After losing my summer zuchini to squash bugs and borers, I grew patty pan as a fall crop. They did great but their more bland flavor wasnt wife approved.
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I keep forgetting to post pictures of my potato jungle. Unfortunately you cant see all the flowers that well. Included are also other photos I forgot to share here or there.
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Figured id post in this thread too since i think i came up with this independently and some may be interestedā¦ I use modular tomato cages to much effect on my cane fruit. I just put it around the plant once it gets heavy with fruit to lift it up and keep it off the ground. I find it easy in my small space vs having a permanent or semi permanent trellis. Plus i hate tying things up. I just put this on sometime near ripening and then take it off and prune in the fall.
looks something like this when i connect it, can sometimes do 3 high depending on them. Ive had good success with this method. Allows the flowers to be really spread out when getting pollinated then when theyre nearly ripe lifts them up for harvest. Do it with my dewberry (trailing) and my semi erect ones (no idea on the variety, it was here when i got the house). Plan on doing it to my fall gold, ponca, and black raspberries that are in the ground as of this fall. Does it save space compared to traditional trellising? I kind of think so.
Note* wear your rose gloves while you do it
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Well, one of my direct neighbor houses is going on the market. I think thereās a 99.9% chance itās sold to a builderā¦Iām frantically making plans to move things around. It will cause an afternoon shadow on 3 nectarines I planted this year for full sun. But, a builder would take out the dogwood and open up afternoon sun further on that property line (while taking away my kids pride and joy climbing tree). Anxiously waiting to see who buys it. Best case scenario would be a retired couple that doesnāt change much of anything and allows me to keep pruning back the large dogwood!!
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i just spent all of yesterday planting my partnerās damn apple seedlings all along the edge of the lot. plus two maple he started āfor funā went into the devil strip. then all the grapes and raspberries he started that i hadnāt found until now
those went along the side fence so the neighbor kids can pick them i guess.
we also have a tray with a note, in his scrawled handwriting, that says ācherry, plum, peaches, donāt touchā that look like empty pots but will probably sprout a thousand seedlings in the spring
the back side of the note is one of my basket patterns that i was searching for.
edit to add i have now found and planted more than two dozen of his ānew babiesā. i should not have gotten him interested in the trees, but itās too late now.
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This is too funny! Iām sorry you have to share your limited space with his new projects. I hadnāt considered that as the downside of a partner coming round and getting into gardeningā¦I saw a social media video about stand over apple trees that are laid horizontal on rebar/wire only 2ā off the ground and lining a garden bed or bordering a walkway. Maybe you could do something like that with his projects?
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Iāll probably have to! for myself i planted and sprouted a single pawpaw, which has gone into the patch of them.
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Driveway garden with a beautiful fall mess of colors and covered in the neighborās dogwood leaves. Triumph apple went in there and just moved bush Cherry as well. Pretty sure at this point that the neighboring house on this side has been sold to a family that will demo it and rebuild. So, the lovely dogwood will disappear. At least that will open up full day sun in one place when a house shadow will obliterate it in another. Iāve started working on plan B for the nectarines that involves moving one over 3ā (so ridiculous but thatās make it or break it on a tiny lot) and moving another to a different location. Iām hopefully Iāll be able to convince the new owners to plant wisely and not put some stupid large shade tree in a bad place. And, Iām hopefully I donāt eat the words I just typed outā¦
Front yard mini orchard space prepped and getting planted. Involved excavating out the compacted construction rock rubble and backfilling with good soil. That was awful, but done. 5 tree plantings going in this space at 6-7ā spacing. Naturally, Iāve changed the plan 562 times since reading too much, so now I have to wait until spring for the other trees. The ones in there now are a 2 in 1 plum to be grown as a single tree. Fence to go up around the area in the spring. This was my pumpkin and large melon patch, and I still plan on growing those in this area around the trees.
This fall, I also added another strawberry bed to my backyard vegetable gardens and spaced out where we are putting a kiwi trellis in the spring. Next up: chip drop this month to cover the new orchard, winter veg beds and smother the useless grass around gardens and sides of the house. Mentally gearing up for that one.
Unfortunately, my dense planting schemes and the planned fence are making it more challenging to get a wheel barrow from the driveway to one side of the backyard, though still possible. The only area that should remain to mow is on the backyard side where the mower is kept.
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