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Pruning Rose Bushes
I have four rose bushes,( not climbers) which have finally finished flowering. Can I prune them now or due to the sudden harsh weather should I wait until spring? I would like to prune now if possible as they will look a lot tidier Laughing
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
coykiesaol writes:
I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year?? Yes. Also, does anyone have a leaf blower and can they recommend them or not. Especially when the leaves are wet on grass?? Leaf blowers come in 3 main categories: Electric - Near useless, only for small amounts of leaves. Won't move wet leaves. Backpack 2 cycle gas - This is what I have. Good for up to an acre. Wet doesn't matter. Walk behind gas - What pros use, as big as a lawnmower clears large amounts of leaves in a hurry. You may still need a backpack blower for certain areas. So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. |
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I suppose it depends on where you are and how bad the remaining winter will be. If you prune now and then there's a hard frost, you may get die-back on some branches. Personally I would wait until February or so. If they're really annoying you, or if there's danger of wind-rock or something like that, then you could always cut back a few branches now - just removing part of them - and then wait until later to do the proper pruning
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
Brooklyn1 Gravesend1 writes:
wrote: coykiesaol writes: I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) "very large garden" is meaningless... to some an 1/8 acre is very large, to others a full acre is very large, to some 20 acres is small. Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year?? Yes. So long as the leaves are well composted, otherwise mixing in uncomposted leaves will harbor/encourage insects/disease. Also, does anyone have a leaf blower and can they recommend them or not. Especially when the leaves are wet on grass?? Leaf blowers come in 3 main categories: Electric - Near useless, only for small amounts of leaves. Won't move wet leaves. Backpack 2 cycle gas - This is what I have. Good for up to an acre. Wet doesn't matter. Walk behind gas - What pros use, as big as a lawnmower clears large amounts of leaves in a hurry. You may still need a backpack blower for certain areas. For large areas the pros use a lawn vac/mulcher (not a blower), often Hmm, I just read somewhere that "large areas" is meaningless. an attachment for garden tractors/riding mowers... but there are also walk behind/push types. It's actually silly to blow large expanses of leaves, much smarter to suck them up and grind them all in one fell swoop... otherwise one will be blowing the same leaves backwards and forwards all day. About 80 percent of my neighbors have lawn services to deal with the leaves. None of them use tractors for the leaves. They have tractors, they just don't use them for leaves. So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. The backpack types are overkill for the homeowner, those are used by professional landscapers who service several properties eachy day who will be blowing leaves/grass clippings all day every day... homeowners blow leaves once/twice a year, get the smallest unit that will do the job. I'm a home owner. I blow leaves 5 or 6 weekends a year. Usually about 8 hours each weekend. I'm on just under an acre. I'm surrounded by really big tulip poplars. There are hand held blowers one can carry and/or support with a shoulder strap... these are very portable and work exceptionally well for homeowner tasks... I have this one, very powerful, will blow wet leaves easily, I've never encounterd a situation that required more than half throttle: http://www.echo-usa.com/product.asp?...ry=POWERBLOWER Half the max air speed of my unit, 2/3 the price. This is somewhere between electric and backpack. I can see how this would be okay for some home owners. Whenever using a leaf blower it's very important for the operator and everyone nearby to wear a mask/respirator. I never wear a mask, I always wear ear protection. |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
On Jan 19, 7:17*am, wrote:
coykiesaol writes: I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year?? Yes. Also, does anyone have a leaf blower and can they recommend them or not.. Especially when the leaves are wet on grass?? Leaf blowers come in 3 main categories: Electric - Near useless, only for small amounts of leaves. *Won't move wet leaves. Backpack 2 cycle gas - This is what I have. *Good for up to an acre. Wet doesn't matter. Walk behind gas - What pros use, as big as a lawnmower clears large amounts of leaves in a hurry. *You may still need a backpack blower for certain areas. So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. Some communities, like mine, have outlawed gas powered blowers. Even if the gardener gets caught, homeowner pays ticket. HB |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
Higgs Boson wrote:
On Jan 19, 7:17 am, wrote: coykiesaol writes: I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year?? Yes. Also, does anyone have a leaf blower and can they recommend them or not. Especially when the leaves are wet on grass?? Leaf blowers come in 3 main categories: Electric - Near useless, only for small amounts of leaves. Won't move wet leaves. Backpack 2 cycle gas - This is what I have. Good for up to an acre. Wet doesn't matter. Walk behind gas - What pros use, as big as a lawnmower clears large amounts of leaves in a hurry. You may still need a backpack blower for certain areas. So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. Some communities, like mine, have outlawed gas powered blowers. Even if the gardener gets caught, homeowner pays ticket. Just out of morbid curiosity, why? D |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Higgs Boson wrote: On Jan 19, 7:17 am, wrote: coykiesaol writes: I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year?? Yes. Also, does anyone have a leaf blower and can they recommend them or not. Especially when the leaves are wet on grass?? Leaf blowers come in 3 main categories: Electric - Near useless, only for small amounts of leaves. Won't move wet leaves. Backpack 2 cycle gas - This is what I have. Good for up to an acre. Wet doesn't matter. Walk behind gas - What pros use, as big as a lawnmower clears large amounts of leaves in a hurry. You may still need a backpack blower for certain areas. So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. Some communities, like mine, have outlawed gas powered blowers. Even if the gardener gets caught, homeowner pays ticket. Just out of morbid curiosity, why? D NOISE! Electric blowers (still irritating) are sufficient for most home owners, and much cheaper. I see the flooding has moved south. Hope you and yours are high and dry. -- - Billy ³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.² -Archbishop Helder Camara http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/...acegroups.html http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...130964689.html 20111812130964689.html |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
