Finally got those raspberries in the ground today. Four varieties, Anne, Brandywine, Fall Gold, and Heritage. The Anne had fair roots, and a couple new sprouts when I took it out of the packing moss, think it’ll be OK. But the other three rasps had hardly any roots, so I’m not expecting them to do much, if anything.
Any of y’all had rasps with just a few roots make it alright? I’m pretty skeptical about these three.
It was super windy today, I was worried about my spindly trees, so I had to lash them to their stakes. Those long limbs and branches with all those leaves makes like a sail in these winds. Supposed to be just as bad tomorrow.
The day was mostly spent transplanting about 35 tomatoes and peppers, still doing it now, but taking a break. Man, what tedious work.
Well, I find that very interesting that you’d get them already, I guess that early warm spell in Feb and March woke yer strawbs up early.
We planted some last year that my wife got from her cuz up in Ohio. They have bloomed some, and a few have some green berries, but very small, maybe a quarter inch at the most.
Soak the weak-rooted rasp plantings with water. Mulch around them. If they wilt in summer, water them more. Soak the surrounding area to encourage rhizome growth.
Thanks. I gave them a good soaking with the hole about half filled with dirt, and then one more after the dirt was totally level with the surrounding soil. We’re expecting a lot of rain later in the week, so they’ll get plenty of water this week.
Yes, they are tough plants. I had one that was so dry it was like straw. No way did I think it would live. It did! Good thing, it’s next to impossible to find Kiwi Gold, a sport of Heritage found down under in Aussie land. [quote=“thecityman, post:1040, topic:8428”]
First fruit of the season for me!
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No it’s not! Honeyberries don’t count?
My strawberries are flowering, a ways off production yet. I build a new bed all are in the new Archer strawberry. And a few others too.
The pineberrys and strawberries I bought at tractor Supply have been total duds. They’ve been planted for 3-4 weeks in a Mr. Stacky strawberry pot and show no signs of life. I will likely have to scrap them and buy established strawberries to transplant.
My new strawberry bed is a long ways from flowering - wish I could have gotten them in sooner. They’re all poking their heads out of the plastic now, tho.
Same with my new bed, but I have an old bed too, and also many in containers. So established plants are flowering and a couple new ones in the new bed.
I tried that method this year. I put two heaping TBS of wood ash in each of my 20 buckets instead of in the main mixture. I may do another batch, but it damn near killed me walking back and forth to the woods while hauling two 5 gallon buckets around.
ha! You’ve got a great memory…forgot all about my whopping 6 honeyberries. haha. btw…I got 2 more honey berry plants in from Henry Fields yesterday…and boy am I mad! I’ve got plants before that have been wilted and even dead, but these things were long dead and COMPLETELY dried out! Worse yet, someone had broken the tips off them in a couple spots in what really appeared to be an attempt to check for life, which was long gone and yet they shipped them anyway. These things have seriously been dead for weeks…just completely dried sticks. GRRR! I was really looking forward to adding 2 more varieties. Hopefully they will make it right.
Just saw these flowers on my peas today. I planted them about March 15 (first time planting them here) but as the temps in late April were consistently mid-80s, I figured I probably wouldn’t get much of a crop. But just checked the weather forecast, and starting Thursday, and lasting for a week afterward, the temps are cooling to low 70s during the day and low 50s at night. Hoping this cool weather comes at just the right time for the peas and I get a decent crop after all.
I probably need to plant them late February in the future, but I’ll take a little luck if it comes my way.
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