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    Back with community garden questions

    Well I didn't forget about this forum in the last month I just got swamped in the rest of life. I guess that happens when you gut and rebuild a kitchen though. Anyway there's an empty lot in our neighborhood and we're about to turn it into a community garden of raised beds. The grant came...
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    Grass in Raised Beds

    What about a sheet mulch of newspapers. Usually newspaper thick enough can smother grass and will "settle down" and hug the ground unlike cardboard. It will also break down fast enough that the berries can root daughter plants through it.
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    My very own catalogue

    How about a spiral note book? Cut open the seed package and tape it to the notebook page. Then you can draw any pictures and diagrams you want and make notes. You can also bring it into the garden with you. A notebook like that is too difficult and constraining for me. I have a spreadsheet with...
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    beginner questions

    Welcome floraldaddy. When I start seeds on paper like this I like to move them as soon as the first signs of a root start to show. My thinking here is this is the time that I will cause the lease amount of trauma to the plant. If roots start to interlace with other plants and embed in the paper...
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    Kitchen herbs

    How tall does oregano get again? I have an area that I think would work well to be taken over. This is under a peach tree and holly bush and I may just cede it over to a mix of oregano, loveage, strawberries, and chives maybe I could toss in some lemon grass or something else too. How do you...
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    Kitchen herbs

    Thinking about it and the wording would be more along the lines of "we can't get enough pesto for our diet and tastes". I am far better at growing basil than I am parsley but I do cut the pure basil with mint and parsley to take a little of the sharp edges off the basil flavor. Looking at my...
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    Starting peas

    With the weather this year there is no difference between one of the rows planted outside and one started indoors. These are double rows. One of the outdoor rows is far stronger and better looking than either the other outdoor started or indoor started. It is weird to see the difference as...
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    Sweet Potato front yard?

    I had a few vines in my front yard last year. Sweet potatoes didn't do too well this far north though. Any way watch your zoning laws. There have been cases where people were ticketed and or fined for veg beds in their front yards. I tuck veg plants into some of my beds in the front yard though.
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    hardening off and maybe killed them

    Looks like I got lucky and didn't kill any. I hope to build up a better growing area. I have a double tube four foot fixture that I have used in previos years. But i have it mounted in the cool basement. Being cool kept the plants growing slowly. This year I would like to have it in a warmer...
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    Newbie - lots of hedge privacy questions

    Is evergreen a requirement? I have a privit hedge. I have no clue how old it is but at this point it is both a thick privacy hedge and will stop a person from being able to pass through it. I trim it to shape eAch year to keep it presentable using electric trimmers. Last year I lopped it off...
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    hardening off and maybe killed them

    Well hardening off really was the wrong wording. Mainly I wanted the light intensity. Now is where I wish I had a window green house. Thanks for the help. I plan on starting new seeds tonight.
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    Making your own inexpensive potting mix

    Does rabbit manure need composting. I've been looking intoraising rabbits and all that reading points to rabbit mmanure being able to go directly in a soil mix. A few souces put it between a 10-10-10 and 7-7-7 fertilizer. The only reason i dont have a rabbit herd started yet is I don't know...
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    hardening off and maybe killed them

    I start my seeds in a large cooler with a 14 W CFL bulb as a heat source and initial light source. Today I took the box with five day old tomatoes and peppers outside for about 90 minutes starting at about 4:45 while we were on our evening dog walk. With the light bulb the temp in the box is...
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    Mystery tree

    I get confused with fruit tree pollinetion. Apples and sweet cherries need a different cultivator to pollinate. Will plums cross with a geniticly identical tree? I have read that many peaches are self fertile but need to be pollinated by insects. At least I hope thisnis the case as my...
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    Mystery tree

    I thought that too Kya D but I don't have experience with plums. Not knowing where this is handicaps the guesses.
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    Mystery tree

    Roughly where are you? What climate? It looks an awful lot like my crab apple except for the holding leafs all year but if you're south of here it could happen, maybe. Apples are not self fertile and would not produce fruit without being cross pollinated.
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    Edible companion plants for Blueberries?!

    What about ground cherry? I have yet to try growing them but could work from what I have read.
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    Sharing a trellis

    I run butternut squash up trellises without much trouble. You will need to support the fruit as it will rip the vines from the trellis. Because they don't set more roots down as they climb you'll need to make sure it is well watered. I have never mixed cucumbers and squash on one trellis...
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    earliest I've ever started

    The storm spawned 2 or 3 small tornadoes, peeled back the roof of a middle school about 10 miles NE of here, several large trees down. My neighborhood is mostly bungalows from the 1920's and almost all of them now have new roofs and over half have new siding on at least one wall. My neighbor...
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    Bat houses

    I would think that the compost heat would have dissipated after the 8 or so feet. When I turn my pile at times I have plooms of steam exiting it (when fresh cut grass is added) but the sides are not hot to the touch, just the center. If you plan on an industrial style system where you are...


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