Lets talk about hardy pears....
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Comments (35)tradergordo: There is another thread running right nearby here somewhere, in which Scott suggests rolling up two ends of the footie and tying it right over the branch or twig with a square knot. Harvesting will require a sharp pocket knife to get these things off. I tried Scott's method, and very much prefer it to stapling, which I found awkward and ineffective at giving me a good seal around the "stem", if you can call it that on a peach. My footies came from Store Supply Warehouse, in Harrisburg, PA, and they were very reasonably priced, even with shipping. It's cheaper to buy several boxes rather than just one, since shipping and handling remains the same. I am looking at my footie box right now, and see their phone number is 1-800-823-8887. When I called them and gave them my credit card number, the footies were somehow here the next day. I don't know how you would compare labor input of footie installation with use of Surround. Footies are tedious to install, but when it's over, it's over. One of the principal reasons I bag fruit is to avoid having to lug the sprayer around eight or more times a season. To me, elimination of pesticide use is a nice bonus. Once installed, the footies are quite unobtrusive on the trees; much less so than plastic or the ghostly white of Surround. With the Scott footie-tying method, I am even going to try covering the nectarines, which are nearly impossible to do with plastic. Never actually grew a ripe nectarine here yet. But I will continue to use plastic sandwich bags on the apples. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MoreLet's talk about Sedums and Sempervivums
Comments (6)Hi ....here are a couple of pics to show you what I do.. I just took some sedum and tucked them into the rocks and put some soil on top of the roots and this is what I got and they grow fine in the rocks arround my house.... I did it with this cactus also.... the cactus is getting ready to bloom, I'll have to post a picture when the flowers are open... I hope this helps you....good luck with your project...linda...See MoreLets talk about Lavender!
Comments (13)scully, I would recommend a combination of compost and something gritty like rough sand. Clay is actually very rich in minerals and nutrients -- so if you can break it up with the combination I suggested, it will enrich your garden. (However NOTE sand and clay alone = cement or bricks) However lavenders are usually very hardy plants. They grow wild in the mediterranean in hardpack and rocky soil. The only thing there it doesn't rain as much and drainage is probably fine where they thrive. I have lavenders reseed and grow in tight spaces between bricks. In our climate as long as we address the drainage issue, they will be fine. Don't hard prune in the fall but do this in spring after the last frost....See MoreLets talk about paste tomatoes
Comments (14)"PC, Zapotec Pleated is often hollow as grown by many and it wouldn't be on my list to use as a paste variety." Thanks for weighing in on that. It is actually the hollowness that is most interesting to me. I have this irrational thought that such hollowness in tomatoes might possibly result in very flavorful flesh ("meat"), which is why I would like to try it for dehydration, which is really what I'm after, which I would use not so much for snacking but more to create flavor stock for cooking, like with different hot peppers in dishes like a favorite of mine, Asado de Puerco, or like dehydrated shrimp in Siete Mares. I'm not quite sure if this would be considered a paste use or not to be honest, but it is what I have in mind. It is basically a rehydration of the desiccated flavor where they are used as a spice with a very heavy hand. About my comment on paste, sadly I don't have the luxury to prepare much paste ... Don't have tomatoes to spare in my limited growing space (and I am trying to go more vertical to change this but that it is a PITB in containers here). Your comment on not being a paste tomato is well taken for the traditional simmering to make Mama Leone's sort of delicious cuisine ;-) PC...See Morekatie77q
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