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stories about gardening and landscaping #1
Today I did my first grafts. I grafted rock or cork elm
onto other elm species. I had saved several elm trees from the mower blade to get to a certain height and then today I cut some branches of ulmus thomasii to use for several grafts. I did the bud graft and the V graft. I even tried a new type of graft where I drill out the interior bark except the cambium layer and then fit that into the hole. I did not use the "whip graft" and am anxious to try it in the future. I used cloning hormone gel and plenty of tape. I then used concrete block to protect the graft from animals, or any other movement. Three weeks is what I am told I will know if they "took". I will be happy if just one takes hold. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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strawberries and potatoes stories about gardening and landscaping#2
I have had excellent luck with strawberries planted one year in large
pots and the second year in the ground in beds. Actually the pots are better than the beds for fruit since the pots are easier to weed and to control. I may, one of these years do strawberries totally in pots and simply change out the soil in the pots every year. Strawberries are just not tough enough to compete with the grasses and weeds. I suppose strawberries came from a woods environment as their native environment. So I guess every year I am going to keep buying more of those huge pots of plastic, until they are too much to cope. Also, through the years I have found that fresh lettuce in springtime and radishes are best grown in pots and when summer comes, then I plant them with more strawberries. Potatoes last year did excellent with alot of sun and alot of watering. The thing I want to do this year is plant them in perfect rows, so I know where they are, whereas last year the rows became indistinguishable. This is the last year I am going to try watermelon. In the past they are hard to control as they get into the lawn. And by the time they ripen, the cool Autumn has come. I would like to see them in the middle of summer. Maybe that is too much of a demand and if so, the last attempt for watermelon. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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have my potatoes in; whip graft #3
I am happy today, for I have all the potatoes in and this time I put a brick walkway down each row, so I know where to stand if I go through a row to weed or water. And I know where to harvest. Now last year was a bumper crop of potatoes. And the reason I believe is because I put a layer of horsemanure over the potatoes and kept them watered through the summer. If I get a bumper crop this year, I may have to sell or barter away some of them. My first experience with grafting was last week where I grafted about 15 rock elm to that of other elm species. I had not done a whip graft but almost all the other types. I may have invented a new type of grafting where I take a drill bit of the same size of stem and make it hollow leaving only the cambium on the rootstock. Using a portable drill remove about 2cm and then with the scion, gently removing the bark exposing the cambium. This is a maximum cambium exposure and should be even more successful than the whip graft. But I suspect the bud graft is the graft of choice. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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