Billy wrote:
So for a homeowner with a lot of leaves, go with a backpack gas powered blower. Some communities, like mine, have outlawed gas powered blowers. Even if the gardener gets caught, homeowner pays ticket. Just out of morbid curiosity, why? D NOISE! Electric blowers (still irritating) are sufficient for most home owners, and much cheaper. An interesting solution to the problem. In Sydney for example there are no laws about what gear you can use just limits on the noise you can make (for whatever reason) at certain times of day. So you could have a brass band practice in your garage and as long as you didn't play outside hours it would be OK. Where I am any such laws may be in force but in practice they are irrelevant, you agree with your neighbour what is reasonable and nobody calls the police. I see the flooding has moved south. Hope you and yours are high and dry. Our area has escaped extremes of rainfall but La Nina has provided weeks on end of clouds, light showers and humidity. My fruit won't ripen properly so I watch the fungus grow. David |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
On Jan 19, 3:51*pm, pascale
wrote: Leaves cannot harm your vegetables in any way though it is very important about what kind of leaves you are talking about. Walnut, for example is toxic both to the soil and plants. I have a mature walnut tree nearby my garden and I'm seriously considering about relocating the garden because nothings seems to grow anymore near the walnut tree. -- pascale I think you got the wrong thread ) Chris |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
In article
, Chris wrote: On Jan 19, 3:51*pm, pascale wrote: Leaves cannot harm your vegetables in any way though it is very important about what kind of leaves you are talking about. Walnut, for example is toxic both to the soil and plants. I have a mature walnut tree nearby my garden and I'm seriously considering about relocating the garden because nothings seems to grow anymore near the walnut tree. -- pascale I think you got the wrong thread ) Chris Where is the dissonance? The original subject was "Leaves, beneficial or not?", and the first question was: "I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year??" Did I miss something? -- - Billy ³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.² -Archbishop Helder Camara http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/...acegroups.html http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...130964689.html 20111812130964689.html |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
Billy wrote:
In article , Chris wrote: On Jan 19, 3:51 pm, pascale wrote: Leaves cannot harm your vegetables in any way though it is very important about what kind of leaves you are talking about. Walnut, for example is toxic both to the soil and plants. I have a mature walnut tree nearby my garden and I'm seriously considering about relocating the garden because nothings seems to grow anymore near the walnut tree. -- pascale I think you got the wrong thread ) Chris Where is the dissonance? The original subject was "Leaves, beneficial or not?", and the first question was: "I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year??" Did I miss something? On my reader this is coming up attached to the thread on grow lamps. David |
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Leaves, beneficial or not?
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Billy wrote: In article , Chris wrote: On Jan 19, 3:51 pm, pascale wrote: Leaves cannot harm your vegetables in any way though it is very important about what kind of leaves you are talking about. Walnut, for example is toxic both to the soil and plants. I have a mature walnut tree nearby my garden and I'm seriously considering about relocating the garden because nothings seems to grow anymore near the walnut tree. -- pascale I think you got the wrong thread ) Chris Where is the dissonance? The original subject was "Leaves, beneficial or not?", and the first question was: "I have been scraping up all the leaves in the garden (very large garden, unbelievable amount of leaves!!) Was wondering if having dumped a load of them on the veg patch for mixing in with horse manure when they are rotted down whether this will be beneficial or detrimental to the health (growth) of veggies next year??" Did I miss something? On my reader this is coming up attached to the thread on grow lamps. David Oh, goody, we can blame Bill Gates, et al. After all the grief that people have gotten from Outlook Express, I'm amazed that it is still in use. -- - Billy ³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.² -Archbishop Helder Camara http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/...acegroups.html http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...130964689.html 20111812130964689.html |
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Pruning Rose Bushes
Normally, I'd wait until just before the time the leaf bud appear
(late-Feb in NC), but with the weather we've had this year - I did at New Years when the forecasters threatened ice. On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:11:41 +0000, northwards wrote: coykiesaol;910413 Wrote: I have four rose bushes,( not climbers) which have finally finished flowering. Can I prune them now or due to the sudden harsh weather should I wait until spring? I would like to prune now if possible as they will look a lot tidier Laughing Thanks I suppose it depends on where you are and how bad the remaining winter will be. If you prune now and then there's a hard frost, you may get die-back on some branches. Personally I would wait until February or so. If they're really annoying you, or if there's danger of wind-rock or something like that, then you could always cut back a few branches now - just removing part of them - and then wait until later to do the proper pruning |
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