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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 15:07:47 GMT -5
Today I delivered to the Albany OH USPS a medium flat rate box with 9.2 pounds of soil and seedlings.
The soil I included will not be adequate to re-pot all the trees in the box. It was not intended to be such. Enclosed is one scoop each of sifted granite grit (most often used as poultry scratch), crushed bark mulch, sifted finished compost, and a little bit of crushed oyster shell (another kinda chicken scratch).
When or if you plan on keeping trees in trays long term, this is the stuff you do that in.
Expect an early Christmas Thursday (or more likely) Friday... Most of the sapling bundles have more than one per bundle. Tease them gently apart and plant to field or pots as suits you.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 10:05:14 GMT -5
For the size of what this yard will support (without looking like a mess) I am near to what I can fit in.
In pans and cells I have pawpaw, cranberry, lingonberry, hazel nut, mullberry, cornelian cherry, and asparagus slumbering against a spring awakening.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 9:23:38 GMT -5
Last night I had a free-cycle-er pick up a four pack of corylus, and this morning the last four pack (of corylus) went to a Need4Seed-er.
If its warm today I'll part out pawpaw into cells for next year.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 11:02:19 GMT -5
John Chapman did not like grafting or (pruning much) his apple trees. Its worth knowing that by today's standards he he might well be viewed as a bootlegger; due to the common practice of cold distilling spirits in those days. I'll leave who you do or don't pay taxes to, up to you.
Red and I are definitely bitten by the arbor bug. I would like to poll the readers here as to who else has an orchard, bonsai collection, berry farm, or grafts fruit or nut trees. While I like the Northern Nut Growers web page, it was set up years ago, and I am unsure of its links.
We have propagating resources here (like John Best or me), who will not live forever. My aim is to create a footprint distinct from a commercial nursery; so that a lone gardener can find their way to their own patch of heaven.
Postscript: Johnny Appleseed made cider. of nearly 3.2 % beer alcohol level, and cold distilled it. Depending on who you talked to by the thousands of gallons... Just an FYI
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Post by garrett on Nov 13, 2012 19:58:42 GMT -5
bitten?rotfl i done been struck by tree lightning. copp's legacy footprint how to info gardener gift idear is much in line with my own thoughts, awesome post....smiles
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2012 11:21:09 GMT -5
Aww come on garret, gimme some nuts. Its gonna be winter here soon, and you already have in hand the postage...
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Post by garrett on Dec 19, 2012 19:39:51 GMT -5
sorry went to er tuesday...sicker n a sick dawg....bronchitis...... i'll get em out in am...sorry ya'lls g
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Post by garrett on Dec 19, 2012 20:00:54 GMT -5
copp yer box is now packed...smiles only put the texas walnut in this one.... i'll send you somma da biggun burr acorns next round. charles your box half full did you want some texas lil pecans? fore i mail it tomm?
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Post by coffeebreak on Dec 20, 2012 10:34:28 GMT -5
Surprise me Red anything you want to put in the box thank you
Charles
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Post by garrett on Dec 20, 2012 19:26:06 GMT -5
ok...wheeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... this doxycycline does clean...lol copp your biggun box went out today... charles yers goes out in the am...smiles
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Post by marielouise on Dec 20, 2012 20:25:12 GMT -5
copice we have some pecan trees, plum trees and an apricot --- thornless black berrys and strawberrys . Here peach trees require way to much spraying and if a heavy dew hits at the wrong time or slight rain fall then have to redo the spray program yayaya way to much trouble for us. We did have peaches at one time but the diseases and bugs were so bad with out the spray program. Now I know Grampa had peach trees not far from here and he didn't do all that but some disease has migrated in since that time according to the farm guy. I buy peaches from an orchard near here that does a modified spray program and organic soil enrichment and even they replace their trees every few years , thye cut and burn those that start showing signs of decline , then leave that area fallow with certain grasses growing for a certain lenggth of time then replace with their own seedling root stock and then graft onto that. Its in its 4th or 5th generation now of the same family living and working . We have been their customer for years...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 4:57:23 GMT -5
Here peach trees require way to much spraying and if a heavy dew hits at the wrong time or slight rain fall then have to redo the spray program yayaya way to much trouble for us. We did have peaches at one time but the diseases and bugs were so bad with out the spray program. Now I know Grampa had peach trees not far from here and he didn't do all that but some disease has migrated in since that time according to the farm guy. People imagine there is an organic method to control all pests on peaches. By saying that, what I suspect they really mean is, there is a no labor method. Well, as you note, it ain't so. Yes, there are organic sprays for scale and some leaf disease, and there are manual things one can do to poke at borers. A-n-d when all else fails, having a sapling bed of replacement trees also works sorta. Unlike the book The Little Prince, none of this gets done just by wishing it so. You can't sit on a flying carpet and fly away home. I am like you ML, unless providence drops a winning power ball ticket in my lap, I'm probably buying my peaches and cherries.
