I think it's kind of funny that they will drown themselves in it though.
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    Trax Veggies 2014

    It's hard to believe you can grow banana trees in Oklahoma, Trax.
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    Trax Veggies 2014

    I have used the habanero peppers and they have proved to be sufficiently hot for any use I have. I have never had the guts to pop one of those in my mouth by itself.
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    Newbie

    Welcome, and jump right in.
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    Trax Veggies 2014

    I was wondering what you and/or Debe were going to do with those 'ghost peppers'. Those dudes are HOT. I like hot salsa but I'm not about to play with those things.
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    what's with the oddly shaped strawberries?

    What part of Oregon, Ben C? I live just outside of Newberg, southwest of Portland.
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    aerial roots?

    I saw Pete at church again this last Sunday but he was engaged in conversation with someone so I didn't get to talk to him. Pete is a biology teacher at the local high school and he also heads up the schools greenhouses. I may try a different tack and see if I can get his e-mail address and...
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    Help make a grow room

    About the only ways to dry it out faster is to either ventilate the space with drier outside air or to use a dehumidifier to lower the relative humidity in the space. That would increase the rate of evaporation from the plants.
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    New guy from the backwoods in PA

    Soil test kits are fairly inexpensive and that would at least tell you if you are short of nutrients.
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    Recipe Low -Fat Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches

    My grandson would love these.
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    New guy from the backwoods in PA

    That's true about the horse poop. My daughter has three horses now so we have an abundance of horse poop. I am sure some of the seeds are neutralized while composting but weeds are still a perpetual problem. There is no shortage of organic matter, however. LOL


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