[ale] Way OT - Gardening

Fri Apr 26 17:32:05 EDT 2013

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When and what kind of spray? I was told that one the blooms fall off
it's too late, also no one could tell me what kind of insecticide to
use. Oh, Jim they do the same with peaches that have fermented on the
ground. I didn't think of that analogy though, I will this year.

On 04/26/2013 04:06 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> You need to give it a good spraying :) Allen B. -- Allen 
> Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama
> 
> ________________________________________ From: ale-bounces at ale.org 
> [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Scott Castaline 
> [skotchman at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:04 PM To: 
> ale at ale.org Subject: Re: [ale] Way OT - Gardening
> 
> The house we're now renting, has a hybrid fruit tree in back. Our 
> first summer here we didn't know that what it was. All of sudden it
> seemed it was growing these green fuzz balls. A week or 2 later we
> saw that they changed colors and found that they were peaches, but
> there were also nectarines and plums. Most of them the bugs and 
> worms got which attracted the birds. We were soon invaded by birds 
> that would start fighting each other for the bug infested fruit 
> leaving the remains to rot on the patio.
> 
> Last summer we weren't able to get any of the fruit as everyone had
> worm holes.
> 
> Scott C.
> 
> 
> On 04/26/2013 02:46 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Yay Food!
> 
>> I have a batch of the funny brown tomato seeds ready to start 
>> sprouting. The fruits look odd but are very, very tasty. Grape 
>> vines are in but not trellised yet (merlot in Georgia will be a 
>> challenge!) and the new fig tree is looking happy. I didn't get 
>> around to splitting out the root runner off the early blueberry 
>> bush (again) this winter and it looks better than the mother 
>> bush. The other 2 blueberries are fruiting out nicely.
> 
>> I'll probably plant some other stuff soon but I have such limited
>> full sun it's hard to narrow down the choices. I've learned my
>> lesson about sugar pie pumpkins - plant those AFTER July 1 so the
>> squash vine wasp won't get them. We eat pumpkin pie for breakfast
>> :-) YUM! way better than cheerios, poptarts or bagels.
> 
>> Oh. I also planted a cascade hops vine this year :-) I still need
>> to set up the ling string to the gutter for it. It's got 3 good
>> shoots now at nearly 3 feet up a pole.
> 
>> The plum tree from 7 years ago has never produced a single bloom 
>> as is likely to get the axe to make room for a dwarf apple or 
>> pear tree. Bummer. It was from a runner off a relatives plum
>> tree that cranked out 15-25 lbs of red plums every year. the
>> last apple tree I had got hit by a sudden April freeze that
>> killed all the leave buds (3 days below 25F will do that). We had
>> been getting really good cooking/canning apples from that one. I 
>> almost held a memorial service for it.
> 
>> We no longer get volunteer tomatoes from 8 years ago. We had a 
>> single plant called "garden candy" that put out a steady stream 
>> of thumb-sized sugar-sweet OMFG!!! tomatoes from June until 
>> frost. The birds hauled off a bunch and those seeds popped up 
>> plants for the next 4 years. The drought finally stopped all
>> that fun. Very sad now but very happy then. Hard to collect seeds
>> from it as we ate all before they made it inside. Not a single
>> one EVER hit a salad :-)
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Beddingfield, Allen 
>> <allen at ua.edu <mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> So, this is about as far off topic as one can stray, but I 
>> thought I would throw it out here for an afternoon diversion on 
>> this pretty spring day (at least it is a pretty spring day over 
>> here in Alabama :) ) Are any of you into gardening? If so, what 
>> do you plant, and what have you already gotten in the ground for 
>> this season? I start most of my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, 
>> etc... from seed, and I have them up and almost ready to set
>> out. I've been tilling during the brief periods when it has not
>> been raining/too wet from rain, and I haven't been at work. I'm 
>> hoping to get the first round of tomatoes in the ground in the 
>> upcoming week, along with squash, corn, green beans, cucumbers, 
>> and lima beans. I start from seed and set out fresh batches of 
>> tomatoes at about 2-3 week intervals through August, giving me 
>> fresh tomatoes through Fall, so I have lots of tomato plants in 
>> various stages of growth. Lots of work, but I love my fresh 
>> vegetables almost as much as I love growing them :) Allen B.
> 
>> -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama
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