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Post by coffeebreak on Dec 24, 2012 13:07:37 GMT -5
Red the package came this Morning Christmas Eve Thank you and a Merry Christmas to you and your Family will wait until Christmas Day to open it
Charles
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2012 18:14:18 GMT -5
Red Your Juglans microcarpa (your best guess, which I agree with) arrived today. I will see to redistributing them after yule.
Thank you Garret!
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Post by coffeebreak on Dec 30, 2012 13:47:45 GMT -5
Red the Christmas Present are now in pans will see what come up in the spring Thank you. Charles
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 16:31:54 GMT -5
Most festive coffeebreak!
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Post by marielouise on Dec 31, 2012 1:44:21 GMT -5
Hummmmmm maybe one dem dere winnin power balls drop down in my lap!!!! LOL
I see all these trees you younguns are planting and makes me wish we had had the time back when!!! Or the strength and energy to start more now....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 13:53:59 GMT -5
MarieLouise, Garrets gonna wish he'd both spread his trees out farther apart in space, and father apart in time.
Most of mine, I keep in pots (as bonsai) or in pots as forestry plants--fer projects. If you don't try to plant the entire county, it doesn't have to be too bad. John Best kept at propagating trees till he was only about ten years older than I am now.
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Post by coffeebreak on Jan 4, 2013 10:27:50 GMT -5
A little update on how thing are going for the pass week we having been an all natural cold stratify for these things been getting a hard frost at night here so thing are looking good for them So far..
Charles
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 10:43:47 GMT -5
I've had snow stay on the ground for like four days now. (four days inna row no less) I've got a (small) flat-rate box of walnuts promised to a buddy of Reds.
I'm fishin' for a medium flat rate box of the stubby oil-nut pecans, That should top off what I've got people wishing for from Robin's give away.
For future tree seed searches I aint even gonna lift a finger in search of Carpathian regia (walnut), or dwarfed elms till fall of '13 at the earliest.
And I may be stuck with nursery buys for the latter. There be interesting contorted shrubby ulmus and zelkova. Later, much later...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 19:42:45 GMT -5
Red, your IDig buddy whom I didn't save his name, had his walnuts go out today. That pretty much empties out your box o walnuts...
If some of mine germinate next spring I'll probably distribute through Robin's give away. PLMK if you need some next year...
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Post by coffeebreak on Mar 28, 2013 16:29:23 GMT -5
Red your Christmas presents know that spring is here they are now in the process of sprouting Only got a few so far but that a start and in a few weeks they should be having a ground breaking ceremony....
Charles
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Post by garrett on Mar 28, 2013 18:33:12 GMT -5
well that is awesome charles....smiles what a journey they had... from intended compost to california seedlings.....big grins......
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Post by coffeebreak on Mar 31, 2013 14:05:05 GMT -5
Red this is one for the book I planted some of your Black on Christmas day and on Easter Sunday I got the 1st one to break ground is that a Omen ?? Charles
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 5:01:44 GMT -5
Ooo, thats a good sign Charles.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2013 10:34:33 GMT -5
Last years quince is awake and growing. As are hazel nut and bald cypress.
The last mushroom geek I talked to pointed out the pretty well identified relationship between some trees and some mushroom families.
He posited Morel and Truffle set the fruiting part (spoor producing part) in others parts of their (body?) and the parts we eat are comparatively poor in spoor. In order to goose the bits we eat to reproduce he claimed they need to be ground up and spiked with a little honey, with some water added.
I'm not so sure you should be spending the rent money on fancy mushrooms to grind up and pour out on the back yard. Still the more you keep your eyes open the more chances for a two-fer pop up.
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