Really? I have only one in my yard, and it blooms every year.
What's Growing in the Garden
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Dang! I can't win.
I was mowing my yard today and went past the two peach trees I planted in 2023. I pruned them this Spring and I found this.
I guess the deer has nibbled on the twigs and wrecked havoc on the branches. It ruined the shape I was trying to maintain. I didn't know deer would bother trees in the Spring.
I was mowing my yard today and went past the two peach trees I planted in 2023. I pruned them this Spring and I found this.
I guess the deer has nibbled on the twigs and wrecked havoc on the branches. It ruined the shape I was trying to maintain. I didn't know deer would bother trees in the Spring.
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Around here, deer chew on everything in the spring.
Deer eat them A LOT in the spring. The leaves and buds. New fresh succulent growth they love.
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I have to fence all of my fruit to keep the deer away. My trees are large enough now that I don't worry about the little bit of feeding in lower branches, but trunks on all trees get fenced in the fall. Have to keep electric fence around strawberries and red raspberries if I want any.
Deer even started eating the tips of garlic earlier this year. About the only thing they won't eat is daffodils. Everything else in spring is at risk.
Deer even started eating the tips of garlic earlier this year. About the only thing they won't eat is daffodils. Everything else in spring is at risk.
Plant those daffodils thick around everything you want to save. They are poison and the animals avoid them.
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Got tired of waiting for nice weather and just mudded in some tomatoes. They will do better sitting in wet soil than they will sitting in the cold frame. This is a little over half what I'll eventually plant.
As wet as it's been, wish I had tilled a row for Cole crops and another for peppers. Going to be a while before it dries out enough to till again.
As wet as it's been, wish I had tilled a row for Cole crops and another for peppers. Going to be a while before it dries out enough to till again.
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Berginia is blooming nicely on the north of the house.
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We are actually in one of the lucky spots in Illinois. If you believe the maps, we are supposed to escape both broods emerging this year. Rather we have brood 3 which won't emerge until 2031. I'm sure we will see a few this year, but we've never had the numbers that they complain about in the big cities.
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Cherry crop showing lots of potential.
Have any of you ever used one of these garden seeders or garden plow with the big wheels? I don’t know how many more years I can go with hacking out rows with a hoe...
Alan
Alan
I have used both. The seeder is a little hard on the back from being bent over but it sure is faster. You could extend the handles I am sure but we never did.
The big wheel push plow is easier on drawing the furrows but you still have to drop seed and there goes the back ache again...
The big wheel push plow is easier on drawing the furrows but you still have to drop seed and there goes the back ache again...
Our cherries are just starting to blossom...
Is that Jon, Jon Secada, the famous singer.?.
I don’t mind dropping the seed and covering it. Making the furrow is what kills me. The videos on the seeder looks like it’s used in a seed bed like I never took the time to create.
Years ago I make a double furrow plow that hooked to the 3-point on the tractor. Then I’d broadcast the seed into the trench and drag a chain over the whole thing. Worked great for beans, corn, watermelon, okra, squash, etc… larger seeds. All the little stuff I’d broadcast into a tilled swath and rake it in.
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The wheeled plow is probably your friend then.
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You mean like one of these?
I've got one, but rarely use it any more. It works ok for beans and peas. Never tried it for smaller seeded things like spinach, radish or onions. Sucks for corn. I seldom use it anymore as I've reduced the row length for beans as I've switched to climbing varieties.
Corn seed varies too much in size for it to be worth while at all, waste of time to try.
For corn, if my knees are bothering me, I just use a piece of 1/2" PVC and drop seeds one by one through it.
I'm sure some of those selling for several hundred $$ are better and have more plates available, but for me not worth the money.
You do need a nice, freshly tilled seed bed for them to work.
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We are at least two weeks early for about everything. May have some early strawberries by the end of next week, usually get the first ones around Memorial Day.