What did you plant today (other plants)? - Page 14

Richard · 03-24-2008, 11:41 PM

Harvey, your memory is pretty good. I had to go look it up. From p. 26 of the Sept. 2006 Fruit Gardener, Barbara Baer writes:
"Dr. Gregory Levin had sent Davis 60 varieties [from Garrygala], 30 for taste, color and seeds, 30 for diversity".

Then, on p. 29 of the Jan. 2007 Fruit Gardener, Barbara Baer writes about the Fifth Annual Wolfskill Pomegranate Tasting:
"Perhaps the most magical experience happened to a first-time taster from Ft. Bragg who had brought his young daughter named Eden. They lingered to the last and had a picnic in the orchard, savoring the single sweet-as-crystallized-sugar 'White Flower' that has stayed on the tree".

Well, that latter piece caught my interest and stuck in my memory when I placed my cutting order.

harveyc · 03-25-2008, 12:14 AM

Yeah, BB writes with pretty flowery words and I have teased her about that. I think she can make a sweaty dusty farmer sound like a fun time. lol

Based on the ones I tasted last November these are cuttings I got the other day to root. Not part of my formal trial, but something I want to try. I may just graft some of the trees I planted last year with some of them:

Cranberry, Kazake, Palermo, Ink, Balegal

BB has another article on pomegranates coming out in the next issue, I believe.

harveyc · 03-25-2008, 12:20 AM

FYI, here are photos I took last October of many of the Turkmen cultivars:
Purely Pomegranates

Fruit size, etc. shown on these pages is not very meaningful because (1) these trees at the repository are not managed for fruit production and (2) this fruit was collected after much of the fruit was already picked.

Richard · 03-25-2008, 01:12 AM

Harvey, did you try Vishnevyi ?

harveyc · 03-25-2008, 01:51 AM

I did taste it back last October when I had the fruit for those photos but don't remember the details. I was up all night from something like 9:30pm until 6am extracting seeds to send to a friend who is working with Dr. Levin in Israel. Much of the time I was chatting with him on Messenger and had hoped I could go back and read my comments about the cultivars but my computer froze up and the chat session was not archived and my friend did not have his Messenger set up to archive chat discussions. I was really disappointed about that. I remember not liking 2 or 3 at all but I pretty much liked all of the others.

Richard · 03-30-2008, 08:27 PM

Ray, my close friend and neighbor of 7 years moved about 15 miles north of here to a new home that he completed a few months ago. Today I potted up some berry plant root suckers for his new orchard:

4 "bababerry" raspberries
4 youngberries
4 "black satin" blackberries

Lilith · 03-30-2008, 08:42 PM

Variegated Monstera
Philodendron Quercifolium
Philodendron Royal Queen

mskitty38583 · 04-05-2008, 04:38 PM

yesterday i started rooting 2 monstera. today i planted a root cutting of a babaco.

microfarmer · 04-07-2008, 10:54 PM

Hop bines (Humulus Lupulus)

2 each of...

Centennial
Chinook
Glacier
Goldings
Horizon
Liberty
Mt. Hood
Nugget
Santiam
Sterling
Willamette

4 each of Cascade

AnnaJW · 04-08-2008, 12:11 AM

I planted Bi-colored corn and Pearly white corn.
I'm sure my HOA loving neighbors will be happy when they see corn stalks.

lorax · 04-08-2008, 07:20 AM

Mora de castille (Spanish blackberries)
Zarzamora (Ecuadoran blackberries)

Why wouldn't your neigbors want to see corn? The people who live behind me turned their yards into cornfields and it was so cool to watch it all grow up and mature. Plus now I can trade them for ripe cobs!

microfarmer · 04-09-2008, 12:02 AM

I grew up in a corn state (Illinois) and I miss it. I planted it in my microfarm and I loved it! My DW hated it, though, and never wants me to plant it again (even though all she does in the garden is look around).

Guess what? I got some 'Candy Corn' for the back fence. I just hope 'Pete' (the horse) leaves it alone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lorax

Mora de castille (Spanish blackberries)
Zarzamora (Ecuadoran blackberries)

I keep trying to kill the blackberries travelling from the neighbor's yard.

Richard · 04-09-2008, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by microfarmer

... I keep trying to kill the blackberries travelling from the neighbor's yard.

Get some concentrated Glyphosate (40% to 50%), sold inexpensively as "Remuda" or expensively as "Roundup". Some Ag stores also sell it by the metal drum.

1. Paint the blackberry vines (or poison oak, ivy vines) with it, but
2. Put down a rag or drop cloth so it doesn't drip on the ground.

Give it a few weeks to take full effect.

microfarmer · 04-09-2008, 09:06 PM

Thanks Richard. I've used the expensive kind called Roundup poison ivy and tough brush killer. I gotta say, it works well...even on my roses

I'll look for the Remuda.

magicgreen · 04-09-2008, 10:41 PM

Ensete Maurelli, and more castor beans

mskitty38583 · 04-09-2008, 11:16 PM

where did you get castor beans??? inquiring mind wants to know....

magicgreen · 04-09-2008, 11:24 PM

Hi Mskitty!!

I got them from jurassicdaryl when I went to his house to get all those Dwarf Cavendish he gave me.
His castor beans were HUGE!!! I started some, and all germinated. He also gave me EE bulbs.

mskitty38583 · 04-09-2008, 11:28 PM

im so glad to hear they all germinated. its exciting!!!! and wow, thats awesome about the dc's. post pics if you can, id love to see them.

magicgreen · 04-09-2008, 11:37 PM

With my new camera I plan too! Just want everything planted and looking pretty!

lorax · 04-10-2008, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by microfarmer

I keep trying to kill the blackberries travelling from the neighbor's yard.

They're actually considered a threatening and noxious weed on the Galapagos, but in Quito they're actually fairly easy to control. Good thing I live far far away from the islands.

And today I planted out some other "invasive" natives -
Lantana camara and L. trifoliata
Oxalis tuberosum (oka)
Portulaca

Death to the lawn! Give me garden any day.

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