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radishes and other questions
I've left a few of my radishes to go to seed. They produce great flowers
and now have some seed pods. Do I wait until the plant dies and then harvest the pods for planting next year? Also, I moved my strawberries patch this year and the few berries that are growing are either tasteless or EXTREMELY tart. Along with this my lettuce is bitter. Is there some difficiency in my soil that might account for this? Will my strawberries ever taste sweet again or do I have to start over next year? dazed and confused in calgary.... |
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Check out the soil pH. We moved some blackberries from Arkansas (acidic) to
Kansas (neutral) and they weren't sweet and lost their flavor. We may try lowering the pH next year, but it was very disappointing. Dwayne "embertr" wrote in message news I've left a few of my radishes to go to seed. They produce great flowers and now have some seed pods. Do I wait until the plant dies and then harvest the pods for planting next year? Also, I moved my strawberries patch this year and the few berries that are growing are either tasteless or EXTREMELY tart. Along with this my lettuce is bitter. Is there some difficiency in my soil that might account for this? Will my strawberries ever taste sweet again or do I have to start over next year? dazed and confused in calgary.... |
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Thanks Dwayne, I'll check it out. It's odd but today I had one berry that
was as sweet as jam. That's not consistent though. Oh well, better luck next year. On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:50:05 -0500, Dwayne wrote: Check out the soil pH. We moved some blackberries from Arkansas (acidic) to Kansas (neutral) and they weren't sweet and lost their flavor. We may try lowering the pH next year, but it was very disappointing. Dwayne "embertr" wrote in message news I've left a few of my radishes to go to seed. They produce great flowers and now have some seed pods. Do I wait until the plant dies and then harvest the pods for planting next year? Also, I moved my strawberries patch this year and the few berries that are growing are either tasteless or EXTREMELY tart. Along with this my lettuce is bitter. Is there some difficiency in my soil that might account for this? Will my strawberries ever taste sweet again or do I have to start over next year? dazed and confused in calgary.... |
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embertr writes:
Also, I moved my strawberries patch this year and the few berries that are growing are either tasteless or EXTREMELY tart. Along with this my Have you had a lot of rain? The berries when picked after a few days of rain are always tasteless IME. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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Well we had alot of rain here but it was early in the season before we
even had flowers. Last year we had lots of rain but the berries were great. Maybe my soil is just completely depleted of whatever they need to give them flavor? On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:44:08 +0000, John Savage wrote: embertr writes: Also, I moved my strawberries patch this year and the few berries that are growing are either tasteless or EXTREMELY tart. Along with this my Have you had a lot of rain? The berries when picked after a few days of rain are always tasteless IME. |
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