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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 10:51:02 GMT -5
OK TPTB can play with this thread on equal terms. So that it will not be reprimanded for anything other than my own short comings.
I have two campgrounds that I hope to install food islands on with the remainder of my lifetime. I prefer using organic practice, but both of these will (I hope) outlive me. So I probably won't have the last word on this topic.
Some of the trees-shrubs I have ordered and planted are native trees, most all have some kinda utility.
Today I potted up what I have collected of persimmon seed; seems I have become the local Johnny Treeseed...
Unfortunately my endless sermons about not drying tree or woodland seeds has not penetrated every ear within sound of my voice ((sigh)). So I don't have too high of hopes with this batch.
I almost got the walnut (J reggia) all potted before it started raining. I think I wait till the weather breaks before returning to the bench, lest I melt ;)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 4:29:05 GMT -5
The rule of (my) thumb is to add as little in the hole as I can get away with. I try instead to amend soil by top dressing with mulch. Roughing up the edges and bottom of a planting hole in clay-bound Ohio, is probably a good idea.
All that good intent and the replantation of a former strip-mine means Little goes in with added nitrogen. I do stir (OK chop-in) in bark mulch-soil conditioner to the hole at wisteria campground, as well as top dress with bark mulch.
I expect to need eight to ten annual applications of mulch to planted seedlings. The soil is just that badly compacted and sterile clay.
As I start to wind down and get back to planting bushes, I'll need soil tests for acid-loving blueberry.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 14:42:33 GMT -5
Claude will have to weight in with her own arbor hopes and dreams.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 11:47:48 GMT -5
Claude if I am understanding TPTB, I-we were getting off the topic of the original post. Somebody has to sweep up around here. So in the spirit of playing nice i took your question away from its diverging thread.
As I am able I will endeavor to get my eldest (aka the Sapling-In-Chief) to email me photos of her planting.
Till then we will just have to type about it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5
Um, erk, I think SIC (sapling in chief) has a few photos from last fall at wisteria, and still has a pine tree to plant this spring. So some kinds tree plantin' photos should be in the works.
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Post by Latitude33 on Mar 29, 2015 21:19:46 GMT -5
Mildly fascinated but not about your post but the reference to Martin van der Lubbe. I happen to know a person by this name in the Netherlands.
If in jest perhaps you meant Marinus van der Lubbe?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 17:12:34 GMT -5
Apios (aka ground nut) is on its way here. That'll give me a little something to plant at the feet of some of my trees.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 17:21:03 GMT -5
perhaps you meant Marinus van der Lubbe? I stand corrected. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 12:28:56 GMT -5
I am supposed to go pick up eight bags of bark mulch for the circle, it is populated mostly by english (Q robur) oak. This up at wisteria campground. They are twigs now, but someday...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 3:49:07 GMT -5
I secured from Saint Lawrence a bundle of antonovka apple saplings. I also got ahold of a local russet apple top-wood that has been cherished in Athens (OH). I now have five little trees with bandages in pots.
I haven't put my hand to grafting for like forever, so I'll have to see what I have forgotten.
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